JAPAN’S ISLAND OF ABANDONED JAPANESE RACECARS!
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
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All around Japan you can find anandoned drift & race cars which tell a story of the early 2000’s when the country was thriving on motorsports. Sadly owners of these cars moved on. Due to road tax & other expenses the cars become abandbed & left to decompose & be taken over by nature.
If youre a car enthusist youll need tissues for this one…
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Your are literally documenting a point in time when Japanese street and track racers began and abandoned there love for a car culture. I'm sure for different reasons but yes it's sad to see there passion broken and fade away.
Damn, these words hit a spot in my heart. It just shows how much we as a society are controlled by the media in masses. If we don't stick to our passions, it will all be taken away from us.
They probably grew up. Toys become less important than your family as a certain point.
The mid 90s was prime time for japanese performance cars.
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Good job bro l have eg6 turbo swap h2b
I wish you and Capt would open a salvage company and just recover as much as you can from these abandoned cars
Most of the repairs costs will cost more than the car so they would be fixing them at a loss
@@liamcluett1298 the cost yes, absolutely so. But the value to the owner though, might be different. Some people have restored junk into pristine beauties, because they want to. And if nothing else, some parts can be taken off and used to save other cars. The sum of the parts may be worth more than the whole.
I absolutely love this style of documentary-like videos, awesome work Sam!
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Oh god, all those 180's just disappearing into rust, just so sad. I remember when I was a kid in the early 2000's playing Need for Speed Underground and my favorite car was the 180 because it had the best looking taillights when you upgraded them to the chrome inserts. It pains me to see them like that but, life goes on and so do the memories of these great JDM legends.
This is why I always say, "if only cars could talk", imagine all the stories we could hear 😥
Cars can talk they made a whole 3 movies about it
lots of stutututu noises for sure
Damn bro that's deep!
Man you need to bring Capt to Yokohama after he finished his service and do something together, he’s such a cool dude but always show professionalism in the videos, love it!
Dude I was thinking the same thing! Especially after all the stuff they did in Okinawa
On board with this idea. That would be sick.
being a canaidian and seeing the amount of rust thinking how could those cars be worse than field cars here. and then you make the point the ocean is literally beside one of the fields 😢salt is a car killer forsure.
That's definitely why cars rust here in Pennsylvania, but it's from road salt in winter.
Agreed bro..
@@butter7734 same here in poland, a month ago i cleared the rust and painted fenders on my 98' mazda 626, it was getting hot so i was happy its not gonna come out too fast. Sadly life is brutal and we got a snow out of nowhere haha , third day of snow after they used salt on roads the rust showed up again :( ehhh
@@razev1985 same here in the Netherlands, suddenly it got cold after having almost 20 degree celcius for a week. We even had subzero temps for a few days at night.. east wind it seems.
Winter in Canada is bad especially in Quebec ...it an impossible task to prevent rust on your car ,it is driving me nuts
I get the same feeling walking around scrap yards when you see old rarities that are almost perfect but been taken off the road for something COMPLETELY repairable but because the paperwork has been filled for it being recycled it can't ever be used on the road again in the UK. Sad times mann
big sad
The UK doesnt allow bonded or salvage titled vehicles to be registered?
@@michaelshotts6482 it does but only if the vehicle hasnt already had the paperwork filled out to be destroyed
@@markphillips6998 It's the same here in the Netherlands I think. Once a car is scrapped it's often because of failed inspection like you have MOT. It's not economically viable to safe the car so it gets parted out and sold at the junkyarda. You can't safe cars from the scrapyard here really, once they're there they're just parts.
@@BierdopjeNL yea for sure mann, over here if it's been in a crash and its salvageable you can repair it and put it back on the road but it's graded in category. I'm no expert but I do know that past a certain category it's repairable but has to go to vosa to have a special test as opposed to a regular mot. I've always used good salvage parts where possible to keep my shit boxes going haha. Nice to hear from you bro 🤙
Keep these type of videos coming Sam! The feeling I get when I see these cars while it's raining, words can't describe it!
20:26 they weren't vents sadly, had trim pieces inside. It's one of the things I miss about my old 180.
Am I the only one who gets excited and clicks on his new videos dum fast every time he post 🤣🤣🤣
Some image stabilization or a gimbal for your vlogs would make your content next level 👏🏽 Thanks for the vid, can't wait for more kei van content!!!
That green Datsun pick up could be so cool! It's still heart breaking to see all these cars rotting away. ☹️🔰
I've got a short bed one, and I'm looking for parts I saw on it! It's a 620 king cab, late 70s
My shop, we specialize in get cars like that back on the road again for other to enjoy and see again, like WOW! My childhood car just drive by, and give back to the community that way, but it’s a long and most time not vary profitable but end of the day…worth it!!
So sad... Really makes me wish I had the possibility to rebuild all those cars :( . Meanwhile I can't even get a car i am happy with, because it's so ahrd to find these kind of cars in my country
That’s why I’ve gotten my self a e36 328 coupe. Even though it’s not a jmd car, the concept is very close to a lot of Jdm cars and even the design goes in the same direction
Same thing in my country.
Even if u get a jdm car the parts are getting slim for the hero cars
@@TehReQx Nice ride bro. I'm prob going to buy an old bmw ou audi that comes cheap and is similar to jdm cars in some ways aswell. Yours is a great option
@@JB-sv5pr Yeah, things are not looking good for car guys :(
Thanks for the great video Sam. It's sad to see those cars die off like that and one can't even use the parts off them.
Great video Sam, would like to see you talk about the last registration for more cars to get an indication on how long each car has been sitting, so fascinating
So crazy to see the conditions of all these vehicles and the possible stories that we could get from them. It’ll be so cool to pull up the VIN history of whatever you guys found and just try to back trace everything. Thanks Sam!!
Such an epic vid bro!
SAM your my Hero 🦸♂️ we need more videos of the rest of the whips(cars) please!
always ready for another sammit video
this kind of uploads really make my day better. Thank you for the hard work !
Loving these explore type vids. I think we also need a whole new rust scale after seeing Okinawa rust. All I can say is wow.
By Okinawa standards these are all in mint condition 😂
Damn that is really sad but Sammit with what you've said on instagram i thought someone died. Still these first two minutes were really sad
😭Ah also I was waiting on that video thanks for uploading and please keep going and dont sell the evo. Greatings from Germany
He was taking it way too serious saying his heart was braking dude its just what happens there the salt in the air he's acting like these are people dying
So sad to see. I almost couldn't bear to watch to the end. I'm glad my old S13 is in good hands and doing well. With all the time and money I put into it, I couldn't bear seeing it rot away or turn into a drift missile.
I want the Bride seat!!!
This stuff brings tears to my eyes, especially seeing so many s13 just sit and be forgotten about over the passage of time. These cars probably have so many story’s to tell but there just sat there dying.
Bring capt back he was such a inspiration that’s what got me watching theses videos him and your car bro!!!!
This literally brings tears to my eyes I can't help but to think about each cars past... The places they took the people that loved them and happiness and the memories that they brought too them as well and then to see them in this state is truly heart breaking.
i find abandoned cars like this sad, of course but also in a sense soothing? the cars have their own tales and stories they've gone trough and now, they're in a sense resting till they're part of the ground or pulled up and brought back to life. but knowing one was taken just to be salvaged and scrapped would break my heart the most
Wow, never seen rust like that, whole roof is gone
would like to see you track down some of the owners and interview them about the cars and the history of when they drove them
Sam, you should get that green Datsun pick up and drop a SR20 into it. 🤙🤠🤘
My thoughts are just think of what cars are going to be the next most desirable and start stockpiling them like trust ikaku did with skylines and Nissan parts
4:09 I would honestly rather see it sit there then be destroyed by Drifters.
Love the channel and content, keep it up, breaks my heart to see these beautiful cars just rotting away and more so sad that some of them are to far gone or soon enough will just become trash
Those abandoned cars need to be revived
Sometimes I forget Sammit is Australian. I died when he said far out😭
Yeah his accent isn’t hard to miss…
Ive been away for a while and i forgot that u and Capt hang out nd make moves good to see him!
Great video! So painful to watch those beauties rot
Ikr
Yo Sammit, you should start a series - finding, purchasing and restoring abandoned drift cars. I’d love to see it and I’m sure other viewers would too!
And maybe even import them to Australia or the US 🤔
I would save those 2 chasers for sure! 🎌
Same
Redundant title is Redundant. BttF had the sports almanac plot point. To be fair, the only one that may be worth saving was that first red JZX100, everything else was too far gone. Scavenge parts to save other cars sure, but unless we get to a point where there's like no clean examples left in the world I wouldn't spend the time/money to restore those shells.
Very sad, I believe it was the sports almanac. I'm going to meet Doc (Christopher Lloyd) this Saturday! Loved it Sammit, another great video
its sad to see these abandoned amazing cars
At @2:19 that truck looks like it is floating :O . It even has a shadow while it hovers at 30-35cm altitude.
There.... a new effect for a drift car to aim for. Mirrored mud flaps ...
This video hit differently! I one moment it’s the worst video to see but also very touching because of your sentiment behind the video, this is now my favourite video of yours!! 🙏🏻💯
18:49 Espelir is a brand that makes suspensions I believe.
Nostalgia to the videos that brought me to Sams channel
I hope you do a follow up to this video some day. Maybe see if any of these cars have moved.
Love these videos finding forgotten amazing cars 🔥🔥🔥💯💯
It's really heartbreaking to see all of them s chassis abandoned and rust up to scrap but awesome video
Hideo Hiraoka ( current team orange d1gp driver) raced the Espelir / DROO-P AE86 levin in 2004 /05 . It was quite a successful competition drift car
the guys in vietnam, thailand definitely can restore those rusted 180 in no time
Even there is no title your still able to legally pick the vehicle up as long as your a recyclable transporter.
That Datsun ute is a Datsun 620, really old! Like 70's old. It looks surprisingly good on the outside considering, maybe it hasnt been there that long?
On the other hand, that rust on the black 180 is insane! It looks like the mounts for the hatch have rusted away and the hatch has slid down? Wild
Such a shame to see those cars go to waste, yes they might not be salvageable as a whole car but there is definitely ALOT of parts and panels that can keep other cars alive
Really enjoy watching videos like this, sad but cool to see at the same time, Japan is awesome
I've got a datsun 620, and I was frothing on the window shade I saw on it
You can get pignose here in the states and the were just for show. They weren't actually vents. We just cut them out so it does work as a vent.
Still can’t belive you got you’re hands on that S15 wish you could rescue more
Great video's Sam and oh so sad. You never mention it but I'm sure you must realise that the reason some of the cars suffer so badly with rust could be because they are victims of the 2011 Tsunami and were probably partially or even fully submerged in sea water. Can't think of any other reason why the rot should be so bad, sea spray or not. Keep up the good work.
as a guy in the uk who has turned 18 in november with minimum wage job looking at these cars is crazy, like i dream to have one of these and as sam said like one mans trash is one mans treasure
That datsun 620 is mint! Any you guys know how to get onto someone over there in the datsun scene? These videos just make me want to rescue these beauties!
The beginning of this video is fire !
Such a shame to see cars like that. At one point, they were the pride and joy of someone. Then they had to move on. "It's all What Ifs?" Agreed. Thank you for the video.
These thumbnails are sick!
0:12 whatched and cant believe how good u edit
I live in the U.K and we suffer with rust issues due to weather but I've never seen a Roof rust that bad Crazy.
Intro damn near made me cry😂
Those 180sx early term 50/50 amber/clear bumper signals on the black car are worth 2-300$usd easy! They are a very hot item on YJA for Us here. The RH side is discontinued and ppl pay big for them! Also that pignose bumper like you said is worth the same in good condition! Pains me to see them waste away cause I love the pignose bumper! I swapped my 93 240sx convertible to piggy 🐷
Those Mira vans are awesome. They have a sick looking one over at Leen Customs
My sr banner & mystery shirt just arrived today so happy how fast it shipped & it feels amazing
If these cars were savable I would save every last one of them it hurts to see them rot away, and to think they at one point were someone's dream and someone loved to drive them and now they're just sitting and dying. It's so sad.
I came across your channel today and I have watched a few of your abandoned cars videos. It honestly breaks my heart to see such beautiful cars dumped and rotting especially such sought after cars. I live in Victoria Australia and here even base models of some of these are worth a fortune, the JDM scene here would be so sad to see these.
Fantastic videos though, I'm keen to see more abandoned treasures you and your friends find.
Love this channel dude these videos are so interesting but also sad to see all these bad boys rusting away 😤
First Sammit video that was difficult to watch... Seeing dream cars actual dream cars rott away... Extremely difficult to watch
I think the Japanese sees these "Junkyards" as Americans sees their Junkyards full of Fords and Chevys. Nothing unusual. It's like walking in to a Junkyard here in Sweden and see it full of Saabs and Volvos. It's normal. For me as being a Japanese car enthusiast this is truly sad but you will have to get my point. Junkyards full of Domestic cars aint nothing out of the ordinary but for foreigners it might be truly sad...
Personally I'd save them and strip them of all there useful parts because anything you can save is better than nothing..
That little green ute you guys were looking at we also had them here in Australia but not as the space cab with that little side window that one had..
Stay safe guy's loving the video's, thank you for going to all the effort showing us around..
it really makes you sick as a car person, to have a dream car, your unicorn, and see multitudes of them just rotting away, knowing that is making your opportunity to actually own your dream car, that much more difficult and expensive. (i hate to bring money into it, but you cant deny, thats what keeps a lot of people down)
That's just surface rust to a mk2 mx5 owner lol.
Why does the outro song sound so familiar? What's the original? 🤔
Hey sam its so sad to see good cars just sitting & just rusting away when some can be worked on & brought back to life & i know i would work on one to bring back to life & reselling the car like new again.
Okinawa eats cars and metal up! Rust and corrosion is so bad in Oki! I had a brand new razor blade laying on a wood shelf in my enclosed garage and it was completely rusted in 1 week.
this makes me sad, i absolutely love 180s and especially sil80s :(
edit: i'd save the black sil80, i think it's in a good condition compared to those other ones
I feel like fil-mer from Tommy f-yeah inspired the very beginning clip, at least a little lol
the green pick up is a datsun 620 "bullet side"
Oh man, I've always wanted a car like that. Now I see this video and all these beauties are rusting away. How I would like to have such a JDM car. That's what makes much so sad
Woulda... Coulda... Shoulda...
I owned GTRs, JZX90s, S13s 180s in Okinawa, Sold all to get the other. The rule on Okinawa for Military Personnel is you couldn't have more than one Vehicle at a time.
I had one hell of a well collection, sold it all in Germany.
Awesome video Sam and all those cars just wasting away. The rusted holes placement on the trunk of the red 180 look like where the rear spoiler was attached. The EK civic looks like the only car I’d want from that car lot and part out the rest.
Little 180sx Trivia: The pignose Inlets you talket about are fake afaik, I have a 200sx and they aren't real. I havent spent that much time examining them but they seem very 'fake'
i shed a tear for that civic hatch
That blitz wagon next to the black 180sx. Probably going to have the same fate
i love 180sxs but those were too far gone. I'd save the AE111 or the EK hatch though. I'm actually weighing my options in buying a 4th gen prelude or AE111 in the next few weeks
Went to the bio park up in Nagasaki a few days ago and on my way back down to Sasebo I came across the same man... few gtrs and supras... literally a lot of " project" cars rotting away.
so sad to see these cars in this state. Knowing that they'll probably never been on the road again.
For some reason these abandoned car videos are so intriguing to me. Really makes me wonder about the history of the car and the reason the owner left it.
Some of the cars would probably fall apart if you tried to move them. Some of the interior parts and drivetrain would be salvageable but they’re rough
That bosozoku car was sick! I love the retro livery on it
We need more of these
Man that Kaido racer is an absolute heart breaker to see :(
Sam just made me feel old. 🤣🤣 Didn’t know Espelir. Espelir was a performance suspension company. Back when BC’s were eBay junk.
Dude I would cry standing next to these cars I love the car scene and culture 😢