Japan Car Mod Gangs - Kaido (Highway) Racer III
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- A strange phenomenon occured in the 80s - the birth of the car modding genre "Kaido Racer". Kaido means Highway in Japanese. The idea was to take a regular car and make it colorful, as wildly modded as possible and often as noisy as possible. The modding isnt to make the car better - it is to take a car and turn it into a public offense.
The idea was to essentially rebel against the law - the cars are illegally modded with huge tailpipes that often run directly from the engine block, massive spoilers that jut out to the point of being absurd. This modding style was popular around the Tokyo area in the 80s and like most Japanese trends, evntually died out in the larger centers....but trickled into the countryside and remained in small pockets of Japan.
This footage was taken from an event that took place in Ibaragi Prefecture in 2007... a countryside province of Japan - nothing but rice fields, simple people and idiots like these guys...
These car enthusiasts are usually lower income manual labour countryside types - bricklayers, builders, mechanics and such. "Hicks" would be a suitable term to describe them simply.
The premise is to drive up and down the highway making a nuisance of themselves... revving the engine noisily, hanging out the window, driving slowly, swerving all over the road, causing obstructions and being defiant toward the police. Rebellion born into a very peculiar form of expression.
The funniest part is that these guys are dead serious about it. This isn't funny to them - It's a lifestyle.
this series has felt like the automotive VHS tapes in my collection- down to the expert camerawork and the way you share the cars with it. i can see its already the correct aspect ratio, if you were to put all 3 parts together as a tape I may know a label who'd print it for the folks like me very much still enjoying videotape. and i know that i'd definitely buy this tape even with it still free to watch on youtube.
I need the music !!
Great vid man. For the longest time I was trying to figure out if this was a joke or not haha.
Nice Video but the discription is really disrespectfull. What gives you the right to call them idiots? It took time an effort to build such cars.
love the bozo style!
me too xD its fuckin dope imma bring it to the us
No motorcycles . Kaido Racer only
i made one of these cars from a 90's Cadillac. ふわふわの猫のお尻にキス !!!
I guess this is no different than the bicycle sub culture in Venice Ca. Mostly overdone but purposely overdone. Kind of like an anime style. But... is the music track that plays in this video the type of music that those customizers normally listen to? If so... this is an unknown mood for me - I need to do some shrooms or something.
Yeah - It's just a bizarre kind of extreme modding that Japanese bad boys do. It is just a fun thing they do, and drive then around to essentially annoy regular drivers. The music is just some crappy homemade tunes - neither the cars, the people nor the music should be taken seriously :)
It was a trend in the late 80s and 90s. Nowadays its just countryside idiots who think its cool. amn of the cars in the video are rusted and showing signs of age.. Just as some Elvis impersonators think the King is still the King, these guys are living in the past.
What's the point of the huge exhaust pipes
So people will notice them on the streets. Also gives it a distinctive sound that is recognizable by most people.
they must be blind
Is this a trend in Japan ? Special Art of Tuning ?
what's up with the Pono music
gang who could posibly take them surisusly after seeing those cars
I'd drive it ill be turning morr heads then a honda
Culture is nuts. They must of kept the cars in there barns cos no1 wud buy them so the spirit lived on cos yu had to make ya investment count. I bet they have a lot of fun haa haa
カッコイイじゃない♪
Uras Yukki ですね♪私も、感動しました。それと、紫のi m HEROのクレスタも、カッコいいし、レパードもカッコいいですね♪
Uras Yukki 同感です。私もクレスタのテールランプカッコいいと思います。あと、シルエットウイングも。
***** ですね♪なんか、すごく懐かしいですね
***** 確かに。
This car is horse shit.
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カッコいい要素が一つも無いwwむしろ見てて恥ずかしい（笑）