I used to see an FD RX7 perched on top of more rusted cars at a breakers yard over here in the UK. A real shame. It left the factory with such hope and someone just failed to look after it. Great work as usual Dino.
@@MrSlushierGravy depends on the cars. the ford rs200, the e30 m3 & e34 m5 and the alpine a110 definitely looked savable enough. most of the japanese cars and the ferrari are definitely at a point of no return.
Not really baffling, they made hundreds of thousands of each (364k+ for just AE86s). Export numbers were only in the tens of thousands per model though. It's not an uncommon car. Look at any state in the US and you see millions of abandoned American cars around. These being used for sport at some point, might be that the owners got ill, passed or just grew up and forgot about their stored beater worth a few thousand if that. I have an 05 supercharged Mini Cooper S rotting in my yard, it happens.
In Japan’s defense I would say that greenery and plants grow really fast as well as moss. It just adds to the abandoned feeling you get from places like this. And correct me if I’m wrong but parking space is a bit difficult to get in Japan so I guess people prefer to have their cars stored at their local workshop? Most of us have various projects that we barely touch for months waiting on parts or motivation. Most of these cars look abandoned and probably are but I just like to think that they have their owners and they are just waiting to be used. Would love to find more about their stories. Anyways, thank you for the video Dino!
A guy who worked for me also worked at a Hemi classic restoration shop. Some projects came out of the rust stripping tank with little more than the roof and part of the shell intact. They were rebuilt back to better-than-new condition. So, the short answer is yes, you can save anything if the value is there.
If you can afford to pay for the amount of work it would take to restore something this dilapidated then you could afford something in much better condition as well. Also, a lot of owners are delusional and won't part with cars no matter how far on the priority list it might be. Collectors driving up the cost and pricing out young enthusiasts who would want to restore these gems just can't afford them. I would rather see a car rot than end up in some rich man's collection collecting dust. Cars should be for drivers, not just people with deep pockets.
It is always so sad to see abandoned cars, not only because of the value and culture that is lost but rather the stories behind these cars. There almost always is a very sad story behind all abanonded cars like health issues, death or criminal activity.... I mean people bought those legend cars because they saw the same value and passion in it like all of us. It is nice of you to see if some of the legendary cars can be bought and restored, they surely deserve it!
I think all of this has a parallel with the culture in Japan. Japan modernized by copying the West. They sent their brightest minds in every possible type of industry to learn and bring home knowledge. From there it kickstarted their own industrial movement, sort of a springboard compared to how the West got started. They progressed quickly, but that gave way to a mindset that if it's broken it's not worth fixing but rather replacing it with something new and better. This is why car restorers are quite rare, the government in no way helps anyone with older cars to keep them on the road as heritage pieces, there are no historic plates or road tax exemption, no special limited-mileage insurance, it's just all just geared towards buy new buy new, chance chance change. Any old car is looked as loud, stinky and problematic, it's only the die hard car guys that push and keep the good stuff on the road. I hope the global interest old Japanese classics are having now helps bring change with respect to it all. But I doubt it. Japan never changes.
@@dino_dc Very good point, I never thought about it that way since all you hear about japan is how they treat old things with respect and care to make them last as long as they can because of Shinto religion and the believe that Kami/Gods are in everything. I know not everyone believes in Shinto/religion in Japan but it sparked an attitude towards sustainable growth and preservation of the old. I guess this does not apply to modern culture anymore or rather not to cars. Thanks for the input!
@@dino_dc, that's a good perception of reality. Values are different at every place. Japan has very limited territory in comparison to some other nations, this is a fact. But people values' guide them towards future, throughout their individual choices and lifestyle. Somehow, it influences what is going to be treasured or not in the future. We people are all the same, but we do live in different scenarios and contexts.
Love the way you captured the B-rolls. As sad as it is to see these cars in these condition, you were still able to find the beauty within it. Thank you.
If anyone wondering why these cars end up like this it might be because of mandatory "shaken" (Japanese MOT). The older car gets, the shaken gets more expensive as well as the insurance. Sometimes even 2x more than shaken of a newer car (less than 13 years old)! Living in Japan is already pretty expensive for typical Japanese so its easier for them to leave the car on the street than pay all the costs.
The shaken costs hasn’t really varied that much, it’s a taxation on the weight class of the car, so unless the government makes a massive carve on it is staring the same every time. I think in 25 years the shaken on my GTR has gone up 5,000 yen. It’s the fact that if you don’t renew it you will be charged for all the missed road tax. Keep a car off the road for 10 years you’re looking at 500k yen in back payments. Probably puts most people off
A lot of Jp laws are draconian and backwards like the shaken registration. I mean seriously, a mandatory 2 year car "inspection" that has a tax, that dealers can use to try to rip people off on for plus unneeded repairs.
hey man, you are the best automotive youtuber in my opinion. you do what you do best out of everyone. your voice is nice to listen to, the shots are always great, every video is interesting and you always know some little things i wouldn't have heard anywhere else. you also seem like an overall chill guy. almost never comment but just wanted to let you know that i appreciate you for showcasing car culture for everyone like this.
In the UK a truck with a crane would illegally spirit them away in the night. Stuff gets stolen from locked garages here, never mind like these abandoned at the roadside.
Dino amazing vid/b roll it's crazy to see so many gems and legends just rotting/rusting away but at least with you filming them they'll get their recognition and be immortalized and frozen in time for forever and if I could I'd try to save and restore every single one being a big automotive enthusiast great work 👍
When I see the individual cars left sitting (as opposed to a group of cars next to a shop) I can’t help but wonder if the owner’s health possibly took a turn for the worse (or worse). When I see individual cars sitting in a remote location, I wonder if theft was involved.
Its often the car insurance system in Japan. They have what is called "shakken" and its basically a car inspection license that cars are given for usually 2 years. It costs between $500-2000 (US) depending on the vehicle and the insurance you want, and then you have to pay the cost of any repairs. Most Japanese aren't going to have two vehicles on the road at a time, so they park their sports car once the insurance runs out and drive something else in the meantime.
Seeing that crx sitting there abandoned gave me chills. I once had one that I put lots of time and love into. Hurts to see them sit unloved. Hurts that I had to let mine go.
These cars are loved all over the world and people are paying ridiculous money for the most clapped out cars while there's thousands of them rotting away in the Japanese countryside. These cars are Japanese culture, something to be protected and not left to rot. Every individual has their own cirsumstances as do all the businesses and at the end of the day it's their posession so obviously they're free to do with it what they want. Still painful and head shake inducing to see these increasingly rare pieces of automotive history be treated like this. Wish I could save them all.
I have hundreds of pinned locations on google maps in Japan of abandoned cars for when I eventually go, obviously the dream would be to be able to buy some but mainly I just want to see them really, I had both of these locations saved and the one with the hakos is probably one of my favourite finds. Would love to see more videos like this🙌
Great video. Love the cinematography. The E30 M3 BMW and the 1971 Hakasuka Nissan Skyline are stunning. What an amazing video. Thanks for sharing. Keep up the amazing work. Best wishes, Michael. (:
What Dino & Larry have done for car culture (AND CONTINUE TO DO) cannot be appreciated ENOUGH. They are walking/living legends. Thank you, Dino. Thank you, Larry.
So many abandoned cars around. Where I live now in Saitama I know of several places that are very similar and have many interesting cars that have sat for years. Its incredible really.
Heart breaking but beautiful scenery as usual. I guess to avoid the heartache here in the hide the abandoned or crush them. Crazy shyt, the two roadsters at the second shop are worth so much here.
my heart sank seeing that kpgc10 sitting there rotting away... gosh it's just gutting seeing that absolute legend (densetsu) rusting to nothing-especially when I dream of owning one... 😔😭
I've been seeing photos of that yard for years, I think the first time, on Gary's page. It's so good to see it up close in a video. Remember the Tetanus shots!
That’s cool! There’s a salvage yard right outside of Kadena Air Base in Okinawa. They let me go look around. Found Skylines and all sorts of cool stuff. Also found a motorcycle salvage yard somewhere on the island with all sorts of awesome bikes of different makes. I love it.
I will never understand how people do this no matter where it is. Everyone could always use some money and there is always someone the is looking to do a build, so why wouldn't you just let someone else buy them and bring them back to glory?? I get having some sentimental value on some of them but it would mean more to me to see the car saved more than it rotting away if I wasn't able to do something with it.
check out hagerty's barn find videos. a lot of those owners are either hoarders or have the mentality that they will fix it someday. but for many, that someday will never come.
@@Athena_Sword A Ferrari doesn't represent motoring at all. Only mass produced cars do. I cry more about the Daihatsu Fellow than that overpriced Italian which falls apart as soon as you turn the key.
The best part about all these abandon cars is, that it is still intact, no parts lost or stolen. I think in my country, all those parts could be gone stripped away stolen in just a matter of 3-4 weeks 😅
This obviously happens even in the US with some 06 GTOs, fox bodies, and other older desirable cars. But it hits a little harder when you see the stuff you almost can't have. Like 86' an 71 skylines. 😢
Ouch, that is painful 😥 it's hard to see these pretty unobtainable cars left to rot when we work our guts out to build our cars, pouring thousands into them and I'm only modding an old Volvo not an R34 or Stagea. I will totally watch more dude, just not sure I should 😭😭
Great video Dino. Are you the same guy who used to make videos all those years ago on the drag racing scene in Japan?! I grew up watching every video and dvd i could get my hands on, and was literally obsessed with 90's Japanese cars. It was absolutely the golden era for JDM stuff, and while it's heart breaking to see cars rotting away like this, it's also completely understandable given the age of them and other factors like parts availability and shaken costs....not to mention the sheer cost of purchasing such classics. Watching your video was like a trip down memory lane. So thank you for that. 🙏 And I'm sure there's plenty more hidden gems for you to uncover that are scattered all over Japan.
There are many of these "used JDM lots" where I live in Gunma/Saitama Japan, but they are all over Japan. Sometimes you'll see used American cars too, especially from the 80s. I had my eye on a yellow MR2 turbo that was near my house. Its been sitting there almost 20 years now. Owner wanted 5k for it. Anyways, for JDM fan boyz, rural Japan will make them cream in their pants.
I got stationed in Japan recently, and seeing this reminded me about one I saw. There’s an abandoned Renault Clio V6. It’s always sad to see, but this one is especially sad to me because it’s such a special car, I’m not a huge Renault fan but I want to save it if I can
Hi, I just discovered your impressive channel, I've always loved Japan, it hurts to see these abandoned cars, so we can't get abandoned cars back, even those Or garage that are abandoned in fields in all that with big Big UP from France 🇨🇵 in the next video 👍👌💪😎🔥🔥🔥🔥
I saw a similar lot outside my daughter's home stay when she studied in Japan. It was located in Kakio and the lot was full of abandoned JDM legends like R34 and R33s, FD Rx7s, Mk4 Supras, CG8s, NSXs, Celica GTs. It just blew my mind. They were parked so close together that the mirrors were folded and the doors couldn't open. The interiors in a lot of the cars were full of trash and junk. Just strange.
You are an awesome photographer, and I like your laid-back chill commentary. Yeah, on the flip side tho, they are still there, in suspended animation instead of long crushed like thousands of american muscle cars.
i can understand. i have an old civic (5th Generation coupe) sitting outside my house, waiting to run again. sometimes i look at it, and see all the stuff built up on it, and it hurts. but life gets in the way sometimes.
One of the reasons there are so many abandoned cars of course is because of the shaken insurance system. You can't just get a car running and then drive it around with some cheap insurance. You actually have to have a licensed mechanic inspect the car and then insurance is minimum 2 years. So any car you buy will cost you an extra $1-2k (US) plus whatever repairs you need. You can't just buy a shit box here and drive it around. Otherwise, I'd love to start a UA-cam channel in Japan where you get these cars running and then you drive them home like ViceGripGarage does.
There seems to be a lot of misinformation surrounding the shaken. First of all it’s not that expensive, the test itself is straight forward and the compulsory 3rd party insurance for 2 years is just under $150
My uncles workshop yard looks like this. He used to import a lot of cars from the US, and most of them have not moved for 20 years. He’s a mechanic with his own shop and I guess never found the time to do anything with any of them. There’s an AMG 560 SEC with only 15k miles on it just sitting catching rust to the front fenders now.. among other things Transams, Mustangs, an Acura NSX, and about 5 old style Mini Coopers
The M3 Sport Evolution in Japan still a dream car I've been hoping to see or even own one! But yeah cars are now being treated like deplorable is really sad. The upside is these are pre 2020s and can have a real chance of resurrection because of how over simplified it is.
Abandoned cars are like my pokemon, the rarer they are, the more excited I become but of course, it's sad to see nice cars rotting away in random obscure places
I just moved to japan and would love a project like this. I was lucky enough to find a home with a 4 car garage so I am interested in filling it up. A project like that would be wonderful. However, I am already struggling to register my 2024 Jeep Rubicon xtreme, so getting something like these older cars would be very problematic for someone like me. Not knowing any good shops in the Kanagawa area also helps with my hesitation.
@@dino_dc Main part is confusion I think. I look at the fee charts and i see the weight tax, road tax, and others and I come to maybe $1,000 USD for my 3.6L Jeep. But I am told to go find a random person, an LTO, and they send me quotes of almost $7000 USD. Im just confused as to what this random person does. I can go to the pre-inspection place, the city hall, and the final testing place... but where is the extra $6000 USD coming from? I hear there are some special considerations because I am a SOFA member, but no one knows what that actually means. I am wondering if some of the random LTO people i fond online are just targeting military families and charging a dramatic price.
@@docfluty As if you're part of the armed forces then I don't know the procedures as I know you guys get Y or E plates. Shouldn't you get internal support for something like that?
@@dino_dc you do, but it's vague... and to be honest, internal support in the military is spotty at best lol. You get people who are new on the job, dont care about their job, or just dont know the latest instructions... just because someone is military doesnt mean they have their stuff together. When I told the main office that i brought my car from the USA they acted shocked like it was the first time it ever happened lol I'll pick up a car or two from here for my wife to drive and for me a project, those should be easier. But when instructions like "take forms to LTO"... im like... where is the LTO? Who is it? no website or fee chart? just a lot of guessing right now
@@docfluty That sounds like a pain. Not sure if this is right but most military I knew in the past that brought their own cars here all had E plates, not the regular Y one
You know I always got intrigued by Videos like this when i got younger, but the more i started to learn about cars from everywhere around the world and every time period and their owners... i started to understand whats going on, Alot of the cars just abandoned outside of apartments probably belong to a older person in their 40s-70s... with health problems - they dont want to sell the car because they believe that they will get better and eventually get back to their car, and that belief is ongoing for 5-20 years already... time flies fast and they dont realize that their car is in the bad condition they are & thats probably whats with that M5 E34 and RS2000 & Ferrari, Alot of the other cars abandoned... Their owners maybe moved on in life and forgot about the car and they are truly abandoned, alot of times the paperwork is missing on a car... so the car just sits there - the owner doesnt want to ''part it out'' because the car means alot to them - so the car just sits there like a statue infront of their house or in the backyard, some times its all of the above - someone had health issues for a couple years or got carried away with family life or got super busy in life and said to themselves ''ill get back to my car when im more free'' and when they finally have time - its too late and their car is rusted away & they dont even think theres a point to try doing anything with the car but still wont sell it - its one of those tales of ''Ill Fix it later'' where somebody has like a abandoned rusty car in their backyard for 30 years, As for the shops like the Hakosuka's and AE86's - Alot of Shops do Tuning, Alot of Shops do Restoring, Alot of Shops Just do mechanical and welding and stuff - When you paint your car yourself... it will be wayy cheaper than getting it painted at a shop & that goes with everything - welding, mechanical work... and specially restoring, a Customer takes their car to a restoration or body shop or a mechanical shop or a tuning shop - because they are busy in life and dont have the time for it, they have a approximate price in their head about how much it could cost from the expenses they spent on their car doing it before, They think Paint will be $500-$1000... Welding will be $500-1000 and so on, but the prices are probably x4 that and extends beyond what they have in their budget to pay for, My buddy owns a Restoration shop here in Latvia... I know the details of it from him, If you have never taken your car to any sort of a Restoration or Body or Tuning shop... you wont get the quote and cost upon delivering your car to them, You tell them what you want done... and since its professional work - it will probably take a year or more, by that year or more you would probably already forget about the car and your financial status could change drastically (what probably happened alot here in japan), after the restoration is done they call you to pick up the car and pay for it... if i wanted to paint my car myself in amateur levels with spray cans... i'd be looking at $300-$500, but a professional restoration shop painting my car in metallic would probably be closer to $2500-$4000... and same goes for every other task on a car, So these people's financial probably drastically changed or life got tougher... went to pick up the car - expecting a price tag of x10 times lesser than it was, and had no money for it... what happens when you cant pay for your car is - if its a ''cheaper car'' to where the base price is less than what they put into it.... the customer has to write it off to them, and in rare times the customer doesnt even show up after restoration (health issues, maybe moved away, forgot about it, or passed away) so the car just sits abandoned in the shop's yard till the end of time, and alot of times if the customer cant pay for the car and refuses to sign it off to the shop... the shop basically holds it hostage until the customer pays, you cant hate the shop for keeping it because alot of their money and time went into it, and not far away from my house.... my furthest neighbor has a toilet paper factory & apparently he and his friend did some restoration work on a 1992 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4x4 2.1 Turbo Diesel Manual, This car is sitting currently in his warehouse's backyard... overgrown in lawn and moss for like 3 years & the car is perfect on everything... every bolt is shiny, everything is exactly the same as it was when it left the factory in 1992... which means the price of the restoration was probably way too much to pay for the customer, the guy apparently couldnt pay.... but he ''couldnt'' sign it off to them - because he ''lost the paperwork'' so its just sitting there for 3 years in showroom quality slowly rotting away... a car thats probably worth like 20K - Because theres ''no paperwork'' and the guy didnt pay for his order of restoration, and Some Shops - when they take the customer car hostage with no paperwork... just use the car for like racing or drifting... like the R-Moon Shop in this video - The Red Miata probably doesnt belong to the shop and has no paperwork... so the shop just uses it on a drift track or something because you dont need paperwork to drive a car on a track, and my buddy who has the restoration shop also has all sorts of cars just abandoned in his shop lot... few cars already restored, and a few cars like fully taken apart already where the customer said he wont be able to pay for it... but he already has taken apart every single bolt and part & has welded the shell - so its just sitting there as a rolling shell stuffed with parts, The Hakosuka.... you can already imagine how much the restoration of a hakosuka would cost... and that price was probably beyond the customers expectations, so the car now sits in the shop's lot abandoned as a example for every upcoming customer to see what their car could end up like if they dont pay their bill.
If the owner left the car because money problems, moved to other city, or gotten too many tickets, brake down and no funds to fix it. Not worth the hassle selling. Or worse owner sitting in jail or died. Just getting paper work sorted out and getting it registered again. Could be very expensive nightmare. Then having a place to fix a rusted hulk. It’d be very expensive that can cause divorce and brake ups. Fixing non running car can take years.
That AW11 and SW20 make me sad. I loved the SW20 from the moment I first seen it in 1992. They are starting to get expensive now though, I feel I might have missed my chance to own one again.
all those 86s, fully modded to perfection, my absolute dream, just sitting there. so sad to see these cars slowly pass away.
Its always astounding to see abandon cars can rot in peace in japan. Every other country these cars would either be vandalized or parts get stolen.
I used to see an FD RX7 perched on top of more rusted cars at a breakers yard over here in the UK. A real shame. It left the factory with such hope and someone just failed to look after it. Great work as usual Dino.
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Used to be loads of the old jdm imports smashed, abandoned or in scrapyards in the 2000s and 2010s
honestly, the first two minutes already hurt. still baffling, that one cannot find out the owner and just buy it from them.
Sometimes it’s worth not touching or ruining a piece of history..
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depends on the cars. the ford rs200, the e30 m3 & e34 m5 and the alpine a110 definitely looked savable enough. most of the japanese cars and the ferrari are definitely at a point of no return.
@ I 100% agree with you
not everyone operates like an american
Not really baffling, they made hundreds of thousands of each (364k+ for just AE86s). Export numbers were only in the tens of thousands per model though. It's not an uncommon car. Look at any state in the US and you see millions of abandoned American cars around. These being used for sport at some point, might be that the owners got ill, passed or just grew up and forgot about their stored beater worth a few thousand if that. I have an 05 supercharged Mini Cooper S rotting in my yard, it happens.
In Japan’s defense I would say that greenery and plants grow really fast as well as moss. It just adds to the abandoned feeling you get from places like this. And correct me if I’m wrong but parking space is a bit difficult to get in Japan so I guess people prefer to have their cars stored at their local workshop? Most of us have various projects that we barely touch for months waiting on parts or motivation. Most of these cars look abandoned and probably are but I just like to think that they have their owners and they are just waiting to be used. Would love to find more about their stories. Anyways, thank you for the video Dino!
A guy who worked for me also worked at a Hemi classic restoration shop. Some projects came out of the rust stripping tank with little more than the roof and part of the shell intact. They were rebuilt back to better-than-new condition. So, the short answer is yes, you can save anything if the value is there.
If you can afford to pay for the amount of work it would take to restore something this dilapidated then you could afford something in much better condition as well. Also, a lot of owners are delusional and won't part with cars no matter how far on the priority list it might be. Collectors driving up the cost and pricing out young enthusiasts who would want to restore these gems just can't afford them. I would rather see a car rot than end up in some rich man's collection collecting dust. Cars should be for drivers, not just people with deep pockets.
@@se7enine You are not a car guy then and need to go play with dolls or something
It is always so sad to see abandoned cars, not only because of the value and culture that is lost but rather the stories behind these cars. There almost always is a very sad story behind all abanonded cars like health issues, death or criminal activity.... I mean people bought those legend cars because they saw the same value and passion in it like all of us. It is nice of you to see if some of the legendary cars can be bought and restored, they surely deserve it!
I think all of this has a parallel with the culture in Japan. Japan modernized by copying the West. They sent their brightest minds in every possible type of industry to learn and bring home knowledge.
From there it kickstarted their own industrial movement, sort of a springboard compared to how the West got started. They progressed quickly, but that gave way to a mindset that if it's broken it's not worth fixing but rather replacing it with something new and better.
This is why car restorers are quite rare, the government in no way helps anyone with older cars to keep them on the road as heritage pieces, there are no historic plates or road tax exemption, no special limited-mileage insurance, it's just all just geared towards buy new buy new, chance chance change.
Any old car is looked as loud, stinky and problematic, it's only the die hard car guys that push and keep the good stuff on the road. I hope the global interest old Japanese classics are having now helps bring change with respect to it all. But I doubt it. Japan never changes.
@@dino_dc Very good point, I never thought about it that way since all you hear about japan is how they treat old things with respect and care to make them last as long as they can because of Shinto religion and the believe that Kami/Gods are in everything. I know not everyone believes in Shinto/religion in Japan but it sparked an attitude towards sustainable growth and preservation of the old. I guess this does not apply to modern culture anymore or rather not to cars. Thanks for the input!
@@dino_dc, that's a good perception of reality. Values are different at every place. Japan has very limited territory in comparison to some other nations, this is a fact. But people values' guide them towards future, throughout their individual choices and lifestyle. Somehow, it influences what is going to be treasured or not in the future. We people are all the same, but we do live in different scenarios and contexts.
Love the way you captured the B-rolls. As sad as it is to see these cars in these condition, you were still able to find the beauty within it. Thank you.
Dino, keep doing these sorts of real stories, day to day car related life. I grew up there in the 80s and your videos remind me of places I’ve been.
Will definitely try! You grew up in the best version of Japan so hang on to those memories!
If anyone wondering why these cars end up like this it might be because of mandatory "shaken" (Japanese MOT). The older car gets, the shaken gets more expensive as well as the insurance. Sometimes even 2x more than shaken of a newer car (less than 13 years old)! Living in Japan is already pretty expensive for typical Japanese so its easier for them to leave the car on the street than pay all the costs.
The shaken costs hasn’t really varied that much, it’s a taxation on the weight class of the car, so unless the government makes a massive carve on it is staring the same every time. I think in 25 years the shaken on my GTR has gone up 5,000 yen. It’s the fact that if you don’t renew it you will be charged for all the missed road tax. Keep a car off the road for 10 years you’re looking at 500k yen in back payments. Probably puts most people off
@@dino_dcwould that need to be paid before a car could be sold or exported?
Why not sell it? As a not working project...
A lot of Jp laws are draconian and backwards like the shaken registration. I mean seriously, a mandatory 2 year car "inspection" that has a tax, that dealers can use to try to rip people off on for plus unneeded repairs.
hey man, you are the best automotive youtuber in my opinion. you do what you do best out of everyone. your voice is nice to listen to, the shots are always great, every video is interesting and you always know some little things i wouldn't have heard anywhere else. you also seem like an overall chill guy. almost never comment but just wanted to let you know that i appreciate you for showcasing car culture for everyone like this.
Hey, I really appreciate that, it's comments like these that help us bring more content from Japan. Spread the word and help us grow!
Sad yet beautiful, only critique for this video is I had to pause it often to admire the views.
Absolutely beatiful!
If these cars were abandoned in my country, I can tell you that they wouldn't be there for very long 😅
Great video as always Dino
Same lol
In the UK a truck with a crane would illegally spirit them away in the night. Stuff gets stolen from locked garages here, never mind like these abandoned at the roadside.
Unfortunately, theft for export purposes is also increasing in Japan.😢
@@esprod1342 je crois que je préfère les savoir volé et dépouillé ou revendu, que laissé a pourrir.
@@Yohann38france Yes, I understand how you feel, but that is a criminal act.
All the cars we may never have but love with a passion .Thanks for showing us these legends. I'm sure we'd all Love more content!
Dino amazing vid/b roll it's crazy to see so many gems and legends just rotting/rusting away but at least with you filming them they'll get their recognition and be immortalized and frozen in time for forever and if I could I'd try to save and restore every single one being a big automotive enthusiast great work 👍
Thanks glad you enjoyed the vid!
@dino_dc Definitely can't wait to see what you do next 👍
When I see the individual cars left sitting (as opposed to a group of cars next to a shop) I can’t help but wonder if the owner’s health possibly took a turn for the worse (or worse). When I see individual cars sitting in a remote location, I wonder if theft was involved.
Emigration, health, death, lost of interest, inheritance disputes....
That’s often the case
@@sv_cheats1970 Not to mention the value of the beater wasn't worth fighting over.
Its often the car insurance system in Japan. They have what is called "shakken" and its basically a car inspection license that cars are given for usually 2 years. It costs between $500-2000 (US) depending on the vehicle and the insurance you want, and then you have to pay the cost of any repairs. Most Japanese aren't going to have two vehicles on the road at a time, so they park their sports car once the insurance runs out and drive something else in the meantime.
One of those yellows hachirokus from the first place or the stagea would be a perfect daily for me. Keep up the good work Dino.
Will do, thanks! 🙏
日本での車の名義変更は極めて事務的で一切融通がきかず、欲しいと思った車を譲り受けたくても所有者が既に亡くなっている場合名義変更は絶望的で譲り受けて綺麗に直しても名義変更されてないので公道を走らせることは二度と出来ません、そのため放置車は生き返らせることが極めて難しいという閉鎖的な社会のシステムがあります。
Sounds like an update on the laws and regulations surrounding this are well in need of an update.
Seeing that crx sitting there abandoned gave me chills. I once had one that I put lots of time and love into. Hurts to see them sit unloved. Hurts that I had to let mine go.
man, the drone shots and slow fading shots are edited absolutely beautifully! top color grading, top content! ❤
Thank you!
These cars are loved all over the world and people are paying ridiculous money for the most clapped out cars while there's thousands of them rotting away in the Japanese countryside. These cars are Japanese culture, something to be protected and not left to rot. Every individual has their own cirsumstances as do all the businesses and at the end of the day it's their posession so obviously they're free to do with it what they want. Still painful and head shake inducing to see these increasingly rare pieces of automotive history be treated like this. Wish I could save them all.
I have hundreds of pinned locations on google maps in Japan of abandoned cars for when I eventually go, obviously the dream would be to be able to buy some but mainly I just want to see them really, I had both of these locations saved and the one with the hakos is probably one of my favourite finds. Would love to see more videos like this🙌
The video was awesome and beautifull, Well done !
I never thought there would be so many abandonned cars
Love the videos, the emotions, story telling. Thank you for taking us on this journey. Need to get to the bottom of this abandoned vehicle epidemic 😢
Great video. Love the cinematography. The E30 M3 BMW and the 1971 Hakasuka Nissan Skyline are stunning.
What an amazing video. Thanks for sharing. Keep up the amazing work.
Best wishes, Michael. (:
Glad you enjoyed it!
What Dino & Larry have done for car culture (AND CONTINUE TO DO) cannot be appreciated ENOUGH. They are walking/living legends.
Thank you, Dino.
Thank you, Larry.
Too kind 🙏
So many abandoned cars around. Where I live now in Saitama I know of several places that are very similar and have many interesting cars that have sat for years. Its incredible really.
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Heart breaking but beautiful scenery as usual. I guess to avoid the heartache here in the hide the abandoned or crush them. Crazy shyt, the two roadsters at the second shop are worth so much here.
my heart sank seeing that kpgc10 sitting there rotting away... gosh it's just gutting seeing that absolute legend (densetsu) rusting to nothing-especially when I dream of owning one... 😔😭
Unbelievable buddy! Thanks for the tour!
I can only dream about some of these cars so it’s so sad to see them sitting there like that
I've been seeing photos of that yard for years, I think the first time, on Gary's page. It's so good to see it up close in a video. Remember the Tetanus shots!
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That’s cool! There’s a salvage yard right outside of Kadena Air Base in Okinawa. They let me go look around. Found Skylines and all sorts of cool stuff. Also found a motorcycle salvage yard somewhere on the island with all sorts of awesome bikes of different makes. I love it.
The salt from the sea there must accelerate automotive decomposition quite dramatically!
@@dino_dc absolutely. The motorcycles were on the rusty side already. Wish I could upload a picture or two here.
Probably a lot of those cars were driven by US Forces and then basically abandoned after their TOD finished. What a waste..
I will never understand how people do this no matter where it is. Everyone could always use some money and there is always someone the is looking to do a build, so why wouldn't you just let someone else buy them and bring them back to glory?? I get having some sentimental value on some of them but it would mean more to me to see the car saved more than it rotting away if I wasn't able to do something with it.
check out hagerty's barn find videos. a lot of those owners are either hoarders or have the mentality that they will fix it someday. but for many, that someday will never come.
I almost choked on my bubble tea when I saw the 456 😮...Thank you very much for the video Dino! 💛
Who cares about that rubbish? Did you see the C10/110s, AE8x and the E30 M3?
@@Rumms-Bumms69 I care about "that rubbish", I didn't say I don't like the other cars...
@@Athena_Sword
A Ferrari doesn't represent motoring at all. Only mass produced cars do.
I cry more about the Daihatsu Fellow than that overpriced Italian which falls apart as soon as you turn the key.
@@Rumms-Bumms69 You know nothing of Ferrari and also an M3 was never "mass produced"
@@toyotacorollaaltis8613
... hmmm ... 41,234 E30 M3s is not mass produced ... now take a look at that ..
翻訳音声すごいな！
流暢な日本語であまり違和感無く翻訳してくれてると思う
Enjoy these types of videos. Great reference material; one day I hope to build a small diorama of abandoned JDM cars like this.
Sounds fun! Let me know if you do.
Thank you!
Thank you! 🙏
Vintage cars rusting away & stray cats hurt me, Let's all help where we can.
プレスに掛けてスクラップ😂
The best part about all these abandon cars is, that it is still intact, no parts lost or stolen. I think in my country, all those parts could be gone stripped away stolen in just a matter of 3-4 weeks 😅
11:09 This hurts me the most as an E111 owner.. it still looks good even in that state 😢
Loved the vid Dino definitely would love more content like this
I’m just glad that in these abandoned car videos you rarely see any RX7s cause that would break my heart if there were more.
This obviously happens even in the US with some 06 GTOs, fox bodies, and other older desirable cars. But it hits a little harder when you see the stuff you almost can't have. Like 86' an 71 skylines. 😢
Jeeez this hurt 🤕 that stagea wagon is beautiful 😍
Incredible work man. This makes me sad
Thank you!
Boy! What a shame! Such beautiful classics rotting away to the elements!! Some people don’t deserve to have such beauty’s! 😢Boy that really hurts!
Great video. I'd love to see more like this. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Ouch, that is painful 😥 it's hard to see these pretty unobtainable cars left to rot when we work our guts out to build our cars, pouring thousands into them and I'm only modding an old Volvo not an R34 or Stagea. I will totally watch more dude, just not sure I should 😭😭
I owned a 1978 Skyline when I was stationed in Okinawa in the early 90's. Should have brought it home. Very cool car.
放置車両問題に関してはほんとに悲しいです。住んでるのは田舎の方だけどbmwのe46や古い日本車が放置されてるのは何度見ても心が痛いです
Great video Dino.
Are you the same guy who used to make videos all those years ago on the drag racing scene in Japan?!
I grew up watching every video and dvd i could get my hands on, and was literally obsessed with 90's Japanese cars.
It was absolutely the golden era for JDM stuff, and while it's heart breaking to see cars rotting away like this, it's also completely understandable given the age of them and other factors like parts availability and shaken costs....not to mention the sheer cost of purchasing such classics.
Watching your video was like a trip down memory lane. So thank you for that. 🙏
And I'm sure there's plenty more hidden gems for you to uncover that are scattered all over Japan.
Not sure what videos you mean but I did cover drag a few times for Speedhunters and magazines
There are many of these "used JDM lots" where I live in Gunma/Saitama Japan, but they are all over Japan. Sometimes you'll see used American cars too, especially from the 80s. I had my eye on a yellow MR2 turbo that was near my house. Its been sitting there almost 20 years now. Owner wanted 5k for it. Anyways, for JDM fan boyz, rural Japan will make them cream in their pants.
keep it coming Dino! Best content i watch, and i look forward to each episode
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Love this content keep it coming! 🙌🏼🇯🇵
Glad you enjoyed it!
So crazy man that Japan has cars like that sitting around for years! That white MR2 is a gem and needs saving!..
I just love to see all thise lovely cars but sad they rust away… a real shame.
Keep the good work in Japan 🇯🇵
I love it, looks like a piece of history, and you don’t have to go to a museum!
It's sad to see cool cars like that just forgotten and rotten away.
Great video, believe this is the fourth video of yours I watched and was suprised to see I wasn’t subscribed, keep it up man these vids are great!
Glad you’re enjoying them! Appreciate the support 🙏
I absolutely love content like this. Ahhh if those cars could talk...the stories would be amazing no doubt.
I got stationed in Japan recently, and seeing this reminded me about one I saw. There’s an abandoned Renault Clio V6. It’s always sad to see, but this one is especially sad to me because it’s such a special car, I’m not a huge Renault fan but I want to save it if I can
That’s crazy!
Yup,, love to see more of this!
❤ this content! Keep it coming! 🔥
Glad you liked it!
Hi, I just discovered your impressive channel, I've always loved Japan, it hurts to see these abandoned cars, so we can't get abandoned cars back, even those Or garage that are abandoned in fields in all that with big Big UP from France 🇨🇵 in the next video 👍👌💪😎🔥🔥🔥🔥
Thanks for watching!
@@dino_dcLooking forward to the next video 🇨🇵👍🇺🇲
I saw a similar lot outside my daughter's home stay when she studied in Japan. It was located in Kakio and the lot was full of abandoned JDM legends like R34 and R33s, FD Rx7s, Mk4 Supras, CG8s, NSXs, Celica GTs. It just blew my mind. They were parked so close together that the mirrors were folded and the doors couldn't open. The interiors in a lot of the cars were full of trash and junk. Just strange.
I’m sure that would still be there too
Man this hurts bad, I would love to have that MR2 or the RS200
Yep I often walk past the RS200. So much want
You are an awesome photographer, and I like your laid-back chill commentary. Yeah, on the flip side tho, they are still there, in suspended animation instead of long crushed like thousands of american muscle cars.
In my neighborhood (Kichijoji) there is plenty of hidden gem ... it was my hobby during Covid trying to find that type of cars .
i can understand. i have an old civic (5th Generation coupe) sitting outside my house, waiting to run again. sometimes i look at it, and see all the stuff built up on it, and it hurts. but life gets in the way sometimes.
Great content!❤
One of the reasons there are so many abandoned cars of course is because of the shaken insurance system. You can't just get a car running and then drive it around with some cheap insurance. You actually have to have a licensed mechanic inspect the car and then insurance is minimum 2 years. So any car you buy will cost you an extra $1-2k (US) plus whatever repairs you need. You can't just buy a shit box here and drive it around. Otherwise, I'd love to start a UA-cam channel in Japan where you get these cars running and then you drive them home like ViceGripGarage does.
There seems to be a lot of misinformation surrounding the shaken. First of all it’s not that expensive, the test itself is straight forward and the compulsory 3rd party insurance for 2 years is just under $150
One man's trash is another man's treasure. Absolutely sad to have such amazing cars abandoned.
Man a celica XX!! thats ultra rare in Japan, thats and the first gen skylines would be the ones i'd try saving for sure.
Great video ! Thanks !
Tears 😢 beautiful cars just waiting to be taken back on the road again. Save them!
Also your video quality and editing is breathtaking 😍 ✨️
Thanks for watching 🙏
誰も待ってねぇよ
Just came across your channel, I love the videos! Well done man!
Glad you are enjoying the channel! Hope you can subscribe!
Sad, but hauntingly beautiful.
My uncles workshop yard looks like this. He used to import a lot of cars from the US, and most of them have not moved for 20 years. He’s a mechanic with his own shop and I guess never found the time to do anything with any of them. There’s an AMG 560 SEC with only 15k miles on it just sitting catching rust to the front fenders now.. among other things Transams, Mustangs, an Acura NSX, and about 5 old style Mini Coopers
Damn
Bought an S14 Silvia out of someones garage, saw it from the roadside its owner didn't even know it existed since there was a bunch of trash behind it
The M3 Sport Evolution in Japan still a dream car I've been hoping to see or even own one! But yeah cars are now being treated like deplorable is really sad. The upside is these are pre 2020s and can have a real chance of resurrection because of how over simplified it is.
Every country had abandoned cars it’s just that jdm cars are so popular now it hurts more
The beamer at 1:29😞
What car is the one at minute 0:34 ???
You got me curious too lol
That’s most probably a Toyota MR2 MK1 from the mid 80’s.
MR2
Abandoned cars are like my pokemon, the rarer they are, the more excited I become
but of course, it's sad to see nice cars rotting away in random obscure places
That first batch were used up track cars the shop owner played with.
I just moved to japan and would love a project like this. I was lucky enough to find a home with a 4 car garage so I am interested in filling it up. A project like that would be wonderful. However, I am already struggling to register my 2024 Jeep Rubicon xtreme, so getting something like these older cars would be very problematic for someone like me. Not knowing any good shops in the Kanagawa area also helps with my hesitation.
Why the problem registering it?
@@dino_dc Main part is confusion I think. I look at the fee charts and i see the weight tax, road tax, and others and I come to maybe $1,000 USD for my 3.6L Jeep. But I am told to go find a random person, an LTO, and they send me quotes of almost $7000 USD. Im just confused as to what this random person does. I can go to the pre-inspection place, the city hall, and the final testing place... but where is the extra $6000 USD coming from?
I hear there are some special considerations because I am a SOFA member, but no one knows what that actually means. I am wondering if some of the random LTO people i fond online are just targeting military families and charging a dramatic price.
@@docfluty As if you're part of the armed forces then I don't know the procedures as I know you guys get Y or E plates. Shouldn't you get internal support for something like that?
@@dino_dc you do, but it's vague... and to be honest, internal support in the military is spotty at best lol. You get people who are new on the job, dont care about their job, or just dont know the latest instructions... just because someone is military doesnt mean they have their stuff together. When I told the main office that i brought my car from the USA they acted shocked like it was the first time it ever happened lol
I'll pick up a car or two from here for my wife to drive and for me a project, those should be easier. But when instructions like "take forms to LTO"... im like... where is the LTO? Who is it? no website or fee chart? just a lot of guessing right now
@@docfluty That sounds like a pain. Not sure if this is right but most military I knew in the past that brought their own cars here all had E plates, not the regular Y one
Economy must have been strong for people to own so many cars and abandon them
Yep, the bubble right
You know I always got intrigued by Videos like this when i got younger, but the more i started to learn about cars from everywhere around the world and every time period and their owners... i started to understand whats going on, Alot of the cars just abandoned outside of apartments probably belong to a older person in their 40s-70s... with health problems - they dont want to sell the car because they believe that they will get better and eventually get back to their car, and that belief is ongoing for 5-20 years already... time flies fast and they dont realize that their car is in the bad condition they are & thats probably whats with that M5 E34 and RS2000 & Ferrari, Alot of the other cars abandoned... Their owners maybe moved on in life and forgot about the car and they are truly abandoned, alot of times the paperwork is missing on a car... so the car just sits there - the owner doesnt want to ''part it out'' because the car means alot to them - so the car just sits there like a statue infront of their house or in the backyard, some times its all of the above - someone had health issues for a couple years or got carried away with family life or got super busy in life and said to themselves ''ill get back to my car when im more free'' and when they finally have time - its too late and their car is rusted away & they dont even think theres a point to try doing anything with the car but still wont sell it - its one of those tales of ''Ill Fix it later'' where somebody has like a abandoned rusty car in their backyard for 30 years, As for the shops like the Hakosuka's and AE86's - Alot of Shops do Tuning, Alot of Shops do Restoring, Alot of Shops Just do mechanical and welding and stuff - When you paint your car yourself... it will be wayy cheaper than getting it painted at a shop & that goes with everything - welding, mechanical work... and specially restoring, a Customer takes their car to a restoration or body shop or a mechanical shop or a tuning shop - because they are busy in life and dont have the time for it, they have a approximate price in their head about how much it could cost from the expenses they spent on their car doing it before, They think Paint will be $500-$1000... Welding will be $500-1000 and so on, but the prices are probably x4 that and extends beyond what they have in their budget to pay for, My buddy owns a Restoration shop here in Latvia... I know the details of it from him, If you have never taken your car to any sort of a Restoration or Body or Tuning shop... you wont get the quote and cost upon delivering your car to them, You tell them what you want done... and since its professional work - it will probably take a year or more, by that year or more you would probably already forget about the car and your financial status could change drastically (what probably happened alot here in japan), after the restoration is done they call you to pick up the car and pay for it... if i wanted to paint my car myself in amateur levels with spray cans... i'd be looking at $300-$500, but a professional restoration shop painting my car in metallic would probably be closer to $2500-$4000... and same goes for every other task on a car, So these people's financial probably drastically changed or life got tougher... went to pick up the car - expecting a price tag of x10 times lesser than it was, and had no money for it... what happens when you cant pay for your car is - if its a ''cheaper car'' to where the base price is less than what they put into it.... the customer has to write it off to them, and in rare times the customer doesnt even show up after restoration (health issues, maybe moved away, forgot about it, or passed away) so the car just sits abandoned in the shop's yard till the end of time, and alot of times if the customer cant pay for the car and refuses to sign it off to the shop... the shop basically holds it hostage until the customer pays, you cant hate the shop for keeping it because alot of their money and time went into it, and not far away from my house.... my furthest neighbor has a toilet paper factory & apparently he and his friend did some restoration work on a 1992 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4x4 2.1 Turbo Diesel Manual, This car is sitting currently in his warehouse's backyard... overgrown in lawn and moss for like 3 years & the car is perfect on everything... every bolt is shiny, everything is exactly the same as it was when it left the factory in 1992... which means the price of the restoration was probably way too much to pay for the customer, the guy apparently couldnt pay.... but he ''couldnt'' sign it off to them - because he ''lost the paperwork'' so its just sitting there for 3 years in showroom quality slowly rotting away... a car thats probably worth like 20K - Because theres ''no paperwork'' and the guy didnt pay for his order of restoration, and Some Shops - when they take the customer car hostage with no paperwork... just use the car for like racing or drifting... like the R-Moon Shop in this video - The Red Miata probably doesnt belong to the shop and has no paperwork... so the shop just uses it on a drift track or something because you dont need paperwork to drive a car on a track, and my buddy who has the restoration shop also has all sorts of cars just abandoned in his shop lot... few cars already restored, and a few cars like fully taken apart already where the customer said he wont be able to pay for it... but he already has taken apart every single bolt and part & has welded the shell - so its just sitting there as a rolling shell stuffed with parts, The Hakosuka.... you can already imagine how much the restoration of a hakosuka would cost... and that price was probably beyond the customers expectations, so the car now sits in the shop's lot abandoned as a example for every upcoming customer to see what their car could end up like if they dont pay their bill.
Painful to see these abandoned icons
😂😂😂😂😂
Hurt so bad to see those majestic cars sitting . Would like to see what the shop said about it. Thanks
Might have to go back at this rate
If the owner left the car because money problems, moved to other city, or gotten too many tickets, brake down and no funds to fix it. Not worth the hassle selling. Or worse owner sitting in jail or died. Just getting paper work sorted out and getting it registered again. Could be very expensive nightmare. Then having a place to fix a rusted hulk. It’d be very expensive that can cause divorce and brake ups. Fixing non running car can take years.
This is so fascinating!
The Hako is my absolute dream car. Seeing it in this miserable state hurts my heart😢
Thank you for sharing this art
Aqui no Brasil não ia sobra nem o rastro 😱
Enjoyable video thankyou and sad too , to see these cars wasting away , huge following in New zealand for these cars.
That AW11 and SW20 make me sad. I loved the SW20 from the moment I first seen it in 1992. They are starting to get expensive now though, I feel I might have missed my chance to own one again.
Luv to see more of this on your channel. 💯👌
I love this stuff I always search in the shop for old cars
Some truly collectable cars sitting there , I'm sure they could all be saved with time and effort
腐れ落ちるのを待つのみ
When I was in Japan, I saw some abounded cars. After this video I felt the same feelings 😢
Thank you for video😊
Glad you enjoyed it!