Bosozoku lifestyle: ganglife starts at young age
This week a bit humorous video in the bosozoku lifestyle regulars:
As you can see: ganglife starts at a young age. Kids on scooters are already trying out how to drive in bosozoku formation. And of course the Police has to follow them closely, otherwise they are a threat to society!
Bosozoku lifestyle: being a gaijin
We all know the word gaijin means outsider in Japan. Most of the time we think it is only meant for foreigners, but according to Japanorama it also applies to anyone outside the normal Japanese society. This also includes the bosozoku:
Skip to 2:30 for the Bosozoku part with Iwahashi Kenitirou!
In case you are interested, here are parts 2 and 3:
Part 2: drifting with Keiichi Tsuchya
Part 3: dekotora trucks
Skyline C210 by Robert Kawasaki
The car in these two great pictures is Robert Kawasaki‘s bosozoku style Skyline C210 Japan.
Bosozoku style Skyline C210 Japan by Robert Kawasaki
The car itself looks very nice! Wide fenders, sharknose with an oil cooler sticking out and a headlight swap. It just can’t get better than that! 🙂
Bosozoku style Skyline C210 Japan by Robert Kawasaki
He talks about it like it was in the past, so I presume he already sold or scrapped it. Anyone know what happened to it?
Pictures by Robert Kawasaki
by banpei with 4 commentsHow deep is your dish?
We did see the Techno Shadow rims before. We found another set by Techno: it is the Phantom rim:
Techno Phantom, most probably 10J or wider
We do not know how wide these rims actually are, but we think they are wider than 10J and they are featured on a well known Nissan Fairlady S30 Z:
Techno Phantoms under a bosozoku styled Nissan Fairlady S30 Z
Update: something went wrong with the pictures. They should be fixed now. 🙂
by banpei with 1 commentRare Bosozoku cars: Unknown car
People who read my personal blog already knew it, but I got married yesterday. I was hoping I would have a few minutes to post something for the rare bosozoku cars regular, but as it turned out to be I didn’t… So you have to be satisfied with some vip/bosozoku styled car which we could not identify…
Unknown bosozoku styled car. Looks like a 80s Koenig Testarossa
It looks like it should resemble a Koenig Testarossa.
Unknown bosozoku styled car. Looks like a 80s Koenig Testarossa
Back in the late 80s and early 90s Koenig was one of the most immitated tuners in the bosozoku styling. Their wild widened bodies with extravaganza spoilers was exactly what the bosozoku car should look like!
Unknown bosozoku styled car. Looks like a 80s Koenig Testarossa
What also helped was that gang bosses drove around in VIP cars (Mercedes, BMW, etc) which had been modified by tuners, like Koenig.
Unknown bosozoku styled car. Looks like a 80s Koenig Testarossa
The pictures were taken by Nagoya Racing and they look like they were taken during the early 90s…
Anyway, we were not able to identify the source for this car. Maybe you can help out?
by banpei with 2 comments