Tag: zokusha

What if Toyota sold Kaido Racers?

What if Toyota sold kaido racers? Today I’ll try to answer the question “what if Toyota actually sold zokusha”. Zokusha, also better known as Kaido racers or bosozoku style cars, are cars that have been modified to the extreme. The style varies from race car inspired modifications, like enormous fender flares and super wide wheels,…




JDM Trivia #7: Kaido Racer part swaps

JDM Trivia #7 The feedback I got from the picture I posted was great! Some people suffer from Pareidolia just like me. Pareidolia is when you see faces in everything and some of you saw angry and happy faces in the photo. But what I actually was aiming for were the swapped tail lights on…




Commercial Time: Sharknose Toyota Chaser JZX100

The car in the photo below isn’t a Toyota Chaser JZX100, but a Toyota Mark II JZX100. Almost the same thing you might think… Well it is not but it was the only photo I could find of a JZX100 kaido racer and I actually might have tricked you to come here and read this…




Family Album Treasures: the Shakotan Boogie photo album

Today’s Family Album Treasure is literally someone’s family album: In the video below Hattoriworks is going through his 1987 Fuji Grand Championship photo album….




Family Album Treasures: Toyota Sprinter Trueno TE47 zokusha

This Toyota Sprinter Trueno TE47 was a corner case: I could have posted it on the bosozoku style blog but decided otherwise because it contained an excellent Family Album Treasure: The Sprinter Trueno TE47 is actually one of my favorite cars and high on my if I ever win a million I will have to…




Your favorites: pick your Soarer Z10

An intriguing photo: at the left you can see a sharknosed kaido racer, next to it a kyusha kai on SSR Formula Mesh, next to that it looks like an almost unmolested track toy and on the far right a shakotan with an oil cooler on its chin spoiler. Four different styles and I’m wondering…