Whilst we would very much have liked to be in Japan this past weekend for the Yokohama Hot Rod Custom Show, we sadly had to be at home doing Christmas shopping. We have to use the power of the internet to transport ourselves there.
Straight up Mike has some great coverage over at Speedhunters :
Part 1 here,
Part 2 here. However we're going to go a bit off piste and head over to the Japanese side of the web for some more alternative coverage.
Firstly
Mooneyes itself has a great blog that is regularly updated in both Japanese and English, here it has the last few days run up to the show as well as a handful for images from the actual event. If you are a fan of Japanese cars, hot rods, customs or even just Mooneyes, this is a must read and should be straight in your bookmarks for future reference.
Getting full galleries of the event has so far been slow, with
this one on Flickr being the main one we've found, it is predominantly motorcycle focussed though. We have used a couple of the photographs from the gallery to illustrate this entry.
The guys from
KustomKulture.jp have a range of posts about the event, usually with one or two photographs, a lot of them aren't of the cars, but people hanging out, which gives you and idea of the social side of this event for the builders and traders:
Nash,
Satoshi,
Jetwrench,
Wish.
Beyond those guys we found this
gallery from Hullingbird, which had a nice overview of the whole event. Also The Flat Head, had a nice traders eye
view of the event here.
Our link is from the point of view of VW guys at the show; being such a widely regarded show Yokohama Hot Rod Custom Show tends to being out some great cars, this includes the aircooled scene as well, Flat4 has
some cool photos here.
Let’s hope that next year we can give you some live photographs from the event!
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