there’s a pain that came with any attempt of automotive enthusiasm adventure in Japan. the very apparent fact that so much of it has been destroyed and bled dry by the disengenuine and the greedy is something I’ve understood for a long time, but that didn’t change the pain of the constant reminders.

however true that may increasingly be, authenticity will exist forever, the false cannot chase it out of everywhere. it will find its way through the cracks, it will create new spaces and keep old ones alive. you just gotta know where to find it…