My trip to the bookstore
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I scored a few books today, found a book store that is half automotive content, half manga **** content. Its the drift club on one side, and dirty old men on the other.
Anyway to the books. Lots of good tuning information, product catalogs etc etc.. Today I am off to Up garage to look for used junk and going on a tour of Tamon Design, Saturday I am back at my friends shop, then Sunday off the a RX7 car show/meeting event in Chiba.
Anyway to the books. Lots of good tuning information, product catalogs etc etc.. Today I am off to Up garage to look for used junk and going on a tour of Tamon Design, Saturday I am back at my friends shop, then Sunday off the a RX7 car show/meeting event in Chiba.
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Lets just say Japanese **** probably isn't legal anywhere else..
The rotary **** was expensive enough, thats about 200 bucks worth in the photos. Its quality stuff though, their magazines are done in thick glossy paper like books, and the info in them is worth every penny. I am trying to get the entire Rx7 magazine series, I am just about there, then I will start buying the Rx8 series.
The trip to Tamon was awesome, if anyone ever questions the cost of an ORIGINAL body kit, pay the maker a visit and see what it takes to come up with the design and the finished product. The labour the guy put into the parts is mind numbing. They showed me their current project car for the upcoming Tokyo auto salon, it was in shaped clay all done by hand. It wasn't a mazda, but it was still awesome to see them rework a cars lines. I could have snapped a pic, but thought I let him have his proper debut for it at the TAS.
This is the strada FD project they did as a one off, its the owner of Tamon designs own personal car, its a T51r kai FD . They showed me the build diary of the scoot car from regular street beaten fd to the 4 rotor marvel it is today.
The guys sketch pad was cool to see, he had pencil sketches of all the designs he did when he work for REamemiya, the evolution of the look of the RE body kits was pretty cool to see.
And I secured the purchase of the full GT widebody kit and full cowl pro for my FC with carbon hood and wing. My car needs paint, so I figure I may as well go whole hog on it.
All in all pretty cool place, just a husband and wife team working away in a tin shop in rural Japan, but the come up with some stunning designs.
The rotary **** was expensive enough, thats about 200 bucks worth in the photos. Its quality stuff though, their magazines are done in thick glossy paper like books, and the info in them is worth every penny. I am trying to get the entire Rx7 magazine series, I am just about there, then I will start buying the Rx8 series.
The trip to Tamon was awesome, if anyone ever questions the cost of an ORIGINAL body kit, pay the maker a visit and see what it takes to come up with the design and the finished product. The labour the guy put into the parts is mind numbing. They showed me their current project car for the upcoming Tokyo auto salon, it was in shaped clay all done by hand. It wasn't a mazda, but it was still awesome to see them rework a cars lines. I could have snapped a pic, but thought I let him have his proper debut for it at the TAS.
This is the strada FD project they did as a one off, its the owner of Tamon designs own personal car, its a T51r kai FD . They showed me the build diary of the scoot car from regular street beaten fd to the 4 rotor marvel it is today.
The guys sketch pad was cool to see, he had pencil sketches of all the designs he did when he work for REamemiya, the evolution of the look of the RE body kits was pretty cool to see.
And I secured the purchase of the full GT widebody kit and full cowl pro for my FC with carbon hood and wing. My car needs paint, so I figure I may as well go whole hog on it.
All in all pretty cool place, just a husband and wife team working away in a tin shop in rural Japan, but the come up with some stunning designs.
