Tag: Dai Yoshihara

Ichi’s Farewell At The 25 Hours Of Thunderhill…(Part 1/2) CHRNCLS Vlog 2021 #27

December 9, 2021 0 comments

This was a special one. Normally I wouldn’t even attempt to cover a grueling event like The 25 Hours of Thunderhill but I made an exception when Spoon Sports extended the invitation. Not only was their FK8 Civic Type R competing in this series for the first time, it became a monumental event because Tatsuru Ichishima, founder of Spoon Sports, was retiring. To give him a proper send-off, the entire team decided to compete and hopefully bring home a victory at one of his favorite events! Spoon Sports went all out for this one, bringing over their entire staff from Type ONE to be the pit crew for the race as well as having a full staff on-hand to make sure we had three meals per day! I’ve never experienced anything like it. We were so taken care of that I think this will forever ruin other race events for me, haha. Watch as I document the journey from start to finish before Ichishima says goodbye!

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Honda-Swapped Benz, Tesla-Powered S2000, A Legendary DC2 + IS300 & DC5 Updates!!… CHRNCLS Vlog 2020 #31

December 14, 2020 0 comments

This one is jam-packed with a wide-variety of automotive goodness! First, we finally take my IS300 wagon to the body shop to start on body work and paint, then we head to Period Correct in Costa Mesa for the grand unveiling of two new Turn 14 exclusive builds. The first is Rywire’s Tesla-driven Honda S2000 and the second is a wild S2000 F22C-swapped Mercedes 190E!! We check those cars out and head back to the shop in time to put some work into the DC5 RSX. The day after that, I stop by my boy David’s meet and am reunited with one of the most legendary Integra builds in the Honda tuning community.

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GReddy GPP Live 2020 Event Coverage…

November 4, 2020 0 comments

There’s no SEMA event this year due to the ongoing “situation” we’re all going through, but I don’t know if I really miss it or not. On one hand, I do enjoy being in Las Vegas. Meeting up with industry friends is always nice and eating/drinking an insane amount throughout the week always makes things interesting. On the flip side, I don’t miss the crowds, the transportation to and from the show is always a bit of a headache, and to put it simply, I kind of enjoy saving money for other stuff. It’s funny because most of us who have been in the industry for some time now always bitch about not wanting to go to SEMA, but then we always end-up going and kinda having a good time. It’s a lot of work but it has its quirks that make life interesting enough where we do look forward to heading back to Vegas annually…

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Year11.5 & The Wild Rides of SEMA – CHRNCLS Vlog 2019 #31

November 13, 2019 0 comments

The day after The Chronicles Year11 event, we hosted a smaller gathering at the shop simply called “Year11.5”. It was our last ‘Chronicles and Coffee’ meet of the calendar year that I wanted to do after the big anniversary event to get more of the people who came from out-of-town […]

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I Heart Honda Festival 2019 Coverage… Part 2…

October 30, 2019 0 comments

When all was said and done, I think the only takeaway from this year’s ‘I Heart Honda Festival’ was that it was just an all-around good time. I don’t even know if a deep dive is necessary. For a Honda enthusiast, this was an almost perfect setting to get together […]

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I Heart Honda Festival 2019 Coverage… Part 1…

October 28, 2019 0 comments

I can’t even begin to tell you how good it feels to just be out at an event these days and being able to hang-out while shooting photos all day. Most of the time, I find myself multi-tasking, whether it be trying to do video, or judging the cars at […]

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Carchella Weekend 2!! – CHRNCLS Vlog 2019 #13

April 22, 2019 0 comments

We never really intended to make “Carchella” a real ‘thing’. It started off as kind of a joke and since Coachella really was going on, it just made sense to get people together to hang out. There hasn’t been much going on so it was just a fun thing to […]

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