I’ve had the pleasure of knowing Takeshi Kobayashi for over a decade now but have never actually been to one of his Kday!! events. It’s an annual car show he does every year and though I’ve been to Japan many, many, times, I’ve just never made my way up to Miyagi Prefecture during Fall. After my trip to Australia, I decided to head to Japan for a few weeks and it just so happened that Kday!! was happening the same month. Yasu had planned to attend with his newly-finished USDM Civic coupe so everything just sort of fell into place. Not only would be be able to present the Civic in its near-final form, I’d finally have the opportunity to experience Takeshi’s labor of love in his hometown…
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Kday C8! Japan Coverage… Part 3…
If you love your ’90s Hondas this is going to be a good post for you guys to kick-off your work week. In the final portion of our Kday! C8 Coverage, we look specifically at some of the cars from Japan that helped to really bring an audience to The […]
Read MoreKday C8! Japan Coverage… Part 2…
Let’s jump right back into the Kday! C8 photos which I totally forgot to post after the event itself happened almost a year ago. By this time, the latest Kday! C9 event will have already happened and from the photos that I’ve seen on Instagram, it looked like another great […]
Read MoreKday C8! Japan Coverage… Part 1…
Once upon a time, some 365 days ago, my good friend Takeshi Kobayashi’s annual event, Kday!, happened. You’re only seeing the photos surface now here on The Chronicles a year later because I am a complete asshole and just never found time to post them up. There was a time […]
Read MoreKday! C7 2017 Coverage… Part 2 of 2…
Here we go… Part 2 of 2 of the Kday! C7 coverage, shot a few weeks back in Sendai, Tokyo, Japan, by guest photographer and enthusiast Shunichi Satou. If you guys haven’t seen Part 1, make sure you go back and scroll through that coverage before you jump into this […]
Read MoreKday! C7 2017 Coverage… Part 1…
Things have been pretty busy over here lately. Typically around this time I have a little bit of freedom leading up to my anniversary event in late October, but I decided I wanted to make the journey to Australia in a few weeks for the 2017 World Time Attack event. […]
Read MoreKday Chapter 4 Japan Coverage, A Different Perspective…Part 4 of 4…
As mentioned yesterday, these last couple posts are always the most interesting because you as a viewer get to really see what goes on behind-the-scenes after an event ends. Most sites will only provide you with coverage of the actual event, but I’ve always been really fascinated with everything else […]
Read MoreKday Chapter 4 Japan Coverage, A Different Perspective…Part 3…
This particular section features some really cool stuff. You get a good glimpse at the end of the Kday C4 event and a good look at what happens after. Typically guys would just take off and head home but for the people who are closely tied with the event, they […]
Read MoreKday Chapter 4 Japan Coverage, A Different Perspective…Part 2…
Happy Monday evening all… got some more great stuff from Kday Chapter 4 for you guys to check out. It’s always good to have a steady stream of content coming in. The year usually starts off kinda slow but around this time, there are plenty of events to cover and […]
Read MoreKday Chapter 4 Japan Coverage, A Different Perspective…Part 1…
Shortly after I finished going through the Kday Chapter 4 photos from Koji Karimata, I got a message in my Facebook inbox from my other regular Japanese contributor, Shota Mori. He had spent a couple of sleepless nights going through his coverage and sent me the link with the completed […]
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