While I was in Japan back in February, there was a week gap where I didn’t have any other visitors with me. Sara had gone home, Kristian and Der wasn’t set to arrive yet, and there was some free time to just recover. January had been pretty crazy so this was the week where I’d sit down finally can create some content. Creating meant chillin’ inside Yasu’s office at Exceed with the heater blasting while inhaling nonstop second-hand smoke. It’s now April and I can still smell the Seven Stars cigarettes every day, I swear. I put a couple of Vlog episodes together during that time while Yasu caught-up on work at the shop. By the end of the week, it was time for us to resume our adventures and the event I was looking forward to was the AF Fest car show hosted by my friends from Autofashion USA. I’ve known these guys since like 2004-ish so I always appreciate what they do and try to show my support. These guys were doing big things back then and allowed a young scrub like me to tag along and occasionally show my Accord with their fleet of VIP cars. I don’t know why but they me chill with them. Maybe it was a San Diego thing where you just look out for one another, who knows. But it’s been almost 20 years now and I’m happy to say that we are all alive and kicking while still remaining pretty relevant in the scope of the automotive tuning industry. Bascailly, I fuck with these dudes. They’re homies. If they’re doing something or hosting an event, I always try my best to go and every year when I used to do my anniversary meets, the guys from Autofashion would be out to help DJ even though they were dead-tired from building SEMA cars. They are good people and I think their accomplishments translate worldwide because they’ve also created a pretty cool event series in Japan over the last few years. Cool cars, good people, I don’t have to be there all day…that sounds like a fun day to me, lol…
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The Chronicles in Japan 2020 Part 9: More from AF Festival Japan…
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Final Day in Japan at the Autofashion Festival…CHRNCLS Vlog 2020 #5
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Spring BBQ Hangs At Mecha-Dock Japan 2017…
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Mecha-Dock Japan Visit 2016…
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The Chronicles Vlog 2016 #1 (Part 7): Mecha-Dock Osaka…
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NO GOOD RACING 30th Anniversary Coverage…Part 3 of 3…
I didn’t forget about these photos, I swear. I’ve just been spending so much time editing the videos and stuff […]
NO GOOD RACING 30th Anniversary Coverage…Part 2…
What’s up all, back now with some more great photos from the NO GOOD RACING 30th Anniversary event. Yasutaka Shimomukai […]
NO GOOD RACING 30th Anniversary Coverage…Part 1…
Perhaps the most polarizing “car club” in the last few years in the wide-spectrum of the Honda tuning community are […]