Tag: Super Street

A Little Dose of Honda Heaven in Japan…

Next-up on my list of “Photos I should have posted a long time ago” is a good one. Last year, I extended my Spring trip to Japan a few extra days just so I could attend the Chan-Oka Honda Meet in Saitama. I didn’t know much about the event at the time other than it was an all-Honda gathering being hosted at a private compound. To me, it sounded like the early beginnings of the Eibach Honda Meet back at home, just on a much smaller scale. After I attended, I realized that was exactly what it was supposed to be. Like it wasn’t supposed to be a Japanese Eibach Honda Meet but more-so a (smaller) Eibach Honda Meet in Japan, if that makes sense. The latter is important because the Hondas that would be exhibiting at the Chan-Oka Meet were catered to those that enjoy Honda tuning in North America. The cars represented there were an homage to the 2000s-2010s era of Honda builds you’d see here at home. To me, that’s probably the best era when it comes to Honda modification and I’m glad so many in Japan seem to agree with. A lot of their inspiration comes from looking through magazines like Honda Tuning and Super Street, which I also did quite a bit of work for, so it made sense for me to attend. I don’t think that I am the end-all and be-all of information when it comes to this particular genre by any means—but I’d like to believe that I am pretty knowledgeable and have enough experience to help them curate this sub-community of Honda enthusiasts…

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Unfeatured: Brian McAvoy’s Honda Civic…

I suppose I should start off this latest entry to my “Unfeatured” series by letting you all know that Brian McAvoy’s Civic is probably only one of two cars that I have ever shot on two separate occasions that never made it to print like I had planned. Like the other features, how they ended-up not being in a magazine was not any fault of their own—it was all on me. This was a particular strange time for me as I found myself at a transitional stage of my life and ‘career’, I guess you can say, and a lot of the work that I had done which I had planned to submit just never came to be. Looking back at these photos now, I feel a bit of regret. These photos in particular came out pretty good, in my own opinion, and I was quite satisified with what I was able to churn-out on the color-toning aspect of my post-processing…

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Unfeatured: The Exceed Japan Integra Type R…

Those of you who have followed The Chronicles for the last few years will probably be pretty familiar with this 1996 Honda Integra Type R. I’ve posted photos of it here and there over time, never the complete set, which I’ll explain why today. It was a build that I […]

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Unfeatured: William Potts’ Honda Integra Type R…

Consider this a lesson in being just a little tad-bit over ambitious. When I decided to start doing this limited-series of works that I’d previously never shown to the world, I knew that I’d have to face some of the mistakes I’d made in the past as a photographer and […]

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It Happened.

I think so many of us braced for this moment, knowing that it would eventually happen after the other big import books shut down a few years back, but today it really happened. Super Street, along with so other many good magazine titles in the automotive industry, is ceasing publication […]

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Japanese Classic Car Show 2019 Coverage… Part 2…

Back now with some more photos from the annual Japanese Classic Car Show. This section has a bit of Honda-content to start but then we get right back into some of the really interesting Toyota and Nissan builds at the show. Looking back now, I think I might have missed-out […]

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Japanese Classic Car Show 2019 Coverage… Part 1…

Every year I attend the Japanese Classic Car Show in Long Beach and every year I find myself questioning why the cars are getting newer and newer. Then that unsettling thought in my head reminds me that the cars arent getting newer—were all just collectively getting older. Its a classic […]

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Period-Correct At JCCS – CHRNCLS Vlog 2019 #28

In the past year or so, Der has really gotten into film photography and collecting old/vintage cameras. He recently acquired a pretty massive collection of cameras which included some really old camcorders as well. Some were basically brand new old stock that were never used. For this year’s Japanese Classic […]

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Super Street Mazda Issue 2019 Celebration Event Coverage…

Having worked in the automotive print industry for a few years now, I am often presented with access to special, sometimes private, events. These could be cocktail mixers, privately hosted release parties by various companies in the auto industry, or even pizza parties. Yes, pizza parties. I generally try to […]

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