Once we got back to Tokyo, the most important thing on the list was to slam the Probox for the upcoming event Andrew had organised for us. He had gathered a few people to throw the first-ever Juicebox meet in Japan, which was insane.
Andrew and friends put together a Juicebox car meet in Japan, and many cool machines came out of the woodwork.
Our next adventure was to tick a few places off the list. We had never been to Revolver, and the owners seemed hesitant with foreigners. However, we decided to take a look anyway. Thankfully, we had Alex with us, whose presence was instrumental in breaking the ice and making our introduction smoother.
We explore the world’s coolest Exhaust and Muffler shop known as Kakimoto.
After an exciting night in Osaka with Rob and his friends, we ventured out to the wilderness to meet with an old friend, Alex from Circuit Soul. He had moved to the countryside outside of Osaka, and we would get breakfast with him and head to the central circuit as we had never been.
We head back to Osaka to meet the younger Kanjo enthusiasts with whom we went on the loop and see how they are doing.
On our mission to Osaka, we salvaged our trip to Japan by stopping at Fuji Speedway to see the old racetrack bend and visit a forgotten tuning shop.
We flew to Japan to pick up my new AE86 but were almost deported and locked in quarantine.
Here is a little photoset from the time we shot Tadghs S13 before he decided to emigrate to Australia for a year. Tadgh managed to win this car in a raffle in Ireland during the pandemic, and they gave him back 50 euros as good luck, so he essentially won this car for free. If you have not seen it, I recommend watching the video where he tells the story. It’s extraordinary to say you won your dream car for free. What’s incredible is he could then style it however he pleased. He went for the 90s vibe with the TBO bumper and Bwave wing. Enjoy this selection of photos we shot that moody September evening.
We assemble wheels for the AE86, tracking down a set of used SSR Star Sharks from Japan.
We attempt to build the wildest K11 March/Micra possible, tracking down a Tommy Kaira kit in Japan and matching the colour.
It’s hard to convey here just how happy he was to finish his seven-year itch finally. I’m not going into great detail here. I think we covered it perfectly in the video on the 86, but being able to finally do a shoot like this on an unusual April evening in the same spot I had shot this car seven years before. I don’t think the vehicle will even look this good again, but either way, I wanted to get these photos on the website for some time.
As sad as this sounds, and I know there won’t be a lot of people looking at these, I never thought a time would come when I could finally post my build on Juicebox; doing this blog since 2009, I was always out of capture whatever I thought was cool in Ireland and beyond. I hope to get my car to be proud of up here. By the time I got to it, blogs were essentially dead, so we’ve moved the story to YouTube, but it’s a real sense of achievement to shoot this car and post it on the blog. Please enjoy a generous amount of images from that evening. And as always, thanks for looking.
We go all in on the K11 build and try to build the wildest one possible