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Ahhh the memories, this time they will all be captured on tape. Heading out to Ebisu this whole weekend with the Trusty Canon HD camera and filming all the action! I have 900 minutes worth of DV tapes for the camera, lets see how many tapes I can use!

Sad i wont be drifting but these things happen, I have a drift day coming up this month anyway! Just packed my Kei car up with all my camera gear and now we are ready to go!

See you guys back here on Monday / Tuesday after the epic weekend, then off to Mobara on Wednesday to film my mate Andy from Powervehicles.com running in the D1 Street Legal event and on Friday night I’m heading to Kiryu to film some local boys run the touge, damn I’m BUSY!!!

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When I first landed in Japan I refused to buy a car that I could get back in Australia, for me there is no fun in modifying a car that I have already owned or I have seen parked on every corner street so I set out on the hunt for a JZX100. I slowly started to notice that the JZX100 was parked on every corner street in Japan and at any local track day they would make up the large majority of cars in the field. This coupled with the fact they have a chassis about as rigid as banana and after one good crash it would also be shaped like a banana my good friend Hoshino from Hoshino Car Style told me a JZX90 would be the best bet due to the smaller numbers seen on track days and a much stronger and stiffer chassis design, I agreed as he would be the one fixing my car when I crashed it.

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