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MaydayGarage Does Japan Day One.

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**Thanks to everyone for being so patient! If you didn’t already know, I’ve been fighting an illness that was supposed to kill me exactly one week ago, but i’m here, better than ever! Thanks for the warm wishes, and your comments, but i’m not going anywhere! –DD–**

I know, I know. It’s been over two weeks and we haven’t put up anything from our travels in Japan. Relax! Don’t forget we do this in our spare time! I hope everyone out there got a chance to capture some glimpses of the Tokyo Auto Salon from our favorite blogs out there! No doubt, this year’s TAS was not to be missed, but we want to show you our coverage of the event our way. So with myself and Danh, we managed to capture hundreds upon hundreds of images just to share with our followers. Over the next few days, we will show you exactly what we did in the seven days we occupied the great country of Japan, so sit back, wait for the images to load (there’s going to be a LOT), and take your time.

Man I don't even

Mr. Akagi loved to slap Danny's face for some reason. I have no idea why

Heaven is always above

JDM Jerry Springer?

RUF woof woof

The Man.

D1 Demo outside of Makuhari Messe

You should see rush hour

There we go

This was us 90% of the time we were on the train or subway

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Sushi Time with the Mayday Boys.

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It’s no secret that we love to eat just like everyone else, so when Park Baker of HighTopFade suggested a place that had good sushi for a cheap price, we were ABOUT it. We took some photos, but I just wanted to share a quick video of what it’s like to be a piece of sushi at a conveyor belt sushi joint. Evan had the great idea of putting a gopro video camera on one of the plates, but left the gopro at the hotel. So our resourceful selves suggested using a cell phone instead to capture people’s reactions.

Lol, more to come.
–David–
David@maydaygarage.com

Another All Nighter With The Locals: Drift Edition.

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After Tokyo Auto Salon day two was over, we decided to hit up a local conveyor belt sushi joint near our hotel in Chiba. Afterwards we met up with Ben Green, a drifter from Texas (yeah!) who now lives in Japan. When I reached Ben on Facebook, I told him that we would be coming to Japan and that it would be super awesome if he could show us around. Ben quickly suggested that he show us where the locals drift as he himself isn’t too shabby at the sport. So after taking a one hour train ride near Yokohama, Ben and his crew picked us up at the station and from there, we pretty much played cat and mouse with the cops as we jumped from one spot to another, sometimes with up to 30 other cars following behind. Let’s just say we got back to the hotel at 7:30am. It’s now 8:30am. I decided to do a quick post to let you guys know what we’re doing. We have tons more to cover. I’m only letting you guys see a smidgen of what me and Danh have managed to capture, and now we’re off to TAS day 3! Sleep is for the weak!

Ben and company come and pick us up from the JR station.

This is the kind of traffic I could get used to!

Team MaydayGarage getting to know the locals

Ben Green, our hero/drifter/friend showing us how they get down in Japan.

Ben's car unfortunately got hit the from behind by another normal car (non drift related) the day we flew in, but fixed it for tonight

This is Ray, a drifter from Philly who now lives in Japan

Ray was kind enough to drive us around in his 4 door skyline

Another one of Ben's friends who owns this GTS-T R33

Ben drifting through the intersection with potentially oncoming traffic

Starting a train

This was shot at 5:30am this morning. Hardcore

Don't let the clean looks fool you, like most all cars in Japan, they're built to perform as well.

I wasn't kidding.

There were a ton of cars to look at besides the drifters.

More to come later! Stay tuned!

–David–
David@maydaygarage.com

Event Preview: Mayday Garage does Tokyo Auto Salon 2012.

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We’ve been a little MIA on our Facebook page in the last couple of days due to us being on an airplane and running around all over Japan. Rest assured, we’re working our asses off taking a ton of photos. I won’t go into detail about how hard we’re partying or the one hour rests we have between our days, but we’re here right now at the Makuhari Messe Convention center doing work. So before we take off to another Rauh Welt Begriff car meet, I wanted to show you guys a few photos I took earlier so you know what to expect (car wise at the show). Enjoy!

Waiting around for our train right outside of Tokyo. It was empty.

Real Empty.

Right outside the convention center, we're running on fumes here.

And we're in! Room number one.

One of my favorite cars there, the TWS LF-A

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Event Coverage: The SEMA Show 2011 pt. 1

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A few months back, some of the guys decided they wanted to go back to the final round of FormulaD in Irwindale, CA, but the scheduling was out of the way for some of us.  So JohnP and I decided to go til about a month ago when the question of SEMA came up, “Why don’t we go to SEMA instead? We’ve never been and a bunch of people are going!” A few weeks later and some vacations days requested, I was lucky enough to change the FormulaD days I took off for to the SEMA show days of Nov. 1-4.  By this time, JohnP had business to take care of at home so MaydayDavid stepped in to be Maydays’ spokesperson/photographer/editor/writer/partner/spouse.

Welcome to SEMA 2011!

The third person of our group attending SEMA was Mayday Danny.  You should remember his name because we’ve recently released information that he is currently building a 993 RWB.  Danny booked his flight to SEMA at the last minute just for the sole reason of meeting RWB’s Nakai-san whom later visited Houston to check out the roads, clubs, and steakhouse. Overall, Nakai-san likes the “openness” of Texas :)

I wish we had a photo of Danny meeting Nakai-san for the first time, but we didn't make it til the 2nd day of the show.

Rotiforms were the choice of wheels for Mark's RWB Pandora One.

RWB 964 owned by Brian Scotto of Hoonigan.

Das boot.

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HOLY SHIT. MAYDAYGARAGE IS BUILDING A RAUH WELT 993!

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Secrets don’t make friends.

The only picture we ever leaked of our "intentions", Danny and Haas removing the motor from the 993

That box costs more than the damn car.

We now know that dreams are made of fiberglass.

Oh so you're a fan of dish? We've got you covered.

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Mind. Blown. Jorge’s Crazy Sick and Lightning Quick TechArt GT Street RS 911 GT2RS

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Yeah, that’s a lot of adjectives and one super lengthy name for a car. If it were entirely up to me (which, let’s not kid ourselves, it is, but we have a lot of readers with short attention spans), I would have described it with no less than 15 different adjectives, because even then, it wouldn’t be enough to properly describe Jorge M’s fantastic TechArt GT Street RS 911 GT2RS.

Two words come to mind. What was it again? Oh yeah, "Holy Shit."

Jorge didn't really feel comfortable trusting a valet with his car, so he parked it the best way he knew how. Like a BOSS.

Admit it. You want it.


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