“Cruising J-Town: Behind the Wheel of the Nikkei Community,” on view from July 31 through Nov. 12, chronicles the central roles Japanese Americans have played in countless car scenes throughout ...
Oliver Wang, a sociology professor and author at Cal State Long Beach, spent years griping to his friends about the lack of Asian American representation in Southern California’s car history. “I was ...
These cars, also known as "Bippu" vehicles, are a creative interpretation of how the rich and powerful move around.
Japanese American import cars — and those who work to build, drive, drift or race them — have long been synonymous with Southern California car culture. A panel on Saturday, August 30 will explore the ...
Welcome to Japan, the drift's capital of the world! Fasten your seatbelts, rev up your engines, and drift or race on narrow and winding roads. You will follow the story of Touma, a Polish driver who ...
Sometimes an entire culture can be expressed through the cars it loved. Consider the Smiling Buddha sculpture that rode on the nose of Jimmy Ige’s “Ige & Sassa” Junior Fuel dragster in the 1970s. They ...
Professor Oliver Wang now knows more about Japanese American car culture in Los Angeles than he ever thought he would. He learned about racing mechanic Takeo “Chickie” Hirashima; Jimmie Yamane, the ...
From intern to editor, Damian Adams' story reads like a well-written novel where he steadily worked to become the youngest-ever editor of South Africa's leading motoring publication, CAR Magazine. He ...
Japan’s kei car culture keeps finding new ways to surprise, and this latest student-built concept might be the boldest twist yet. If there’s one segment of the automotive world (though odd and quirky) ...
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