> Graham Motzing Wrote:
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> so i worked with a really cool guy a few jobs ago who grew up in tokyo
> in the 80's... basically japan passed crazy strict laws about modifying
> vehicles, basically if they caught your car with anything not-stock they
> would take it and crush it.
>
> the yakuza were so powerful that the like super hardass gangsters would
> build these cars to flaunt the fact that they owned the cops in the
> neighborhood and the cops wouldn't fuck with them.
>
> so when you see a bright pink car with 8 giant chrome exhausts, the guy
> who built that was telling people 'dont' fuck with me because i own the
> cops'
>
> i've never seen any other english language site explain that angle of
> the whole thing but it makes it infinitely more badass and interesting.
Ya that’s wild, puts a whole different perspective on it