MOPED ARMY

> 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.