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While most are probably familiar with Drift Tengoku or Battle Magazine, the late 90s/early 2000s had a huge selection of Japanese tuning magazines. The hobby was definitely at its all time peak popularity, and that was clearly seen through the number of niche magazines for every type of enthusiast. Young Version was actually one of…
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I’m warning y’all from the start, this… will be a longgggg one. With lots of pictures as well! This might be my favorite BM issue I have (so far), and it’s one that took me a decent amount of time to get. I was looking for it for a specific feature, and this is the…
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2nd DoriTen of the year 2000, let’s get into it!! Yashio Factory ad Right away at the start of the magazine, we got a full spread Yashio Factory ad. Yashio Factory, owned by Okamura Kazuyoshu, also known as Oka-Chan. Is a super well known S chassis tuning shop. They were very well associated with NOB…
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Hyper Car Style Battle Magazine, aka BM. The second largest drifting focused Japanese magazine from the early 90s to mid 2000s. It actually started out as motorcycle magazine with a focus on Touge racing, but as drifting grew popular in the 90s they started featuring some cars here and there. And by 97ish it became…
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Soooo… first one of these. Not sure how exactly I wanna write/make these. But since I love blabbering on. I think that’s what I’m gonna do. For the first one I felt it would be fitting to start from January 2000, Drift Tengoku (aka DoriTen) Posts wont necessarily be in chronological order, and I AM…