Welcome to the Wild World of Tokyo's Underground Lowrider Culture

This car is systematic, hyyydromatic...why it's greased lightning!
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Welcome to the Wild World of Tokyo's Underground Lowrider Culture

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https://jalopnik.com/welcome-to-the-wil ... 1826096379

This is a really good read about car culture in Japan. I didn't expect to see Classic cars running around Tokyo.
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I would think that its expensive to do. In Japan they tax your car based on age. The older it is the more expensive it is to promote people to get newer more efficient cars.
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That's too funny.
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there were some nice rides that were turned into low-riders :( here in the states some of those car a collector be crying to see them turned into hydraulic low-rider toys .some are very rare cars in the states now .
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