Well, what a weekend. I took yesterday to switch off and reflect on how successful the Garage Sokudo Matsuri was on Saturday. I wanted to create an event that really embraced the Japanese car culture we all love so much and bring together a community of likeminded people, and that’s exactly what we did. Honestly,…
Back in 2023 while out in Kanagawa, I finally had the chance to visit the legendary shop, Pro Shop Wave. If you’ve ever browsed through old issues of Drift Tengoku from the 2000s, you’ve probably seen their ads, absolutely packed with tiny images of coilovers, LSDs, wings, and everything in between. The shop has been…
This year we’re putting together something we’ve wanted to do for a long time – a day to celebrate the cars and the community that make Garage Sokudo what it is: Garage Sokudo Matsuri. Matsuri means festival in Japanese, and that’s exactly what we want this day to be. We’ll be taking over the big…
For anyone who doesn’t know, every week a bunch of the boys from drift team TBK meet at Brothers Kebabs. That’s where the name “Team Brothers Kebabs” comes from, a simple tradition of grabbing a kebab, talking cars, and enjoying each other’s company. Oh, and did I mention they all have great taste in cars…
I love seeing car people with a passion and a taste for curation, thats why I really appreciate the guys at Shinzo Garage. If you don’t know, Shinzo Garage is a Melbourne based vartiety shop with a bunch of well curated goods, everything from old Japanese DVD’s, stickers, small selection of wheels and a collection…
I finally managed to get some more detailed photos of the new V3 livery on the SK15SPL demo car. This livery pays homage to some of the great brands and workshops of the 2000s, many of whom I’m lucky enough to now call friends. The design itself is a completely custom tribal base in red…
Back in March earlier this year, we finally got the chance to attend a Final Bout event, not in the USA, but in Japan, at Mobara Circuit in Chiba Prefecture. If you’re not familiar, Final Bout is a grassroots drifting event judged on team drifting and style, unlike professional drifting which focuses on clipping points,…
First up, a huge thank you to everyone who came out to Garage Sokudo Twilight Underpass 2 over the weekend here in Melbourne. What a night. It was packed with some of the city’s best Japanese street cars, and honestly, I’m still buzzing from seeing so many old friends, some I hadn’t seen in nearly…
While in Japan I had the chance to link up and shoot Fumi’s incredibly cool 180SX, a work in progress that already has serious presence. He hand-crafted the ultra-wide moulded rear fenders himself, and just weeks later had the front done too (which I would’ve loved to shoot). But there’s something special about capturing a…