(VIDEO) What a real-life Tokyo Drift meet looks like in Japan's capital, with hundreds of gorgeous cars gathering at a last-minute announced location
Mar. 16th, 2023, 05:01 PM GMT TimelessDriving
When we say Tokyo Drift, most of us remember the best, maybe even the only good movie in the Fast and the Furious series, filmed in Japan and dedicated to Japanese car culture, in its multilateral guises. The truth is that in Japan and especially in Tokyo there really is an exceptional culture of good, customized and modified cars, and enthusiasts love to come to unofficial meetings, many of them announced at the last minute, in a tight and clandestine style.
Larry Chen, one of the most acclaimed car and motorsport race photographers in the world, also the author of a YouTube channel, was present in Tokyo when such an ad hoc meeting was announced.
The meeting place was a huge underground parking lot, hidden from the eyes of the world, where the entrance was somewhat more hidden from prying eyes that might be disturbed, and only exotic car owners and very knowledgeable enthusiasts knew where to come and could enter.
And the variety of cars from Tokyo that suddenly gathered in that parking lot was simply huge. Classic Japanese models from the 90s or 2000s, German models or even Italian and British supercars! They could all be seen.
So Larry Chen suddenly found himself in a paradise for car enthusiasts in Japan. He did everything possible to have his camera rushed to him and filmed an entire spontaneous report from this real-life, Tokyo Drift-style encounter in Japan.
And in the report he tells how much such a meeting of enthusiasts in Japan differs from one in the USA or other parts. They don't come to rev their engines with noise, they don't come to do exhibitionist burn-outs, but they show a much greater respect for those around them and for the effort put into each car.