Category: Naniwa Tomoare

Osak-October Thoughts

Us PVT Runners have a holiday every year. It’s October, the whole fuckin month. A time of the year where Friday the 13th would pop up on TV along with other horror movies due to Halloween. The hockey mask used in the franchise didn’t appear until Friday the 13th III in 1982. By 1983 it was released in Japan.

Yuh
Around that year, many kanjozoku groups formed.
Makes you wonder when the mask was first introduced to hide the kanjozoku’s identity…

The change of the season is enchanting for me. As if the month was waiting for PVT… Waiting for a mischievous offering. Almost like a changeling waking up and finding trolls and goblins to guide her to new life. Perhaps we are all changelings placed here on earth. An offering from another realm.

The transfer over from a young individual, into the world of car culture is the same feeling. You feel like a changeling; you meet new people, friends, families and even rivals. It is a whole new universe. Just like when Kazuhiro entered the world of kanjo culture when he was younger… With that being said I will end this post with this:

[The writing on the hood]


80年代から90年代初頭にかけて環状ブームにより
これらの車が一般道で害であった事は事実である。
40代前後の人達にはかなり身近な思い出として記憶に残る存在である。
大阪府警から特に集中取締を喰らったのがシビック系CR-Xなど、
車雑誌などで「大阪名物　府警のシビック狩り！」とまで言われる程であった。

95年に改造車検の規制緩和
「日本自動車協議」
「日本自動車部品協議」
いずれもアメリカの強引な外交に日本が合意し
「なんじゃそりゃ～」と思った同世代の人も多くいたと思う。

結局は車の改造だけでなく、善悪は自分の見てきた事や、
経験から得た事で判断し、環状を通じてそんな事をふと感じた。

僕らの世代はある意味恵まれているかもしれない。

ヤングマガジン　なにわ友あれ　南　勝久


92年高校2年の時に環状線横乗りデビュー、衝撃でした。
ワンダーEF、メッチャ見て来ました。
免許を取り、即効でシビックを購入！何台も壊しました。
環状線　パレード暴走…害な事をして来ました。
馬鹿だと思われても仕方ありません。

大阪の文化とも言えるような「環状線」
チームの中で厳しくもあり、優しい先輩達からの男の縦社会と言う物を学び
また、シビックと出会い環状線を走り、車に夢中になりました。
各年代、各チームのやり方、走り方等、様々であったと思います。
その中で環状線は外せない存在であり私の時代はHONDA車
欠かせない存在でした。

先輩・シビック・環状線の出会いで今があります。

車を好きになり運転している時はいつでも楽しくて仕方ありません。

どの様な形でも良いと思います。

車で楽しむって事を忘れないで欲しいです。

古川　一弘

(古川 一弘氏　株式会社カークラフトブーン代表)
(南 勝久氏 ヤングマガジン連載 ナニワトモアレ・なにわ友あれ作者)

Happy Holidays

The word kanjo/kanjozoku is now a house hold name. When I first seen what it was in an Option mag around 98/99 I was hooked. When JDM Insider dropped their video in the early 2000’s I was set; this is how Honda Civic’s should be hooked up.

Park Baker did a translation of one of the first articles of Kanjo racing from a 1983 issue of Option, found here.

For those who don’t know, way before Civic’s and other small Group A style cars ran the kanjo, it started off with older Japanese 70′ & 80’s cars and bikes. BOB Racing and Lupin to name a few teams. Late Riser as a bike crew, too.

After that era of new beginnings, newer cars came out to treat Loop 1 as an outlaw playground. The Civic (AH, EF, EG) paved the way for the weapon of choice on Loop 1 (respects to the AE86 & S13 as well). It serves well as a “short range fighter” due to it’s nimbleness and light weight.

Wangan/Cannonballing were more for rwd high horsepower vehicles. Cars of that stature would have a difficult time maneuvering Loop 1 due to it’s tight turns and most of all traffic. A kanjozoku stated that higher power cars would have a difficult time getting up to high speed and full power on the Loop and won’t be able to stop in time when traffic gets thick.

Now that kanjo is a household name, know about it’s beginnings. Many kanjozoku’s started off as bikers and would crowd the Loop, later they would move on to cars and treat the loop as a outlaw road course. Now it’s simply a place for them to have an adrenaline rush. As the article Option posted, the holidays were really a car holiday for them to go out when no one else was on the road. Perhaps you should do the same, a homage to the OG’s. Of course do it in a safe manner, go cruising. Peace.

Related PVT Links:

https://privaterunners.com/2014/03/14/if-youre-not-from-osaka/

https://privaterunners.com/2014/02/23/okrc/

https://privaterunners.com/2013/10/13/kanjo-is-alive-and-well/