This is How the Bosozoku Roll

[Mike]

12-10-2008 01:03 AM

They say that the goose-step, ridiculous and inefficient as it may appear, became the march of choice for dictatorships around the world precisely because of its silly appearance. After all, only a terrifying madman could get thousands of able-bodied men to walk that absurdly in precise formation. It is a way to instill fear.

That’s pretty much the feeling we get when we see a swarm of bosozoku cars rolling down Japan’s highways. The cantilevered lip spoilers, the brick-square fender flares and yard-long exhaust pipes may look insane when parked. But get surrounded by a horde of them wreaking havoc on the expressway and it suddenly begins to make sense, even when a dude dressed like a freaking tiger rides a convertible’s door sill as his mohawked associate maniacally twirls a baseball bat in the air. It makes one wonder if they’re launching a siege on Bartertown or something, but it’s probably best not to ask questions and just get the hell out of their way.

[RetroSceneMag]

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[TomoHawk]

Where would you put the exhaust sniffer?

thxZ

[Oiluj]

Not just strange,...but funny!

[TomoHawk]

I know.....

You put the exhaust sniffer in any of the tailpipes and multiply the reading time 47, and add the square root of the length of any pipe.

[Bonzi Lon]

While viewing this, two things came to mind. Could this be:

1. An up-dated Japanese version of "A Clockwork Orange", or

2. A pre-apocalyptic "Mad Max"?

Bonzi Lon