The Experience of a Lifetime: A Tour of JDM Cars

As I pulled up to the car meet, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and nervousness. This was my first time attending an event like this, and I wasn't sure what to expect. My friend Jason had invited me along for the ride, and I was eager to see what kind of cars would be on display.

As we began to explore the meet, I was immediately struck by the sheer variety of JDM cars on show. From a Parman first-generation import to an AE86 Toyota Corolla, every car seemed to have its own unique character and story to tell. One of the most striking features of these cars is their attention to detail - from the subtle nuances in trim and paintwork to the carefully curated selection of aftermarket parts.

One of the standout exhibits was a beautifully restored Parman import that had been painstakingly assembled from scratch by its owner. The level of authenticity on display was remarkable, with every screw, bolt, and component meticulously documented and displayed for all to see. "I've got writing on the side," the owner said with a smile, "that's my claim to fame."

Another car that caught my eye was an AE86 Toyota Corolla that had been meticulously modified to resemble its Japanese racing counterparts. The owner had spent countless hours researching and sourcing every component needed to bring the car up to par, from precision-crafted suspension components to high-performance engine parts.

As we chatted with the owners of these incredible machines, it became clear just how much passion and dedication goes into creating such unique and personalized vehicles. "It's all about personalization modification," one owner explained. "These cars are not just examples of Japanese engineering - they're works of art that reflect their owner's personality and style."

For me, the experience of seeing these JDM cars up close was truly eye-opening. I'd always been fascinated by the world of import tuning, but never thought I'd have the chance to see it in person. As I explored the meet with Jason as my guide, I began to appreciate just how much goes into creating and maintaining a car like this.

One of the highlights of the day came when we pulled up alongside an S2000 RCR that had been imported from Niagara Falls. The owner, who had spent years researching and sourcing every component needed to restore the car to its former glory, was thrilled to show it off to our group. "This is my baby," he said with pride. "I've got the double bubble wing, the speedster-style top... everything you'd want in a high-performance sports car."

As we chatted with the owner of this incredible machine, I couldn't help but feel a sense of awe at just how much goes into creating a car like this. From the precision engineering of the suspension and engine components to the carefully curated selection of aftermarket parts, every aspect of this car had been thoughtfully considered.

Despite my own lack of experience with JDM cars, I felt like an honorary member of the community as we explored the meet together. "I realize a lot of you will be like 'oh my god Sam, you're like teaching us to suck eggs'," one owner joked. But for me, it was exactly the opposite - I'd always been fascinated by this world, and now I had the chance to learn from people who lived and breathed it.

As we said our goodbyes and headed off into the afternoon sun, I felt grateful for the experience of the day. Whether you're a seasoned JDM enthusiast or just starting to explore this fascinating world, there's no denying the allure of these incredible cars.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: encontrol hello one and all and welcome to seeing through glass welcome back to Canada welcome to quite a ridiculous lineup of cars I don't really know where to start with this lot because there is so much that I want to look at and want to a girl over but there is one car in particular today from this lineup that we're gonna be focusing on I think we're gonna be surprising a lot of you I mean I assume most of you have guessed it by the title but a lot of my traditional viewers well know that I don't do a lot of content on this kind of car but anyway before we really focus on it let me just talk you through this lineup of metal lying behind me Ferrari 16 m in yellow absolutely stunning almost all black specially popped up next to it this has to be one of the earliest pista spiders pista spiders that I've seen in the world what about a Rosso Dino f12 TDF m4 GTS a sort of relatively rare variant of the latest generation m4 and pretty rare in Canada next to it and m235i BMW a car this was a factory race car based on the BMW 235 I this one who live read up yes this is the car we're focusing on today so we'll be back to it but right next to it we have another GTRs in our 33 and you may have noticed it's a sedan or for my European viewers a saloon car we're gonna find out more about these two it shortly when we when we pull this one out so I'll come back to this next to it a very stunning no no one a point to gt3 and I have to say I love can you see this underneath the daytime running lights have been sort of covered in a yellow sort of vinyl which actually looks awesome in these cars on the road and I say these cars because yes it's just next to that an incredible gt2 RS in yellow as I mentioned the beginning we are focusing on one car in particular today and yes it is this so this is a 2001 b-spec - it didn't look like this before but then you know I went shopping here and there picked up some goodies and slapped on the z-tune kids so it looks much beefier much more new or let's say boom let's watch - and they didn't sell this in Canada or in the US this was a Japan oh yes yeah this car didn't come - anywhere except honestly right-hand-drive countries so Singapore got a few New Zealand got a few but most of them stayed in Japan it doesn't rust in Japan okay not like you know we have winter and I was gonna say and why this particular detail was there a reason anything that you liked about it or why this car you know for my for my generation we grew up with honestly PlayStation alright PlayStation 2 is when I was first exposed to this at a motel in New Zealand about 10 15 years ago and then so since that day you know Need for Speed fast and furious honestly honestly that just stuck with me and then when time came I was like hey you know what there's a good one so let's do it so you flew to Japan and bought a car yeah yeah you make it sound a lot simpler basically yeah it's better than buying off the internet you know but what is the purse in this particular example is not low mileage it's got one hundred thirty six thousand kilometers on it now I've actually drove this from San Fransisco through Texas back up to the Canada so that's about kind of 15,000 in the last month yeah if people look at your Instagram it's a little bit similar to mine during drive the world in this constant told me that you said you added on some goodies so like show me around the car what standard what have you added yes so the entire front end is retune so this is a carbon-fiber z-tune hood I've painted the top blue because I don't like fair carbon the bumper the fenders are often z-tune this is actually inspired from the racecar the r34 gt500 race car so air goes in the front comes out here some channel through here and out here the side these side sills all inside we're not there before okay that is that wasn't there before that wasn't there before either and of course the Ellen before we was buy by Nissan so I think these wheels were originally made for the Z tune and then eventually arrays were like oh you know what we'll make 50 sets a year and then to sell it to people right what kind of is that with like some Brembo GTS brakes because I thought you know what I'm not gonna trust a 20 year old brake set on the car and how did you find all the parts if you if you bought the car in Japan and they didn't sell it here like how did you go about shopping parts yes so my my contact in Japan or like you know what I can order parts for you so I thought okay let's do that right and then for the brakes I sourced it with my workshop here you were charged they're cool they're really great guys and they actually paint matches perfectly because the base side blue is a four layer three or four layer paint which involves silver somewhere in there and blue and I believe two layers of clear coat to give it like the super intense 3d gloss kind effect for the u.s. they have 25-year import rules so the first legal r34 that goes into the US would be 2024 for a blue one you can get midnight purple ones and because those are limited you can get those in under show and display but you can't really drive them whereas in Canada you're 15 years to import so we could have gotten this in 20 my Mathis car 2014 2014 so there are a few running around but I like yeah I have said yes does look amazing and it's running the display plate at the moment you know you gotta keep the originality it does have an Ontario plate on the back right yeah yeah I do I do run front plates because I don't want to get stuffed unexpected leave of like a Japanese front plates Japanese from its it's a plate well look I mean not everything here is yours you know a beautiful collection but some of those down there are and there's another GTR as there are 33 so talk me through that quickly so this is a our 33 from Nissan but slightly modified by effect it's like BMW alpina right so in total they made 416 of these if I'm right so it is a sedan or saloon in Europe and it does it the GTR engine and drivetrain and the braking system from the 33 so was it if so it was exhausted into a sedan GTR right no sing did they did for the first generation the boxy looking hakosuka they did okay but everything after that were two-door the hood latch is a little funky okay so where am i from here yeah I just pull on it for a second is there another secondary latch and understand yeah this is a 1998 model so I believe that our 33 were from 95 to 98 and this would be the last one you know it's a 1-year production there's the RB 26 the gt-r engine the previous owner painted the cam silver it's supposed to be a little charcoal ish okay which came first this will be our 34 for you you know what we bought this same time oh really let's get both as I said you got there two other beauties there and actually you've taken up upon us all today to educate me on all things JD air so we're gonna be cruising you're bringing one of those eyes here we are then hallowed ground I'm not sure there's a car that sort of speaks to my generation at least more from the JDM market than the r34 skyline just look amazing but this is as I mentioned it's my first ever experience in any kind of GTR so yeah I'm a little bit nervous a little bit apprehensive my expectations are quite high maybe they shouldn't because let's not forget this car a little bit older now so it's not gonna be mind-boggling speed but that's the whole thing it's not always about speed it's about experience and character and this thing definitely has character cuz it has the original Japanese radio in it anyway I was getting ready to mention Jason's coming along in the gt2 RS we've got Vicky's driving my Carrera T there's an m3 with us and it's all going on and we are headed to a JDM meet so I said have mentioned that Jason had taken upon himself to educate me orgonites an actual JDM meet up with a whole load of card so I can learn more because whilst this is super iconic is not the only other amazing JDM car built so I'm gonna go learn some more right I think we're ready let's do this we'll rejoin the highway and pretty much straight away got in some traffic so let me take this time to kind of give you a bit more history or backstory or at least my own backstory with this car because I keep measuring the fact that it's kind of iconic or how old it is one of the greats and for me there are two main reasons for that chase already touched on one of them Gran Turismo in this car first featured in Gran Turismo 2 back in 1999 and it has then featured in every single Gran Turismo game since and for those who that might not know Gran Turismo who are you and why are you watching this video but it was or maybe it still is probably the greatest driving simulator on the PlayStation when people agree with that I'm not a gamer anymore but definitely back in the late nineties early noughties grand to his Mo's as close that people like me could get to a real driving experience from our living room it was always the best graphics the best cars the best of you know driving sensation through a controller and this was the sort of post car from those early games top of that this was Brian O'Connell workers chosen car in too fast too furious that sort of follow up to the first fast and furious film which again was car like the dream movie for car people back at the late nineties early noughties so there were like two huge popular culture references to make this car insanely desirable however for me personally my sort of plastic for car came from really before the one and my older friends who were the time buying and discussing German and Italian cars it was kind of like Volkswagen golf's poor late BMWs also old BMWs and old Mercedes so that's kind of what I was like are I that's what I want to get when I grow up so that the JDM stuff the Japanese manufactured stuff it Lana went over my head a little bit but for a ton of people this was the best way to get into a sort of relatively quick reliable car and let's not forget JDM cars are some of the most suitable out there and the traffic's cleared up a bit so let's drop again see we can start to exploit some of this because we have got a two point six litre turbocharged inline 6-cylinder engine which I was officially putting out like 280 horsepower but some like 300 330 and I love it so Japanese I've got this screen with so much information on there this is 1999 whose car was coming out and it's it's got so much ticketing but yes they were very few of this kind of car JDM cars that are kind of molested you know heavily chewed heavily modified a bit force Jason has put his own touch on this thing but he's tried to keep it sort of relatively stopped and I quite like now his mind peel an authentic experience so no yes here we go let's jump down some gears are gonna back up a bit because I'm assuming this car is all about the boots let's see if we can experience it here we go 7,000 our shifting now is shifting wall okay that is no slow that is - no / - the gt2 RS the curve is actually incredibly smooth I assumed I assumed them because of the age of this car when massive boost kicked in it was gonna feel a bit like a big old chunk you receive a sudden go but now instead it comes on it progressively and this still feels quick is not a slow car my god apart from a bit of a fail at the end there with a turbo timer that I wasn't aware of so I kind of like stalled upon arrival at the car meet so that was the Oh warden experience kind of actually off GoPro the best moment was the kind of two corners as we got off the highway as I mentioned epic to expense this car in any situation but it was crying out for a corner at some point I was like I need it and then following Jason in that to our wrestles I were I'm not gonna have to start with him but I'll give it my best shot and yeah this thing is just cool it's just cool it just transports you to another area and another time but we are here and there are a ton of other cars lurking around most of which I do recognize I think in part but we're gonna pull Jason back in to kind of be our tour guide there's lots of owners here you can talk us through things as well let's talk around see what's in today's meet like on a purely visual aesthetics point of you this is the slight almost the second coolest car here yeah this is the car it's very authentic it's super authentic and looks the Parman first it's got writing on the side which you gotta win I like it's another one of those like almost post JDM cars it was made to be you know the initial dito food delivery car yeah there you go oh it's beautiful inside so this is a bill so this wasn't an original car this has been I think very very as authentically as possible okay yeah but and an import is although we just found the base car and then bought like found all the parts to chuck it in yeah it definitely took a very long time as well as everything I think yeah it was as I think as possible I think even these fog lights define these are all oh yeah because I know the previous owner that half his car okay and then he was posting every little screw every little you know signal there as much as he could what you would be because the ae86 right so what would you know that furnace so how long have you had this 11 months oh wow okay I had one before which is right here actually oh that's your yeah oh nice and how come the change sounds na and then to make it turbo it's a lot of money and horsepower and stuff if you put this on diners and things oh he hates lard cuz it's Auto it was built Auto blew up so now start Auto for now and then winter we'll do something okay it's I'd say 800 ish determine from like trap speed and 160 Wow okay so what what have you put on there what what you whenever Stas all the top end is fully built precision six four six six week pointed the ECU's a.m. v1 which is really really like it's almost as old as me know and for you why super is out of the hole I always love them that's yo that's okay like a goat like as I grew up I always wanted on biola this is the s2000 RCR which is I believe don't call me on this is the S type for the American market okay so it doesn't have a retractable roof so it's out there no roof or you get a you get up you get up put on this roof you know you're okay scoffs yeah fix Yankees put in top and then the wing is why you get would've got stock that wing is fixed um it's got the double bubble like speedsters sure for the summer when you have it off so yeah this guy actually came from Niagara Falls it's okay nuts yeah it looks super nice actually I'm a fan of the color what an awesome morning for me I sort of uh opening morning we're gonna wave goodbye to everyone now awkwardly as we drive out but yeah apps incredible to finally experience that car I say finally I never really thought that I would but just such a such an amazing thing and you know the biggest takeaway I have about the whole like JDM scene is the fact that everyone it's all about personalization modification and personalization what's it does still happen I think we'd like you know BMWs Mercedes all that kind of scene it's just more about it I feel like with these kind of cars so look I hope you guys have enjoyed it I realize a lot of you will be like oh my god Sam you're like teaching us to suck eggs we know more about this than you I freely make you probably do but for me it's not a part of the car war that I often indulgent so I'm super glad I did and thank you once again to Jason for the opportunity I hope you've enjoyed the video give it a thumbs up if you have and make sure to subscribe for many more videos to comecontrol hello one and all and welcome to seeing through glass welcome back to Canada welcome to quite a ridiculous lineup of cars I don't really know where to start with this lot because there is so much that I want to look at and want to a girl over but there is one car in particular today from this lineup that we're gonna be focusing on I think we're gonna be surprising a lot of you I mean I assume most of you have guessed it by the title but a lot of my traditional viewers well know that I don't do a lot of content on this kind of car but anyway before we really focus on it let me just talk you through this lineup of metal lying behind me Ferrari 16 m in yellow absolutely stunning almost all black specially popped up next to it this has to be one of the earliest pista spiders pista spiders that I've seen in the world what about a Rosso Dino f12 TDF m4 GTS a sort of relatively rare variant of the latest generation m4 and pretty rare in Canada next to it and m235i BMW a car this was a factory race car based on the BMW 235 I this one who live read up yes this is the car we're focusing on today so we'll be back to it but right next to it we have another GTRs in our 33 and you may have noticed it's a sedan or for my European viewers a saloon car we're gonna find out more about these two it shortly when we when we pull this one out so I'll come back to this next to it a very stunning no no one a point to gt3 and I have to say I love can you see this underneath the daytime running lights have been sort of covered in a yellow sort of vinyl which actually looks awesome in these cars on the road and I say these cars because yes it's just next to that an incredible gt2 RS in yellow as I mentioned the beginning we are focusing on one car in particular today and yes it is this so this is a 2001 b-spec - it didn't look like this before but then you know I went shopping here and there picked up some goodies and slapped on the z-tune kids so it looks much beefier much more new or let's say boom let's watch - and they didn't sell this in Canada or in the US this was a Japan oh yes yeah this car didn't come - anywhere except honestly right-hand-drive countries so Singapore got a few New Zealand got a few but most of them stayed in Japan it doesn't rust in Japan okay not like you know we have winter and I was gonna say and why this particular detail was there a reason anything that you liked about it or why this car you know for my for my generation we grew up with honestly PlayStation alright PlayStation 2 is when I was first exposed to this at a motel in New Zealand about 10 15 years ago and then so since that day you know Need for Speed fast and furious honestly honestly that just stuck with me and then when time came I was like hey you know what there's a good one so let's do it so you flew to Japan and bought a car yeah yeah you make it sound a lot simpler basically yeah it's better than buying off the internet you know but what is the purse in this particular example is not low mileage it's got one hundred thirty six thousand kilometers on it now I've actually drove this from San Fransisco through Texas back up to the Canada so that's about kind of 15,000 in the last month yeah if people look at your Instagram it's a little bit similar to mine during drive the world in this constant told me that you said you added on some goodies so like show me around the car what standard what have you added yes so the entire front end is retune so this is a carbon-fiber z-tune hood I've painted the top blue because I don't like fair carbon the bumper the fenders are often z-tune this is actually inspired from the racecar the r34 gt500 race car so air goes in the front comes out here some channel through here and out here the side these side sills all inside we're not there before okay that is that wasn't there before that wasn't there before either and of course the Ellen before we was buy by Nissan so I think these wheels were originally made for the Z tune and then eventually arrays were like oh you know what we'll make 50 sets a year and then to sell it to people right what kind of is that with like some Brembo GTS brakes because I thought you know what I'm not gonna trust a 20 year old brake set on the car and how did you find all the parts if you if you bought the car in Japan and they didn't sell it here like how did you go about shopping parts yes so my my contact in Japan or like you know what I can order parts for you so I thought okay let's do that right and then for the brakes I sourced it with my workshop here you were charged they're cool they're really great guys and they actually paint matches perfectly because the base side blue is a four layer three or four layer paint which involves silver somewhere in there and blue and I believe two layers of clear coat to give it like the super intense 3d gloss kind effect for the u.s. they have 25-year import rules so the first legal r34 that goes into the US would be 2024 for a blue one you can get midnight purple ones and because those are limited you can get those in under show and display but you can't really drive them whereas in Canada you're 15 years to import so we could have gotten this in 20 my Mathis car 2014 2014 so there are a few running around but I like yeah I have said yes does look amazing and it's running the display plate at the moment you know you gotta keep the originality it does have an Ontario plate on the back right yeah yeah I do I do run front plates because I don't want to get stuffed unexpected leave of like a Japanese front plates Japanese from its it's a plate well look I mean not everything here is yours you know a beautiful collection but some of those down there are and there's another GTR as there are 33 so talk me through that quickly so this is a our 33 from Nissan but slightly modified by effect it's like BMW alpina right so in total they made 416 of these if I'm right so it is a sedan or saloon in Europe and it does it the GTR engine and drivetrain and the braking system from the 33 so was it if so it was exhausted into a sedan GTR right no sing did they did for the first generation the boxy looking hakosuka they did okay but everything after that were two-door the hood latch is a little funky okay so where am i from here yeah I just pull on it for a second is there another secondary latch and understand yeah this is a 1998 model so I believe that our 33 were from 95 to 98 and this would be the last one you know it's a 1-year production there's the RB 26 the gt-r engine the previous owner painted the cam silver it's supposed to be a little charcoal ish okay which came first this will be our 34 for you you know what we bought this same time oh really let's get both as I said you got there two other beauties there and actually you've taken up upon us all today to educate me on all things JD air so we're gonna be cruising you're bringing one of those eyes here we are then hallowed ground I'm not sure there's a car that sort of speaks to my generation at least more from the JDM market than the r34 skyline just look amazing but this is as I mentioned it's my first ever experience in any kind of GTR so yeah I'm a little bit nervous a little bit apprehensive my expectations are quite high maybe they shouldn't because let's not forget this car a little bit older now so it's not gonna be mind-boggling speed but that's the whole thing it's not always about speed it's about experience and character and this thing definitely has character cuz it has the original Japanese radio in it anyway I was getting ready to mention Jason's coming along in the gt2 RS we've got Vicky's driving my Carrera T there's an m3 with us and it's all going on and we are headed to a JDM meet so I said have mentioned that Jason had taken upon himself to educate me orgonites an actual JDM meet up with a whole load of card so I can learn more because whilst this is super iconic is not the only other amazing JDM car built so I'm gonna go learn some more right I think we're ready let's do this we'll rejoin the highway and pretty much straight away got in some traffic so let me take this time to kind of give you a bit more history or backstory or at least my own backstory with this car because I keep measuring the fact that it's kind of iconic or how old it is one of the greats and for me there are two main reasons for that chase already touched on one of them Gran Turismo in this car first featured in Gran Turismo 2 back in 1999 and it has then featured in every single Gran Turismo game since and for those who that might not know Gran Turismo who are you and why are you watching this video but it was or maybe it still is probably the greatest driving simulator on the PlayStation when people agree with that I'm not a gamer anymore but definitely back in the late nineties early noughties grand to his Mo's as close that people like me could get to a real driving experience from our living room it was always the best graphics the best cars the best of you know driving sensation through a controller and this was the sort of post car from those early games top of that this was Brian O'Connell workers chosen car in too fast too furious that sort of follow up to the first fast and furious film which again was car like the dream movie for car people back at the late nineties early noughties so there were like two huge popular culture references to make this car insanely desirable however for me personally my sort of plastic for car came from really before the one and my older friends who were the time buying and discussing German and Italian cars it was kind of like Volkswagen golf's poor late BMWs also old BMWs and old Mercedes so that's kind of what I was like are I that's what I want to get when I grow up so that the JDM stuff the Japanese manufactured stuff it Lana went over my head a little bit but for a ton of people this was the best way to get into a sort of relatively quick reliable car and let's not forget JDM cars are some of the most suitable out there and the traffic's cleared up a bit so let's drop again see we can start to exploit some of this because we have got a two point six litre turbocharged inline 6-cylinder engine which I was officially putting out like 280 horsepower but some like 300 330 and I love it so Japanese I've got this screen with so much information on there this is 1999 whose car was coming out and it's it's got so much ticketing but yes they were very few of this kind of car JDM cars that are kind of molested you know heavily chewed heavily modified a bit force Jason has put his own touch on this thing but he's tried to keep it sort of relatively stopped and I quite like now his mind peel an authentic experience so no yes here we go let's jump down some gears are gonna back up a bit because I'm assuming this car is all about the boots let's see if we can experience it here we go 7,000 our shifting now is shifting wall okay that is no slow that is - no / - the gt2 RS the curve is actually incredibly smooth I assumed I assumed them because of the age of this car when massive boost kicked in it was gonna feel a bit like a big old chunk you receive a sudden go but now instead it comes on it progressively and this still feels quick is not a slow car my god apart from a bit of a fail at the end there with a turbo timer that I wasn't aware of so I kind of like stalled upon arrival at the car meet so that was the Oh warden experience kind of actually off GoPro the best moment was the kind of two corners as we got off the highway as I mentioned epic to expense this car in any situation but it was crying out for a corner at some point I was like I need it and then following Jason in that to our wrestles I were I'm not gonna have to start with him but I'll give it my best shot and yeah this thing is just cool it's just cool it just transports you to another area and another time but we are here and there are a ton of other cars lurking around most of which I do recognize I think in part but we're gonna pull Jason back in to kind of be our tour guide there's lots of owners here you can talk us through things as well let's talk around see what's in today's meet like on a purely visual aesthetics point of you this is the slight almost the second coolest car here yeah this is the car it's very authentic it's super authentic and looks the Parman first it's got writing on the side which you gotta win I like it's another one of those like almost post JDM cars it was made to be you know the initial dito food delivery car yeah there you go oh it's beautiful inside so this is a bill so this wasn't an original car this has been I think very very as authentically as possible okay yeah but and an import is although we just found the base car and then bought like found all the parts to chuck it in yeah it definitely took a very long time as well as everything I think yeah it was as I think as possible I think even these fog lights define these are all oh yeah because I know the previous owner that half his car okay and then he was posting every little screw every little you know signal there as much as he could what you would be because the ae86 right so what would you know that furnace so how long have you had this 11 months oh wow okay I had one before which is right here actually oh that's your yeah oh nice and how come the change sounds na and then to make it turbo it's a lot of money and horsepower and stuff if you put this on diners and things oh he hates lard cuz it's Auto it was built Auto blew up so now start Auto for now and then winter we'll do something okay it's I'd say 800 ish determine from like trap speed and 160 Wow okay so what what have you put on there what what you whenever Stas all the top end is fully built precision six four six six week pointed the ECU's a.m. v1 which is really really like it's almost as old as me know and for you why super is out of the hole I always love them that's yo that's okay like a goat like as I grew up I always wanted on biola this is the s2000 RCR which is I believe don't call me on this is the S type for the American market okay so it doesn't have a retractable roof so it's out there no roof or you get a you get up you get up put on this roof you know you're okay scoffs yeah fix Yankees put in top and then the wing is why you get would've got stock that wing is fixed um it's got the double bubble like speedsters sure for the summer when you have it off so yeah this guy actually came from Niagara Falls it's okay nuts yeah it looks super nice actually I'm a fan of the color what an awesome morning for me I sort of uh opening morning we're gonna wave goodbye to everyone now awkwardly as we drive out but yeah apps incredible to finally experience that car I say finally I never really thought that I would but just such a such an amazing thing and you know the biggest takeaway I have about the whole like JDM scene is the fact that everyone it's all about personalization modification and personalization what's it does still happen I think we'd like you know BMWs Mercedes all that kind of scene it's just more about it I feel like with these kind of cars so look I hope you guys have enjoyed it I realize a lot of you will be like oh my god Sam you're like teaching us to suck eggs we know more about this than you I freely make you probably do but for me it's not a part of the car war that I often indulgent so I'm super glad I did and thank you once again to Jason for the opportunity I hope you've enjoyed the video give it a thumbs up if you have and make sure to subscribe for many more videos to comecontrol hello one and all and welcome to seeing through glass welcome back to Canada welcome to quite a ridiculous lineup of cars I don't really know where to start with this lot because there is so much that I want to look at and want to a girl over but there is one car in particular today from this lineup that we're gonna be focusing on I think we're gonna be surprising a lot of you I mean I assume most of you have guessed it by the title but a lot of my traditional viewers well know that I don't do a lot of content on this kind of car but anyway before we really focus on it let me just talk you through this lineup of metal lying behind me Ferrari 16 m in yellow absolutely stunning almost all black specially popped up next to it this has to be one of the earliest pista spiders pista spiders that I've seen in the world what about a Rosso Dino f12 TDF m4 GTS a sort of relatively rare variant of the latest generation m4 and pretty rare in Canada next to it and m235i BMW a car this was a factory race car based on the BMW 235 I this one who live read up yes this is the car we're focusing on today so we'll be back to it but right next to it we have another GTRs in our 33 and you may have noticed it's a sedan or for my European viewers a saloon car we're gonna find out more about these two it shortly when we when we pull this one out so I'll come back to this next to it a very stunning no no one a point to gt3 and I have to say I love can you see this underneath the daytime running lights have been sort of covered in a yellow sort of vinyl which actually looks awesome in these cars on the road and I say these cars because yes it's just next to that an incredible gt2 RS in yellow as I mentioned the beginning we are focusing on one car in particular today and yes it is this so this is a 2001 b-spec - it didn't look like this before but then you know I went shopping here and there picked up some goodies and slapped on the z-tune kids so it looks much beefier much more new or let's say boom let's watch - and they didn't sell this in Canada or in the US this was a Japan oh yes yeah this car didn't come - anywhere except honestly right-hand-drive countries so Singapore got a few New Zealand got a few but most of them stayed in Japan it doesn't rust in Japan okay not like you know we have winter and I was gonna say and why this particular detail was there a reason anything that you liked about it or why this car you know for my for my generation we grew up with honestly PlayStation alright PlayStation 2 is when I was first exposed to this at a motel in New Zealand about 10 15 years ago and then so since that day you know Need for Speed fast and furious honestly honestly that just stuck with me and then when time came I was like hey you know what there's a good one so let's do it so you flew to Japan and bought a car yeah yeah you make it sound a lot simpler basically yeah it's better than buying off the internet you know but what is the purse in this particular example is not low mileage it's got one hundred thirty six thousand kilometers on it now I've actually drove this from San Fransisco through Texas back up to the Canada so that's about kind of 15,000 in the last month yeah if people look at your Instagram it's a little bit similar to mine during drive the world in this constant told me that you said you added on some goodies so like show me around the car what standard what have you added yes so the entire front end is retune so this is a carbon-fiber z-tune hood I've painted the top blue because I don't like fair carbon the bumper the fenders are often z-tune this is actually inspired from the racecar the r34 gt500 race car so air goes in the front comes out here some channel through here and out here the side these side sills all inside we're not there before okay that is that wasn't there before that wasn't there before either and of course the Ellen before we was buy by Nissan so I think these wheels were originally made for the Z tune and then eventually arrays were like oh you know what we'll make 50 sets a year and then to sell it to people right what kind of is that with like some Brembo GTS brakes because I thought you know what I'm not gonna trust a 20 year old brake set on the car and how did you find all the parts if you if you bought the car in Japan and they didn't sell it here like how did you go about shopping parts yes so my my contact in Japan or like you know what I can order parts for you so I thought okay let's do that right and then for the brakes I sourced it with my workshop here you were charged they're cool they're really great guys and they actually paint matches perfectly because the base side blue is a four layer three or four layer paint which involves silver somewhere in there and blue and I believe two layers of clear coat to give it like the super intense 3d gloss kind effect for the u.s. they have 25-year import rules so the first legal r34 that goes into the US would be 2024 for a blue one you can get midnight purple ones and because those are limited you can get those in under show and display but you can't really drive them whereas in Canada you're 15 years to import so we could have gotten this in 20 my Mathis car 2014 2014 so there are a few running around but I like yeah I have said yes does look amazing and it's running the display plate at the moment you know you gotta keep the originality it does have an Ontario plate on the back right yeah yeah I do I do run front plates because I don't want to get stuffed unexpected leave of like a Japanese front plates Japanese from its it's a plate well look I mean not everything here is yours you know a beautiful collection but some of those down there are and there's another GTR as there are 33 so talk me through that quickly so this is a our 33 from Nissan but slightly modified by effect it's like BMW alpina right so in total they made 416 of these if I'm right so it is a sedan or saloon in Europe and it does it the GTR engine and drivetrain and the braking system from the 33 so was it if so it was exhausted into a sedan GTR right no sing did they did for the first generation the boxy looking hakosuka they did okay but everything after that were two-door the hood latch is a little funky okay so where am i from here yeah I just pull on it for a second is there another secondary latch and understand yeah this is a 1998 model so I believe that our 33 were from 95 to 98 and this would be the last one you know it's a 1-year production there's the RB 26 the gt-r engine the previous owner painted the cam silver it's supposed to be a little charcoal ish okay which came first this will be our 34 for you you know what we bought this same time oh really let's get both as I said you got there two other beauties there and actually you've taken up upon us all today to educate me on all things JD air so we're gonna be cruising you're bringing one of those eyes here we are then hallowed ground I'm not sure there's a car that sort of speaks to my generation at least more from the JDM market than the r34 skyline just look amazing but this is as I mentioned it's my first ever experience in any kind of GTR so yeah I'm a little bit nervous a little bit apprehensive my expectations are quite high maybe they shouldn't because let's not forget this car a little bit older now so it's not gonna be mind-boggling speed but that's the whole thing it's not always about speed it's about experience and character and this thing definitely has character cuz it has the original Japanese radio in it anyway I was getting ready to mention Jason's coming along in the gt2 RS we've got Vicky's driving my Carrera T there's an m3 with us and it's all going on and we are headed to a JDM meet so I said have mentioned that Jason had taken upon himself to educate me orgonites an actual JDM meet up with a whole load of card so I can learn more because whilst this is super iconic is not the only other amazing JDM car built so I'm gonna go learn some more right I think we're ready let's do this we'll rejoin the highway and pretty much straight away got in some traffic so let me take this time to kind of give you a bit more history or backstory or at least my own backstory with this car because I keep measuring the fact that it's kind of iconic or how old it is one of the greats and for me there are two main reasons for that chase already touched on one of them Gran Turismo in this car first featured in Gran Turismo 2 back in 1999 and it has then featured in every single Gran Turismo game since and for those who that might not know Gran Turismo who are you and why are you watching this video but it was or maybe it still is probably the greatest driving simulator on the PlayStation when people agree with that I'm not a gamer anymore but definitely back in the late nineties early noughties grand to his Mo's as close that people like me could get to a real driving experience from our living room it was always the best graphics the best cars the best of you know driving sensation through a controller and this was the sort of post car from those early games top of that this was Brian O'Connell workers chosen car in too fast too furious that sort of follow up to the first fast and furious film which again was car like the dream movie for car people back at the late nineties early noughties so there were like two huge popular culture references to make this car insanely desirable however for me personally my sort of plastic for car came from really before the one and my older friends who were the time buying and discussing German and Italian cars it was kind of like Volkswagen golf's poor late BMWs also old BMWs and old Mercedes so that's kind of what I was like are I that's what I want to get when I grow up so that the JDM stuff the Japanese manufactured stuff it Lana went over my head a little bit but for a ton of people this was the best way to get into a sort of relatively quick reliable car and let's not forget JDM cars are some of the most suitable out there and the traffic's cleared up a bit so let's drop again see we can start to exploit some of this because we have got a two point six litre turbocharged inline 6-cylinder engine which I was officially putting out like 280 horsepower but some like 300 330 and I love it so Japanese I've got this screen with so much information on there this is 1999 whose car was coming out and it's it's got so much ticketing but yes they were very few of this kind of car JDM cars that are kind of molested you know heavily chewed heavily modified a bit force Jason has put his own touch on this thing but he's tried to keep it sort of relatively stopped and I quite like now his mind peel an authentic experience so no yes here we go let's jump down some gears are gonna back up a bit because I'm assuming this car is all about the boots let's see if we can experience it here we go 7,000 our shifting now is shifting wall okay that is no slow that is - no / - the gt2 RS the curve is actually incredibly smooth I assumed I assumed them because of the age of this car when massive boost kicked in it was gonna feel a bit like a big old chunk you receive a sudden go but now instead it comes on it progressively and this still feels quick is not a slow car my god apart from a bit of a fail at the end there with a turbo timer that I wasn't aware of so I kind of like stalled upon arrival at the car meet so that was the Oh warden experience kind of actually off GoPro the best moment was the kind of two corners as we got off the highway as I mentioned epic to expense this car in any situation but it was crying out for a corner at some point I was like I need it and then following Jason in that to our wrestles I were I'm not gonna have to start with him but I'll give it my best shot and yeah this thing is just cool it's just cool it just transports you to another area and another time but we are here and there are a ton of other cars lurking around most of which I do recognize I think in part but we're gonna pull Jason back in to kind of be our tour guide there's lots of owners here you can talk us through things as well let's talk around see what's in today's meet like on a purely visual aesthetics point of you this is the slight almost the second coolest car here yeah this is the car it's very authentic it's super authentic and looks the Parman first it's got writing on the side which you gotta win I like it's another one of those like almost post JDM cars it was made to be you know the initial dito food delivery car yeah there you go oh it's beautiful inside so this is a bill so this wasn't an original car this has been I think very very as authentically as possible okay yeah but and an import is although we just found the base car and then bought like found all the parts to chuck it in yeah it definitely took a very long time as well as everything I think yeah it was as I think as possible I think even these fog lights define these are all oh yeah because I know the previous owner that half his car okay and then he was posting every little screw every little you know signal there as much as he could what you would be because the ae86 right so what would you know that furnace so how long have you had this 11 months oh wow okay I had one before which is right here actually oh that's your yeah oh nice and how come the change sounds na and then to make it turbo it's a lot of money and horsepower and stuff if you put this on diners and things oh he hates lard cuz it's Auto it was built Auto blew up so now start Auto for now and then winter we'll do something okay it's I'd say 800 ish determine from like trap speed and 160 Wow okay so what what have you put on there what what you whenever Stas all the top end is fully built precision six four six six week pointed the ECU's a.m. v1 which is really really like it's almost as old as me know and for you why super is out of the hole I always love them that's yo that's okay like a goat like as I grew up I always wanted on biola this is the s2000 RCR which is I believe don't call me on this is the S type for the American market okay so it doesn't have a retractable roof so it's out there no roof or you get a you get up you get up put on this roof you know you're okay scoffs yeah fix Yankees put in top and then the wing is why you get would've got stock that wing is fixed um it's got the double bubble like speedsters sure for the summer when you have it off so yeah this guy actually came from Niagara Falls it's okay nuts yeah it looks super nice actually I'm a fan of the color what an awesome morning for me I sort of uh opening morning we're gonna wave goodbye to everyone now awkwardly as we drive out but yeah apps incredible to finally experience that car I say finally I never really thought that I would but just such a such an amazing thing and you know the biggest takeaway I have about the whole like JDM scene is the fact that everyone it's all about personalization modification and personalization what's it does still happen I think we'd like you know BMWs Mercedes all that kind of scene it's just more about it I feel like with these kind of cars so look I hope you guys have enjoyed it I realize a lot of you will be like oh my god Sam you're like teaching us to suck eggs we know more about this than you I freely make you probably do but for me it's not a part of the car war that I often indulgent so I'm super glad I did and thank you once again to Jason for the opportunity I hope you've enjoyed the video give it a thumbs up if you have and make sure to subscribe for many more videos to come\n"