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FF Squad in the U.S. are those credited with starting the trend. Jonathon Wong @ Super Street magazine is famous for bringing the term 'JDM' to the enthusiast mainstream, hence his nickname JDM Wong.
Ive googled and searched forums but couldnt get the answer... hopefully someone on here might be able to lead me to the right direction...
I recall reading somewhere that noone knows who started the JDM trend... but yeah...
anyone??
FF Squad in the U.S. are those credited with starting the trend. Jonathon Wong @ Super Street magazine is famous for bringing the term 'JDM' to the enthusiast mainstream, hence his nickname JDM Wong.
I remember reading that in one of your articles/editorial too charles...
Wonder who was the amongst the first to bring it to Australia? Was it the J-Racing S15?
First to use the term or use the style in aus do you mean?
That car wasn't either
either or...able to enlighten?
I reckon Ritchie (brother of Dennis Shen) was probably one of the first to explore JDM - in the purist sense - here in Oz.
Had to be an Indo, probably in Kensington/Kingsford
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An indo with a Honda for sure.
well i guess no one is perfectOriginally Posted by Sp33dY
lol back then the trend was to squeeze the biggest rims possible under their HondasHad to be an Indo, probably in Kensington/Kingsford
I remember the BORJU Civic had 19-inch Lensos and people couldn't believe they fit hehe
Martin Law set up the original Vision Service Centre in Chatswood in I think around 1990, and made available lots of JDM gear.
Most of his customer cars would be considered pretty light tuned by today's stds but his own car was full of Mugen bits, a bored out 1.7L ZC.
At BD4s, one of their bigger customers (who's name escapes me) had ONEOFF which was a AE82 twinkie with a GZE conversion (this is in 1990 remember) and that guy moved onto a SW20 turbo with lots of HKS bits (and IIRC Work Equips) and then later an FD with HKS single turbo kit, etc. This woulda been....maybe 1994~95?
nah im sure the sw20 was a lot later than that...probably still doing the rounds 2000ish?
He sold it on...I'm pretty sure it was featured in Fast Fours in the very early 90s...I'll have a quick look-see.
Ahhh okie...cos i remember seeing it at TMCA when i was still working there...the TCAMS guys were having a bit of a perve at it
If you find any info on ONEOFF FD...please send details this way
I didn't find info on the ONEOFF FD but I did find a 1994 issue of FFs which featured an FD by Vision Service Centre. ARC airbox and IC, M's EBC, RE Amemiya zorst, Mazdaspeed MS01s, Cusco 1 way LSD and Teins.
Pretty much representative of what was being done in Japan at the time.
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