Summer is here which means it's time to put the EK9 away for the season! Haha, yes that sounds strange considering most enthusiasts put their cars away for the winter but if you know Japan, you understand how harsh their summer season can be. It's just way too humid and hot to be outside which means I'm taking my ass back home to a slightly-less-hot Southern California. I've been here way too long so it's time for me to go back to catch-up on regular life...

With me being gone, there's no reason really to have my EK9 CTR outside so it's going to stay in a nice comfy warehouse in Osaka. Before we do that though, Yasu and I decided to load the car up on a tow rig so we could safely transport it 7 hours to the Kanto-side of Japan. If you've followed me for the last few years, hopefully long before that, you know that I usually end my spring journey in Japan by attending the Chan-Oka Honda Meet. It's a smaller event, but the quality definitely exceeds the quantity of Hondas inside this up and coing event. This small lot in Saitama holds some of the best Honda builds in Japan! There's a particular style that these enthusiasts follow and it's very much the more 'USDM', West Coast style of building Hondas from the early 2000s. These guys get all their inspiration from magazines like Super Street and Honda Tuning from back in the day. They execute the style faithfully and I can honestly say that they do their research. The Hondas here are legit.

Yasu and I joked around about how my EK9 wouldn't fit in at this event because it's almost too "JDM" in the way we put it together. It's very much a car styled faithfully to what I grew up understanding as a Japanese Honda build but with some of my own personal touches. Does that mean my car is USDM-styled or JDM? The lines definitely get a little blurred there...

Oh yeah, have you ever seen a Lancia 037 Stradale before just sitting on the street while its raining? Me neither. Until now of course...

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