Japanese auctions aren’t just populated with kei cars and boring commercial vehicles. For example, this 1993…
Dekotora is easy to understand. A shortened version of ‘decorated trucks,’ these are just... trucks... that Japanese…
Following the supercar-centric meet at Hanyu Parking Area the day before, I wasn’t sure of what to expect from…
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Takuya Sosogi delivers vegetables all over Japan. It’s a pretty standard trucker gig, except he does it with style.…
“Dekotora” is Japanese for turning a truck into some freaky confluence of medieval knight and Las Vegas slot…
Speedhunters goes behind the scenes at a shop that builds Dekotora trucks. You can read it right here, and it's as great as you'd imagine.
I thought I'd retired from Model Hell after my last project, but now I've found some kits that might force me to…
Oh land of the rising sun, you complete us. Whether it be dekotora, dekochari, custom flightless van, or cartoony…
Yet more proof that nobody can outdo the Japanese when it comes to wild-ass vehicle modifications comes courtesy of…
Take our love for driving sims like the Gran Turismo series and combine it with our fixation with dekotora trucks…
No doubt after checking out the breakout styling superstar Audi A9 we saw yesterday, you're contemplating a similar…
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You know a meme has reached its defining moment when it transcends itself. Like a jukebox hero with stars in his…
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Photographer Masaru Tatsuki has done the world a great service and captured the majesty that is Dekotora in a book…
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We need to get back on track with lobbying the big boss to change the tagline to include our love of Dekotora.…
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Our two contestants yesterday were pretty evenly matched, with the Turbo 2002 beating the KA24DE 510 by a nose.…
Maybe you've toyed with the idea of building a Dekotora, but who among us has actually contemplated owning a genuine…
So what's a country to do with a mess load of Jeeps left by an occupying liberating army? Why, they decorate them…
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I know folks love the Japan-love for lighting and trinketing up trucks. But you can keep your wimpy decorated Dek…
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Japanese chain Autobacs is legendary for carrying all kinds of wacky-ass crap for cars. We lurves us some Autobacs,…