BLTN : Mooneyes Yokohama HCS 2017

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This is my penance for the non-car/meta topic of how to reach people.

If you've been around the forum for a while then you know the drill, hot rod and custom show in Yokohama in Japan in the first weekend of December organised by the legendary Mooneyes. Usually featuring a host of rods and bikes that have been bought over to Japan from America, as well as local custom cars and domestic models. Always super high quality work on display and some interesting ideas to take away

The first of two themed displays was the El Camino celebration





Alongside that they had 85 years of the Deuce





Absolutely adore this


One of the cars they got shipped over was the incredible VanGo Econoline.


Paint work on this lowrider is something else!


A very custom Gloria wagon? Or something American that I've not seen before?


Low vans are never not cool


My (second) favourite model of CROWN


Bonkers retro inspired kei van


Great panel pain on this Beetle


Vannin' is the way forwards! More vans!


Next post, the award winners!

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Interestingly they didn't select a Best In Show for the cars, I'm not 100% sure why.

"Unfortunately, this year a Best of Show Automobile was not selected. We heard that there were automobiles that will be finished next year and some previous award winners remake and enter to the Show. We will be looking forward to see more evolution of custom entry for the next YOKOHAMA HOT ROD CUSTOM SHOW."

Which as far as I can make out means that there were cars that were not finished, and others that had been entered into the show before!? I don't know if their criteria for awards is to have cars that are on display for the first time maybe?

Anyway... Some of the cars that did win awards:

Best El Camino


Best Deuce


Gene Winfield's pick (Best Custom)


Best Hot Rod (picked by Hop Up magazine)


Best Japanese


Best Domestic


Best Minitruck


Best Kei


Best Volkwagen


Best Radical


Best 50's


Best 60's


Best 70's


高速有鉛's Pick


Let's Play VWs Magazine's Pick


Steve Caballero's Pick (Yes the skateboarder)


Full awards details here : yokohamahotrodcustomshow.com/hcs2017-report/award_hcs2017/

Or you can check out the full show coverage here : yokohamahotrodcustomshow.com/hcs2017-report/show_hcs2017/

Hope you enjoyed. See anything you like?

[qwerty]

Thanks for the report.

This is rather lovely:



This is insane:


Tom

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Mar 24, 2018 20:45:53 GMT qwerty said:

This is insane:

I'm assuming that is driven with the roof open

[sb]

Youre not helping my need for an A30 Gloria! That looks awesome.