So last weekend, my friend Dino and I decided to visit with Nakamura-san, owner of a very interesting and special shop,
Worx Auto Alarm, located in Chiba near beaches famous with the surfing crowd. It was a nice day for a drive, so despite my having known Dino for more than 10 years, I decided to let him drive my car for the first time. I figured a man who has driven more cars than I can count, who's not getting paid to drive it, can give me his objective impressions on my car. And yes he did! So I'll post those up in an upcoming post.
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| We arrived mid-afternoon on a cloudy day - sunlight hit it just right I think! |
Anyway, Nakamura-san is famous in Japan due to his love for the RB26 GT-Rs (he is especially a big fan of the R33, he told me!) and his work, especially, as his shop name states, on car alarms for them (even in Japan these cars have a high theft rate). He also does car stereo and other electrical stuff so for basically anything electrical, he's THE guy.
He's done the installs for the cars owned by and featured in GT-R Magazine and the like, so he's widely known in the GT-R community here in Japan. Here are some
examplesof what he does for GT-Rs. Most importantly for us R33 owners who want a modern 2DIN stereo head unit, is perhaps this:
Recently, Dino had some work done on his BNR34 (installing some
switchback LEDs from
VLEDS) and featured it on
Speedhunters. What impressed me the most, as well as I'm sure many people, was the level of attention to detail Nakamura-san takes in making sure the wiring is neat and clean:
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So as not to get the jumbled mess of spaghetti found in my car:
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| I'm blaming SuperAutobacs for this... when I got my Pioneer Navi installed by them back in 2006! |
In addition to being a rabid 2nd generation GT-R fan (he's got one of every model), he also has some other interesting cars in his collection. One being this Fiat thing which apparently he bought because he loved what the print ads said at the time "In Pursuit of Ferrari" or something like that...
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| It does have an Abarth badge... |
Anyway, he's got some other vehicles like this very
Americanone. For me, however, is the excitement of finally meeting someone who is just as, if not more, OCD than me and who is willing and able to help me on the one part of the R33 that oozes 90s Nissan cheapness, the interior.
Alas, after the 3 of us talked excitedly non-stop for 2 hours, Dino and I decided to pack up and head back... but not before we cruised by the beach near the ocean, where I took this photo.
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| I think this is the limit of my iPhone's camera (and my photography skills!)... |
Stay tuned, the rest of 2016 is going to be full of goodness, I just know!
