No Names or Faces Allowed: Secret Hong Kong Car Collections | Capturing Car Culture

[@LarryChenPhoto]

Hey everyone, I just wanted to clear up what I said in the video. I was wrong about the government taking away your vehicles in Hong Kong for no reason at all. I messed up and I should not have said that. I need to be more careful when I make these grand statements. What I should have said was that they WILL find a reason to take away your vehicle if they choose to. Even if it's unfounded and not true, EVEN if the vehicle is stock and they think it's modified. As you have seen in the past video where the cop stopped the NSX-R owner because he does not have an airbag, even though the NSX-R never came with one in the first place. The cars can be taken away for as little as aftermarket wheels, or a different radio / head unit, as was stated in the last videos. This is the same for the storage places where the cars and collections actually live, the collectors are deathly afraid of their garages taken away. Again, the government will find a reason. I've been shooting cars for 20 years and I've traveled to so many places, but I've never EVER been in a situation where I have seen so many people afraid to let their car be seen online. While I was in Hong Kong I legitimately saw hundreds of cars where the owner did not want me to photograph it, or show the plate, or show their face. HUNDREDS! We visited so many incredible collections in Hong Kong and the owners were legitimately scared for me to shoot anything even on my phone because they didn't want to attract any attention from the authorities. Even just cars that showed up to some of the meets that we held, they did not want their face to be seen, they did not want me to photograph their car, they just wanted me to SEE the car for some reason. If you want to read the actual law it's here section 80. Notice "the reason to believe" verbage www.elegislation.gov.hk/hk/cap374!en Any police officer who, as a result of an examination of a vehicle under subsection (1), has reason to believe that-(a) the vehicle has been involved in an accident;(b) the vehicle is not roadworthy; (Amended 3 of 1991 s. 8)(ba) the vehicle does not comply with vehicle emission standards; or (Added 3 of 1991 s. 8)(c) the vehicle does not comply with this Ordinance or any condition subject to which the vehicle licence in respect of the vehicle was issued,may-(i) direct the driver of the vehicle to drive it to such vehicle examination centre or police station as the police officer may specify; or (ii) direct the driver and any other person to leave the vehicle and himself drive or remove the vehicle or cause it to be driven or removed to any vehicle examination centre or police station, and may cause the vehicle to be detained at a vehicle examination centre or police station for not more than 72 hours while the vehicle is examined by a vehicle examiner.

[@taylorli4172]

you should have at least blurred the license plates upon their requests. you should be ashamed of yourself.

[@jack-kv7uv]

If you so vehemently believe the government is like this, then why would you dismiss owner's (ie. XRX) request to blur out the license plates? Do you just not care about these owners that so graciously let you film in their garage?

[@jack-kv7uv]

Also after seeing how you completely disrespected the car collectors featured in your video, it was probably wise for the "HUNDREDS" of owners to not want to be in your photo/video

[@sory8359]

If you use the law to talk to the police, it proves that you are a fool , look like my name , sorhi !

[@LarryChenPhoto]

Also, just a note for you guys. I reached out to Richard_XRX and we have resolved everything. The plates he needed blurred were burred. I apologized to him for not being able to fix things sooner. Because I posted everything on reels, stories and main feed on instagram the day I visited him I assumed incorrectly that showing everything was ok. Lessons learned.

[@XRX_HK]

Thanks and much appreciated for Larry Chen reaching out to me and solved all below matters!!!!! Disclaimer: We have never approved any contents shown in this video and are deeply disappointed by the lack of respect from Larry Chen. 1. We have reminded him to blur a certain object in the garage. *ignored by him. 2. We needed to see the draft before posting. * He agreed but did not give us the draft. 3. We asked to blur the object after the video was released (doable), and his response was “we are making a fuss for nothing” 4. Without approving the video beforehand, none of his speech in his videos could be said to accurately represent any of the car collectors. We are just car lovers sharing our passion with no intention at all to challenge anyone.

[@JackpodyDK]

Purely wondering but what parts of the video were supposed to be blurred? Faces?

[@w1ll1am23]

Asking for privacy is not whining. If you have watched or followed XRX’s channel, he’s one of the most legit, down to earth, real, honest guys among Hong Kong KZbinrs or any KZbinrs sharing cars around the world, he tries out every car he can, and tests every parts he can, every mod/ mechanic shop he can. Other huge channels like Seen Through Glass has taken videos of his collection as well. He’s nowhere that “dirty money” guy like you guys are saying. As car geeks in Hong Kong, we were very happy to share our car culture with anyone we know, BECAUSE it’s not easy to enjoy cars here, that’s why we were doing all these meets with Larry, however, this time, he really disappointed us fans in general, and some of you guys too cuz XRX is one of the biggest car channels in Hong Kong. I don’t understand why it is a problem to ask for some privacy when we are letting you film stuff in our own private space, I 100% am disgusted too when XRX literally shares everything on KZbin but there are these accusing irresponsible comments too.

[@w1ll1am23]

@@lennmonade7066exactly.

[@w1ll1am23]

@@dedlykuin8539definitely telling me you haven’t checked out how big XRX is

[@2010yiu]

Support xrx

[@yosefm170]

Man, that dude with a wife that shares his passion, what an angel. This guy should not cry every day, he should be the happiest dude on the planet

[@ElleBelle_channel]

I love the last couple Matt and Jodie! I see the passion by way of how they both responded to the interview and he weren’t joking about crying. Good luck Jodie! 🚗

[@AcuraChannel]

He has the most rare JDM Tuners and LFA I have seen. This is a legendary car collection video. That white NSX is super clean!!

[@emancebo13]

Saw Larry's hair at 9:42 and thought about Akirai Nakai for a second, and then kept thinking about, this level of workmanship in the community; the content creators, the collectors, the drivers, both pro and amateurs, the tunning shops, the dealers serve as great inspiration to dedicate yourself to something you really like and at the same time... a community that really works seamlessly with one another. I really appreciate the content

[@student_driver_club]

This is absolutely incredbile. You can't keep these guys down.

[@JohnnyAFG81]

Growing up lusting over muscle cars and hot rods I learned to appreciate the insanity of the JDM car culture and impressive line up of insane cars ever made from the tiny island!

[@mndlessdrwer]

Exactly. Every regional car lover is just as insanely passionate as any other, just for a different genre. There are some people who love classic American muscle even outside of the US, and there are loads of people who adore Italian cars or German cars. Then there's JDM. JDM lovers are intense.

[@Fc-cb3tn]

Though this is a JDM-focused video, I can assure you the passion of American cars in HK are equally amazing. There are people who own and take their American classics out (such as a Pontiac GTO and a C3 Corvette) for Sunday morning drives. There was even a RHD converted Challenger Hellcat for sale about a month ago.

[@MaseedHD]

Trying to keep a low profile in Hong Kong's car scene is like hiding a Tyrannosaurus rex in a phone booth!

[@matthewschiebout7384]

just living in HK one needs to keep a low profile...

[@canto_v12]

@@matthewschiebout7384True that. The gossipy culture is highly annoying and that's why so many people are depressed, especially the introverted.

[@anydaynow01]

It's becoming more so in so many cities.

[@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman]

How sad ​@@matthewschiebout7384

[@usavetsmith7269]

last week over 10,000 people had disappeared in Hong Kong, but the media isn't talking about it

[@peace4myheart]

My favorite thing to watch on this channel. Love Car Culture so much.

[@Ranveer_Singh_sangha03]

Man, these guys have life

[@johnnyr6391]

Loving these videos. So glad to have my 66 bug insured by Hagerty. But these videos give me a huge respect for HongKong Car Culture. What they have to go through, to have these cars, and the fact that they have some of the rarest and cleanest JDM Examples in their collections, is just insane. Huge respect to our fellow car enthusiasts in Asian! Keep on driving.

[@Mattes985]

"When I was much younger i collected Ferraris" That Guy looks 25.

[@TeeShongwe]

As Larry pointed out in the earlier videos, most of these guys were born into wealth.

[@hemispherecompensation]

@@TeeShongwe Yeah XRX is born into money. Eugene, "my family complex" and he can fit 10 cars. Yeah that's not a regular apartment, his family is loaded for sure, must own the damn building ...

[@kstoff2218]

That stood out to me too. No hate though. He is living the dream we all want. Seems like a cool guy too.

[@JoviChan]

i met XRX in person once, probably the most humble (rich) guy I ever met

[@rhinsl5740]

@@hemispherecompensation true… for those who don’t know an average parking space in Hong Kong is worth around £100k, in better areas it’s like £300k

[@jasondoulkeridis6202]

The couple at the end ❤

[@ixfxi]

This is a nicely balanced video that shows collections of all types. It would be fun to see more modest collections, but this is getting less and less common nowadays that the costs of these cars are climbing so quickly. Its a shame, and it makes enjoying and driving our cars so much more difficult.

[@TheJMedia]

Love watching these documentaries of the jdm car culture around the world! These need to be longer!

[@gagamba9198]

That's great that car theft has ceased. I lived in HK before the handover and it was rampant. Car would be stolen, raced to a pier, loaded aboard a barge or trawler, and shipped to China to disappear. As Hong Kong Marine Police endeavoured to interdict, the thieves upped the ante by using custom-built speedboats with four outboard engines called _dai fei_ . Often they'd operate in groups of 10 to 15 speedboats, some of which were used to challenge police boats from the Special Boat Unit whilst the others escaped to China. Hong Kong police responded with helicopters. In one incident a helicopter machine-gunned a speedboat. Chains were laid in smuggling routes to ensnare the engines' propellers of ships that refused to stop to be boarded and searched. To entice Chinese police to work the cases, Hong Kong Police started paying them significant sums to locate and return cars. Taiwan used to be very secretive in the '80s and early '90s because owning an expensive car made a person or family member a target for kidnapping.

[@JoeyJoJoJuniorShabbadoo]

Excellent work, Larry! I watched the whole series and loved it all. You are crazy dedicated to your art and it shows.

[@olivierschneider9968]

Many many kudos to all these car enthusiasts. They are amazing and living their passion in that environment is crazy. By the way, the Delta HF is ... wahou... no words. Like it a lot.

[@hungryalien]

love the couple with the HF1991. good luck with the tsukuba dream! 💯

[@eduardosq99]

Great vid, So sad seeing all those hiding without being driven… Cars are art in movement, meant to be driven and enjoyed.

[@TheNismo777]

How much I love JDM cars.. well I got happy tears at the mid of the vid. No shame admit that. Exactly why I own my R34, it was my dream car and its never leaving my ownership :)

[@kha7705]

As an arab man i absolutely love and adore Japan and its car culture. Unbelievably intelligent and down to earth no matter how much money they have. Breathtakingly beautiful people.

[@gitchermotrrunnin]

I guess the 'elders' like myself are the US version of an "uncle", lol. It's refreshing to learn of gear heads in other lands and to know the hobby isn't something that the US only does. It seems that time may not be on our side, as we are universally considered outlaws by the great powers

[@williamcapistrano2822]

really really neat collection, but its particularly the nsx-r, the mugen rr, and the assortment of bearbricks that was the icing on the cake, a championship white 99 ctr would be the cherry on top with the 22b

[@ahcgarage]

This is mind blowing. Thanks for giving us this executive opportunity

[@ax18-x8l]

I like it until 17:00 - some collectors simply prefer to be low key not because of any governments/authorities, that's just being safe with their assets against theft and undesired attention. Hong Kong car circle is rather small, everyone knows everyone especially with such pricey collections, it would be dangerous if their storage locations are exposed.

[@canto_v12]

Especially with the rabid press in Hong Kong. They are all up in everybody’s business.

[@WorldwideDarts]

11:04 Dartboard!!! But wow, these cars are literally insane! Amazing video!

[@normiels3]

Not even a huge Skyline guy anymore but those CRS are just gorgeous.

[@dhj-i8g]

The hyper car collections sitting in air-conditioned display rooms are nice, but that Lancia seems to be the one that's really living its best life with its owners.

[@Shubham-rw5uy]

That couple who own lancia delta are lovely❤. Wish they get amazing deal whenever they sell it.

[@massimilianozeni1848]

Ahah agree. As an Italian living in Hong Kong I d love to meet them

[@spook6543]

Such a cool episode, but cant overlook the fact we were drooling over OG JDM throughout the episode but at 27:44 we see the interior of a Land Cruiser 70 series. A lC70 in HK! with a clock!

[@emancebo13]

NFS Underground definitely has some part in the R34 obsession. Beautiful design and engineering for sure....

[@josephsyng3017]

OMG. THAT'S A CROWN COMFORT GT-Z!!!! It's my dream car.

[@technoligious]

I enjoyed this, thanks so much for your hard work. The couple in the end are the best!

[@Shiba_Inu_Des]

Damn! Such an amazing JDM collection! It’s so unfortunate that the owner(s) are stifled to truly enjoy the freedom to engage in the culture of these awesome rides. Great video!

[@kramer26]

Kudos to these guys for preserving and caretaking such iconic moments in automotive history. Love all the JDM stuff too, I would never sell my 1990 Subaru Legacy GT wagon. Owned it 20 years this year and might have to restore it (again) but maybe back to stock this time? Seems it would be worth more...? I still have the original motor so it's certainly possible.

[@eldontsoi]

i love 67(richard)!! 歡迎嚟到hagrety嘅channel 🤣🤣 xrx fan from US :)

[@Skreamies]

What a bloody awesome collection of cars at Contempo, know of the name from seeing their Mercedes racing here in the UK! The collection is nuts though

[@antares_racing]

Larry's comment about owners' purported fears of forfeiture is *terribly off-truth*. I dunno where/how he got that spin. I keep my collection here in HK, was gonna have Larry film, zero issue whatsoever, save for my own travel schedules during his visit. A bit of perspective: in this town car value is peanuts vs. real estate... think US$5mm for a Z-Tune is big stuff? That's just what a mid-range apartment on the island costs... if big bro's gonna confiscate, there are far easier and bigger targets and cars don't even move the needle. Those same "secret" car owners can easily have 50/100x as much tied up in immovable real estate in their personal names... you think they'd be fearful for their cars of all things? Gimme a break lolllllz!

[@ax18-x8l]

Larry is brain washed by American propaganda, what an irony 🤣

[@matthewschiebout7384]

they'd have left if fearful

[@massimilianozeni1848]

just commented pretty much the same, that was just a ridiculous comment which makes no sense at all and it is a pity that when you talk about cars you bring political bias in

[@antares_racing]

@@massimilianozeni1848 truth there. Can't we just talk cars here... somehow folks can all stay in their lanes on supercharged vs. turbocharged RB24's but can't keep their political views in their own heads. We gotta be better than that...

[@10adrian]

This is so true. You can't believe how small of their world having such thinking...

[@Baywire]

Love this series, keep it going! First guy is a double edged sword for the car community. It's great that he owns all this very expensive car history. But it's also terrible that they're just garage kept and never see the road. LFA with 200km? "Do you drive any of these cars anymore? Not really to be honest." It's just a waste. And I get it, Larry is highlighting the difficulties of owning cars in HK, but he seems more interested in the value of them. Cont'd: I think the car companies are 51% to blame than these "I need to keep my value" owners, since they just didn't make more of each of these cars that are now "collecting dust" sitting in peoples garages and show rooms and never touching pavement because of "rarity and value". I think these companies should re-make all these cars as like a "rebirth" series. It wouldn't hurt the value of the originals one cent because you'd have vin numbers to know which is original and which is the remade model. So we'd get to see more of these beautiful cars on the road, and then everyone else can garage queen the originals if they want. (And the originals would very likely increase in value because of the popularity boom, it's a win-win)

[@chrisUSA]

This is an amazing impressive collection. Thanks for producing this video.

[@wisruteb]

Awesome video. Thanks for taking the time to film and to share with us!

[@JippaJ]

That S660 Neo Classic is so cool.

[@kennethfok8270]

This Hong Kong series is truly truly amazing - please keep the good work up!!

[@hkoljsm]

The legislation you referred to (section 80 of Road Traffic Ordinance Cap 80) was enacted and amended to its current form in 1991. You yourself have quoted “added 1991” or “amended 1991”. This meant these legislations have been in force since 1991 (for 33 years now!) Hong Kong was under British colonial rule until 1997 so it was the British Colonial government which enacted these legislations (in 1991). If you check with the laws in UK, you will find that UK has similar legislations (see Road Traffic Act 1988 section 67: Testing vehicles on roads)

[@pmotoring1]

Well say...

[@eightssix]

What an amazing series. I’m hooked

[@dp2901]

I've been to HKG over 100 times for work. It always breaks my heart that these cars will never be used to their full potential. Glad to see the AW and BSM BMW 1Ms at 16:24 and 17:14.

[@FrgottenFrshness]

OMG the Lotus 340R I used to have an RC car of one and the rear hood lifted up to reveal a small screen that you actually played a racing game on while still being a fully functional RC car

[@ericcortez6486]

That legacy rs really is my dream car! Even over a 22b

[@stansmulders6126]

Thanks you so much for the series of car culture in Japan I absolutly love everything about it. Except the gouverment ofcourse.

[@illeye]

I AM IN LOVE WITH THIS SERIES GIVE LARRY CHEN THE ENTIERE CHANNEL AND A RAISE PLEASE I NEED MORE OF THIS CONTENT THIS IS WHAT KZbin NEEDS

[@Lightning---K.]

"Money, money, money, must be funny, in the rich man´s world ! " Quote : ABBA Song from 1976

[@Kazumoto19]

It is sad to see cars just sitting but I get it. In my opinion cars are made to be driven but again i get the point of value. Yet still dont like cars sitting to their death. Cars wear out more just sitting then by driving. same happens to you getting up after a long movie session or gaming session all your joints are popping and cracking 😅 same happens to cars. We have a saying in german "who rests, rusts" all that a side, i love your photos and videos alot. Great Job like always!!

[@pottersi]

Yea, the worst thing you can do to a car is just let it sit.

[@canto_v12]

Hong Kong is just not a good environment to drive in. I live and work in CA and here we have at least 10x the driving roads they do. They just don’t have those small far flung communities, everything is hyper-dense or totally empty nature preserve, and unforgiving mountainous terrain everywhere.

[@ButterfatFarms]

Look at me like those cars are currently in the best condition they've ever been in since new. 😂

[@geralddeguzman9496]

Yea these people got the best jdm car collection crazy

[@raysoto]

Loving this series! Hoping there’s an opportunity to buy prints of some of the shots taken.

[@madmike5144]

That Z-tune, but that MNP GT-R 34 OMG that looks mental

[@Scuderia2000HD]

That Motocompo with the original price sticker is genuine gold dust 😵 seriously jealous!!!

[@jaycar06ify]

Larrys content is aways amazing. He loves cars and it shows. Living vicariously through him for years.

[@Budgy.Derpy12]

Larry loves cars, cars love Larry ❤️

[@dorianleclair7390]

Loved the 22B and that was a nice yellow hawk eye next to it. I love Subarus. 😂

[@galeng73]

I've been loving this series so far, Larry. I hope for more.

[@NovaResource]

Another fantastic episode. Love the videos, love the cars, love the enthusiasts. 👍🏻

[@Lu-KN]

😍 15:17 70s Toyota Celica 😍 15:21 Honda 😍 15:24 Alfa Romeo 😍 15:34 AR Spider 😍 19:25 Mazda RX-3 😍 19:41 1976 Lancia Scorpion 😍 19:50 yes 😍 22:10 yes 😍

[@Wayne3nterprises]

Amazing. I absolutely LOVE car culture. Great vid!

[@samsung40_media87]

Hong Kong scene, amazing! 👏👏

[@MotorsportClipUs]

the last couple so cute!!

[@dsalas350gt]

They found stuff around Omori .😮 Legendary car culture in Japan

[@Fc-cb3tn]

"No names or faces allowed" Also one of those owners: *plasters his KZbin channel name all over his license plates* 🤣🤣

[@pistonburner6448]

Is a youtube channel a face or name?

[@雪狐-c7k]

@@pistonburner6448 ehh you could see his face in his channel so......

[@dion_aldi]

​@@pistonburner6448tell me you're joking, you're not that stupid right?

[@pw2.038]

One of the collector channel named XRX

[@canto_v12]

Hahahah XRX is a character

[@OneSneakyBastid]

9:33 That's a really neat sim racing rig at the top left of the shot.

[@t3true-games]

Undriven cars hurt my soul.

[@iamelcapitan]

Dude 2 JDM SVXs hiding in that collection? That’s awesome

[@7thFEROX]

Just realized that's Kevin Tse who races like in every bit of GT3 racing around the world :D

[@jessicaregina1956]

Every former Singapore taxi driver: oooh wow i was in a jdm. 😂

[@msmoniz]

In car culture, like any human passion, limitations don't actually limit you, it forces you to become more creative with what you have at hand. Asian car culture proves this in spades!

[@Moving_Chicane]

Absolutely-Fing-Fantastic! THank you LArry and team, and thank you HKG car people!!!!

[@Yuristinkens]

The owners need to respected, i mentioned that the electrical lines where rolled on while charging up to 4 batteries. I would recommend to roll the line totally off, so you wont get any fire du to heat.

[@daweigo6851]

Great video,! The cars are amazing....

[@klasseact6663]

This video, out of ALL your videos, ranks in the top 3, possibly #1...GREAT G R E A T video❗️❗️

[@edjack1993]

That Comfort GT-Z is super cool. But it’s also Trigger’s Broom.

[@rickharper1497]

Larry, Thank you for all the all the hard work you put into all your videos! Sincere respect to the car enthusiast in China!!

[@markspence3750]

I'm glad you pronounced "Lancia" correctly! "Lan-cha"

[@mike4fo]

This is why America is so great no matter how bad it seems right now. I feel bad for the people of Hong Kong. So sad to hide these cars

[@ButterfatFarms]

What are you talking about there's so many car collections throughout the United States you'll never know exist due to the privacy of the owners. 😂

[@10adrian]

They are not hiding, there is a lot running all over HK...

[@10adrian]

@mike4fo if they really need to hide from hk government, how come they showed everything to a famous youtuber like now and everyone seeing these? And pretend hk government is not knowing? serious?

[@ButterfatFarms]

@@10adrian I think he's talking about the collections that they weren't able to film because of the privacy of the owners. I just don't believe it's due to fear of government confiscation. There's a lot more private collections in places like the US that we'll never see than than in places like Hong Kong. They're not afraid of the government either, they're just private people that don't want that sort of public attention on their collection.

[@usavetsmith7269]

private property can be taken at any time in Hong Kong. One day you can wake up and see your car being confiscated, and the next day it's being driven by the son of a ccp official

[@yurabigcycle]

I’m so sad most of this cars just collecting dust, I completely understand the point of collecting, but it’s still sad

[@Drivemycarnow]

Larry, your video is great but need to respect the car owner Support Richard

[@kansai555]

What happened?! Whats Richard mad about?! I didnt seen anything in the background of Richard’s warehouse

[@bluetitan20]

Its properly amazing and awe inspiring to see so many different levels of the various different car cultures from HK. Living in Europe, its just easy to see the hugely valuable and mega money JDM and super/hyper car collections and to think that is nearly all there is to see. So its really good to see some of the other people, who are just as passionate and enthusiastic, even if the cars might not be worth nearly as much as a Z-Tune or a NSX-R. Although, I could easily look at those all day as well 😀 Real pity, the political situation has changed so much for the worse over the last few decades, since 1997.

[@stevenshek1373]

Richard has his own KZbin also

[@Mystical_Zeus]

Thank you Hagerty!

[@sim-sam]

If 20 again (or 30 or so) - this would be my thing. Very cool...

[@Harleyworkshop]

Wow, these are amazing cars

[@bandicoot2016]

Fantastic!

[@andresandify]

Great video!

[@asianskywalker]

Yes! my s2000 has made it in the collections! 😁

[@chewdoobautomotivedetailtm2883]

Wait a min I follow contempo they detail.. oh whaattt insane collection.. ❤

[@Richard-vf2yd]

Glad to see some VOLVO's in the mix !

[@_M3NACE_]

This is the most underrated channel on KZbin. I love it

[@kaitouwuwu321]

Larry you gotta visit the Malaysian Car scene man give malaysia a shot.

[@garlenseong38]

Impressive collection!!

[@AsidsTechTips]

Larry, As somone who is involved with osint, 18:02 where you can see the buildings through the windows, this is enough to pinpoint the building the cars are in, Please if you can, pull the video, edit the windows, to white and reupload again.

[@TommioRS]

To be totally fair with you... The Subaru Legacy RS type RA is by far one of the most rare car's in this video. Subaru made none, people got them for cheap and drove the crap out of them and they are all gone.... Even trying to just find a Legacy RS thats not totally clapped out is next to impossible. Otherwise Great video!

[@Joe-eg7ml]

One of the best works yet.... Go to the Philippines, next