Ireland’s Forgotten JDM Boom: Where Thousands of Japanese Legends Went to Die

[@juiceboxforyou]

Sorry for the late one here guys, I got way too into making this, digging for pictures and old videos. If you are in it, I hope you enjoy it. There are some pics over stuff I'm saying and it doesn't mean I meant that person at that time. It's just that I needed imagery to keep things moving. I also want to thank anyone who helped by contributing footage and stories. This is such a fascinating story in Irish car culture, and I hope people from this era will comment below, I would love to hear more from you and your stories. Cheers for watching, as always, guys! Also count how many times I say a car, would make for a dangerous drinking game

[@mattvaughan180]

Great documentary Neil and thanks for taking the time and the effort, David Attenborough would be proud !!

[@eoinirl]

Class lad. It was a very cool time. Few clips there of me in the Bn s13. Real good times. Still love the jap stuff 20yrs on😂✌

[@andrewclarkeinfo]

Another great production Neil! Fair play 👏🏻

[@hellobruh9406]

Neil we could never be upset for more amazing pictures thanks for making my night as always

[@JANKYS-GARAGE]

My dad had some amount of car he had 1. Nissan 200sx 2. eg d16 3. Eg6 sir ii 4. Subaru b4 wrx sti x4 ( he owned 4 of them) 5. Bl5 sti wr limited it ate its turbo 6 now he has an a4 b8 3.0 tdi quattro 275hp

[@aaronoarr]

I read a comment once that said "Neil is the David Attenborough of jdm car parts" I think that has to be said again. Great job on this video, it really was a crazy time to grow up in Ireland

[@DRIFT_CORE]

You're one of the only people who could deliver this video with such authentic passion and that's special. Thanks Neil

[@paulcronin551]

You definately could mention about all the forums: Cruise IRL, Racershaven, Midnightclub etc etc they were a key part into knowing what was going on. What a time to be alive it was mental looking back on it.

[@festerflanagan]

Definitely a huge part of it all. Without the forums, we'd not know what cruise or event the lads were going to. I'd think nothing of doing the 4 hours from South Galway to Tramore to watch lads block public roads and do rings.

[@thishandle_isnotavailable]

Racers Haven! What a time to be alive!

[@WilliamRoss-il6ou]

Honda haven and DTD !

[@ButtsyButler]

Such a great video Neil! I was very very blessed to be a part of this scene back then, brought back a load of memories. If you ever start a podcast id love to come on and tell you my account of the times back then :)

[@MoneyManHolla]

Big up the buttsy lad! Sick driving man seen ya at Mondello, didn’t realise how far back ya were in the scene seeing you in this vid 😅🔥

[@trashman4286]

Grilled cheese, tomato soup, and a juicebox import mini-documentary is really the most ideal Tuesday afternoon I could have imagined. Epic surprise to see on my feed, cheers!

[@juiceboxforyou]

Hope you get some value out of it. I put a silly amount of imagery and videos from back in the day in here

[@dzzope]

Damnit, where's the cheese🤤

[@charliepayy]

i got coronation chicken and a slice of jamaican ginger cake.

[@OA_O2]

I had a sandwich of rashers, cheddar cheese and ballymaloe relish on sourdough bread with chicken vegetable soup for my dinner while watching this masterpiece. Felt I had to share due to the similar choice of food haha

[@gercoffey9873]

​@juiceboxforyou what was the name of the importers on the old kilmeadan road in a small industrial estate out by non stop karting? Surely ya can dig out pictures of that place, they had an impressive line-up

[@WarlordEnthusiast]

Wow, what an absolute solid chunk of history this video is! I often talk to people in other countries and they're always baffled to find out so many JDM cars ended up on this tiny little island. I'll be sending them this video as a response from now on

[@againstallodds7693]

This is peak juicebox, the memories unlocked🤯 the flashbacks of being there and having those cars at that time, right down to hanging around the docks gran turismo spotting😂 Incredible! Thank you

[@ShapeyFiend]

I wish the government would chill on the VRT a bit. Don't see what the point is now post Brexit when it's already incredibly expensive to import cars. Our second hand market is massively distorted price wise due to limited supply.

[@MANTHELEXUS]

It’ll never be decreased because it’s a money spinner for the government and it’s protects dealerships and allows them to charge outrageous prices.

[@sejn2587]

@@MANTHELEXUSI’m not sure I’d agree as the dealerships have to pay the VRT on new cars also making them More expensive

[@gengiful]

I grew up in that era and its only now we get to see how lucky we were. I still have my qualitat altezza that will eventually get the love it deserves and hopefully get on juicebox

[@Prodriver33]

Had my drivers license in the mid 90’s. It was quite the time to be in. We got to do a lot of stuff kids now don’t get to do without being arrested.

[@Dave_M3tour_510]

Great video Neil. bringing back so many great memories 🙌 luckily enough I remember the boom well and taking out a loan for my first integra type r back in the day it all went down hill from there 😂, I see the cruise demo s15 a few times in the video, my wife and I were the first owners of that car in Ireland imported by wes at WKD Imports, still one of my favourite S chassis to this day and I believe it's still on the go but unfortunately not in the cruise pink. My wife used the cruise s15 as a daily for a little over a year. I need to dig out some old videos and photos. But yeah what great times they were.

[@juiceboxforyou]

If you have anything, please send it to me on Facebook / Instagram, I would love to add it to the next video. I have it on the list of cars for the top 40 for next Mondays episode! It always was and always will be one of my favourite s15s! Cheers for commenting

[@sirmez9597]

surreal scenes here jheez

[@ankracing]

Such a wild demo car as a daily for the wife, it´s hilarious. 😂😂 Wild times man.

[@Dave_M3tour_510]

@juiceboxforyou I sent some pictures to you on messenger on Facebook, but i can't send videos for some reason 🙃

[@Dave_M3tour_510]

@ankracing yeah even when I think about it myself back then it was quite crazy using the car as a daily driver and it wasn't just driven a few kms down the road she was doing over 120kms a day to work and back and across some crappy little Irish back roads as we lived in the country then lol, definitely a car we both regret selling.

[@Sparkyy_95]

The amount of ''on the book'' in the ads is hilarious haha

[@Barry.ONeill]

The owl insurance work around was the shit , I couldn't get insurance on any Japanese imports atall back then so I bought and Irish starlet 😉

[@timwedemeyer]

The amount of content you’ve acquired is amazing. And the way you’ve editing it makes this probably the most fantastic tribute of Ireland’s car culture history. You’re an Irish national treasure Neil. 🇸🇬

[@jacksonmiller3242]

Lovely video Neil. I’d argue that Ireland experienced a boom that wasn’t and never will be replicated again anywhere else in the world. Not for the price points at least. Truly a bygone golden era of performance, tuning, and style. Thanks for this culture piece. Looking forward to the next piece. A lot of the truly “halo” builds out of Japan are still sitting in sheds. Great to see they were rode hard, put away wet, survived, and are now being revived. Saw some lads out in the UK just redid the SuperLemon R33 not too long ago.

[@twincamuuu]

This is peak juicebox. After watching the video wanted to add, one of the cars that you posted on instagram ended up in Lithuania, the yellow make up drift team ps13. It was around 2008 and it was immediately stripped for parts including numerous other cool cars that were used for local drifting

[@henno.666]

This is so cool anything else of note that made it to Lithuania??

[@twincamuuu]

@henno.666 yeaah, Yashio factory lhd 240sx. It was used for drifting for many years untill it got crashed beyond repair. All of those cars were exported through power vehicles

[@Halpin112]

Don’t worry Neil , I’ve personally been to a lot of this country , and there are STILL sheds from north to south and yards with a lot of these cars parked up due to emigration, insurance , loss of interest etc , not the ones we see at the shows , a lot of the forgotten ones , of all chassis , potential is there for them to make a come back ever so slightly ,

[@TheRealBandit69]

Incredible video Neil! Thanks for explaining the scene back in the day. I got my license in 2014 just as the bubble burst and couldnt understand where the car culture went that I grew up watching. It seemed to disappear overnight. Cant wait for part 2. Keep these documentary style videos going, best content going on KZbin!

[@martinmcconnellogue7439]

Brilliant work neil. I enjoy these deep dives into our past. Some times we need reminding of the good times with some of the shit that happens these days.

[@georgelane1377]

But too young to have lived through this era but im 20 now and going to santapod and having magazines like 2011-14 this is so nostalgic, Definitely had a impact on me, managed to scrape enough apprenticeship wage up at 18 to buy a dc2

[@high_rpm_wales466]

So much nostalgia in one video, had me reminiscing my whole life and where my obsession began all those years ago. Couldn't have been delivered better by anyone, thanks Neil 👍

[@benyetman3712]

Big nostalgic vibes. I happen to have the flames FC at 18:30. She's still 90% as she looked back then. A few stickers missing, different wheels, an s13 dash, but the flames are still there. Not bad considering it competed in D1SL back in 2006. I bought it from a fella called Stavros aka Stav (Stav-tech), who imported in 2009. He's put loads of stuff on the driftworks forum about it. Did loads of stuff with it. it even had an OM606 at one point. I bought it in 2018. I'd only just got into drifting the year before and at my second event at rockingham I followed one of the sickest things i'd seen... Adam Magic-Jetski's slammed red FC on advan sa3r's. They hadn't really been on my radar, but following those quad tail lights lit up on one of the last dusky drift trains of the day had me jonesing for an FC. This one just happened to be for sale a few months later. No engine, but no rust. It took me a while but I eventually got it going with a 13bt and had it on the road for a bit of the summer in 2022. Id actually planned to use a turbo zetec that I was building, with a bmw box. The 13b just happened to pop up on market place, with a very suss 19k worth of unprovable milage. Hopefully back out on the road this year

[@david929190]

Always enjoy your videos. It's unfortunate how many of these cars saw their ends. I think another reason a lot of JDM cars get wrecked is because there aren't that many people who actually know how to make a modified car work when it's having issues.

[@jackcleary500]

Thank you for documenting this. You're a pure asset to the community ❤ My da had bought a Toyota Soarer 1J in 2005, dailyed it until 2011 and had it sitting in the garden until 2021. He sold it to the ESB meter man, I was absolutely raging. Engine was perfect, was just parked up due to cost of tax.

[@paddymcnally2177]

@10:08 I feel so sorry for that lad... when he hit the tire wall I said to myself 'ah he got away alright not too bad just a bumper' then the lightpost fell and smashed the window and dinged the roof, a rotten bit of luck for him. Great video, first time watching this channel but I have now subscribed and intend to watch more as its well put together and has some really class footage from back in the day.

[@phillym244]

21:54 is my R33 😅

[@iiDuskyy]

Absolutely fantastic video mate, so interesting! Honestly feel like this video has sparked my love for cars yet again after losing a lot of love for them recently. Keep it up mate, smashing it as usual!

[@michaelsensis]

We had a similar scene in Australia. The importers here and Ireland must've been fighting it out hard on USS auctions!!

[@aposparta]

Alot of jdm goodness hiding in sheds in Aus luckily!

[@kramrollin69]

Ireland would have about the same number of JDM cars as Tasmania. They have No idea what the real JDM...and other, scene is like. The scene now is way bigger than the 90s/2000s for JDM. We have a scene they could not even Dream of.😆

[@felipefellop9878]

​@@kramrollin69how do you even know? You sound like a clown

[@360nastybusiness]

​@@kramrollin69you are incorrect. Ireland had one of the best jdm,modified car scenes for a long time.

[@autojumbled]

Pretty sure I recognise a few of those Starlet photos! I imported an EP82 in 2006 and absolutely LIVED on the starletgtturbo forums. There was a big contingent of Irish members, many of them were the original forum founders and full of so much Starlet knowledge. Great times moving onto an NA1, SW20, DC2. So many great cars at a time when they were still within reach!

[@pizzamonstamatt]

Though I'm from the states, growing up in the same generation and culture has me deeply connecting to so much of this video as it's tugging at my nostalgiic heartstrings. Only the second video I've seen of yours, and I'm sub'd for good. I had no idea this boom in Ireland existed until this video, and I'm slightly jealous you got to enjoy them so well and purely during that era we grew up in, because in the US, we're just now (legally) getting the leftovers of a lot of the jdm legends at insanely marked up values because of their rarity and value by now. Thanks for such great content, shedding light and backstory on your scene with such thorough and passionate explanations/information, and overall passion for the culture. 🙏

[@skykid4000]

Pretty much the same story here in the U.K.. once all those cars were here and then they were just gone. At the time I had a highly modified ST-185 that I sold to put a deposit down on my first house. These days, or for at least the last 10 years I have been the happy owner of a Pulsar GTIR. I’m never selling it. It reminds me of that golden era. Thank you for your memories that resonate with so many of us from that time who were lucky enough to be part of it.

[@johnwalsh8828]

I grew up around Waterford at the same time as u Neil is was amazing the amount of jdm cars that were around at time cool video

[@jessehowarth7326]

This sounds exactly like New Zealand’s story with JDM cars and drifting, sadly I was a bit young to truly experience the times of $5,000 R32 GTS-t Skylines, I grew up with NZ Performance Car magazines

[@LightenUp]

Another kiwi here, same story. Got my licence in 2011 and it was just a tad too late.

[@Leo.B.Photos]

Was thinking this exact same thing - awfully similar to NZ back in the day. I managed to be born too late to really enjoy it as well - should have bought all those $2k Skylines and Silvias when I was 8😂

[@mitchellward5791]

Another kiwi here. So much like the Nz seen in the golden years. I was around to catch the tail end of it all in the Christchurch scene. Every weekend the streets were swarmed with imports of every kind. Back then you thought it was cool but man, looking back on it 15 years later we didnt know how special that era was. The cars were used and abused not knowing that it wouldn't last forever and cars wouldn't be made like that forever. Im fortunate to still have a few of the cars from the era but the scene is a drop in the ocean to what it used to be. All of the cars that are of any interest spend there lives in sheds only to come out for a warrant every 6 months as there of to much value now to drive all the time.

[@aes2000]

I'm Irish living in NZ. I can confirm a lot of imports but the difference is Nz got very few legit "Tuner cars" from Kazama etc that made it here. Heaps of Fd's ,Cefs ,skylines etc though which is awesome. Another big difference is Aunty cruising in a 32 4 door is still something you see here 😂

[@Leo.B.Photos]

@ Yeah we definitely do lack the OG Japanese TAS/Demo/Comp cars - one thing I wish there was more of here. We do have the OG D1NZ cars cruising around track events here and there though

[@driftmaniac3487]

6:55 The lookout, nice short bit of road going up to it

[@dibdabdub64]

I owned a road legal, mental spec drift ps13. Was white, you could see it was yellow in the past with the wear an tear. Full bn sport kit, 15" x 9 longchamps , 350bhp . Mental amount of money spent on it. Recession, it took me 3 months to sell it for 4k. The man who bought it . Told me , he was breaking it for the parts.

[@Keane-to-clean]

Its mad seeing soo many cars that you would of recognised back in the day, starting to make me feel old 😭 this was well put together and essentially is the story of juiceboxforyou ❤

[@dylanfoley9181]

really enjoyed this upload as i wasn’t old enough to experience this scene back in the day can’t wait to see the follow up video

[@EcchiVwV]

I don't think our JDM scene here in the UK was on the scale of Ireland's, but there definitely was a bit of one from around 2005 onwards (before that it was mostly just Evo's, Impreza's, Celica's, GTO's and SW20 MR2's that people were into. Primarily because they were quick cars, not because they were Japanese). Honestly, outside of cars, I just miss the vibe the 2000's had. Everything felt more genuine because people weren't just copying what they'd seen on social media and the concept of social media "clout" wasn't a thing yet. In those early days of social media, it was simply a tool to keep in touch with friends and family. Wish it stayed that way.

[@KillianMH]

my dad was hugely into the max power stuff at the time and he was showing me what he owned while going trough this video. its great to have someone like yourself who is able to document such an amazing time for motorheads in Ireland.

[@CraigOC1482]

Mad watching this and actually knowing some of the cars and owners, what a time to be alive back then, starting as a kid with my dad going to the rallies and cruises with the scanner listening into the garda, then max power era into the japanese era buying gt turbos and insuring them as starlets and eg civics. After the boom going into diesel cars and havent went back to petrol because vrt tax insurance etc its just not worth it its a shame the government have literally priced us out of driving these cars. This episode was brilliant a real back in time and looking forward to the next your knowledge of stuff is second to none i dont think any other channel could make it as interesting so well done and thank you

[@roadstar_na6]

Man that black Trueno drift video brings back memories! ❤

[@maciekp4840]

I absolutely love the shift in editing and overall quality in your videos. Going full time was a brilliant idea, Neil. I highly appreciate your work, sir.

[@gavincoyle1932]

Great video , I turned 17 in 2009 started to buy Hondas from people leaving the country for very cheap buying selling a breaking them , a lot of regrets of breaking good cars and selling rare cars , Yellow ek9 4k ae86 3.5k Milano red dc2 3.7k list goes on , great time in my life loved it

[@oldsklteg]

That yellow EK9 would be a nice retirement fund today

[@Ali_Arma]

Civics and Glanzas everywhere. I remember some guy in Templers Hall out polishing his Sylvia every couple of days

[@REDMISTINTHEAIR]

NEIL!! THANK YOU! For all these awesome vids you make. they mean alot to most of us and it makes are hearts happy.

[@Brisk275]

AMAZING! THIS is what the internet and social media are for. Absolutely brilliant- keep up the good work!

[@danmartin1122]

The the best history lesson I’ve ever had. It’s true fast and furious showed the world how cool our car hobby is. Meant loads would then turn up to my car meets along with the police!

[@ck-kv3iw]

Great video, was lucky enough to have experienced this era, the yellow s14.5 at 31:10 was mine before it went to France selling it is still one of my biggest regrets

[@joshuacoyle6584]

Absolutely one of the best videos to date

[@Azuronite]

Wow brought back so many memories! Thanks a million! Great episode! I had to pause and rewind so many times lol soo many good cars! Well presented Neil! Looking forward to the next one

[@cuffedbeanie]

insane how disposable stuff can be when youre in the moment just living it ... hindsight is always 20/20. the cars may be destroyed but memories/videos/ideas/inspiration is damn priceless. loving the work neil

[@ankracing]

I have some pictures of the Koguchi Power Chaser from 2009 in Germany. It belonged to a Swiss guy at that time and was repainted in white already and missed a few parts. But at that time, it was the sickest car I´ve ever seen haha.

[@jackstand240]

What a great video Neil! This is history! Thank you for this content!

[@ebrowne210]

What a serious effort creating the video, loved seeing all the old footage from 20 years ago. I genially think that deep down the genuine enthusiastic will never die!! I remember Callaghan's in Burt co. Donegal used to be fully booked out on Saturdays with people buying new rims, exhausts etc, anything from Honda's to evo's/STI Subaru's / Skylines. I suppose that why it was called the boom (the good times)😎

[@ondafly]

I had my first Honda Integra (1.6 dc2) in 2000, then moved to a 1.8 dohc vtec :D Integra in 2001. My better half had her EG, and all friends mostly had Hondas or Toyotas. We had a friend with ISDN, and he shared plenty of BM and option videos around in 2001. We were also buying stuff on ebay, and importing simple parts, but also bootleg Intial D boxsets. This was up in Dublin. We went to many a cruise down to Wexico too, where there was certainly plenty of Twinners. By 2006 most of my friend group moved to BMWs, and I got my first e36 M3 around then. When the financial crash hit I ended up selling my then E46 M3 and buying a WRX for buttons and I nearly picked up an EK9 for 2k but had nowhere to store it. By 2019 I finally pulled the trigger and brought in an Evo 5, although I did want an AE86 also, I figured I'd get one the following year, but like a bang prices went insane then from 2020+

[@aranlamb5547]

Video brings back memories of Glanzas “1.3 non turbo on the book” and Colt Mivec RS’s… anyone else feel old 😂

[@johnelliott1098]

Never diffed😂

[@MinatoKace]

Crazy video, as someone that is not from ireland I didnt know that soo many important cars ended up there, now with this video you have motivated me to look for information about the beginnings of jdm scene here in Spain and see if any important cars were imported here. Keep it up man¡¡¡

[@camej8386]

Amazing video love how well put together it is

[@JSSCOOOTS]

Great video, crazy to see some of the prices back then

[@keithbehan4660]

Great video Neil on the history of the Irish car scene, like you I was just a kid when modified cars would fly around small rural towns in the 00’s and it all disappeared.

[@miller_63]

I had emmigrated before the boom, i remember chatting to a lad back home on how i was looking for anolder Evo. Done Deal had just sprung up .. I picked an Evo 1 RS up for €1100 which i still have to this day.

[@jinxxey]

I remember as a kid seeing a Glanza parked out side my nans was the coolest thing I’d ever seen at the time

[@charlieescobar6718]

Nail as always you seem to be sooo knowledgeable about JDM in general.

[@RobertDonnyJr-c4e]

Savage video man, brings back memories 🎉 love the pics of the Dublin docks . Bought my first civic there in 2001. First vid of yours I’ve seen fsr? instant sub!😅

[@LS430VIP]

Fantastic documentary Neil. I grew up in Ireland in the 80/90s, here's my take on the two main reasons why the Irish import scene blew up shortly after that time: 1) through the 80s/90s, Japanese manufacturers were selling loads of cars into the Irish market, and the brand recognition went up massively. Toyota was the big player, they really cornered the market for quality daily drivers at that time. My family owned Carinas (II and E), Corollas, RAV4 and probably other models in that time, a lot of buyers were now trusting Japanese brands and had ditched the Fords and Vauxhalls of earlier times. Travelling to England in the 90s, it was striking that UK buyers were buying Ford, VW and French brands but Irish buyers were much more focused on Toyota and Japanese brands. 2) Irish buyers were already used to the idea of imports. Grey imports from the UK in particular were very common, everybody knew someone who drove an import, although most were run of the mill UK spec cars. We thought nothing of taking a day trip across the border to buy a new car, as the UK stuff was cheap and better spec than Irish cars, which were almost always pov spec. Import taxes were also low. As a result, there were already a lot of import companies in Ireland, coupled with buyers who wanted their products. This (and rally) also partially explains the glut of UK spec twin cams at the time - importing was just so easy. With both those factors in play, once the economy was strong then it was a natural step to start looking for Japanese cars at the source. The rest is history.

[@MrShizNipz]

Neil mate you have given me such a deep and genuine look into Ireland as a country and its culture, and I thank you for that. Never stop seeking out new stories!

[@extrathiccc6810]

Great video would love to see more deep dive history videos. I already tought ireland had so many jdm cars but the amount of cars you guys had is insane and to hear that 80% of them were scrapped is so sad to hear.

[@ryandee4255]

Neil you’re the car guy I need in my life (KZbin will have to do) , your collections and knowledge of JDM cars is great. Thanks for this video. Brings back the memories l also grew up loving and still love, JDM cars of the mid 80s to early 2000s!

[@1npyz]

Amazing job as always, Neil! I watched this on my lunch break what a treat! The memories this unlocked were incredible. I even spotted at least two cars I used to own in the video a 180 and an R32. I recently found an old hard drive with pictures from 2006 to 2013. What’s the best way to share them with you? Cheers!

[@maciejszetela6526]

The best video you've ever made!!!

[@SlideWays564]

Hey Neil, I just want to say thank you for making this.

[@harleywarwick6300]

Ireland and New Zealand have the exact same JDM import scene and car culture just on opposite sides of the world, these day you don’t see the likes of gtir and starlets ect often or at all on the roads. Wish I was about 5 years older to have been around at the peak of the car scene.

[@maxzimmermann6605]

Perfectly researched, probably because you lived through it, and produced documentary, man. Top notch. I followed your Blog back in the days, sadly quite a few japanese Blogs were taken down. You should totally do a Video about them and the start of Videos

[@GuidoTheMan-w1w]

Greeting from Southwest Texas Awesome content great story telling from a time long ago looking forward to the next chapter 👌

[@jonwebb9261]

This was a great watch Neil! Looking forward to that next episode

[@kithtings1041]

Absolutely deadly video Neil, can only say thank you 🤘

[@joeterrell1632]

Brilliant video, well done. I was also fortunate to get into cars during this period, over in the UK. The days of clean S13s going for £800 are long gone!

[@philverling1999]

brilliant video, loved the throwback to the good old days!

[@williambuggy8385]

Great video Neil. Was lucky to grow up in the boom. Started my apprenticeship and got a 10k loan from the credit union and bought a starlet gt. Insured it as non turbo with quinn direct.Only for Quinn direct we never would of got insurance on them cars!! The insurance was over 4500! Those were the days!!!

[@StewartGordon-wp4fm]

Awesome video Neil looking forward to next week's 👌👌

[@seattimeheroes]

Thank you for sharing this neil, you guys had an amazing era of Japanese car culture for sure. looked so much better than the one we had here in the USA, granted we had to suffer with the 25 year law bs lol. cheers mate!

[@botiduran344]

Nobody else can put together a document like this. Good job Neil!

[@TheEoinB]

Brings back great memories for me I was in my 20's during this period so no responsibilities and plenty of cash! We could buy and sell up to 20 Jdm cars a year just for the craic ! I fell in love with Hondas at this time having every type of sir or type r Honda in the brochure ,we realy did not know what we had!

[@midnight_automotives]

Top video! Amazing to hear the history and the boom of the scene. Shame about the way it went but thags history

[@cs2294]

This was absolutely incredible. I've been looking for this kind of historical content on this era of car culture that I grew up (I was a kid and couldn't drive until 2011) No one seems to really care outside of some fan pages on instagram and tiktok. Even then it''s just aesthetic based. I really wish someone would do more of these as well as you did Maybe on the American tuner scene in that era and all of the important players. It was so much larger and more in depth than the car scene today. I feel like theres a lot there to tell

[@twincamuuu]

Sileighty mania does content like interviews with important people from back in the day, all on american side of the culture. Check it out if you havent

[@kevtegra]

I grew up through all this, it was great fun, feel sorry for kids these days not growing up with the same. First car was a K10 which I made into a super turbo replica during the max power era, second car at 18 was an Integra and the Honda obsession started from there...

[@Toyotalunatic]

Very awesome video, these give alot of motivation to build my own jzx100!👍

[@ShavenYak.]

Being in my late 40's from New Zealand it was a very similar story, japanese cars were cheap you could buy an Rx2 for $3500nz Skyline's Evo's 180's S14's S15's Wrx or any import's were a bargain! Japanese sports bikes also were dirt cheap and we took that for Granted loved growing up in that time because now the price has skyrocketed,that same Rx2 will cost you $80000 upwards!!! Wish I had a big shed back then and a crystal ball.

[@Cliffordclown]

Glad to have been part of the scene back then, happy to still be at it today.

[@rossjuniper3610]

Great video. Seems a novelty now getting a educated well thought out car video presented in you tube. Thank you sir.

[@FourKSixty]

By far my favourite vid you’ve made Neil, I missed out on a lot of the good old days, missed so many opportunities in my late teens due to a rough upbringing, never had the money to get a car or get my license, I’ve only just managed to buy my first car which is my dream car, a 98 ep91 starlet S, well a glanza is my dream car but close enough, still not got my license either and I’m 27 which is embarrassing to admit, wish I could’ve experienced the good old car scene days, I watched the scene grow from a far

[@pauldrew5279]

Bloody brilliant video mate really interesting 👍

[@gercoffey9873]

I often think about this era that we went thru and how crazy it was, going to cruises and going from one location to another was so cool remember going into kill village heading to bonmahon where the road is probably a couple a miles long and it just tail light after tail light, never forget it, crazy times, I still am the first owner of my glanza from Japan from 2007, went to Galway for it from waterford, just one of many little car dealers on the side of the road with a few jdm cars for sale, the choice was endless 🥰

[@whelanvidswhelanvids1500]

Love this ! Thanks for sharing

[@Andrew-lv5fi]

Sick!!! More of this please! Keep it up 🤙

[@s.rankin]

This was unreal! I remember buying my first import back in 2005 which started me off down a slippery slope into JDM obsession. You captured the buzz of the car scene from back then perfectly, I remember being able to go for a drive any night of the week and you would always bump into other car enthusiasts parked up or racing around the streets. We could drive to certain car parks and be sure to have a steady stream of modified cars to watch drive by. Central Scotland never grabbed on to the JDM thing as much as Ireland I feel. Although there were lots of JDM cars around, they were definitely in the minority. Juicebox was one of the very few websites I could go to each week to see JDM car photos. And it always confused me that it was Irish. So to have this explanation nearly 20 years later is amazing! 😂

[@gercoffey9873]

It's mad the amount of jdm cars you would meet on the road everyday not knowing some day it will be a rare sight to see one, 😢

[@jonwebb9261]

This must have taken so much research! Awesome work

[@alanflynn4405]

Great video man 👍👍 brings you back a few years

[@HarryOgden-i8m]

This must have been so hard to fit into a 30 minute video and also difficult to actually put into words, i appreciate you for doing it because I’m from the uk and have always wondered why there’s so many cool Jdm cars in Ireland, I went to Donegal last year and my mind was blown the streets were littered with Jdm cars. Everything that inspired the irish car scene is the same for us In the uk, gran turismo, rallying, max power, fast and the furious. Some really fascinating stuff there keep up the good work there’s no one else that goes into depth like you and I love it it’s great.

[@turbofridge1]

Incredibly well done!

[@Mattbart1980]

Must have been a lot of work putting that together man, loved every second ✊️👊👊