JDM Swap Meet Hero: The Kaido House Datsun 260z

The best builds ever ain’t about the money. It’s about the stories behind every piece. And Jun Imai’s Datsun 260z may look like a million bucks, but it’s way more storied and DIY than you’d think. So we dive into the stories behind how Jun built this Z with some luck, a lot of passion, and a hell of a lot of time on classifieds worldwide.
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[@LarryChenPhoto]

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[@jasonanderson2876]

When are we going to see that S130 in the outtro??

[@AliasHSW]

Now we make fun of Larry for constantly acknowledging that we make fun of him for always bringing up his Nissan mistresses

[@brockmott5121]

I feel like Larry knows all the coolest people from ever facet of the car community.... including hot wheels lol

[@alexelrod242]

Machine gun larry is an army of clones, its my new conspiracy theory 😂

[@weaponizedmemes3461]

Perfect timing. Just sat down to rock the baby to sleep. I hope by watching Hoonigan AutoFocus and Jay Leno's Garage as she falls asleep, she'll dream about cars.

[@XionAzura1]

I love that blue. It’s like an ultramarine.

[@Ak_the_great]

My 10 year old son was able to recognize the real car on the road beacause of the jdm hotwheels I got to buy for him now he's getting his love for cars

[@DP-nr1hz]

Larry gets super Philosophical on his videos, it really gives you insight into the car culture.

[@VBshredder]

Love the Tamiya stickers!

[@kaidohousebyjunimai9126]

Thanks for noticing them!

[@W2TW]

That Tamiya decal... so sick.

[@kaidohousebyjunimai9126]

yesss

[@kaidohousebyjunimai9126]

THANK YOU Larry and Louis for a fun shoot with my ever changing, low budget, Craigslist special Z! I'm sure it'll change again next time. Good luck on the Craigs G-nose hunt, everyone. :)

[@reidbtable]

Love the Tamiya logo!!!!!!!!

[@mikeyp8020]

Can't stop smiling through this feature and the driving segment. Love Jun and Kaido House!!! Thanks for sharing Larry! Soft spot for Zs

[@kaidohousebyjunimai9126]

thank you!

[@Overland_RC]

Jun Imai made the coolest HotWheels castings ever. It's really cool that he even has a lot of really awesome 1/1 cars as well!

[@anthonysalinas718]

Well they made the casting based on his car

[@Overland_RC]

@@anthonysalinas718 The first one was actually based on Sung Kang's 240z. He never did a full detail casting on his car, interestingly

[@bignoize23]

@@Overland_RC Yep, although last year they made an RLC version of this car with the black fender flares and all.

[@Overland_RC]

@@bignoize23 I missed out on that one unfortunately

[@lucky889s9]

And the scalpers dream, boulevard line Datsun Bluebird 510 wagon...

[@blaznmax8877]

If what you said about this guys impression or influence on hot water wheels jdm route is true I respect and thank him. I grew up getting over 1000ss of hot wheels and now to see what they are coming out with . I cant wait to get my kids straight jdm hotwheels

[@corzahazard444]

That 10:05 clock is the greatest easter egg

[@greggdavies5916]

Thank you Kaido for the awesome hot wheels

[@kaidohousebyjunimai9126]

you're welcome and thank you for the support!

[@kshitijanand8236]

Love to see people go crazy over JDM cars, man the story behind each and every build and even stock ones!

[@Wayne--O]

One of my favorite cars was the early 260z some guy traded me straight for my gutless Datsun pickup cause his wife couldn't see over the hood.. circa 1987. To see what they are and can be now is nuts. I paid $700 for that pickup, ha. Love this one!

[@jettberinghause9644]

I hit this man up on instagram years ago when I first saw this car, and he mailed me a sticker! Definitely one of the coolest guys in the car community.

[@kernplace37]

The lil leyton house stripe is so fire

[@kaidohousebyjunimai9126]

thanks for noticing!

[@Triplenickelmotorsports]

Love the down to earth builds... keeps it real for the little people that can't spend a 100K on a build.

[@kaidohousebyjunimai9126]

exactly- this build is fully low budget, it's totally possible.

[@patrickjackman7982]

Badboyz Toyz by Jun Imai Kaido House JDM are remarkable castings design thumbs up

[@reecewatson773]

I have several thousand cars some still in the boxes, some not. Those are raced with my boys... Makes me want to find a Z to play with. Love that color...

[@zahari_s_stoyanov]

Funnily enough, I have an orange wide body short-nose scale model :D

[@alexelrod242]

Couple things 1) I need to go to a swap meet in Japan 2) Car wars episode II: attack of the machine gun larry clones Im convinced Larry Chen is an army of clones and thats how is he everywhere at every event and still doing auto focus and all his editing and printing Im onto you larry, if thats even your real name's 🤣

[@tylerandrews55]

I have a 260z I'm going to restore next year.

[@joaquinpaul3912]

Good luck buddy ✌️✌️ we need as many on the road as possible

[@JRivera815]

I got the 510 wagon for my 1 year old son and it’s his favorite car in the collection. Kids got good taste 😉

[@franw51]

Both my dream cars. "Z" cars and I absolutely love those gen 2, Ford Gt's. Monster cars.

[@KyleKnoblauch]

Had to pull this up while I was cleaning my Hot Wheels display up! Right after I wiped this beautiful casting off! And Larry you hit the nail on the head man! IRL I’ll never own 5 Mazda 787b’s or 2 Liberty Walk RX3s or the 100s of Porsche’s in my collection... oh and 3 HKS GTRs.... I’ve got basically every car I’ve ever dreamed about in my collection....

[@MindDezign]

Great great fun video! I'm restomoding a 240 and 280Z so even more fun to watch...GREAT

[@deborahchesser7375]

Some Mikuni’s on that motor would be super neat

[@kaidohousebyjunimai9126]

soon!

[@cheesepizza87]

Can we see his home garage please ;) some of these dudes are the pillars of JDM culture (more stories)

[@kaidohousebyjunimai9126]

I'll do that soon!

[@CarlosRivera-lv3uc]

Someone send Larry a Hotwheels Yugo if such a thing exsist, love that Larry can see the beauty in just about any automotive body, Car culture can learn to be so accepting and eclectic

[@lilmookie6688]

Dude. Sick. Thx Hot Wheels guy. My 2 year old daughter her little JDM "Car-Cars"

[@rickiwamoto8099]

One of favorite Videos

[@nismoskyline06]

Beautiful car , being myself an RC enthusiast I have a KYOSHO sticker on the back of my 240Z.

[@neilperry2224]

It's the characters that they are able to build into the RC vehicles and models.

[@rodolfooliveira9673]

Awesome 😎

[@diclexicschweb4748]

Hot wheels is what got me in to cars And hot wheels is a sponser in japan formula drift 🤘

[@redbeardbadger790]

Didnt know that about the Japan FD Hot wheels sponsor. Thatd be dope

[@lucky889s9]

Hence, the fd Silvia s15 on the latest car culture line

[@diclexicschweb4748]

@@lucky889s9 no that was for US fd 25:22 kzbin.info/www/bejne/eni3ZmSplpKBirs

[@diclexicschweb4748]

@@redbeardbadger790 25:22 kzbin.info/www/bejne/eni3ZmSplpKBirs

[@sawyerjones4636]

thanks larry chen for this video i really enjoy every car you featured thanks

[@mikesmith199]

The pandem craiglist kit 😂🤌

[@DatOneCat]

On the subject of Hot Wheels, that is what made me permanently like cars, especially in the line of fantasy designs. As cool as real cars are, they never really clicked with me unlike the fantasy ones. And I'm not talking about the real wacky cartoony cars, but the ones that are more biased to realistic looking concept cars. Barring that, this guy's Fairlady Z designs are definitely one of my favorite real car based releases from Hot Wheels for a while now. They're pretty great for customizing too since you can swap parts and things from one another (with some slight cutting) due to being relatively similar.

[@dubbleA100]

That's my new car dream in life! Have one of my cars (hopefully Rx7) turned into a hotwheels car

[@rahulsudhir666]

An Efini would be a dream acquisition of mine too.. Would you go all out Pandem on it? Or keep it stock?

[@rahulsudhir666]

Or go a step further and commission an Amalgam model

[@Overland_RC]

People drill the rivets on Hotwheels and repaint, wheel swap, customize etc. Someone could easily replicate your RX7 or even yourself

[@blinky2035]

I have the hotweels version of this car (DTW89). Hotwheels called it a 240Z though

[@ekopramudianto540]

That cool car with Tamiya sticker

[@ralphsmallblock4367]

I love all Z

[@305dadecounty_grabberbluem5]

Awesome Tamiya decal!!!!!!!!

[@C-M-E]

As much as I love these vids, they do hit me in the ol' heartstrings a bit as I find myself pining for a lot of the cars I had in my youth. I'm glad I have the memories of decade-long ownerships for most of them, some were taken from me by idiot drivers or thieves, but they will sustain me as prices soar for these cars in the wake of our electrified futures.

[@easygoingdude9990]

Casual Ford GT in the background lol

[@kaidohousebyjunimai9126]

nothing to see there...

[@prosperojimenez9612]

Man that car is awesome, they so expensive now, im happy with my e30 but man Z are on high level

[@LupinTheThird31]

👍👍👍Let's see your hotwheel collection Larry!!!👍👍👍

[@ryantuscher5914]

Went to Target this week, came out with a bag of ground coffee and 3 jdm hot wheels.

[@RobEustace]

With regards to the tyres just because they look new doesn't mean they are, always check the dates and dont run old tyres.

[@longboarderebright]

craigspandem!

[@user-uy4it3ik7y]

Stop making videos on the Z the prices are going up and I want more 🤣

[@danielclifford9284]

I’d beg my mum for money every time we went to the shops just so I could get a hot wheels car, they were what really started my passion for cars and I certainly wasn’t the most caring with them and destroyed most of them but there’s that special few that mean the absolute world to me. I even made my uncle buy me one when he went to America just so I could say I had a hot wheels car from America. I’d love to build up my collection again, I handed most of mine onto my brothers or cousins when I was “too cool” to play with hot wheels cars and I regret it. They were such an excellent starting point for so many people and so many people still have that special hot wheels car that means the world to them. Sadly I now own a Datsun 120y (also known as a b210 in America and a Sunny Gl in Asia) that’s never been made into a hot wheels car

[@jasonanderson2876]

Oh yes!!! Lets go!!!

[@zappy7393]

Holy shit, I have this exact Hot Wheels car! Bought it for my son because he said it was his favourite!

[@brandonreid4511]

Bro I legit found a handful of my original HotWheels from when I was a kid last year and decided to try and find them brand new in the package. Well a year later and I'm about 5000 cars deep and ran outta space a while ago lmao HotWheels for life 👍🧡🧡🧡

[@OctasLP]

Yeah I have this Datsun in my Hot Wheels Collection

[@ryandurapau4984]

Larry you are a me lucky fellow. Keep up the great work.

[@javierb.9892]

Keep the Z's coming!!

[@edi07ish]

man, i have that cars in hotwheels version..!

[@andrzejgardas7629]

Beautiful car 👌 ☺

[@winstonpratt604]

Fuck yeah my buddy had a 71/240z L28 swapped Flat Tops with 394 4brll Holley Carb and single 2.5 Flowmaster , 10 point roll cage , 15" enkei racing / bbs style with red mesh with a chrome lip on a white car with a Porsche 🐋 Tail molded to the trunk lid seamlessly...lol they would say pump #1 is on for the white porche at the gas station 😅

[@garlenseong38]

Still a beautiful car none the less....

[@evilflowx]

this wouldn't be a genuine hoonigan autofocus video if larry didn't mention one of his cars. lmao!

[@joshdatguy292]

Those Wheels

[@shinren_]

For sure really really nice wheels they really stand out

[@Girtthquake]

Huge shout-out to RevLimiter! I was looking everywhere for a horn button with the original Honda logo, and he came through! It looks great in my '80 civic wagon

[@devinandrews2303]

Commented this before on the main channel but I think Hoonigan should partner with Mattel to make more of there cars into Hot Wheels. I'm a huge collector, great video

[@robfearnley9749]

BBEAUTIFUL CAR !!! Now hunting for the hot wheels model . . . It's the only way I'll own one now !!!😂😂

[@stonetownriders4543]

So cool nice work

[@moke-snipes2952]

It looks so nice ong

[@chadderton]

Sweet car, superb video.

[@damijohn777]

Ladies and gentlemen.. In the blue corner.. first he was Larry the cable guy.. then he was learning with Larry.. weighing in at 119lbs soaking wet.. it's Soldier Larry..

[@KathyWeathersbeeSC]

Larry you gotta do MZR Roadsports in the UK. They're the Singer of 240z's!

[@thebluestig2654]

The Z car industry needs some COMPETITION in the widebody kit world. I personally don't like the RocketBunny kits for Z cars but unfortunately there's no variety to choose from.

[@zrayqi]

Oh man when i heard it has a borla exhaust i really thought it was another ls swap but thank God i was wrong.

[@JosePerez-nh7sr]

Slight flex on Larry @ 27:07

[@MultiTravellingman]

That's a hard flex wip race car sandwiched between 2 helicopters.

[@ubirter]

Tamiya! Made in Cebu, 🇵🇭!!!

[@lonetrader1]

I've wanted one for years, gotta vq35 waitin for its new home........

[@jdmlordsalamander6397]

Damn Steven..... Beat me to it.....

[@jamesireland9188]

Beautiful car love it

[@troyarmstrong434]

Love from, Chicago.

[@dav2mai]

The prices on these Zs are rising hella lot. Before I know it I could probably buy a 400Z Nismo for the same price.

[@skinnypunk88]

Do they sell nose lift kits that you can install in any lowered car? What’s the correct term used? I don’t want to lose the performance from coil overs and airbags are out of the question for me personally.

[@Sho_Ryu_Ken]

As a kid i always loved hot wheels.

[@EvendimataE]

that is beautiful.....but if that is my car i would paint it one solid color make the wide body more noticeable

[@winstonpratt604]

That's a 1200$ spoiler nowdays lol

[@kaidohousebyjunimai9126]

phew. got lucky. :)

[@winstonpratt604]

@@kaidohousebyjunimai9126 my 240 had a early 80's porche 🐋 Tail molded on the deck lid lol and I can honestly say it looked quite at home there 🤯

[@realonethreesevens3640]

Having your car be an official hot wheels car is more insane than getting your car in forza considering the history of hot wheels and how our Dad's Dad's may have played with them

[@Rohambili]

thos stickers add how many horspower?

[@jaymutina3843]

Larry how old were you when you bought your 240z? ..again..I forget..

[@mattyc2815]

Where can i get those fender flares?

[@kaidohousebyjunimai9126]

They are Pandem/Rocket Bunny.

[@eimkeith]

what location is this? great space!

[@tahmid3986]

can you show us your hot wheels collection ?!

[@patricksantos361]

I'm curious, how does that kind of wheel and tire setup effect the handling characteristics "usually"

[@heizaidinropal4470]

he sounds like Kenji's (Greddy) voices

[@kaidohousebyjunimai9126]

I am over at GReddy a lot.

[@DP-nr1hz]

Hood pops at @18:51

[@Generalusuer]

Video starts at 7:10

[@reecewatson773]

Hey Larry today I went to a car show/swap meet. There was a lady that had some Blue tooth speaker pictures. Would you allow me to use one of your pictures in this way???

[@lonetrader1]

Hey I have one of these! I mean it's a hotwheels, but.........