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These are not even the same thing,
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and then he got it, and then Jells bought the medium,
and she looked at us and she scoffed
and she said, "Amateurs"
then she walked away.
So if that's any statement of how big that glass
or thing of coke is,
it's just a pretty big boy.
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JDM in the mirror three times, the lights are gonna like
dim down and like the car community is gonna appear
in like the mirror and everybody's gonna be like,
there's gonna be a ghost behind you, it's gonna be like
the founder of Work Wheels or something like that,
and then you're gonna have to like scream and run.
But really, everyone loves anything JDM.
Not everyone, but a lot of the car enthusiasts world does,
which also applies to wheels, so today we're talking about
why people actually love JDM wheel brands and models,
and everything in between, so let's just, let's go!
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Seems like anything worth anything in the car scene
comes from Japan, and I mean it makes sense,
it takes time for perfect things to kind of manifest,
and Japan has been into the cars and the car scene
longer than a lot of other people, because of that
they were huge in the first places of like anything that
started offer after market wheels for cars.
Once automobiles actually started making headway moving
throughout Japan, obviously their need for
wheels came with it, which was the first step
into the birth of after market wheels, but it wasn't
long after the car boom that the Japanese wanted
to customize their vehicles and stand out from the rest,
which is always been a thing that Japan has been really
good at doing, you can see that with their Bōsōzoku
and everything in between, which is good because that's
why we love that JDM flare, it's so much different
than anything else that we see. That ultimately led
to Weds being born in 1965, I mean I don't even
need to go into depth on these guys because you know
who they are. They're like the popular kids in
the high school, and they got all the cool stuff.
It's like they want to be the cool kid,
but they're not- they don't want to be the cool kid.
They're like the Jon Snow of the after market car community.
And like because they don't want it, it means
everybody wants it. So pretty much nobody messed
with them and then the 70's when racing started to
really become popular, the normal consumers started
racing just for fun and then the vehicles
and the wheels they needed to have ultimately
started to go into these after market companies
like Weds and like other companies that were coming
up from the ground out of nowhere. Pretty much meant that
a lot of these people wanted lighter wheels,
they wanted stronger wheels, and everything in between
which was the after market wheels. That was just the thing
and the market exploded. The import and export laws
allowed not only their vehicles to be transported
but a lot of their products like after market wheels
to go off into their merry wonderland of getting
sold everywhere else and since the auto market exploded
and the demand for after market parts included
and skyrocketed we started to see all sorts of
wheel companies pop up. But Japan was really there
first, he was number one it was the place that
a lot of this was birthed from. Now everyone
loves a story and that's why they're always
so drawn to movies and things like Game of Thrones
and The Avengers which if we're talking
about storylines lets just not get into
Season 8, the writers kept us engaged and they build
in the history of the characters they had already
kind of laid out, and that's why when you go see Endgame
you're so emotionally involved, and you're
either sitting on the edge of your seat the whole time
or just kind of crying like a small child.
Which one was I? I'm just saying that if you
didn't have an emotional breakdown with the
spoiler alerts, nevermind, I'm not even gonna say it
you'll just, if you haven't watched it just
go watch it. It's been like three weeks now.
But since Japan was the first to really
jump into the wheel game in the style that they did
that means that they have the most history
behind them and sometimes the most story.
And everyone loves that because a lot of JDM wheel
brands have a story, they've been there through
the thick and thin, they have and they are the
weathered veteran of the wheel game.
They have the most experience, so that's what
people naturally are drawn towards because it's
just assumed that they know what they're doing,
because they've been doing it for so long.
For instance, say you need a surgery. You're
probably gonna opt for a surgeon that's been around
for a while and has a little bit of experience.
That's a terrible analogy,
to be completely honest, but I mean it's
kinda the same thing. A lot of people
just enjoy that, now you can say that the
domestic brand also has a lot of history
in the after market wheel community,
but it's actually not as much as the Japanese
wheel community because of the fact that really
the birth of the 50's and 60's in the domestic
car scene still had to do with a lot of
cutting, flipping wheels, and re polishing
and all that sort of stuff. The after
market wheel community wasn't as large and
wasn't as prominent as a lot of the over seas wheel
community that doesn't mean that the domestic's
doesn't have, you know they have their light too. Okay, so
don't get angry. I'm just saying that a lot of times
people are gonna prefer Japanese wheels
and that's where a lot of styling for most brands
right now comes from. The Japanese tend to have a
very distinct style and way of doing things.
And while it might be a little strange to us
we can't deny the fact that they do have style.
Which you guessed applies to car wheels as well.
JDM wheels have always been stylish and were made
just, kind of ahead of the curve. Domestic
wheels were a little behind the JDM trend brand.
Now granted they still had designs for their
respective vehicles, we just
it took us a little bit longer, you know?
It was like-
It was like being the older brother,
you know how the older brother makes all the mistakes
the younger brother makes none of the mistakes,
and you're wondering why the younger brother never
gets grounded but you do? It's kind of like
that. I mean, pretty much.
So, with the Japanese wheel community you can't deny
that they had a sense of style that was
very unique to them. You could see it in the
Bōsōzoku, you could see it in all of their
vehicle design, you could see it in their
exterior modifications, you could see it in
everything. They were excessive, they were loud,
and people loved that. And when it applied to the car
wheel scene, people just fell in love.
So when you really look at JDM wheel designs
they have a tendency to have that (bleep) on lock
and they always have. So it's difficult not to
love them, especially like those old nostalgic brands,
like Work. Another huge reason that pretty much
every car enthusiast has a soft spot for JDM wheels
is just because they're harder to get. Especially
the fancy multi piece ones. Now, we're not talking
about the new wheels, but we're talking about
some of the older wheels, and if you get into a lot
of the real wheel stuff, it's not exactly
very easy to come across. They may be popular,
but, I mean damn, it's really hard to get your
paws on a set. And it's for good reason.
Its an exclusivity thing, and I know we've discussed this
on the channel before but people love good products
that are exclusive and hard to get.
It's just how the world works, its why everyone
loves their Yezzys and things like that.
It makes products more desirable, and there's a reason
that the exclusivity builds hype. You've seen it
with all sorts of brands, you've seen it with Work and SSR
you've seen it with Volk you've seen it with Rays,
you've seen it with all of those JDM brands that
have a tendency to do exclusive kind of stuff.
And then they sell out in like .3 seconds
because everybody just falls in love. I see you
those like hyper green TE37's. I want you.
People love to get a product they can rub in
everyone else's faces saying like
I have this and you don't. So-
you know, and that's just kind of like a thing.
It's the same exact thing with wheels,
companies don't make these wheels readily
available when there's a very high demand for them
especially the used ones. So they can sell
them for a high price because they're wanted
items and they're quality products, you can see
it all the time with the TE37, and guess what.
It's gonna be a long time before they
run out of consumers that don't want the wheels.
So it's actually a pretty good business plan over
you know the next couple decades or so.
So there you go, there's some of the main
reason's that people sill love JDM wheels.
If you have a set of JDM wheels, let us know
in the comment section below, or let us know
if we're even remotely right.
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