Vintage modified car with wide fenders and sleek design parked on a road with landscape in background.

The Evolution of Kaido Racers – 1974-1979

With the popularity of kaido racers now reaching a more global scale, I thought it might be best to go back in time to see where they originated from and the trends and shifts in their design throughout the generations.This

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Poster for New Year's Touring 2025, featuring colorful vintage cars. Event on January 4th, location to be announced.

Rudeboy Special’s New Years Touring 2025

Our friends up in Canada are hosting another kaido racer meeting in the Vancouver, B.C. area. This event is kaido racer specific, so be sure to bring out the proper cars for a calm drive around Vancouver area. Event location

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Checkerboard socks with red heels on a New Year's event poster, SoCal New Years Touring by Team Heel, January 11th.

Team Hi Heel Presents: SoCal New Years Touring 2025

Team Hi Heel of Southern California will host a New Year’s Touring (hatsuhinode bōsō) to kick off 2025 on January 11th, 2025. They will meet at 11 PM, with touring starting at midnight and running into sunrise (in true Japanese

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Custom vintage Nissan sports car at night car meet, featuring distinctive body modifications and bold styling.

Pop Influences: Seibu Keisatsu

In 1979 a new Japanese TV show drama was released titled Seibu Keisatsu 西部警察 or “Western Police”. It followed a group of detectives apart of the team “Daimon Gang” lead by Daimon Keisuke. Daimon wasn’t the type of detective to

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Japanese car magazine cover featuring classic modified cars and models, priced at 750 yen.

KaidoRacer.com Shop Coming Soon!

Now that this website has been up for two years, it is time to grow it a bit. I am offering up (almost) all of the magazines I use for historical content on this website for sale. All of the

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Modified vintage car with Coca-Cola banner on the side at an industrial area, painted in blue and white.

Kaido Racers Found in Video Games

Zokusha King Zokusha King is a series of PS2 games released in Japan. It had 4 different releases and 2 of them were translated and released in Europe as Maxxed Out Racing. They were published by D3Publisher for their SIMPLE

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Kaido Racer Dictionary