This style came about in 1983 at the Fuji Speedway Grand Championship. It is a compound word for two prefectures east of Tokyo, Chiba and Ibaraki. Some of the initial characteristics of this style would be cars sporting a deppa (long front spoiler), works fender, and takeyari (bamboo) muffler from this general region.

Other notable parts that Chibaragi cars might include is fender spoilers, vents, silhouette wings, side step, oil coolers and more.

Custom modified Datsun racing car with sleek design and bold graphics.
Hamamatsu Racing Nissan Skyline Japan, Champ Road 2010-2
Modified Nissan Skyline on a road, featuring wide body kit and large rear spoiler. Japanese text on the image.
Teikouren Racing Nissan Skyline Japan, Champ Road 2010-3

Other Kanto Area Styles

Other styles were popular in this region of Japan and in different time periods as well. I’m going to group these under Chibaragi for now, but might break this out into another page later.

Silhouette + Works

Futuristic purple modified car with unique design elements, parked on a street, labeled SOARER.
Champ Road 2004-4
Red Nissan Skyline racing car with turbo modifications and Tomica branding on a track.
Champ Road 2004-6
Vintage Toyota Celica race car with bold graphics and number 47 displayed outdoors.
Champ Road 2004-7
Vintage Mazda Cosmo race car with custom green and white design parked outside a garage.
Masoku Racing Mazda Cosmo, Champ Road 2004-8

Super Silhouette

Custom modified car with a futuristic design and graphics, featuring large front bumper and unique styling.
Teikouren Racing Toyota Cresta, Champ Road 2010-3
Unique modified car with vibrant pink body and large spoiler, parked outdoors on a sunny day.
Hamamatsu Racing Toyota Chaser, Champ Road 2010-2

Koenig Style + Vents

Koenig Special styled kaido racers were a huge hit in the early 1990s. Narita Racing was one of the teams with a lot of examples of this style. This could either be full custom cars looking like the European counterparts, to a more simple Ferrari Testerossa-styled door fins. This is covered in more detail in the Koenig Specials article.

Modified turquoise sports car with custom body kit and spoiler parked on a street.
Nissan Leopard, Saitama, Champ Road Yearbook 1991

While I haven’t seen an official name for this, the early 1990s there was also trend for builders to exaggerate the amount of vents on a car and I thought it would be nice to feature some of them.