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July 08, 2004
Truck-yaro
If you've seen Millennium Actress or the live-action Great Teacher Onizuka drama, then you've seen images of those cool-looking Japanese trucks tricked out by the truck-yaro, or "truck guys." The Asahi Shimbun is currently running an article on the truck-yaro, but it only features one small picture of the back of a truck. There are some better dekotora (decorated truck) images here
One of the interesting things is that the editor of a Japanese trucking magazine says in the Asahi article is that truck customizers fall into two camps -- the traditionalists, who feature images of geisha and samurai, and the futurists, who are after what the editor calls the "Gundam style." It seems that even in the world of Japanese trucking anime is used as a referent. (On that note, here are a few images of Sailor Moon and Dragonball themed trucks.
Posted by brianruh at July 8, 2004 07:49 AM
Comments
Very cool - never heard about it before but it's my new favourite thing. It's tough to find good galleries on the web, though. You'd think the Asahi article would, you know, show more pictures in an article about art trucks.
Posted by: Gareth at July 21, 2004 03:51 PM