10-30-2013, 12:12 PM | #91 |
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just pcs'd to kadena from moody. been here about 3 months now. loving it so far. the whole curfew and not drinking thing really isn't that bad, theres already so much more things to do on island. Then again im probably just used to island life from growing up in the Philippines lol
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12-26-2013, 02:01 AM | #96 |
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hypertek is dead
we moved to gaijindrift then that died and we moved to facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/gaijindrift/ |
01-07-2014, 05:03 PM | #97 |
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A friend of mine is in the AF and flying to Japan. Is it crazy to assume he might be able to pick up a few random SR parts or is the language barrier going to be too much?
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01-08-2014, 02:26 PM | #99 |
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What do you need? I might be parting out. Language barrier is no big deal if you know the right people. The majority of what I have came back with me in crates... Tore some streets up with FlipRay!
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01-20-2014, 09:55 PM | #101 |
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Do the bases in Japan have flat rate shipping. Basically what I wanna know is if it will be cheaper to ship something from Japan to California on or off base.
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01-20-2014, 10:16 PM | #102 |
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It is far, far cheaper to ship from an on base address to California than from a Japanese address to California. They have flat-rate USPS boxes at the post office here on base. Sending a letter to anywhere in the USA is just one stamp, like it is in the USA. Sometimes for large items or for certain retailers, they won't mail to the US bases overseas (the "State" for pacific bases is "AP"). If that happens, you can use a mail forwarding service like www.apobox.com |
01-21-2014, 04:08 AM | #104 |
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Yup, APO shipping is basically an extension of USPS. So if you can ship it thru USPS, you can ship it thru APO. Max weight is 70 lbs and bulk is 120" in total girth, usually shoot for 110" just in case they give you crap for it. So dont expect to ship out bodykits, unless you're okay with it getting cut in half and you putting it back together when it gets to you.
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04-05-2014, 08:56 PM | #108 |
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Ill be graduating from tech school here this week and pcsing to Kadena. My sponsor was talking to me about the many dealerships aroudn the island...but id rather find a car from mainland, preferably an S15 or late model 180sx.
Think there will be anyone I can find at the auto hobby shop to help me out? Obviously I dont know ANYONE at the base yet. Unless someone on here is at Kadena right now that can help? |
04-06-2014, 08:34 AM | #109 |
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Try what the post above yours says and join ZY and the FB page.
I'm stuck on Andrews for another year, hoping to get back to Japan(11 years of my childhood spent there). |
05-01-2014, 05:50 PM | #112 | |
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If you want a car from mainland, see if you can find B&M, talk to Bill and he can get either find you a car in auction or shop, get it shipped down and get a fresh JCI on it. Or there's another guy in Okinawa Tuners who's doing that service right now, just cant remember who it was. As far as getting help, just post up and ask, people would usually roll out and help. Worst case scenario, talk to Josh (white guy with the slick backed hair) at the KAB Hobby shop. Tell him Flip Ray misses his snookums and bring him some Starbucks Cappucino from the shoppete. |
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05-01-2014, 06:56 PM | #113 |
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holy hell Josh still works at the AHS?? No way hes been there for over 10 years now has he? unless its a totally different Josh lol
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05-02-2014, 12:36 PM | #114 |
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Doubt it, he got out of F15 MX, never left Oki. He must be pushing 15 yrs there at this point. He still has his Sunny truck, an S14 drift slut that was permanently fixtured at Bullring (till they shut down) and a C35 Laurel.
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05-09-2014, 09:54 PM | #115 |
Wow have things changed on the island.
I was USMC stationed at hansen from 01-03. The Street scene and drift scene back then was booming and any given friday or sat. night you could find action. Seems the 08 slump hit them hard. I also have been told that s-13's are almost impossible to find on oki where as in 02 they where the cheap car to pick up. What does the car scene look like to you fly boys over there now? |
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05-10-2014, 07:11 PM | #116 |
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Yah, it was pretty much dead when I got there in 07. Drag racing on 58 was dead, once in a while you'll have a handful of folks be out there but wont be there for more than 30 mins before the cops roll thru. Drift scene is barely alive, Bull Ring got shut down a year ago or so, to put a solar panel farm. Streets are not what it used to be, nobody goes to Aja anymore really, got a few touge spots that people would drift but thats about it really. Only thing that really happens regularly is Custom's Night at Mihama/Jusco. Even that went away for a bit after Jusco shut it down back in 2011 but I guess its back again.
Cheap car now are S15s and JZX100s. Its rare to find an S13 nowadays, alot more S14s than S13s and R32s combined when I left and worst now. Beauty of that, you can pretty much find a Spec S S15 for less than $2k. |
05-10-2014, 07:21 PM | #117 |
That saddens my heart. Some of the best times in my life were aja, nago circuit and the shipping yards. I miss big anobe and little anobe mountain.
That is where I learned how to really drive. There is so much talent in those areas, that the rest of the world will never see. I learned from the "joint" boys and if you know the area you might have heard of them. Ah memories. |
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05-10-2014, 09:00 PM | #119 |
Dang, I'm getting old.
There used to be a group of hard core drivers in japan, not far from onnason, that would dominate... like really shatter the anobe mountain pass. We are talking backwards entry blind corners in 2002 on mountain roads before it was a style of driving. Mostki, (goofy) our good friend Yuko, and a few others showed us crappy americans how to drive full tilt boogy on back roads. Team joint! Shit I have been doing this way to long. |
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05-10-2014, 09:36 PM | #120 |
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LoL...never heard. Like I said, pretty small handful of folks does the street thing. Awase and Aja was dead, folks still hit up Enobi from time to time. Most of us just hit the touge spots and cut across the island back and forth all the way up Nago. People still ran Takiyama since its close to the base, could roll thru there and there would be atleast a handful of gaijin and locals hanging out. Folks would pull all nighters up north in Benoki Dam and basically camp up there/drift until the sun comes up. But kicker is, you crash up there, goodluck getting back south. You're pretty much at the last exit before Hedo.
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