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Visiting my partner's family hometown in Fukuyama we stumbled on Koyama Motors (小山自動車) - which turned out to be a local shop run by two brothers for over 50 years with amazing history - they are reknown in the area for servicing and repairing any make or model - and when we visited they were rebuilding a Ferrari engine, while also working on a R33 Skyline, AE86, a Porsche and an older Mercedes.

With the help of my partners mum translating we were able to chat with them a little and once they worked out that I was interested in what they were doing and knew a bit about cars they showed me a magazine article of a Gymkhana S13 they built in collaboration with Nismo in the 80's. There was an hour long documentary on the shop from a Japanese television station that they also showed me - linked HERE. Their reputation in the region made sense when they showed me around as they had every piece of machinery imaginable and every manual you could think of across so many different models, and they explained that everything is done in house, from servicing to engine machining and complete rebuilds.

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garage annex

paid a visit to this small tuning shop in yokohama and walked in as he was swapping a 20v 4age into an ae101 hatch for a customer, with shelves of heads and blocks in stock around him

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expert oz

i made my way from central tokyo to renowned AE86 shop expert OZ in atsugi from central tokyo in march 2023.

the owners were suprised to learn that i walked 30 minutes from the station and were very accomodating, showing me cars that were hiding under covers from the recent rain and chatting briefly about how they were set up and explaining the extensive custom work that went into these builds that had been with the shop for a long time.

looking forward to paying them another visit!

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gotta start somewhere