Carving out a corner for Asian Americans to shine in the late 90s / early 2000s popular culture was the import tuning Japanese domestic market car scene. With the release of The Fast and the Furious in 2001, custom cars hit the mainstream really touching everything from t-shirts, toys, music videos, magazines, video games, and more.
A quick YouTube search for βHot Import Nightsβ puts you in a time machine rabbit hole with early 2000s lo-fi video recording technology really shining here.
Here is a video July 7th, 2001 - Hot Import Nights at Meadowlands Expo Center NJ
Also, who knew the cover of Rockstarβs Midnight Club Street Racing was an actual photo and not some computer generated images?
The following is an image dump from this era:
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Special thanks to StillJonah for the shots!
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