12-10-2008 01:03 AM

They say that the goose-step, ridiculous and inefficient as it may appear, became the march of choice for dictatorships around the world precisely because of its silly appearance. After all, only a terrifying madman could get thousands of able-bodied men to walk that absurdly in precise formation. It is a way to instill fear.

That’s pretty much the feeling we get when we see a swarm of bosozoku cars rolling down Japan’s highways. The cantilevered lip spoilers, the brick-square fender flares and yard-long exhaust pipes may look insane when parked. But get surrounded by a horde of them wreaking havoc on the expressway and it suddenly begins to make sense, even when a dude dressed like a freaking tiger rides a convertible’s door sill as his mohawked associate maniacally twirls a baseball bat in the air. It makes one wonder if they’re launching a siege on Bartertown or something, but it’s probably best not to ask questions and just get the hell out of their way.

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Where would you put the exhaust sniffer?

thxZ

Not just strange,...but funny!

I know.....

You put the exhaust sniffer in any of the tailpipes and multiply the reading time 47, and add the square root of the length of any pipe.

While viewing this, two things came to mind. Could this be:

1. An up-dated Japanese version of "A Clockwork Orange", or

2. A pre-apocalyptic "Mad Max"?

Bonzi Lon