The owners of these respective cars have been friends for over two decades now, and they’ve had their cars about the same length of time. What started as two guys tuning up their kyusha C10s has clearly escalated into something more. Almost nothing on these cars remains stock – two decades of continuous improvement have seen to that.

For whatever reason, it has been decided by the collective wisdom that there is a ‘right’ way to modify your Hakosuka: a factory colour, GT-R flares and front lip, deeply dished Watanabe wheels. Of course it looks great, but it can tend to be a little formulaic. These two cars are clearly reading from a different rulebook; check out the massive, polished-lip Work VS-XX wheels barely hiding the massive front brakes on the sedan.

Lurking inside the shaved engine bay of the gold car is an enlarged L-series engine breathing through ITBs, which is close to 350hp. Apparently both cars see regular track duties, which explains the serious fueling setup and battery relocation in the coupe. Both cars had very little remaining of the original interior, the dashboards gutted in favour of aluminium panels with aftermarket gauges and custom switchgear. In addition, well constructed full roll-cages tighten up the aging chassis in both cases.

The coupe was sporting a heavily vented bonnet but a slightly more traditional wheel choice in a set of three-piece Panasport Racing G7-C8Rs. The weathered plates tell a story of their own; the cars hail from Shonan, an area south of Tokyo famous for long beaches, small bikinis and bosozoku.