Japanese car culture, especially Japanese car culture from the 1980s and 1990s, has long been something that American auto geeks obsess over and idolize (myself included). I’m here), and no name resonates in that ensemble more than the famous and infamous Mid Night Club.
The club, which began as an offshoot of another street racing club, the American Car Club, quickly built a name and reputation for itself as its members became kings. Wangan-sen’s undefeated (aka Bayshore Route). Its founder, Eiichi Yoshida, and his 1979 Porsche 911 Turbo became legendary as he pushed the 930 to more and more performance.
This great video by YouTuber Hunter’s Moon go into detail not only about the history of the club but also about the incredible history of Yoshida and his car, including the final downfall of Yoshida repeatedly arrested for fraud and dissolved his Porsche tuning shop.
Street racing is clearly a really, really bad idea, and it’s impossible for Mid Night to do that as long as it doesn’t have serious incidents involving non-participants. believable. Of course, that period doesn’t last forever as club members have intermingled with members of the club. bosozoku bike gang resulted in the death of two motorcyclists and serious injury to six witnesses.
The culture is great to reflect on and the cars are almost too great to describe, but please don’t go too full Midnight Wangan on your local two-lane road. Maybe you’ll die, and you’ll look like an asshole (not necessarily in that order).
