wowsers! we acutally agree on 1 thing with mugatu!?!? The world is coming to an end!

 

Great pics. I'll take some of those seats

 

Yes, it is a mountain in Japan (real name Mt. Haurna) and was made famous by Initial D but apparently there is a canyon in So Cal that has been nicknamed Mt. Akina because of the number of hairpins (and to keep it secret - prevent being overrun by cops when scheduling meets).

If you go to maps.google.com and search: mt haurna japan
then zoom in all the way it will take you right to the 5 hairpin section of road in mentioned in Initial D/anime. (***EDIT***tried this again and it didn't work, will find right combo I tried last week)

The So Cal "Akina" is mentioned in some of thw WRX forums and FD lists but I'm not a member so I thought I'd start here. If anyone knows where it is please PM. Thanks.

 

love those knee pad sets, kinda pricey though

 

How did I miss this? Great pics!

Funny about those knee pads.. washing the 8 today and the piano black piece that touches my knee needed a good cleaning. Figures, I bump it almsot every day. Didn't know they made those.

 

weird that they didn't use the 4 point struct brace...
instead they used the usdm version

 

i think originally it had the 4 point brace.(i believe that came out first)...