I understand where you are coming from, I used to live in Japan and saw "bad english". There were some stores that were just named off the wall stuff. I was funnym but I too have the real deal. Brought them back off my dad's car when we were in Okinawa.

 

What's funny is people with YELLOW Japanese plates on their cars.

 

Answer for Skyline: Because the BNR series NEVER LEFT Japanese shores nor were they intended to leave. The G35 is a regular Skyline if a Skyline at all...(I like the ER/BNR series). And the new Skyline isn't out for another 2 years. 300ZXs were meh. .02

JDM plates are kinda dumb. Haha now we're back on track. ;p

 

I guess it's like people who get asian charachter tattoos, you'd kind of have to take the parlor's word for it as to what it means. There are probably tons of American girls unwittingly walking around with "*****" or something bad in Japanese tattooed on their lower back

 

mmmm, ******

 

I don't know why this is even a topic to discuss...people are going to do what ever they want whether it actually JDM or not. The key thing is to decipher the real JDM freaks from the fake. What I'm mean by fake are the ones who are just in the scene because they think it's the "in" thing, not the ones who actually live and breathe this sh*t, know what I mean?

 

wow you make jdm sound like its a gang or something.

 

+1
thanks for letting him know

I think he is just mad because some people on this site knew or drove a skyline before he played with one on Playstation 2.

He's such an angry man...

someone send him a jdm plate saying for " ijiwaru " (dont know if I spelt it right)

 

Wow the style and colors are even wrong on the plates, anyone that would buy those is dumb.

 

hahaha. ijiwaru.

RE: skylines - I had two during my 12 years there - one '83 DR30 with the FJ20ET and one '86 R31 GTS with the RB20DET in it. fun times. I think I owned 15 different cars during my time there (not all at once of course).

RE: BMW & Mercs on Military installations: yep - seen plenty of them around. Of course, to put this in perspective, all one needs to do is look outside the gate to see Japanese going grocery shopping in new Beamers any day of the week.

Back to the number plate thing: it wouldnt bother me half as much if they werent blatently incorrect. I have seen a few Yokohama numbers around - thats rare in the U.S. - and as such gets a much better rating from me cause I know they're the real thing.

 

reminds me of the guy that went to get the japanese sign for "bad a$$" tatooed on himself, but instead the artist put "flaming homo" or something to that effect. good stuff.

 

Ok, guess some Japanese people would do the same thing

Japanese selling US plates as well

so I think its a com-thing to do then...



wondering are those fake as well? as those japanese plates for sale on ebay?




my 2cp but funny thru.

 

Good find, Evoegg - on Rakuten no less. hehehe.

Funny that the first plate on that page is English with the "Y" (US Forces Japan) Designator on it.

 

i like the ones that say ct9a on them