Shop Visits

During my first trip to Japan, after visiting D.Speed (blog post on this coming soon), the owner of the aforementioned shop informed me that on my way back, there was a shop I should visit if I like the new Toyota 86. I had never heard of Auto Factory, but decided to give it a go!

Auto Factory is basically a racing team who has close ties with Power Craft and Pro Composite (they also share many products). They are different companies, but I believe that R&D is a joint business. I arrived at the shop at around 9:00 PM, so please excuse the not-so-good quality of images.

The first thing you notice when you arrive at that shop is their legendary racing Toyota Levin rocking Weber carburetors and full wide body kit with SSR Mesh Wheels!

The shop itself is rather cool with some entertainment:

It also has a cool and classy waiting room:

They are pretty serious about racing, too!

And they also had some cool parts to take a look at:

But let’s not keep this blog post to their cool stuff that they

On a sunny day, I was driving back from Tokyo and saw a cool little K-Car parked on the side of the street. Back then (this is in 2014), it had the new Work CR-01 Wheels and I had to take a look at it!

Then, I saw a weird CIVIC (yeah it's a Civic) that had cool wheels on it:

And then I looked up and saw the WELD sign:

I drove away, but after some thought, I remembered that one of the nicest 86 I saw at Tokyo Auto Salon had a "WELD" logo on it. I decided to come back, just to make sure I did not miss anything.

Well, the U-turn was worth it. When I entered the shop, I saw this nice drift car on Work Wheels:

Then, I took a look at their tuning garage and their AWESOME 86 was sitting alone in the middle of it. Perfect to take pictures: