S1 Ep317: How Japan’s Fastest Cars Were Built in a Cowshed
Past Gas
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4.9 • 7.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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This week on Past Gas, we’re telling the unbelievable story of how HKS went from wrenching in a shed on a dairy farm to building some of the fastest cars Japan has ever seen. From early turbo experiments to the 300-km/h Celica, the outlaw Zero-R, and record-smashing time-attack monsters, this is how a tiny team under Mount Fuji ended up reshaping JDM and motorsport forever.
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