S2 Ep5: The Golden Era of JDM: Inside Japan's Exclusive Outlaw Race Club
Past Gas
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4.9 • 7.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Join us in the fifth installment of Past Gas: The Golden Era of JDM, as we dive into the history of one of Japan's most elusive car clubs, The Mid Night Club. What later became a popular video game started as a way for Japan's elite car tuners, enthusiasts and even Automotive Executives to test and tune their cars... on public roads.
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| 0:00.0 | It's 2.14 a.m. |
| 0:06.7 | Tokyo is asleep. |
| 0:09.0 | Out over the bay, a stretch of highway sits suspended over the black water below. |
| 0:16.6 | Sodium lights hum over the asphalt. |
| 0:20.0 | No pedestrians. |
| 0:21.8 | No storefronts. |
| 0:23.4 | All is quiet. |
| 0:26.2 | But in the distance, a Toyota is accelerating, well past 160 miles per hour. |
| 0:33.5 | Hazard lights blinking. |
| 0:36.3 | A Nissan follows, and then a Mazda, spaced almost perfectly apart. |
| 0:42.9 | Three flagship companies who had risen from the rubble of World War II are about to be |
| 0:47.7 | associated with a moment only Japan could have achieved. On their streets and in their |
| 0:53.5 | mountains. |
| 1:00.1 | From the Midnight Club to the Drift King, the Golden Era has begun. |
| 1:08.5 | Hello everybody, welcome back to Pasquass. This is episode five of the Golden golden age of JDM, and we are now in it, guys. |
| 1:15.5 | Past four episodes have been really great, really fun so far, but here we are now. Now we're getting to the stuff that you probably were expecting to hear from the jump with this series. |
| 1:25.9 | But here we are. It is the Midnight Club. |
| 1:28.2 | We're going to be talking about all those insane cars that they were racing along. |
| 1:31.6 | They were racing, sure, but it was more like research or maybe just like a way for like |
| 1:37.6 | rich guys to like just blow off some steam. |
| 1:40.6 | But we'll get into that. |
| 1:41.6 | And also we'll talk a little bit about the less regimented and more kind of like |
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