JOURNAL
Dec 18, 2025
Fear & Loathing in Dearborn: The History of Ford’s Free Wheeling Package
The US auto industry in the mid-70s was a beast stumbling through a dark room, bleeding from a thousand regulatory cuts. Into this cultural void, the Ford Motor Company dropped a bomb. It wasn't a technological marvel or a horsepower monster. It was a sticker package. And it changed everything.
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Dec 11, 2025
A Pilgrimage to the 2025 Yokohama Hot Rod Custom Show
You smell it before you see it. It’s a specific cocktail of olfactory cues that transcends language and geography; a blend of unburnt high-octane hydrocarbons, stale beer and burnt rubber. Welcome to the Yokohama Hot Rod Custom Show.
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May 20, 2025
Pikes Peak - Over a Hundred Years of Racing to the Clouds
Steeltown Garage retraces the illustrious history of Colorado's famous Pikes Peak International Hill Climb from the very first attempt by William Wanye Brown in 1913 to Michele Mouton's history-making run in 1985 to Loni Unser who continues to race in her Porsche 911 Turbo Cup.
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Aug 22, 2024
Stand Bar 300 - A Japanese Hip Hop Playlist
Inspired by a standing-only basement bar in Tokyo where the drinks are just ¥300 a pop, this playlist features a collection of quality Japanese hip hop, from retro classics to new bangers.
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Jul 27, 2024
Cruisin' with Hobbs and his 1966 Ford Fastback
Nothin beats a summer cruise with a buddy. Except maybe a summer cruise on a Monday morning when you both should be working behind a laptop but instead you're out ripping up your local streets pissing off the neighbours. These were the circumstances the first time we got to see our good buddy Hobbs' new 1966 Ford Mustang GT 289 Fastback done in Ivy Green with classic white racing stripes.
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Jun 30, 2024
The Bikeriders: The 1960s photography that inspired the film
The Bikeriders by Jeff Nichols and starring Jodie Comer, Austin Butler, Tom Hardy, and Norman Reedus, has been entertaining audiences for months now. But many people are surprised to hear that the film was actually inspired by a 1968 photo series by American photographer and filmmaker Danny Lyon.
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May 16, 2024
Natsukashii - a vintage Japanese Kayōkyoku playlist by Steeltown
Definitely our strangest playlist yet. Before Japanese Idols and J-Pop there was Kayōkyoku. A genre of music influenced heavily by western rock and roll and usually had easy to follow melodies, sentimental narratives and straight forward lyrics designed to be relatable to the everyday Japanese person.
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Mar 31, 2024
Visting a Custom Minibike Garage in Osaka, Japan
On the fringes of Osaka's chaotic downtown core is a rad little garage, making rad little bikes specifically a custom raw metal Honda Dax which has enjoyed some serious attention and popularity on social media since Hoy, the garage's owner, completed it two years ago.
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Mar 6, 2024
Tokyo's Coffee Shop Time Machine
Since its inception in 1948, Cafe de L’Ambre has defied the passage of time. It exists to this day as a monument to exceptional coffee that is roasted, brewed and served in its own unique way according to the processes and standards established by its late founder, Ichiro Sekiguchi, a centenarian who died in 2018 at 103.
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Feb 22, 2024
Born Bad: A History of Hot Stuff
“I don't care about anything really!, 'cept havin' fun!”Hot Stuff in Casper and the Spectrals
You’ve probably seen...
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Jan 24, 2024
8 Days A Week - A Playlist
Wake up. Gulp coffee. Punch in. Bust ass. Sweat. Punch out. Repeat. A soundtrack for the grind, 8 Days A Week is a gnarly mash of British and Aussie post punk revival that will light a fire inside ya, not necessarily in a good way.
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Nov 10, 2023
Concrete Dreams - A Playlist
Dangling somewhere in the sonic ether between prototypical 80s goth rock and a broody cyberpunk near-future, Concrete Dreams is a pensive post-punk soundscape set against a backdrop of neon-lit urban alienation.
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