Twenty years before the launch of YouTube, tuning shops partnered with tuner magazines and illegal street racers in Japan to produce one of the most legendary viral car videos in history. The video would go on to cement careers, create massive media franchises, and ultimately resulted in an entirely new motorsport. And it was all done with one of the most unlikely cars anyone could have imagined at the time - the Toyota AE86. Who is “The Drift King” Keiichi Tsuchiya? How did drifting go from legitimate track technique to illegal underground activity and back to legitimate motorsport? And how did a small series of VHS tapes go on to change the automotive world forever? This is Past Gas - on Keiichi Tsuchiya and Pluspy, the viral car video that inspired a generation.
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Past Gas #236: The Rowdiest Family in F1 History
Past Gas #235: Datsun, Pt 2: Why Datsun Had To Die
Past Gas #234: Datsun, Pt 1: Why Nissan Created Datsun
Past Gas #233: Bathurst 1000: Australia’s Most Brutal Endurance Race
Past Gas #232: What Happened with SAAB? Pt 2
Past Gas #231: What Happened with SAAB? Pt 1
The Big Three #4: This Car Show is Banning Dodge Chargers
Past Gas #230: The Bugatti Queen: Sex, Drugs, & Racing in the Roaring 20s
The Big Three #3: Is Nissan Killing The GTR?
Past Gas #229: Mazda Pt 4: Mazda Pt 4: The First Japanese Car to Win Le Mans + 787B sounds
The Big Three #2: Dodge's Charger EV Video is Unhinged
Past Gas #228: Mazda Pt 3: The RX-7 & Mazdaspeed
The Big Three #1: Unpacking Tesla's Empty Promises
Past Gas #227: Mazda Pt 2: The Birth of the Rotary Engine
Past Gas #226: Mazda Pt 1: Mazda Used to be a Cork Factory
Past Gas #225: Macau GP - “Asia’s Monaco” is a Notoriously Dangerous Street Circuit
Past Gas #224: F1's Greatest Rivalries: Hamilton vs Rosberg (aka “The Silver War”)
Past Gas #223: The Mustang That Took Down Porsche
Past Gas #222: Cosworth Pt 2: WRC Rally & the Ford Escort RS Cosworth
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