Sapporo, Japan is NOT what people think of as a center for hot rodding car culture and they're right, its not. But, there is a cool dude from Japan who's a real hot rodder living the hot rod life. Kiyoshi Tanomura (aka Tano) and I became Facebook friends a couple weeks ago. I accepted Tano's request solely because of his Profile Picture. It was a picture of this 1926 Ford Model T roadster, built in the Traditional rod style. I saw his Japanese name with that American hot rod picture and said to myself, "I need to find out about this guy!" Just looking at the roadster, would you expect this to come out of Japan? As you can imagine, the hot rod parts came from the States. The build is a well thought out, period correct hot rod that few could achieve. Japanese car nuts are just the type to achieve such a build. Why? From what little I know about the Japanese culture is they have great respect for their ancestors and history, they are very detailed oriented, even passionate about the details and seem to be natural engineers. Tano mentions two friends from the USA...
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