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Hey, and welcome back to the next episode of the right-hand drive guys podcast the podcast for guys who like right-hand drives
I'm Bobby. This is Aaron. Yeah. Yeah, and welcome to episode 157 and
We did just want to apologize for last week
It wasn't that we were neglecting you. No, it wasn't that we didn't care or we just were too busy
We well actually we were we were busy celebrating the life of Aaron's dad
Yeah, and so we figured there was no better appropriate time to skip a week than
Celebrating the life of a great man. Yeah, so but we are back. Yeah, what I said, I'll take it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, for sure
and but we're back and
You know, we're like, okay, should we should we get somebody on the podcast?
You know, just start ripping the the
Guests again, and we're like, well, you know, there's there's some stuff going on with us. There's some stuff going on in the culture
some events that were unfortunately missing out on this year, but
That's okay, we can still talk about them bummer. Yeah with positivity because you know, that's just what we do
So, okay, cool episode 157
Where do you want to start?
Hmm good question, I guess let's just let's just do the bad one first, right or the one that keeps getting worse. Yeah, the
So, okay, I guess we could say
How much does it really cost to import an R34 GTR in
Whatever fourth quarter of 2025. Yeah. Well, we've because we covered this before on what it used to cost
Yeah, what it used to cost nowadays like dude, there's I'm seeing stuff
It seems like every other week about some like hike with the tariffs and another new charge and like
Or just confusing. Yeah, it is very confusing
Okay, so let me let me find this so I have an actual quote
You have an actual quote. Is this and this is for your R34. This is for my R34 GTR. Yeah
All right, cool
So my R34 GTR I purchased it in
2020
late 22
Late 2022. Yeah, so, you know, I this is post
Like COVID prices, right? Yeah, things are starting to level off. I guess a bit. Yes that the extreme
the extreme
Was already kind of starting to go down, but it definitely was never and we never saw
pre-COVID prices again
so
my time is coming up I have a
December of
2034 GTR
So that means December 1st 2025. Yeah, the car can be in the United States, right?
I remember when you got it like December 2025 seemed like it was so far so far away
Like I was like, holy cow, dude, that thing's never gonna be over here. Yeah. No, that's like a couple months away
Yeah, it is it's a couple months away and so
You know, yeah, if you've been listening to the podcast
You know that we've gone to Japan multiple times and driven the car put like 13,000 kilometers on it
Just like enjoyed it, right? Which yeah
Was my point in getting a 2000 over 99, right? If I got a 99 first of all a series one
I'm not like in love with them, you know
Just some of the little things that change with series two are cool
But also it would have been super tempting to just have it come over here immediately
Oh, right, right, right, which in hindsight
Maybe that should have been what happened, but that's okay
You know, we had such a blast and met such amazing people in Japan and just really did our thing that like yeah what we're about to discuss
Really sucks, but also is like, I don't know you have to sacrifice something
You know and little I did not realize I'd be sacrificing
What we're gonna talk about so
Yeah, basically
Now's the time, you know, I didn't register it like
re-register it in Japan because I knew this was coming up and
So while we're in Japan though, I racked up like a huge bill and like
service and experiences and
Definitely tolls and so I just had to pay that to the tune of
$9,900 so yeah, we had a we had a blast
To say the least and dude, this is five trips. This is five trips worth so you could say like to yeah
That's really not horrible, especially if you've been to Japan you understand. How much would you guess that that's tolls? Oh
Yeah, that's it's a lot of tolls like it's a ton. Do you think it's like 50 percent tolls?
Probably 40 or so percent tolls. Yeah. Yeah, it is
Which you know you had a few services done. Yeah, I did yeah and like yeah, but
Tolls were the big killer and as you know, you drove the van around you had to stop and pay the tolls
Yeah, and luckily it wasn't in USD because I had no yeah, you're just handing it over
Not realizing that was literally 20 bucks. Well, no dude. I mean over there you can swipe a card
Oh, I was just swiping the card. Yeah, but because I mean I have to get through here
Yeah, there's yeah, one way or another just give me out of here. Yeah for sure
And so yeah, all of those all of those fees and charges, you know, that was that I've paid off everything that I spent in Japan
Is what it is again had a blast can't replace the memories the car will be in this garage
And and it will be the car that we went to Ebisu that I went to Nagano that we went to
Nagoya and you know, just these different things went to whack fast, you know
So that's well worth it. So let's get into it, right? So
You know beyond what I spent there
There's obviously going to be your shipping your tariffs your import fees, you know all of these things and so
Alvin over at top rank was kind enough to break this down for me so that
Basically, I understood, you know, what I'm gonna pay for and what to expect, right?
All right, so let's get into it real quick
Basically, you know, you have these kind of different
He breaks it down like this. First of all was shipping. So a 40 foot container is
Gonna cost you right now from, you know, Tokyo to LA because the way that top rank does things is they get the car in
They inspect the car and then you pay them
These fees that we're gonna talk about and then they'll release the car and then for us
Yeah, and now I gotta have it shipped all the way across the country, right? So that's another fee
That's not even on here, but that is what it is. So right now a 40 foot container is gonna cost you
$3,250 in
Shipping, okay, that's just shipping
And you know, like I'm not an import agent. I'm not an export agent. I'm no agent period
I'm not CIA FBI. I'm none of these things, but they say
The BAF. Oh shoot the THC fee
So there's something, you know, and hey hit us in the DMs if you know what this stuff means
We probably should have looked it up, but like oh well
BAF
THC and then the B slash L fee
So I don't know if that's bill of lading. I'm not sure what that is, but that's let us know to me
It's 433 bucks, right? The vanning fee. I'm not sure if that's like
Transportation around the yard. I'm not sure what that is. Yeah
because
Yes, that must actually be the vanning fee must be the fee to ship it from
Pdi
To the port, I would assume vanning, right? That's one thousand two hundred and eighty dollars
The drage somebody out there knows what drage is
It's some sort of fee for a thousand dollars
That's in Japan the D van fee, which is the US side is
eighteen hundred dollars and
Then the US drage is nine hundred and fifty dollars
So these things I don't even have a clue what they mean. Yeah is is literally like
45 hundred dollars worth of money, right? I don't even know what the hell they are
But that's part of what's due and then there's the peer pass port congestion and other fees are three hundred dollars. Oh
Okay, total nine thousand thirteen dollars. This is literally getting it from PDI
to
Just before customs in the US. This is pre-customs. Yeah, however
the best thing if you could call it that about this is that a
40-foot container is way too big for one skyline GTR. Yeah
So this all those fees are per container not her car. It doesn't matter. What's in the container?
So this gets split and my cost is actually four thousand five hundred and six dollars
Okay, so like feels a little better, you know, like a little yeah
It's half of what you know the whole yeah, it's half, but
So then here's number two customs clearance in Japan two hundred dollars customs clearance in the US
$350 DOT and EPA a hundred ISF 350. I don't know. That's a hundred
the transport from Long Beach to
Cypress is 200 bucks and then
That's nine fifty total for pretty much post customs. Yeah, like post right post customs
Like say fifty nine hundred
Yes, right now around fifty nine hundred now. Here's where it hurts buckle up boys
All right
I'm not gonna say how much I paid for the car, but if you want to be a super math whiz you can figure it out
Okay, so right now the duty is flat rate 15%
Which comes out to
19,000 49 dollars and 25 cents. That's the duty. That's the duty. That's the tariff, right? That's your
Tariff might the tariff on this car
Went from a few thousand bucks to twenty thousand dollars. That's a lot of duty that I need
Yeah, dude. Yes that that I need to pay if I want if I want to
To receive my car, so then there's a merchandise processing fee
For four hundred and thirty nine dollars and ninety seven cents then there's a harbor maintenance fee of
158 dollars and seventy you gotta maintain the harbor. Yeah
That must be because it's coming into California. You feel me? Yeah, that's the California thing, right? Probably not. I don't know
alright, so my total duty is
nineteen thousand six hundred and forty seven dollars and ninety six cents, so
Let's just say I paid a hundred and twenty thousand dollars for this r34 this
Because all the stuff I spent in Japan is
Experience-based. I can't count that you can't count that towards what you pay, you know, right? But this is a direct
Expense of the car. So now I'm up to a hundred and forty five thousand dollars that I paid for this GTR. Yeah
It's not a v-spec, too. It's not a you know, it's not an m-spec. It's not any of these really cool things
It's just a it's just a base. Yeah, good condition
34 GTR. I'm now at that price so
That really changes things right because when you get it out when I get it over here, you know, I don't care who I am
I'm not listing this for a hundred and fifty thousand dollars and just having somebody jump to grab it
Right. That's just not it, right? So
It really hurts in that sense of like
You know, you thought you were getting like an all right price
You knew you weren't getting pre-covid prices
But you were like, hey, dude, like I saw these for an extra 10 or 15 grand just a year ago. Like I'm I'm decent
Yeah, well, no dude that just got ate up by all of these duties and in different fees, you know
Because if this was the two and a half percent that it was yeah
Because we wouldn't even talking about this. Yeah, it's two and a half percent now. It's up to 15 straight. Yeah, flat 15
So like 12 and a half plus the two and a half
Yeah, it's pretty crazy. And so
Yeah, like that really sucks, right like dude 25,000 extra dollars that could have went into
Any modifications or restoration or anything right right straight going to the government
What do you think that's gonna do to the market like the resale market, you know
Once these once these types of cars with the the higher duties come in
Like it's only gonna drive the other prices up to right, right? Yeah, it's it's gonna drive prices up because like
You know, let's just say I got this for 120, you know, even you know
Let's say I'm realistic. I know I can't get 150. I'm still not asking 120
So it's still affecting the price, right, you know, because some of this has to go somewhere
Granted, I'm not selling the car like again
We had amazing trips and memories with the car like right not we're selling but if I was that guy
I well if I was that guy, it wouldn't be getting on the boat
If I had planned to resell this I would just store it. Yeah, because if even if they went down to five percent
You know what? I mean, that's still $12,000 if I just stored it. Let's just say for a year. They go back down. Yeah, I
Don't spend all this money. I spend 200 bucks a month, right? I spent 2400 to save 12,000 so like
Yeah, you I want this car now or else I would just leave it there
Do you think there's people out there doing that? Have you seen any like examples of people like purposely?
leaving their cars over there for now to see
To see where it goes with these tariffs
I mean, I've definitely heard like chatter about like I'm not even gonna bring it over like I'm gonna wait it out
You know type of thing and and maybe that is happening more than we would realize
Yeah, like hey, it's 200 bucks a month or like $25,000 up front like
I'll figure out the 200 bucks a month. I guess, you know, so and I mean still even though it like in Japan
The prices of these cars are doing nothing but going up to yeah, I don't auctions lately have been they're not going down because we have tariffs
right exactly, I mean they're only going up because like
America is the only people being affected by the tariffs Australia's not necessarily from Japan, right? Right? Like yeah
I don't think that's the deal or any of the other places. I wonder if you could have had it brought into a
Like Canada or that's not a good example
But into a different country that we have the lower tariffs right and then brought in here
Yeah, I don't know seems like it probably be tough because import export paperwork would be all weird
But or I mean if yeah, I don't know that would get weird. I was gonna say you could probably figure out some way in Canada and drive it over and
You're right something like that. Yeah, I don't get sketchy like it's 2009 or something
Yeah, but like Canada tariffs are high right now. So it's whatever
Okay, so but however comma it's not just cars as we all know right and so I have another story
a
Guy I know in the UAE in Dubai. He had a
V-spec two hood
Which was one of very few items I had left that I really wanted for the car like everybody does the Z-tune or like the R-tune
And like I'm not into that, you know, I mean it looks cool on your car back here
Yeah, but like I'm just everybody's got it, right? Yeah, and I really like the subtleness of a V-spec two hood
That just has the one like knack of doctor right in the in the top, right?
Yeah, so I think that's really cool and it's benetech carbon fiber like it's a nice piece from its factory
You know and so like I know it's gonna fit
Yeah, and so anyways he had it he gave me an unbelievable deal like I don't know what I did to deserve the deal
he gave me the deal and
So now he's got to ship it right big huge box, you know, yeah, you can't fold up hoods
Yeah, you can't fold up which you know they ship stuff like that all the time. It's fine
The problem is like, you know, there's obviously a disconnect like this dudes in UAE the way they do things there
And just the way things are just different, right? Yeah, and so, you know, he fills out his paperwork and and it gets the customs
Well, unfortunately homie just put hood on on the on the
Export paperwork, right? Just hood now
What I've learned through this is you have to define
What you're sending right this isn't two years ago where the this is non-existent, right?
You could just put hood and it would be good. Yeah. No now you need to put
Carbon fiber like whatever composite hood. Yeah, you need to define that material. Let me tell you why
so
You know, it was due to get dropped off last Thursday. Yeah. Oh, yes, dude. You know, I'm right
Are you gonna because I was away? I'm like dude. Are you gonna be home like fucking the hood?
You know and then boom they dropped the duty charges on me and I'm like
What the frig dude?
2800 dollars
Dude, I'm not gonna lie. Yeah, I'm not gonna lie like dude. That's over half of what I paid for this hood
Yeah, you do over half. Yeah, I'm like, how is it even possible? You know, like and so I'm googling
Uh us tariffs on UAE
Carbon fiber, right? Like it's five percent, right? It's it's it's minimal
I'm like, dude, how am I getting charges? I go on to read
Aluminum is 50 percent tariff 50 percent tariff on aluminum from dubai or UAE
So I'm like I start putting two two together. I'm like, oh shit. They think it's aluminum. They think it's aluminum
They steal the same or yeah something like that, right? So so they're assuming it's a hood made out of the standard material
Like because it's not defined, right and they're not
Unless they need to they're not opening your package, right and why would they like it's a huge box
It looks like a hood hoods are made out of metal like run it through
So that's why it's 2800 dollars. Wow
So now you can figure out the steal of a deal I got on this hood, but like
That's a problem for me though, right like because I can't I mean dude
I don't want to pay 2800 dollars like the 500 or whatever I was going to have to pay like seem like okay like reasonable
Right, whatever it sucks, but it is what it is
So the issue is though once customs
Passes that through it gets out of customs
Getting it back through customs or getting them to review the dispute is super hard and like time length, right?
Because in their mind, they've already decided it. It's already done now
You're coming back and like trying to waste their time and imagine how many people are doing this right now
Yeah, yeah, because they don't want to pay the tariffs
Dude, if I bought an aluminum hood from dubai, I would just pay the tariff, right?
Like I should have figured that out beforehand, but I didn't so
Now actually as we speak today is the last day. Yeah, they still haven't
Reviewed the dispute if I don't pay the 2800 dollars. It goes back to UA
And I have to pay somebody has to pay the shipping back
So and yeah, it's a mess, right? Right. They yeah, you can't do that
Yes, but also we all know how the US government and these people work, right?
Once I pay them getting that money back is like almost next to impossible, right? Like they're they're gonna be like
Oh, shit. He already paid dude. Friggin a deny this deny this, you know
So got it, right? So that's like a big thing, right is you really gotta
With these tariffs, it really is dependent on the material on what it's made of because the different categories are basically
Material base. So like if you're not defining that and trust me, I told my buddy. I'm like, dude, don't ever do this to somebody again. Just
Just be extra descriptive because it could save them quite a bit. So as soon as we're done recording this episode, I gotta go
Pay the 2,800 bucks to hope that I get $2,300 back
Yeah, so
If that's the situation, you know what I mean, like definitely
You know, make sure that you're having whoever it is buying this like or sending this
Make sure that they are defining what it is so that you're not stuck, you know, paying this extra money for
Something that you don't even need to pay for, you know, I mean, yeah, yeah
Um
But yeah, so that's kind of my
Still gonna be a sick hood. Yeah, it is but I gotta like like it's just tough dude because right now I'm looking at so much money
in
like
bills in tariffs. Yeah, like
Yeah, yeah, yeah, almost 30,000. You've been hit hard. Yes, dude. And like I'm like, dude, yeah
Yeah, that just sucks because yeah a year ago you wouldn't have paid that
I know and I'm not exactly wiping my ass with thousand dollar bills. So like, you know, it's like it's like, dude, holy crap
like all right, like
You know, you got to do what you got to do. You got to sacrifice somewhere. But yeah, keep keep your mind on this guys because like
What if I didn't have $2,800?
Yeah, what if I didn't have 30 or $26,000?
What would happen? Does top rank own my car now?
Right does
I mean, they send back this hood and now this dude's trying to bill me for the money like and not
I don't know dude. So what happens?
Yeah, that that's kind of the whole spiel on the tariffs and like how you know
How much is going to cost you if you buy a 34 today? That's pretty much, you know, what it would cost you to get it in here
Yeah, um, you know, and there was no really extra fees by top rank or anything in there
So it's not like it's like oh because you used top rank right now. No, this is just what it costs, man
Like it is what it is. Um
So
Yeah, tough. Um, all right, let's
Let's chat about a few a few events going on real quick, right? Yeah, so
This coming weekend is ours meeting
First one I've personally missed in a few years
Yeah
But um, you know for me personally it was just re
Registering the car in japan just for this event and then have it ship out immediately after like
Again, I'm not wiping my ass with a thousand dollar bill. Like
Sounds cool, you know, but but you know, I did get to have my fun and enjoy it. Um,
You know, uh, it's
It's cool that some guys are still going. I know Tommy's on his way over there right now. I know
They ship the 400 for top rank. Yeah to be in the booth. Yeah, they
Dude is crazy what they got going on. They shipped over the 400 r
But the zero r just got to america. It's just like dude imagine that logistically like you got
You had this sick ass car in japan. Yeah, you just got it over here
And then at the same time you're you're sending your sick ass car from japan back over to japan
For a one day fucking event
Like, you know, it's just that's sick. Dude. That's a that's a whole different level, right, you know, but um
Yeah, so shout out to those guys for for being able to go it is a cool event
But on a sad note
An event that neither of us ever got to make it to did get canceled this year at least which maybe was
Due to financial hardship. Maybe it was due to restructuring whatever but nismo festival
Which is generally in a few weeks got canceled
So that that's the first time since like well, it was going on forever and then they
Stopped during a year or two of covet and then hopefully they can bring it
Yeah, would maybe just in a different because that one's cool because they get all the
Well, not all this stuff, but a lot of the stuff out of the collection
As far as like the historical race cars. Yeah. Yeah all that good stuff, right so
Yeah
Right that it's a really cool event and it is
Too bad, but all we can hope is that nissan has a plan for that, right? Yeah, I mean, I'm sure they do. Yeah
I mean, we're hoping they definitely do
Um, and then also coming up is sima sima is coming up
One or both of us will definitely be at sima. So if you're at sima holler at us, we're gonna be
Creeping around seeing what we can yeah
Seeing what we can do
As far as some live interviews and just kind of doing some networking and finding some future guests for you guys
For sure that this will be
The first sima that either of us have been to so that'll that'll be interesting. Um, and then
A week here. Yeah a week after sima is gtr festival
Which if you don't know about it
Motive video or andrew hawkins
Australian guys
They created an event down there in australia gtr festival
It got big obviously because it's a great blend of like vendors showing drag, you know
I'm not huge into drag, but I mean
Seeing thousand horsepower gtr is a dope, you know, so
Um that event's coming up last year was the inaugural
Event and it was
It was everybody gave it like rave reviews like it like it was awesome
Like we instantly got fomo like oh, yeah, I was like oh damn
I thought this was gonna be like a tx2k type thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, but no it was way more than that
I was like, yeah, and you had a lot of guys there like tj hunt and tommy and adam and you know, like which
Like who cares about them?
But in the sense of i'm just saying like it's not like i'm saying. Oh, I gotta go to
No, like right, right
This event attracted those guys, which if it attracts those guys
Chances are right. It's gonna be put together well because they weren't even paid to be there. They were
They were there because they wanted to be so
Um, yeah, we're definitely considering making the trip out to that. It is like the week after sima. So it's kind of like, okay
Like just living over there, you know
But um, that's also a great opportunity for us to network and definitely find new guests for the podcast
Um, you know, I would say for us. That's one of our biggest challenges is just finding
Legitimate guests. Um, you know
So if you know of any that you think would be great for the show
Definitely email or dm us because we'd love to feature them like for sure. Yeah, you know, we'd love to talk to new people
Um, but yeah, I mean
Those are kind of the events going on and then I know ours day at laguna seca is um
Coming up in december. We definite. I definitely maybe you will be I don't know, but I definitely won't be there
It'd be sick. Yeah, it sounds awesome. It's one of those like, uh
Bucket list type tracks to visit. Yeah, for sure. They've been holding a lot of cool events out there. So maybe one day we'll
Yeah, yeah, yeah for sure come on array
um
But yeah, I mean those are kind of some of some of the things going on right now in the culture
I know it's hard because like
I'm sure there's a supra event and I'm sure there's some sort of rx7 or nsx event
And I we don't mean to be so, you know, kind of focused on skylines. That's just what we do, right?
So like that's what we're exposed to if we if you had a supra
And I had an nsx it would be much different because I'd be sitting here talking about
Honda meets and you'd be throwing out Toyota type things and like so it just is what it is
We're not there's no love lost for any of these other spectacular cars. It's just we're not exposed to
What's going on with them? Um for sure before we wrap it up you got anything else?
Oh
Yeah, that one thing dude the Honda they're bringing back. Oh, yeah the heritage. Yeah. Yeah. Honda's bringing back. Yes. Honda is um
Pretty much creating a heritage program of their of their own. Yeah
I don't know the specifics on exact parts for what models, but I know it's supposed to be
Like 90s nsx
Civic that type of thing, you know, like these cars that people are still trying to
kind of
refurbish or whatever you want to say
um
Honda decided it would be a good idea to come out with support again for those products
Because they are almost impossible to find on some levels, you know, I don't whatever, you know
I don't know where you could find a brand new b-series v-tech
Illinois without paying out the butt for it because
They're few and far between between right now
So honda decided to come back out and support these things so that the enthusiasts could continue
To do with it. Yeah, I think that's good. Uh, like
I think all these car makers should start doing that. I mean, I know it's it's hard to focus on the past when you like
Have to keep moving forward as like a manufacturer, but
I don't know it creates
It I don't know it just doesn't create the the bond, but it like keeps it going. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah for sure
Because like yeah, if you can't buy the parts for these cars like someone's gonna come along and capitalize eventually if they have the following
Yeah, it's just like in like the means right because honda already has these relationships
It's way easier for them. Like yeah, just give it to us, dude
Because like it is way easier, right? You guys still got the molds right or whatever or whatever you do, right?
Or the stamps or whatever it is you in some secret
Warehouse vault. Why wouldn't they right? I'm sure somewhere they have like they have the tooling to make all these parts still
Yeah, so like dude come on. Yeah for sure. And I think it does make sense to like support
You know support these people
I mean a lot of manufacturers are focused on the next sale of a car like honda
All these cars are already sold like they're not making a dime beyond these parts
Like they're not getting new sales because of it right and it's not like these people are bringing these cars to the deal
To service either right so they're not getting any of that. So I mean
That I think
To create these heritage programs like Nissan and honda and whatnot
It takes us a certain level of dedication to the enthusiasts like for sure because they're not doing it
For they're not doing it for your mom's pilot
You know, I mean, they're not they're not doing it for for dan crv
Right, you know, they're doing it for the for the enthusiasts, you know, so
Definitely 100%
You know shout out honda and and Nissan these other manufacturers for supporting us, you know
So okay, so make sure you're subbing to us on the youtube's it's uh at rhd guys
You know same with the instagram
Please show us a little love there. Um, if you got any feedback at all, we'd love to hear it good or bad talk shit to us
It don't matter. Yeah, we love the engagement. Yeah, it's cool. Yeah. Yeah talk some shit. We'll defend ourselves like whatever
Yeah, the group on facebook is rhd guys dash jdm boys. There it is. Yeah
So go ahead and join up in there and start a conversation see what's up
But for episode 157, I'm bobby. This is Aaron. See ya. Peace
About this episode
Exploring the rising costs of importing an R34 GTR, the hosts share personal experiences and detailed breakdowns of tariffs and fees that have surged post-COVID. With the duty now at a staggering 15%, they discuss the financial implications for enthusiasts looking to bring these iconic cars to the U.S. The episode also touches on upcoming automotive events like SEMA and the GTR Festival, while reflecting on the cancellation of the Nismo Festival. Additionally, they highlight Honda's new heritage program aimed at supporting enthusiasts with parts for classic models.
In this episode of the Right Hand Drive Guys Podcast, we’re catching up on everything happening in the JDM world — and in our own garages. From project updates to big events like R’s Meeting, GT-R Festival, and SEMA, we cover what’s new, what’s next, and what’s got us excited.
We also dive into the current import market for the R34 GT-R, breaking down what it really costs to bring one stateside in 2025, the hidden fees that catch people off guard, and how prices are shifting as more cars hit the 25-year mark.
It’s a laid-back episode full of laughs, insight, and the kind of real talk only fellow RHD addicts can appreciate.
🎙️ Garage updates, dream cars, and JDM bucket-list events — just another week with the Right Hand Drive Guys.
