The Nissan Skyline GT-R R33 is a famous sports car that is loved by many car fans. It has a powerful engine and is known for its performance on the racetrack.
The Nissan R32 is a model of the Skyline GT-R, a car that is very popular among car fans for its speed and advanced features. It was made in the late 80s and early 90s.
The Lexus SC 300 is a sporty car made by Lexus, which is known for luxury vehicles. It's a two-door coupe that offers a good mix of performance and comfort.
The Jeep Cherokee is a type of SUV that can handle rough terrain and is often used for outdoor adventures. It's known for being practical and reliable.
The Nissan Maxima is a larger car that offers a comfortable ride and good performance. It's often chosen by people who want a mix of luxury and sportiness.
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Subaru 2.5 RS
The Subaru 2.5 RS is a performance version of the Subaru Impreza, which is known for being fun to drive and having all-wheel drive. It's a favorite among car enthusiasts.
The Nissan Skyline is a type of car made by Nissan that is famous for being fast and sporty. Many people love to customize and improve these cars, making them a popular choice for car fans. It's often talked about because of its cool design and racing history.
Coilovers are special parts that help your car's suspension. They let you change how high or low your car sits and can make it handle better on the road.
Haltech makes devices that help car engines run better by adjusting how they use fuel and air. It's like giving the engine a special tune-up to improve performance.
Revolutions Performance is a company that specializes in upgrading and tuning cars to make them faster and more powerful, especially popular models like the Evo and STI.
STI stands for Subaru Tecnica International, which is Subaru's performance brand. They make faster and sportier versions of Subaru cars, like the WRX STI.
The Subaru WRX STI is a fast car designed for racing and off-road driving. It's known for its ability to handle tough conditions and is loved by many car fans.
The Nissan 350Z is a fast sports car that many people enjoy driving. It's known for its powerful engine and good handling, making it fun on the road or track.
The Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution is a sporty car that is great for racing and has a strong reputation for speed and handling. It's popular among car enthusiasts.
Turbos are parts that help engines produce more power by pushing in extra air, which lets the engine burn more fuel. This makes the car go faster without needing a bigger engine.
A gasket is a piece that helps seal parts of the engine together, so fluids don't leak out. It's important for keeping everything working correctly.
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RB
The RB is a type of engine made by Nissan, popular in performance cars. It's known for being powerful and tunable, making it a favorite among car enthusiasts.
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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 our right hand drives
I'm Bobby. This is Aaron. Yeah, yo, and today we have our friend Justin Salerno. What's up, man?
Hello, how are you? Pretty good, man?
So I know Justin I'll let Aaron explain how he kind of knows Justin, but I know Justin
There's a group of like Midwest guys. I guess that's what you call it, right? Like you guys are mostly Colorado
Yeah, yeah, Midwest type guys
You know that I had traveled to Japan with in 23 and then we went back in 24 and they had they brought this new guy here
And I'm like, and I'm like, oh, who's this guy? Oh, you got a white 33. Do you know? Yeah
And so I'm kind of instantly hit it off. That's kind of how I feel like it is in
In this culture, you know, like there's this immediate kind of connecting thing that that brings you together
It's that simple too. It's just like, oh, hey, oh, hey, oh, you got it sick
Yeah, or I mean it doesn't got to be a GTR, but yeah, sure and then this guy over here
I'm talking about how I
I'm like going to Japan with Justin Salerno and he's like what and no no actually I was like wait
I recognize this name. Yeah, and and so go ahead. How did you know this guy?
Randomly buying parts off of a Facebook group, dude
Yeah, it was it was some rear calipers for my R32 that I picked up off you
Yeah, and yeah, whatever they came in. I was like, hey be looking for a package
You know like hey, can you get my package for me when it comes in and it came in?
He was like dude, who the hell's Justin Salerno and I'm like, I don't know who is it dude
I'm like, I'm not putting two to two together that he got the package and he's reading the label
It's just messing with me, but whatever the name stuck in my head. I guess yeah, and then yeah years couple years later
You know you're saying you're going to Japan. I'm like
Where do I know that name before?
Back in my messages, and I was like, oh
It's crazy right and that really does go to show you know how small
How big but how small this really is right?
Like I can't imagine when you're shipping a set of rears rear calipers up to Maine you're like who the hell
Yeah, for sure
And so it is it is cool, right? It's that simple right just in the sense of like dude
You make a connection like everybody's cool. Nobody's like a dink and like it just goes from there and and
So okay, so we're here. We're at GTR festival. This is your first year. Yes. Yeah us too
Like you know yesterday. Well you guys pulled in on Thursday, right? Yeah, you guys came around like so when you pull in
To Texas Motorplex for the first time like what's your like? What's your first thought like like because obviously it's set up
So you're kind of seeing everything happen like and then today's Saturday. What's your like?
What's your first thought compared to how it actually turned out?
I mean it's definitely been
because because yeah, I mean we did ours meeting last year so I kind of like
You know kind of comparing that to coming from Japan to here and kind of waiting for the difference to see you know
how this one set up this is the other one and
But yeah, I mean, you know coming in coming in Thursday
We got set up right away
We came straight to the track just drop off the truck and trailer and be able to take Kenan's car around
We just been driving that back at fourth year B&B, but please that's tough
If you guys haven't seen Kenan's part of the Facebook group if you haven't seen his car since he got it done at UP garage
Yes, it's awesome. Yeah, it's came out really good in the car feels. I mean it's he's guy
I mean, he just got it on Saturday
Last week
Not even yeah, yeah, I guess we go from today now. So yeah, so I can imagine like you know
It's the long break into right exactly used to it and it still feels good, right? Oh, yeah, it was great
Oh, yeah, they did a lot of work too. It wasn't just engine stuff. So I mean they did you know suspension and
Got it already. So
So that's cool, do you know if he has any plans of sending it back or was that that?
I think this I mean for this stage of the car. This is it for now as far as I'm concerned
I don't think it's going back. So hopefully you can just enjoy it right like which is cool. Yeah
So comparatively right you're at GTR festival. You've been to ours meeting
Like you know, no one's gonna get mad. Okay, but what do you which do you like better?
Which do you feel and I already know right? It's hard because Japan's Japan. Yeah, so that's
But how do you feel that they compare I mean, I think it compares good
I would we've kind of noted the big differences with here
It's nice because you can actually talk to the other owners and have a conversation with them versus in Japan. It's very
Short, you know, oh cool car and that's you can't really have much of a conversation where you're here. You can that's true
Yeah, that's a huge
Which and you know, just from my personal opinion another thing that I liked was
You know Fuji's obviously a different setup, you know, it's just different but here
I feel like you get more cars on display so to speak
I mean ours meeting has a lot, but that's a limited in field type space. Whereas this is this is huge
Well, yeah, cuz here you have the guys that are coming to just go drag
So you've got like the kind of like the show area the vendor area bus
You got the pits where people are coming to race. Mm-hmm
So he kind of get to see all different sides where yeah for ours doesn't really have I mean they have you know guys doing demo laps
But yeah, it's not serious. Yeah, for sure
Dude, so how do you I like, you know, I mentioned you got a 33
Where like where does this stuff come into your life like at what point?
Did this stuff kind of enter your life?
So my dad originally he was a he was a mechanic growing up. So naturally he was kind of a car guy and then
Still when I was living in Chicago, he had a
86 Z
Okay, so, you know started with Nissan's early on and then after we moved to Colorado. He got on 19 on 90 and
Oh, and so as you know, I've always kind of you know liked, you know more performance
style cars and obviously had Nissan so it was kind of like that connection there and then he
That car one day. He just let out hit hit a curb and kind of wrecked his rim a little bit
And he got something he went to actually a Lexus SC 300 after that
You know, he's got a little bigger body, but still yeah, yeah for sure
So the so the like your father's influence really kind of yeah
Because when yeah, it's when we live in Chicago, too
We'd always go to the auto show the big auto show there every year
And yeah, we'd always go to that and it was always so much fun and then
Yeah, once I grew up, you know grew up starting all the drive was I didn't get in the cars right away, honestly
I'd first my first two cars were was a Jeep
Like Cherokee nothing not not even Wrangler. Just you know Cherokee
And then
went to college
Fast furious came out
and then a friend of mine had a
He was using the cars. He had a Maxima that he had kind of done some wheels and just basic stuff, too
And yeah, I was like, oh, this is this is kind of cool. Like I wouldn't mind, you know
kind of doing this kind of thing and getting into it and
Um
That basically that summer after I got a
Subaru
2.5 rs. Oh nice. So that's where I started. Yeah. Yeah, and then I mean at at that point
What you just start kind of modifying that
Yeah, that's cool. Yeah, I took just some some random muffler shop in Denver to you know to put an exhaust on because back then there's
Anything out so especially for that car, too
Yeah, for sure. I mean because
At the beginning it was so few and far between for actual parts. So right you're going and having them making you an exhaust
Right where the first the first one I did was so loud
And they're like, oh, we're gonna try this new one. We'll put on there and see what it sounds
I went back. I'm like, no, we got to do something. So they put a resonator on and helped
That's cool. Yeah
I think that was one of my first mods to one of the my first cars that I got was
Taking it right down to the muffler shop and having them put on like this hks muffler that I
Sourced from a buddy and like that was it and I was the coolest guy ever
I had to completely start car with the fart can on it
And hks too. Yeah, dude. Mine was just some random
Yeah, whatever the heck it was
Yeah, right. Yeah, same here on my cavalier, right? It's but it was a clamp on muffler can muffler, dude
I didn't even get the welded or nothing, you know, so it is cool how we start at these at these points, right?
And and now obviously we all have skylines and we've put so much work and love into them
And we're so proud of them
But it does start with a custom muffler at Dave's muffler shop
For guys like us and um, so but when do you get your first right-hand drive car? Like when does when does this start?
so
Because I've had my 33 for almost two years. I had a 32 gtr for a little over eight years
Oh, I had a 32 gtst for two years before that. So so you're all you're kind of like an og and
In the jdm game in that sense, right? Yeah, I mean you're talking what 12 to 13 years of ownership, right? Yeah
Yeah, I mean that's a lot considering
You probably are hard-pressed to find a lot of people here at gtr festival that have had a
Skyline for 10 plus years, right? Like, you know, it's really more of like a five five to eight year thing right now
So like you you really have been in it for quite a while
Not to make you feel old, right? But like you have been in it for a while. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. I guess I'm gonna go
Yeah, for sure. I mean, yeah, that's basically since they were legal right the 32s. Yeah, so technically the the gtst that I had was
Legal it was it was it was like it was a canadian vin car
Yeah, um had full cage in it door bars were super high and I'm kind of tall so it was
Pain in the butt to get in and then um, yeah one day I was driving
I was driving somewhere pulled up to a red light stopped and got hit by a little lady and pushed into the truck in front of me
No, like I don't think I don't think she ever saw me because I didn't hear any fire screeching or anything
It just bam
And I'm like so maybe like luckily I was even paying attention so I'd even see her come in her hair
He didn't tense up or anything. No. Yeah. Was it was it like bad?
Like, yeah, I mean it didn't it didn't hold the car, but you know, it was enough to do, you know, bumper hood
rear bumper trunk
You know and at that point after I got it fixed I just had the whole car repainted
Yeah, just because I mean I was doing so many panels anyway might as well
Just reshoot the whole car of the same color and at that point are these parts a hood
Bumpers for 32 like how are you sourcing these?
Man, I'm trying to remember to that now
I mean, I know the hood was just a carbon like a saibon. Okay. So you kind of got some replacement parts that would work
and I know
Oh, that's right. There was that shop in
um
in Canada
um
Gosh, I can't think of the name of it now, but you know, they brought in skyline parts
I'm pretty sure most of the stuff came from them like they had oem stuff and
Because those were the days of front cuts and oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. RIP to those
But yeah, I was I was able to get you know
GTR bumper and you know for the front and you know, I mean obviously the rear's not but
Um, actually it was a GTR trunk that I got to
For that car as well. So you pieced it together?
That's cool. And I mean eight years of a 32 GTR
Why
Why move on to the 33?
You know, like what's the what's the reasoning behind that part of it was personal reasons went through a
decent change in my life and it was just kind of
Little I think now's the time to do it and you know with changing life
Let's you know change the car because I mean plus I had you know, I had it for eight, you know, eight plus years
So yeah gets a look. I mean, of course like but it gets a little stale right when you have one car
You've had it for eight years and sometimes it does feel nice to like what else can I do?
Yeah, yeah, literally I've touched every bolt on this thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah
Um, and so where's the 33 come from like where'd you get that?
Um, that is a global auto car. Oh, cool. Nice sweet. So
Did you work with global auto from the united states or
No, you have an intermediary type thing. Yeah, I used rev hard in Denver. So, yeah
Um, that's sweet. Yeah, funny story with that too the owner josh
We were just chit chatting one day
And we're you know talked about I don't know we got on the subject of high school and here we graduated
We found that we graduated same year same high school. Stop didn't know each other though
I mean it was it was we we had a big class, but you had no idea
That's crazy to think about right? Yeah
Like you two are literally into the same thing. Like love the same type of cars graduate
Like that's pretty cool. You guys must be like, oh shoot. And now there's almost like instant trust, right?
Because you're like, oh, okay. You're just like another guy like me, you know
So that's pretty cool. So you so you get it from rev hard through global
And it's a white 33 v spec. No, no, no just base. Yeah 95 and did it come stock?
It was mostly stock. I mean it had
Um, it had cat back, you know, your typical hks filters coilovers like a japanese like build like that's how they all come almost
And luckily had uh xeon, you know series three headlights in already too, which is huge. That's nice
Like uh, yeah, I'm surprised those didn't get snaked out of there before it left Japan
Global auto is super super reliable and and trustworthy. So like I can see it
They don't they definitely know for having the nicer cars. Yeah, sure. Yeah
It was it was cool too because I'd always gone on like the yahoo japan auctions, you know looking around at parts and cars too
And you know, you see their posts and I'm like, oh man, I'd love to get a car from there one day
And then yeah, and then yeah, so I was you know looking for the 33 and
Um, yeah, I just would check their page every year for so often plus goonet and
Came across that one that one popped up. I'm like, hey, this one looks pretty good
Oh, and so you you kind of found it josh
Uh, josh just did the legwork for you. Yeah, because they'll yeah
Because I mean he you know, he looked up stuff too
But he also kind of gave me the tools of like hey if you want to look yourself like, you know, check here check here
You know watch stuff. So of course, you know, I'm checking every day. Yeah
I think we've all been through that. So yeah
Yeah, it's fun. It's kind of fun to take your own, you know, kind of you know, look around and try and find something and then
Yeah, you know, he has his guy that he's got James. It lives out there that
Um, can actually go physically look at the car and check it out before actually committing to it too
So makes you feel a lot better to have somebody
That speaks english on the ground there that can tell you what's going on without it going through multiple people
Right, that's the big thing. It's almost like telephone sometimes between, you know, japanese and english
You know, and so that does feel good
And I didn't really think about that like how you know, josh and james can work together like that
To make something happen for someone for sure. Yep. Um, so
So you get the 33
And what's it what's it like today? Like what have you what love did you put into it? So I picked up the car
It got to rev hard in february
You know in in denver. So we're in the middle of winter 23. So yeah, yeah
Yeah, so I just I took it straight to my tuner because
It's wintertime anyway, and I can be really driving the car
So I took it straight to them did haltech
You know right away get a tune just so I know the car's happy and
You know, we did you know, we did a couple simple things like put a front pipe on test pipe and
Um, just both radiator, you know change the timing belt water pump bullies
Yeah
To enjoy it, right? Yeah. Um, so
Who's the tuner? Can you shout out the tuner? Yeah cars performance cars?
Yeah, see c arz performance and where are they from? Uh, they're in liquid. Oh, that's cool. So not far from home
Yeah, and I've been going to them since um, since I had my evo back in 08. So I've known those guys a long time. So
That's cool. Yeah, so it's been a long kind of long time relationship with them
And yeah, it's a very good trust and they take always take good care of me. So
So you're you've always been from the denver area
That's like like besides chicago. But yeah, yeah, you know, since exactly when did you move to colorado?
Been like 33 years ago. Okay. Got it. Um
So I used to live in the springs and I worked for revolutions performance
I don't know if you remember them
Yeah, they would build a bunch of evos and stis and stuff and then and then after that I worked for
UPP
Like under pressure power and performance or something. Yeah another colorado springs one, but you know the thing that really
Because obviously jdm cars weren't there wasn't a plethora of those. I'm talking like 060708, right? And so
um
I always describe and I tell him all the time. I'm like, dude
You're hard-pressed not to find an sti or an evo rolling around or a 350z, right?
Like those were the three cars that were like super popular and that like, you know, denver metro area or whatever and
I'm sure you experienced, you know, a ton of that as well
You'd have the soldiers from you know for karson or the air force base with their big 35 Rs on their evo
Um, yeah
So
You came here
You came here
From colorado, you drove with kenden, huh? Correct. Yep. So
Well, how far is that a drive?
It's about 13 ish hours getting down here
So we took the we kind of took the not direct route down
Down i-25 because return paths can be a little a little messy. Yeah
So we kind of want you to go more east and then drop down south through amarelo
So you're avoiding like potential storms and stuff like that. Yeah storms and the the past too is we've heard is rough
Just really bumpy. So just driving through with the trucks and trailers and cars. Yeah, probably not what you want to do
Yeah, no, that's pretty cool. Um
And so
When you're driving down you're towing kenden's car from that just got back, right?
And so did you feel like maybe he was a little nervous at times, you know, like trailering that
I mean, I know I would be I just would be just because like
Other people drive like shit. And this is like your baby. Yeah, yeah
Just got it back. Like I feel like I'd be a little nervous, you know at first for sure
Thankfully, he did he did he did in closed trailer too, which is okay. So it's
That makes sense cleaner and no one can see it. So it's not so much. Yeah. Well, because plus to you
Yeah, like stopping on the way down here. We stopped in plano
um the first night
Actually, we were going to go all the way to plano. We stopped short because we were just getting in super late
But um, yeah, because he worked in the morning there
So it's just more comfortable to have the car actually enclosed and you know with a couple stops that we're doing too
Make sense. Yeah, security wise, especially right because you don't know who spots that thing follows you and yeah, for sure. So
um
Would you bring your car here? Definitely
He said yeah, I I wanted to it's not quite done done. Yeah, so
Yeah, and I mean logistics like you go to plan for something like this, right to to
Trailer it down or you like you'd never drive it here. No, I know
You'd just be like, oh my gosh and I'm almost uncomfortable for that long, right? Yeah, like
Um, but plus two I just changed out. I just had to change out the turbos last minute recently because I had gas could go bad
Oh, and I was going to go through all that work and not do not replace the turbos
So obviously that took up some funds and yeah, I don't need to be spending the extra money to get down here
When I got other stuff that needs to be done, so sure and so
How did you know that you needed a gasket like what what was the issue that you were having you could hear the leak?
Oh, you could hear it. It was it was it was one of those things that started to
And I was just like, please don't be a turbo. Please don't be a turbo
And then of course I got home and opened up the hood and I'm like just hear it and I'm like
That's that and so would you uh, just did you rebuild or replace with stock?
Uh, uh replaced. Yeah, I did. I just upgraded a little bit. Oh, you did. What's a little bit? So dash seven. So
Oh, that's carrot 2860
That's good. Yeah a little extra
Bring it down to your tuner have them get it ready and then you're just enjoying it. That's good. It made it made 400 on
I still have stock injectors. So oh, that's cool. Yeah, that's I mean
I mean because a lot of guys, you know, you know, you say 400, right? And they're like
Oh 400 like that's nothing but like, why do you need 800? You know what I mean?
Like you're driving it around your town. You're enjoying it. You're having fun. You you have a sun, right?
Yeah, so, you know, you're giving your sun a ride. What do you need 800 for like?
Like you're not trying to show them the millennium falcon dude. Like it's not like, you know, I mean, it's like
Like it's it's almost like not a family car, but you know what I'm saying. You're enjoying it. Um
And so what you got something? Yeah. Yeah, I was going to ask like
Do you see yourself like building the 33 a little bit differently than you did your 32?
Just because of the the maybe the parts availability nowadays or
Yeah, I think I'm definitely more going like really trying to refresh everything as much as possible
like even more than I did with the 32
so because like the 32 I
Did the whole intake side myself and just because I had some gaskets that went bad
So I had to take it apart anyway kind of redo it
And so, you know cleaning up stuff the best I could and everything and then like right after I got it back together
I found out about remade in USA
Because you put in so much work, yeah, yeah, and like it could have looked perfect instead of like it looks better
But yeah, which you know for the average guy without these machines
It is hard to get it to that
Remade in the USA. Yeah, like type which like I would love to get him on the podcast
He's a very private guy
But just to hear like how he's going through these like that. Yeah, dude. They literally look like new old stock or something
So many pieces so many those throttle bodies. Yeah, it's insane. Yeah
props
So
You you have a son how old seven seven
So that's like a great age, right like
like
Conscious enough to understand but not old enough to like be like, oh, that's like, you know, so he's still excited
Yeah, yeah, and he loves riding the car too. So you do you get to bring in and he does like it
And it's like like the difference to you from the 33 to or 32 to 33
Like just having that extra leg room in the back is huge because with the 32 I had to push the passenger seat
You know
Decently far for for him to have his little legs and about 33 it's
It's got all the room. Yeah, that's great. And so like, you know, one thing that I think is really cool
And I think it's happening a lot
Is like you just told like a full circle story, right? Like your dad with the z
Right and like that was your introduction to these cars and now
You're the dad with the 33
Introducing him to it. Like that's so cool, man. You know, that's that's like that's that real shit
You know about the cars, you know, um
And I and you know, I hope I hope he's introducing your grandson to whatever it is a 35. I don't know what it'll be
By that time, you know, but and and that's like generational. That's pretty cool, man. Um, for sure. So
Okay, so
33
Is there anything else like, you know, whatever, let's just say
You cash in on something crazy, right? What what would be the next car 34? Oh, okay
It's one of those when I was yeah, when I did sell the 32 and
You know, I was getting into it
I was kind of looking at you know when I was looking on for cars and you know, I did come across a couple 34s
But it's just a little too far out of reach and yeah, very very high priced for sure
Especially compared to like a 33 at that point for sure, you know, like
Um, I think I don't know I got mine in 21 or something, you know and paid
44 for it
And I feel like I got like a a decent deal
You know what I mean? And so because now, you know, like a stock 33
You know, you don't really see them, but that's a 50 plus
You know easy so yeah, but at that time, you know a 34 even in 2021 was still 100k
So like 44 100 like it was a big deal. Yeah for sure. So 33 like I do
I love those cars like you see some of them out here and you're just like damn
You know 34 is always steal the show, right? That's just what it is because of
What it's been built into, you know, but
Dude, you see a good 33 and you just stutter step and just stop like, okay, like this dude did it
I really do enjoy it. It's it's been it's been very enjoyable so far. So
But um, and so are we staying where we're at with the 33 or do you see yourself maybe
A little more on the motor side or is like 400 like hey, dude, I can enjoy it for me. Yeah
500 wheel
That's all I want to get in which which will be easily to get there once I just I just need to upgrade
injectors and
Be able to turn it up a little bit. Yeah. Yeah, give it a little bit. It'll be there
Yeah, which is awesome. You know like air like not everybody a lot of people bitch about the rb, right?
All the oiling issues all this or that right, but dude if you take care of it
If you give it what it needs and you don't
Yeah
Yeah, I may be guilty of that sometimes
Yeah, sometimes
But yeah, no, I mean, there are awesome cars dude stock block. You're gonna have 500 horsepower. You're gonna enjoy it
You're not gonna be breaking anything or snapping axles or anything crazy like that
And I think that's also what is so
Attractive about these cars, right?
You you put some money into that rb. You take care of it and you can enjoy the car and that's that, you know, so
um
That's cool. So
Okay, I know we got so much to do here at gtr festival
but
Just tell me a little bit because I was talking to somebody else about this earlier
Like colorado
in
The car scene like how would you describe it? You know, like I haven't been there in 20 years, right?
So
But you hear people saying like that colorado has a lot of skylines like colorado's car scene is like on point like
From a resident like what is your perspective on that?
Yeah, I mean, it's it's grown quite a bit and
And honestly, it's gotten to the point where there's so many different
Meets shows
You know on every every weekend. It seems like it's almost hard to it's it's it's almost hard to figure out what to go to and
You know, I think it starts kind of like robbing some of the people from some of the different shows
Because there's just so much going on
We're like, you know back in the day like back when you started like the big show was like going to bandamere every year
For like street tuner mayhem was like the big one. Yeah, I was one year. It was sick. It's huge. It was crazy
Like that was like the thing to do of the year and the rest of the year
It didn't really seem like you know, there wasn't a lot of other shows going on
Or now it's just you've got everything between you know cars and coffee and
You know, this guy's doing a meet and this guy's doing a show and I see so it's almost like because uh, who are you know?
I don't remember who you're talking about. He's he's talking about steward leeskin
How he's from dallas and he said that there's a bunch of cars
But there's no organization like there aren't many meets and stuff and actually organize stuff and
And that's who brought up colorado like they actually organize their stuff
Yeah, but but almost to the point of overdoing it right to where
That's that's what I feel like. Yeah, you got to choose between these four different meets
One of your buddies going to this one. The other one's going to that like you said it's almost
It's almost robbing instead of these guys coming together and having like almost a combined meet
Yeah, they're they're holding it separate and we saw we we saw that this summer too with like two of the big
Groups that do meets
Yeah, they ended up kind of butting heads a little bit and one planned another
Another bigger show on the same day that the other one did drama
Yeah, so I mean
There is that that's expected though, I think and would you say the skylines do they do they stick together like like
Oh, okay. That's because we because we we also have our
Our facebook group or like colorado skyline owners. Oh, that's cool. So that we you know, we do a we do a meet every year like in the spring
You know and get everybody together and that's pretty cool. We do it in castle
So we try and get like, you know, get the springs guys to come up and
Yeah, yeah
And if you had to say like at this at this owner's meet like what do you got 10 20 70?
um
This year was the biggest one. I think we
I think we had just over 30. That's dude. These are pretty good. Yeah
Yeah, and back, you know when we first started doing them was yeah more like in the like, yeah 10 12
Yeah
So it's grown. It's grown quite a bit. Yeah. Yeah, I mean right because that I mean do 30 skylines like that's
Pretty decent to have all in one area from one state
Like that's like a lot of guys listening like dude, that'd be a dream to even see three skylines together
Let alone 30, you know, like
And with you have gone to japan before and in gone to ours meeting
Yeah, like that's kind of cool, right like now you're in your home and you got 30 of these guys together
Yeah, and we know there's so many more too. It's just
Again, again, but that that also comes down to if there's too much going on
True is because yeah, there's I mean, obviously people have their regular lives as well, but then
You know, some people's cars down for the timing. So, you know, always trying to schedule
It's like, oh, I got this this weekend this thing. You just got to pick a weekend and go and
Yeah, especially in the spring if you were lazy over the winter and you didn't get you get everything going
Hey, we're calling me out, dude. Whoops. Oh shoot. That one hit hard
Dude, Justin, we're gonna let you get back out to gtrfs. It looks like
We're starting to get down to where it's actually cooling down. Yes. Um, you know, I I'm not gonna lie
I was pretty envious of your sunscreen. I could have used that this morning because I'm feeling a little
I'm feeling a little something. I'm like, I'm like, dude, I'm from Maine, dude
The sun went into hiding about three months ago, dude. Like what was on the ground when we left literally
You know, stop on get something. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. I think it's a little late, but
Yeah, no, Justin, we appreciate you being on. I know it was a long time coming and uh,
I'm definitely I'll be looking forward to seeing that 33 here. I'll park next to you, dude
We'll park them right next to each other. Let's do it. I'll take the pic. Yeah, he can take the pic
Yeah, absolutely. Um, and dude again, thank you and
Um, you can find Justin where on the internet
Uh, instagram is grape juice underscore t1
Mm-hmm find the man there check out the car. Yep. Follow his adventures root him on to just upgrade to bigger turbos
not just injectors and
For this episode of the right hand drive guys podcast, I'm bobby. This is Aaron and this is Justin
See ya. Peace
About this episode
Justin Salerno joins the Right Hand Drive Guys to share his journey in the JDM car scene, discussing his experiences with right-hand drive vehicles, particularly his Nissan Skyline 33. The conversation touches on the camaraderie within the community, the differences between car events in Japan and the U.S., and the evolution of car culture in Colorado. Justin reflects on his early influences from his father, his first cars, and the modifications he's made to his Skyline. The episode is filled with personal anecdotes and insights into the joys of car ownership and the connections formed through a shared passion.
In this episode of the Right Hand Drive Guys Podcast, we link up with our good friend Justin Salerno from Colorado — someone we originally met on one of our Japan trips and instantly bonded with through the Skyline community.
Recorded live from GT-R Festival 2025 in Ennis, Texas, this conversation captures the energy of the event while we dive into Justin’s journey with his R33 GT-R, the friendships built through JDM culture, and why these cars connect people from all over the map.
From reminiscing about Japan to taking in the festival’s wild builds, this episode feels like hanging out trackside with one of the real ones.
🎙️ Japan roots, Colorado roads, Texas vibes — all connected through an R33 and the love of the game.
