6. Yanki Race Car
Year Made: 1980s-Present
Estimated Cost: Varies
This one isn’t a specific model so much as it is a class of cars. “Yanki” cars are race cars that have gone through some pretty wacky stylistic modifications, including bright paint, huge exhaust pipes, and weird front bumpers. These Yanki Race Cars might sound like they’re based on “Yankee,” but they’re not.
Yanki Race Car @deathhill2000 / Pinterest
They’re actually based on “Yanki” subculture, which was popular in the eighties and nineties in Japan. Yanki was the style of students considered “delinquents.” They’d shave their eyebrows, alter their uniforms, and wear pompadours or punch perms. Yankis were similar to the West’s punk rock movement. Though Yankis have died down, the Yanki Race Cars have not.
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