Second of two parts
Nagoya is the sister city to both Los Angeles and Mexico City, so it shouldn't come as a complete surprise that its people are also nuts about Southern Californian car culture.
Since the early 1980s, several noteworthy custom-car garages in Aichi Prefecture's capital, on Japan's Pacific coast, have studied the nuanced and highly specialized stylistic vocabulary of L.A. lowrider cars, with many there purchasing American cars from the 1960s and '70s and refashioning them into eye-catching Japanese Mex-Am car cultura.