Dekotora photo galleries
20 Nov 2006
They’re big. They’re bad. They’re dekotora (”decoration trucks”). Explore some of the internet’s best dekotora photo collections here: Link 1, Link 2 (third button down, on the left), Link 3, Link 4, Link 5, Link 6, Link 7. And for a small dose of dekotora history, check out this intro to one of the Torakku Yaro (”Trucker”) movies, the 10-part series released by Toei in the late 70s that spawned Japan’s dekotora boom.
Keep on truckin’…
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Oh my god thanks! I’ve been wanting to see more of these ever since I saw the photo feature in Intersection magazine a couple years ago…
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WOW! Those are beyond cool!…I want one of my own. hehe Thanks for alerting me of such coolness that I didn’t previously know about. :)
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[…] Wednesday, November 22, 2006 at 3:04 am You know that I am avid of almost anything asian, especially Japanese. I find this people mysterious. The Japanese truly have a different culture than westerners, and it’s fine with me. I like to see different things. Otherwise it gets boring. While I am in no way an expert in Japanese culture, I thought I had a fairly good basis. I was wrong. You know how some people who modify their car in a cheesy way, especially those with neon framed licence plates, or neon glow lighting under the car? Well, it seems our Japanese friends don’t like to be as discreet as these people. They like it bigger, flashier, uglier. How could I miss such a shoutingly obvious cultural reference? Such a colourful, unmissable social phenomenon? It doesn’t matter now. These trucks that look like Christmas trees, or like Vegas slot machines are called Dekotora, which means “Decorated Truck”. The name, though appropriate is way too dim in my opinion for what it represent. As weird as it may seem to us North-Americans, these trucks have all been approved by the highway and transportation authorities to make sure the modifications are safe and by the rules. It really puts things into perspective when you know that in here, if your headlights have too blue a tint, you can get a ticket. Tell that to them now, police dude. What launched this phenomenon is a Toei movie released in 1975 called Trucker (torakku yarō) where the main character drives such a truck throughout Japan. You can watch the intro to the movie by clicking here. Although there were dekotoras before the movie, they weren’t as widespread than after it was released. In those days, all parts were then custom made from sightseeing buses or US military vehicles. All I can say is that I learned a new thing about the Japanese today, and that is pretty cool too. A whole gallery of dekotoras and links to other galleries can be found on this page. Click here. Enjoy! brem Thanks Pag! tags: dekotora, truck, camion, tuning, makeover, pimp, torakku yarō, torakku yarô, torakku yaro Related posts: […]
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Flipping AWESOME !
Been waiting for galleries of these for awhile.
Kudos, kudos !
This is sooo much better than Disneyland’s Electric Parade. (Also, I just linked you on my blog.)
Killer man, just killer. You have done a great job getting this together. I always search for them but cant find em.
You should put up some pics of the Custom VANS they do also. You have done such a good job getting this together, Maybe you could pull off the Van thing to. Some of the vans with the big fiberglass wings and what not.
Great job
Rock
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is there any sale on net for those nice deoc fix on trucks?
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yup you can buy some deco sparepart at sg kadut or at defu lane
Does this truck can realy works ?
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this is a joke….they made it in microsoft Pait….noobs
*PAINT….i eat tree bark :)
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In Japanese DEKOTORA is デコトラ
In Japan, these tracks are really used for normal transportation works.
see this link for more info for DEKOTORA
http://www.google.co.jp/search?hl=ja&q=デコトラ&btnG=Google 検索&lr=
Dekotora - Monsters of the highway!…
I recently came across a cool mini-article/photo gallery of something which I often see at night throughout the main roads of Kyoto, but I just never thought to mention! Plus, I was unaware they……
I will probably build one of these to tow my rx7 show car one day.!!
hi there, can we link? i am so interested with dekotora, we have too a less lavish but similar version of dekotora..my link as above. i”l link u up!
DH Publishing www.dhp-online.com has a photo book of deckotora coming in out in spring. Check it out at their website.
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Hye,
I´m looking for a contact, to buy the pictures of the decorated trucks. Can anybody help me?
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