Every cloud has a silver lining, right? So, whenever I look back at these FEED stories, I’ll think gratefully about the $200 taxi fare I dodged and remind myself to always be early. When I arrived at my local station at 3.30am, the new driver explained that the entire fare would be free. Finally, the police showed up, as well as my new taxi. There was no hard shoulder so we sat, hazard lights blinking, waiting for the cavalry to arrive. The elderly taxi driver and I sat in the taxi while he called road-side assist, and the police, while cars and trucks hurtled past us with horns blasting. While trundling down the expressway there was suddenly a loud explosion the rear driver’s side tyre had ruptured for no apparent reason. By this time it was well past 1:00am, so I jumped in a taxi for the remaining two-hour journey. Needing to be at work in the morning, I took a local train into Tokyo Central and then another to Shinagawa – still nowhere near home. After waiting a couple of hours for the next flight, I arrived at Tokyo Narita after midnight, with no Narita Express to get me home.

Unfortunately, I arrived at Kansai International Airport five minutes late and missed my flight. This shoot was my last over the weekend before catching the evening flight back home. Lugging camera equipment through train stations, fields and industrial estates is hard graft, as is hanging out the back of a Mazda Bongo. I only had to point at where I wanted him to be and he was there in an instant. Building or driving cars, he really is a pro.Ī note from the author: While these shoots look like fun and the photos are ultimately rewarding, behind the scenes was a different story. As I instructed Fujita-san from the back of the Bongo with hand signals only, the acceleration and poise of the RX-7 was staggering. Tracking from the back of a Mazda Bongo, it really was something special to see this car on the road.

I arrived at the FEED workshop in the afternoon, after only a phone call earlier in the morning to confirm, and even though Fujita-san was busy around the shop with various customer cars, he still agreed to take the Demon King out for a drive.

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