YOU BRING HOME MANY THINGS from Japan. Memories, ramen splatter on your shirtsleeves, and a hundred stories about the toilets—near-sentient thrones with rows of blinking buttons that practically bow when you approach.
But mostly, I’ll remember the scream.
It’s the banshee song of a straight-six with two turbos hung from the thing like iron cojones. You hear it when the throttle’s pinned and the countryside whips into a 650-horse blur. At 5000 rpm, the turbos’ noise rises to a whistle, like wind ripping through a canyon, and by 7000 rpm, they’re spinning up a wail so loud that you’d swear the car might nose up and lift off.
Rattled eardrums aren’t the worst souvenir.
This monster’s name is Mine’s & Built By Legends R33 Nissan Skyline GT-R. Quite a mouthful. To explain it requires a redeye and a two-hour drive south from central Tokyo. There, we meet the GT-R on a legendary mountain road.
“We felt like we needed to present Japan correctly, with the right context,” Built By Legends (BBL) co-founder Masaharu “Masa” Kuji explains. “So that people really understand the culture.”
More than 20 years ago, Kuji and BBL co-founder Katsu Takahashi worked for a Japanese news and culture startup. The site’s car content, they noticed, drew the lion’s share of traffic. Equipped with a unique insider/outsider perspective—Kuji and Takahashi were born in Japan but lived abroad as boys—the two spotted an opportunity.
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