Group 5, IMSA and What would be a Euro Bosozoku car....

So I've seen a few attempts to build a Bosozoku car in the UK, Europe and America, invariably some thing with super wide arches, super wide wheels and lots of lowness, occasionally lairy painted ,oh and one of those exhausts for the truly adventurous. Sometimes the car is Japanese, some times it isn't. No one has gone all out, full on, bosozoku or Garuchan on a saloon car yet as far as I can see, either being a bit too restrained on the styling or opting for a smaller car (the rather splendid Axiom as a good example).

I got to thinking though, people seem to be attempting to copy what they see the Japanese folk doing to their cars, but seem to be ignoring the history of bosozoku and more crucially garuchan cars. You see if a British or European person were to build a proper full on garuchan car they would be taking a Capri, applying a Zakspeed kit to it, and then going wild with the metallic purple paint, stars and all that other good stuff. Here is why:

Garuchan is the word we were supplied by my friend Tetsu supplied to describe the extreme cars we often referred to as bosozoku. Garuchan is a translation of Grand Championship, which is in fact the Fuji Super Silhouette Series, that was the home to the crazy kitted Super Silhouette racers that the cars in question kits were based on : www.speedhunters.com/2008/11/retrospective_gt_gt_nissan_super_silhouette_racers/

Which leads to




So by this line of thinking I reckon a Euro bosozoku should be more based on this :


and this



All of which is pretty obvious... however there is more! Whilst I was looking into Group 5 cars (which is the group that the Super Silhouette and the Zakspeed cars ran in), I found that they also ran Group 5 in IMSA in the states, which lead me to find these :

Mustang


Porsche and more excitingly Monza!


Mercedes!


Chevrolet Cavalier (I'm guess not much to do with our Cavalier?)


A little bit later on in the life of IMSA there is of course this little lot




So there you go.. just need to find/build a suitable kit now, get that metallic paint and go to town ... what other Group 5 cars are floating around out there, or cars that ran in the same saloon series?


Bonus picture of Group 5 Lotus Europa