topi

"Dear Sirs. I am writing to you to ask about giving me the opportunity to visit Japan for my work experience. I was raised around cars and motor sport, and my fascination with speed has inevitably steered me towards Japanese performance cars. My dad,infact is a Japanese car enthusiast, currently owning a Toyota MR2 Turbo. The dream I have is to move to Japan and set up my own/partnered tuning garage, working with Japanese sports cars. I would obviously gain a lot of knowledge from visiting the country before hand. As you work around this area and have people based in Japan, I thought you may be able to help me. I have basic mechanical know-how and I am currently rebuilding a mini for further experience, and hope to have a very nice car at the end of it. I may have something to offer the Japanese tuning scene that has not been an option for many people as yet. Nothing is agreed, but I have connections with Arrow Race Engineering, this could prove to be a very nice way to get more parts to the people. I can appreciate that you are very busy, keeping the business great, but your help and advice would be extremely useful. Yours faithfully. Jack Topliss (15 year old student of England) " This was written a while ago, I may have done it slightly differently now, but it worked. As you can see I kept it breif and tried to stay on subject. Basically you just need to get to the point. Busy people dont want to read about the book youve just written when they have things to do. Anyway, yea go for it Funkymonkey, that would be good.

Oh, Yukio, whats going on with MSN dude. Its says your online but you must be asleep or something :S

Looks hardcore. Get some wangan pictures for me would ya .

Deadly serious, mwahaha, good stuff. Im not sure if they will let me take photos of internal JUN, but if I can I will. Basically my letter stated who I was, where I am, what my background was, what my aim in life was, and how I wanted to get there. Oh and how I wanted work experience at their place. I can put up the fully written one if you want, but its cheesy as hell.

I see. Are knives and forks used for long distance stuff? Or is it sprinting only in Japan?

That reminds me, I need to learn how to use the sticks of chop!

Schweet, Ive got you added on MSN now. Cheers.

Yea that would be great! Im gonna try and not drink if I can help it though, I get lost in my own area - id have no hope in Japan jacktopi@hotmail.com

Cheers Sciby. I dont know about him, but id like a HKS Tshirt . He might throw me out if I wear it though.

Yea, the obvious gift ideas are the ones I probably take no notice of. Ill see if anything jumps out at me as being useful and English. Hmm a moustache.

Update: Well Junichi Tanaka (hes the boss guy I think) has told me not to book a hotel, I can stay at his house with his family! And his son graduated from a masters degree in England so can obviously speak english . Alot of money saved, but it could make the all night drift and various runs a bit sketchy. Oh and the guy with the GTR that offered to take me around the C1, lost his licence this week for 150days. 'Very big speeding offence' nut case. So now I need to find some gifts for Mr.Tanaka and his family, any ideas?

Dirty basts.... Yea I have a short vid of that show. Kinda weird, but cool.

They got away with that? Nutty! Id love to see that though.

Yay I can see em. Very nice pics, looked like a great trip.

Glass of water needed? Nasty cough there.

All I can see is red X's

Reminds me of this

Hmmm is it toyota and supercharged?

Sounds great. Ill be in Tokyo probably when it comes out. But ill order it as soon as I can when im home. The first DVD was the thing that actually convinced me to get over to Japan. Miguels story was very encouraging.

Sweet. Ill look out for that. Apparently it will focus on the action rather than the import/export business?

I have the first newera imports DVD 'Skylines and Skyscrapers' Was the meet for the 2nd DVD?

www.amplified-performance.co.uk Sourced an SW20 for my dad. You basically do most of the importing yourself. newera Very highly rated company.

Hell, I even own a classic Mini. w0000t good old British style

Im young, I prefer old cars to new things.

Im still in the UK, ill have another search around then.