Jonathan Wong - Super Street Editor in Chief and Advocate of JDM Style (S2E9)

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Jonathan Wong, proudly grew up in the San Gabriel Valley in Southern California. He was introduced to import racing in the 80s by his older cousins. After buying his EF Civic Si, he and his teammates from Team Macross 7 strived to make an imprint on import car culture through car shows and drag racing.

He started his career at the bottom at a magazine called ‪@superstreetmagazine‬ and eventually moved his way up to editor-in-chief. There, he influenced millions of Super Street fans as he helped to popularize JDM style.

In this episode, Jon talks about the early days of import tuning in So Cal including drag racing at Battle of the Imports, car shows at Import Showoff, establishing his network through AOL chatrooms, his trouble with his first drifting issue at Super Street, his travels around the world as an editor, and he finally explains why he was fired.

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7:19 Slide Squad drifting article
19:51 Import car magazines of the 80s-90s
25:57 the generation before him that tuned Hondas
27:22 OG HKS from the 80s
29:54 First car - Honda Civic si
35:53 Stupidest thing you've done to your car?
37:00 Common import mods in the 90s
44:10 Growing up Asian American in the SGV
51:30 Battle of the Imports
57:30 Car show scene
59:15 America Online (AOL) - chat rooms and networking with industry leaders
1:09:30 Getting his job at super street
1:15:35 FF Squad and "JDM"
1:29:13 Most memorable SS issues
1:32:26 Getting fired from Super Street
1:44:06 86 hours in Japan and visiting taniguchi's house
1:48:30 Riding as a passenger with Ken Block for Gymkhana 2
1:51:06 Current EF civic
1:55:51 SGV style of import cars
2:03:16 What Jon is up to today

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