Mooneyes: Speed, Stillness and Power

Mooneyes is all about colour. Flame jobs and metal flake. Soaring make-up jobs. Glistening candy apple. Chrome polished to within an inch of its life.

It might be a careworn cliché, or you may never have heard it before. The Japanese take something – an idea, a way of being, a hobby, an aesthetic, a cultural form. And they reinterpret it, perfect it and make it better than it was in the original.

Nowhere is this more apparent than at the Mooneyes show.

Dean Moon

The entry in the Los Angeles Times on June 6th 1987 read thus: “Dean Moon, a drag racing pioneer and speed equipment manufacturer from Whittier, died Thursday at the La Hambra Convalescent Hospital of complications of a lengthy illness. He was 60.” It goes on to list a few of the more notable autos he […]

Moon Shines

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