Pikes Peak, 2025, Larry Chen's photography

ever heard of a 432 Fairlady Z?

Larry Chen, in Tokyo, gathered a half dozen Nissans, and this was the only left hand drive from the USA

there are a LOT of rich people in Las Vegas

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1371366474348446&set=pcb.1371366557681771

I had no idea I'd find Larry's car at SEMA

 

Capturing Car Culture with Larry Chen, a Hagerty You Tube channel! With 20 years in the field, Larry has an extensive/expert level of car culture, has been a Hot Rod Magazine photographer with 10 magazine covers, etc and now he's working with Hagerty to explore more car culture via video (50-60%JDM)

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHKCmmH-x9mIZVkp9t4Gql3y9zqUZxM0l

whoa, I stumbled across this behind the scenes video of Larry Chen interviewing invitees to a 7-11 commercial where 7-11 celebrates JDM culture

and when I looked around Youtube for the finished commercial, instead, I found this... from the neighborhood kids who went over to check out the scene while the sun was still up

this is cool news, Larry Chen's last 20 years of photography are now available in his book, Life at Shutter Speed, a 400+ page artistic compilation with 20 chapters, one for each year of his career.

 

He was selling two editions, the regular, for 125, and the special, and it doesn't matter what that cost, as they are all sold... and this is months before the books even ship out. 

https://www.carrarabooks.com/store/p/shutterspeed-limited

https://www.instagram.com/larry_chen_foto/?hl=en

https://www.thedrive.com/news/larry-chen-has-seen-it-all-and-done-it-all-with-cars-now-hes-put-20-years-of-photos-into-this-book

someone is going all out in Tokyo on this Hakosuka GT-R, with carbon floors, roof, fenders, doors, quarter panels, bumpers, and has made basically a full dry carbon KPGC10 time attack car

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10163093861349083&set=pcb.10163093861559083

congratulations to Larry Chen, SEMA Automotive Influencer of the Year award winner!

https://www.larrychenphoto.com/Featured-galleries/Best-of-2021/i-rNLqWr8/AAutomotive Influencer of the Year

Influencer seems to be the term for celebrity in the social media sites, not the dictionary definition. For an interesting look at a top 100 list, that also explains what the people are doing, or have done, to be on the list, see amraandelma.com/top-car-influencers and I imagine you'll find it interesting. I sure did, as it's not the way I would have ranked those people. Some seem to have fallen out of the spotlight they did command some years ago. Others, only seem to be on the list because they have millions of you tube subscribers, and not influencing anyone to do anything at all. After all, how many Bugatti purchases happened because someone was filmed sitting/posing in a Bugatti for photographers? I doubt any, as they cost too much to be whim purchases unless a few billionaires might be that easily swayed by spandex to waste a couple million dollars. Another example is a Formula Drift driver. Just exactly who cares? No one wastes a fortune to enter that race program because they saw someone do it. 

On the contrary, Larry's photography, actually DOES influence car enthusiasts to get out more, photograph more, and look at a wider variety of car genres in appreciation. His excellence in photography, and mastery of his craft, are exquisite. 

How about that, Ken Block was racing in the Yoop! On Stage 14 (Mount Marquette stage) of the Lake Superior Performance Rally. It's his 1st rally win in the USA since 2014

and Larry Chen was photographing it!

 

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=417036713112137&set=pcb.417036969778778

It's been a while, but finally they got this out of the garage for a photo shoot with Larry Chen

It's coincidence I suppose that just weeks ago when this video was made, I got the unexpected comment from Optima that they have a rule (now) against open wheeled vehicles

https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2020/02/4-and-half-years-ago-i-posted-this-cool.html

Because it's been 5 years since James made this https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2015/10/looks-cool-to-me.html

nice photo of the Hellcat Challenger running up Pike's Peak in 2018

This is a photograph by Larry Chen, or Louis Yio Jr Sang Jason Zindroski
https://www.hotrod.com/articles/dodges-new-hellcat-redeye-racing-right-front-us-2018-pikes-peak-hill-climb/

always stay aware of what Larry Chen is photographing, he's probably the best auto enthusiast photographer on the West coast, and he did a photoshoot of Gregg Hamilton's awd 71 Trans Am

I'd love to see this at the Optima Challenge or SEMA

https://www.hoonigan.com/blogs/daily-transmission/trans-am-gt-r

good grief, I didn't even know this following blog existed! Go look at https://www.hoonigan.com/blogs/daily-transmission