![]() A few members of Mid Night decided to give chase and a race between the Mid Night Club and the Bōsōzoku began. Unfortunately, the Mid Night Club met an untimely end when the local Bōsōzoku biker gang (A Motorcycle gang culture in Japan based on rebelling) decided to try and play with some Mid Night members on the Wangan as they were racing. This advert in the local newspaper would let members know that the meetup will be happening between 11PM and 2AM on a Thursday at the Daikoku Parking Area, which has become a dedicated area for Street Racing gangs to meet up in the city and become a mecca of the Japanese car scene. For more information, I am available for meetup at Daikoku Parking Area on Thursday, between 11PM and 2AM. “For sale: Small handbags at discount prices. One example of an advert would go something like this: These adverts would contain secret messages that the members would look for to know when and where to meet up. In order to organise a meetup, the club leader would agree at the previous meet that all members would look for a specific type of advert in a local newspaper specified by the leader. It is believed that a lot of the long-standing established Japanese tuning shops are owned, or were founded by previous members of the Mid Night Club. ![]() ![]() Only on two occasions has a members profession been revealed, both in an interview for the magazine Max Power where it was revealed that a driver of an FD Mazda RX7 was a Property Developer, and the driver of an R32 Skyline GTR ran the family car sales business. In a rather classy fashion, the Mid Night club only operated on a first name basis and did not allow club members to chat about each other’s professions in an attempt to keep a basic level of Anonymity between them, if you joined the club with a friend then you were encouraged to keep tight-lipped in the presence of other members. Mid Night R32 Nissan Skyline GT-R by Stevejdm ![]() Only 10% of the apprentices would go on to become a true member, that’s a pretty high turnover rate for the most notorious street racers to ever grace Tokyo’s streets. Once you were accepted into the club, you were an “apprentice” member for the first year, and you would have to attend every single meet to keep your membership status and to become a fully fledged Mid Night racer. Although this is a minimum requirement, you will be at the back of the back as the Mid Night Club used to race along the Wangan highway between Tokyo and Yokohama at sustained racing speeds of upwards of 300km/h (190 mph).Ĭommon cars in the club were Italian exotics such as the Lamborghini Countach or the Ferrari Testarossa, and local heroes such as the Nissan 300ZX, Nissan GTRs, the Toyota Supra and the Mazda RX7. Mid Night had high entry requirements, the minimum requirement being that you had a car capable of going over 250km/h (160 mph). The Mid Night Club was founded in 1987 built on a strong code of ethics to prevent any members of the club endangering a member of the public or any other members of the club.
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