To the editor: Thanks for publishing visitor contributor Ky-Phong Tran’s considerate opinion piece on the “Quick and Livid” movies and their Asian American origins (“‘The Fast and the Furious’ took the Asians out of an Asian American story,” June 22).
Tran recounts the story in regards to the position Japanese Individuals in Gardena performed within the import tuner scene. Nevertheless, readers might have gotten the impression the scene all began with Honda Civics within the Nineties.
In reality, its origins are rooted within the early Nineteen Seventies with Gardena scorching rodders and their Datsun 510s, which I coated for LACar in 2010.
The inspiration again then got here from Brock Racing Enterprises, whose Datsun 510s so dominated the two.5 collection of Trans Am racing that it precipitated Alfa Romeo and BMW to tug their sponsorship out of the collection.
Considered one of today, director Justin Lin might want to put collectively a “Quick and Livid” origins story.
Roy Nakano, Monrovia
