To be clear, I wasn’t asking to hang out with random strangers, I wanted to go get beers with friends. Wildwood and its replacement are dead now too. There are still very active forums out there though, like Tacomaworld for instance. Fun trip down memory lane. PS: There was plenty of negativity, just on forums other than DK. Haha.
DK is the very best car forum and the mods weren't afraid to banhammer most of the time, which took care of most nonsense. Meetups didn't even need cars to show up, just friends who would hang out together and talk out about the old Toyota in your garage that wouldn't move, as you drove to the hangout in your other, crappier daily old Toyota. I met my best friends in life on this website. Long live DK - VickersGTS
Hi, I’m Migs. I’m the guy that made the DK forum and administered it for over a decade. It was no mistake or coincidence that DK was (and to many members, always will be) the greatest oldschool Toyota forum of all time; it was a shitload of work. Establishing rules, cultivating a culture of inclusivity and FUN didn’t come easy, but with time DoriKaze became a living, breathing thing. Then we all grew up. Many of us still chat and remain friends, but even more sold or wrecked their cars since those golden years. Reach out if you have any questions. ;)
Thanks for the comment, still crazy that you found the video haha. Also thank you for making it, I never used it in its heyday but I had a great time looking through it.
Dorikaze was THE place if you had an old-school Toyota in Canada for technical information and finding the local meets/track days. In an era before social media, it allowed you to find your local Toyota weirdos and get together in parking lots or even help each other on their projects. I remember helping out local members with everything from sourcing parts or changing head gaskets/engine swaps all for the cost of beers and companionship. Many of us still keep in touch, and at the local 86 Day events, you're bound to see a Dorikaze sticker still proudly displayed on some of the cars. Like Toyotas, forums never die 🤘 - Trigger Happy
DK is GOAT. Many of my best friends today were the people I met on Dorikaze, so Jeff calling for a beer meet wasn't just a call to drink with strangers, but a call to drink with some of his best friends and future best friends. 86s and DK have been a huge part of my life for sure. I don't remember ever seeing that video at the end from our meet at Mayfair Mall. Good memories..... You can catch me in it wearing some really ugly jeans. lol 😅. Is 20 pound for the weight like 30 pounds if a guy lifts?
hahaha I'm in this video. Forums were the jammmmm. So easy to find and sort information. So much easier to keep topics together, and refer back to them. So much easier to story tell. ~love DiscoQuinn
Dorikaze literally changed my entire life. The people there became life long friends.It's caused me to travel the world and even meeting people in other countries would remember posts that we've both seen from DK. Fuck I miss forums so much. It was so easy to have an organized identity and build relationships.
Never expected anyone who actually used it to find this video haha. Crazy to hear that, hard to not saw im a little jealous, going back and reading through everything it seemed like the spot
DK was so much fun when I was building my corolla rally car, such good knowledge and like you said, no negativity. Quality bantz and interesting build threads like Jeff's immaculate gze cpupe, or that insane widebody Audi v8 mr2. I really miss the old DK days, but they're pretty much gone forever
This was really good thanks. This was especially interesting since I got into imports toward the end of forums....It's cool that they are still active. I love the video easy style and the investigatory approach to.understanding forums
also i think the tech reference of other forums of the time, son240, and maxbimmer were also very solidly knowledgable.. at the time, the builds were low-key because the aftermarket was super slim for toyotas in the early to mid 2000s, and the support for older vehicles were NOTHING, esp when compared to all the new trends of the sport compact 2000s era. There was no chasing older cars at the time.. everything was all in on newer b-series hondas, even 240s in the early 2000s were not having SR swaps like as they are now.
I wanna say that forums were worse than what we have now but somehow I keep ending up reading 20 year old forum posts whenever I wanna find out something about my cars
Great video! I find myself using forums still, due to the fact there’s lots of diagnosis and help for fixing. Or just how to do it, I don’t post myself but I still find a use for threads that exist.
I've recently had a similar experience. I was randomly looking for pictures of a not mass produced 80's car (i think only 3 to 5 were made) on google, simply cuz I had never heard of, just to find a dunny buggy forum, not just active, but that an user had randomly found one of those crashed in a forest. I thought it was silly to post that on a forum, but soon other users were not just explaining to him what he had found, they were very invested and pretty chill on it, even tho it wasnt a dunny buggy LOL
wow, no joke, I made that Dori-Kaze logo back in 1998-1999 when we were making the forum. Ran it back and forth with Yasin Ali (red gze86) for feedback and made it live. Super cool to see someone talking about our beloved forum from bitd! subbed!!
DK was great for info but honestly the worst for community The community leaders like MIGs were obnoxious condescending ______ The build section was great but there was divide in the community between western and eastern builders with the western community looking down often on the eastern guys The community died because they transitioned to a Facebook group I still keep in touch with some of the guys who were cool and many good memories were had but the environment of DK could be pretty hostile
I made lifelong friends on there, a friend traveled from the next province just to meet and go for a drive. I miss you all. Thanks for the video Cian, subscribed. Check out SpeedHeroJP, Quinn is the heart and soul of Corolla...
Someone please sell me a Corolla im begging you
Nah I'm going to have to keep it
I’ve got an AE92 5 speed
Also good forum Club4AG
To be clear, I wasn’t asking to hang out with random strangers, I wanted to go get beers with friends. Wildwood and its replacement are dead now too.
There are still very active forums out there though, like Tacomaworld for instance.
Fun trip down memory lane.
PS: There was plenty of negativity, just on forums other than DK. Haha.
Must have misinterpreted that part haha, thanks for the comment
DK is the very best car forum and the mods weren't afraid to banhammer most of the time, which took care of most nonsense. Meetups didn't even need cars to show up, just friends who would hang out together and talk out about the old Toyota in your garage that wouldn't move, as you drove to the hangout in your other, crappier daily old Toyota. I met my best friends in life on this website. Long live DK
- VickersGTS
Amen
Hi, I’m Migs. I’m the guy that made the DK forum and administered it for over a decade. It was no mistake or coincidence that DK was (and to many members, always will be) the greatest oldschool Toyota forum of all time; it was a shitload of work. Establishing rules, cultivating a culture of inclusivity and FUN didn’t come easy, but with time DoriKaze became a living, breathing thing.
Then we all grew up.
Many of us still chat and remain friends, but even more sold or wrecked their cars since those golden years.
Reach out if you have any questions. ;)
Thanks for the comment, still crazy that you found the video haha.
Also thank you for making it, I never used it in its heyday but I had a great time looking through it.
Dorikaze was THE place if you had an old-school Toyota in Canada for technical information and finding the local meets/track days. In an era before social media, it allowed you to find your local Toyota weirdos and get together in parking lots or even help each other on their projects. I remember helping out local members with everything from sourcing parts or changing head gaskets/engine swaps all for the cost of beers and companionship.
Many of us still keep in touch, and at the local 86 Day events, you're bound to see a Dorikaze sticker still proudly displayed on some of the cars.
Like Toyotas, forums never die 🤘
- Trigger Happy
DK is GOAT. Many of my best friends today were the people I met on Dorikaze, so Jeff calling for a beer meet wasn't just a call to drink with strangers, but a call to drink with some of his best friends and future best friends. 86s and DK have been a huge part of my life for sure. I don't remember ever seeing that video at the end from our meet at Mayfair Mall. Good memories..... You can catch me in it wearing some really ugly jeans. lol 😅.
Is 20 pound for the weight like 30 pounds if a guy lifts?
hahaha I'm in this video. Forums were the jammmmm. So easy to find and sort information. So much easier to keep topics together, and refer back to them. So much easier to story tell. ~love DiscoQuinn
Dorikaze literally changed my entire life. The people there became life long friends.It's caused me to travel the world and even meeting people in other countries would remember posts that we've both seen from DK. Fuck I miss forums so much. It was so easy to have an organized identity and build relationships.
Never expected anyone who actually used it to find this video haha. Crazy to hear that, hard to not saw im a little jealous, going back and reading through everything it seemed like the spot
DoriKaze was something special
DK was so much fun when I was building my corolla rally car, such good knowledge and like you said, no negativity. Quality bantz and interesting build threads like Jeff's immaculate gze cpupe, or that insane widebody Audi v8 mr2. I really miss the old DK days, but they're pretty much gone forever
This was really good thanks. This was especially interesting since I got into imports toward the end of forums....It's cool that they are still active. I love the video easy style and the investigatory approach to.understanding forums
also i think the tech reference of other forums of the time, son240, and maxbimmer were also very solidly knowledgable.. at the time, the builds were low-key because the aftermarket was super slim for toyotas in the early to mid 2000s, and the support for older vehicles were NOTHING, esp when compared to all the new trends of the sport compact 2000s era. There was no chasing older cars at the time.. everything was all in on newer b-series hondas, even 240s in the early 2000s were not having SR swaps like as they are now.
I wanna say that forums were worse than what we have now but somehow I keep ending up reading 20 year old forum posts whenever I wanna find out something about my cars
Great video! I find myself using forums still, due to the fact there’s lots of diagnosis and help for fixing. Or just how to do it, I don’t post myself but I still find a use for threads that exist.
Also FYI, us Calgarians were the booze hounds of the group. Smashing the booze became a ritual of sorts and some of the best nights to remember
No Way! We made it onto youtube!
I've recently had a similar experience. I was randomly looking for pictures of a not mass produced 80's car (i think only 3 to 5 were made) on google, simply cuz I had never heard of, just to find a dunny buggy forum, not just active, but that an user had randomly found one of those crashed in a forest. I thought it was silly to post that on a forum, but soon other users were not just explaining to him what he had found, they were very invested and pretty chill on it, even tho it wasnt a dunny buggy LOL
for the photobucket watermarks - right click and open in new tab. also, for some dead links, send it through the wayback machine.
hope this helps :D
Great video as always
Yeah forums are great for info, i guess discord is the modern version of it
wow, no joke, I made that Dori-Kaze logo back in 1998-1999 when we were making the forum. Ran it back and forth with Yasin Ali (red gze86) for feedback and made it live. Super cool to see someone talking about our beloved forum from bitd! subbed!!
DK was great for info but honestly the worst for community
The community leaders like MIGs were obnoxious condescending ______
The build section was great but there was divide in the community between western and eastern builders with the western community looking down often on the eastern guys
The community died because they transitioned to a Facebook group
I still keep in touch with some of the guys who were cool and many good memories were had but the environment of DK could be pretty hostile
isnt reddit car fourums?
reddit just takes over.
Reddit and Discord took over forums, sadly.
I made lifelong friends on there, a friend traveled from the next province just to meet and go for a drive. I miss you all. Thanks for the video Cian, subscribed. Check out SpeedHeroJP, Quinn is the heart and soul of Corolla...