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[chattering in Japanese]
[speaks in Japanese]
[speaking in Japanese]
[chattering in Japanese]
[Masao] Oh, nice.
[So] It could be motorcycles,
airplanes, I don't know.
It's different for different people.
For our family, though, it's cars.
Hello, I'm So Naito, from Naito Auto Engineering.
This is my fourteenth year since I started working for Naito Auto Engineering.
When you use… [clear throat] your hands to do this work,
you get a feel for the people who made the cars,
the designers, the craftsmen…
and you can sense the passion they had.
And those cars, I guess…
…they aren't just a means to get from place to place.
We pour our feelings into our work.
When the restoration is done, and it's time to run the car,
there is a joy that's hard to put into words.
Once you get a taste of that…
I don't know…
…you can't quit.
You put everything into your work
for months…
…and you see the finished car.
That feeling is something that…
…is priceless.
[chattering in Japanese]
[muffled chatter in Japanese]
[chattering in Japanese]
Um, my name is Masao Naito.
Uh, born in 1949, August 3rd.
Uh, I was president of Naito Auto Engineering
until last year,
but I'm now retired and no longer working.
[Masao] When I was a kid,
my dad, he ran his own business.
It was called Naito Automobile Garage,
and it was up in Asakusa, in Taito Ward in Tokyo.
I remember thinking, as my dad worked on cars,
that this work was way too hard.
You get covered in grease.
It struck me as being really hard.
I remember wanting to avoid this line of work.
[Masao] Everyone else there had impressive academic records.
Apparently, he was the only one at Nakajima who didn't have a degree.
It was very rare.
He must have studied really hard on his own.
How should I put this?
Uh, it wasn't that he wanted to work on cars or restore them.
It was that the aircraft company was dismantled.
So he lost his job.
And right at the same time,
there were lots of American soldiers
in Japan because of the Korean War.
The officers had
these amazing cars.
But no one in Japan knew how to fix them.
That's where my dad came in. He knew how.
He went to Yokota every week to work on those cars.
Cars like the Aston-Martin DB3,
the Mercedes Benz 300SL with the gull-wing doors.
We called them "ultra super cars."
He was able to save a little money,
and he started Naito Auto Engineering, Inc.
And that's how it all began.
[men chattering in Japanese]
[chattering in Japanese]
[producer] They were mostly foreign cars?
[Masao] Not mostly. All of them.
[Masao] My parents had their hands full
with the cars and the customers.
So they had to stay up late into the night,
just to keep up.
They were that busy.
I'd see from the corner of my eye,
mom and dad working late,
uh, as I left in the car with my friends.
Uh, no one needed to tell me
how the different machines worked.
I knew all that already.
Even though it was my first job,
I was able to fix things without asking questions.
That was all because of my father.
[Masao] I picked up a little side work doing paint jobs
for guys that seemed like thieves.
They would come to me and…
Of course, they wouldn't say the car was stolen.
But I had a feeling.
[Masao] The reason I bought the Barracuda was
I thought I'd look cool driving it in Japan.
I bought the car for $4000.
I drove it around to show off, and a guy said, "Sell it to me!"
I sold it a week after I got home.
Even with all the fees…
…I sold it for double.
And I thought to myself,
"Maybe this could turn into a business for me."
I guess it was three days after I sold it, if I remember,
that I went back to Los Angeles.
This time to buy cars.
[Asami] I was in Ginza, waiting for the light to change.
He stood diagonally in front of me.
I thought, "Oh, I think that might be Naito-kun,"
the one I was introduced to the other day.
I said, "Naito-kun?"
He probably said, "Kosuge-san?"
My maiden name is Kosuge.
And he was like, "Do you want to get tea?"
That was the beginning.
My name is Asami Naito.
Nice to meet you.
I'm the "Okami-san (Lady of the House)" of Naito Auto.
After we started dating, he'd pick me up in a car. Right?
And the first car was…
…a De Tomaso Pantera.
It was an amazing supercar.
The body was this low, like it was laying flat,
it was huge
and was incredibly wide, too, like it was squished.
I could hear his car from a block away.
[indistinct Japanese]
[Asami] Each time he pulled up, he'd be in a different car.
[chattering in Japanese]
[Asami] I thought, "Wow!
He must have a spectacular auto shop."
When I actually saw it, it wasn't at all what I imagined.
I was like, "What?"
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[Masao] At the time, I could have bought four cars,
but that was scary, so I bought two.
I brought them to Japan,
and in the blink of an eye,
uh, because the price was so low, I sold them for double, again.
That laid the foundation for these cars today.
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Back then… I didn't know any better.
I stayed at the Intercontinental Hotel in London,
a high-end luxury hotel.
I kept all the cars I bought in the hotel parking lot.
Once I had ten cars, I sent for the forwarder
who'd come take them to send to Japan.
[Masao] The old cars were cheap.
For example, you could buy an old Ferrari 250 SWB
for the price of a new Lotus Elan.
But it would be a total junker.
[Masao] When I told my father I wanted a certain car,
um, but we'd have to sell the house to buy it,
he would say, "Just sell it. We can rent an apartment."
No matter what I wanted to do, he never opposed it.
"Just buy the cars that you want."
[chattering in Japanese]
[So] My first memories are of the workshop downstairs.
Of course, there was smoke
from the engines and the smell of gasoline.
It was overwhelming, all the fumes would come upstairs.
[chattering in Japanese]
To marry into a family to live with them, you know, I think that's hard.
I think it's difficult.
[muffled chatter in Japanese]
I was born and raised differently.
Don't be scared.
[muffled chatter in Japanese]
[Asami] And I was scared of his mother.
My heart was pounding.
[chattering in Japanese]
It would have been better if the home was big,
but it was small and cramped.
[muffled chatter in Japanese]
[So] The five of us in a single six-mat room.
We basically slept right up against each other.
There was a living room, where we all ate together,
and across that,
grandpa and grandma in another six-mat room.
It was tiny.
But at the time, it was a lot of fun.
[chattering in Japanese]
[Masao] We'll leave the rest to you guys.
Check before you back out.
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[muffled chatter in Japanese]
[speaks in Japanese]
[chattering in Japanese]
My name is Shigeru Naito.
I joined Naito Auto about 45 years ago.
I loved cars, and as I watched my dad work,
I wanted cars, wanted to ride in cars,
and ultimately, wanted to fix cars.
Our current chairman (Masao) told me to go to England.
I went for half a year.
I learned a lot about racing.
Back then, I wasn't one to race on the circuit.
I had no talent for that.
With the boss…
Just like at any other workplace,
there's a boss-subordinate relationship, which is hard.
I've watched Naito Auto all these years,
and I can say it's transformed into a different company
from my dad's time.
[chattering in Japanese]
All this time, I feel that I've been trying really hard.
Quite hard.
But still, my dad's presence is so great.
I've realized that I'll never surpass him.
Not him.
I think I've done the best I could.
[chattering in Japanese]
[men chattering in Japanese]
I'm the foreman at Naito Auto.
My name is Nakagawa.
[chattering in Japanese]
[chatter continues]
I want the boys to master
all the technical things.
[chattering in Japanese]
[Nakagawa] Of course, they'll need sales and things like that,
but the basis for that is restoration and repairs.
They have to know their stuff.
[chattering in Japanese]
I'm getting old, you know.
The sooner the better, or the work can't be carried on.
[chattering in Japanese]
[Nakagawa] How should I put it?
If So and Kei could…
…do all the work on their own without guidance,
that would be ideal.
[chattering in Japanese]
I'd like them to try harder.
[chattering in Japanese]
It would be great if the people you leave things to do a good job.
Maybe their teachers
aren't doing a good job, I don't know.
The teaching may leave something to be desired.
[producer] How much longer do you want to work as an engineer?
Or do you want to quit?
Well…
I'll keep going
as long as I can.
But at most, I've got five years left.
Ten years is pushing it.
[speaking in Japanese]
[chattering in Japanese]
[Masao] You have to have a sense of self-sacrifice.
If you don't, everyone will leave.
With self-sacrifice, the family comes together.
[Masao] I'm not important.
The family is important.
But that was the Japanese spirit, originally.
Everyone was like that…
…in the old days.
[speaking in Japanese]
[in Japanese accent] Finish.
Finish your adventure.
[chattering in Japanese]
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