Businessman Kozitsky spoke about unusual emotions from the first meeting with a Japanese car in the 80s 
Businessman Anatoly Kozitsky spoke about vivid and unusual emotions from the first meeting with a Japanese car in the 1980s. A simple civil engineer at that time was shocked by the shape and painting of the car, and most importantly – by the quality that could not be compared with the quality of Soviet cars. He stated this within the framework of the special project “Russian Fast and Furious”.
According to Kozitsky, that day he was driving about his business, when suddenly a red car “unlike all our domestic cars” left the garage. “She seemed to come from the future, and I could not drive by: I stopped and talked to the owner. It was like a sea captain, “Kozitsky recalls.
He clarified the model of the car – it turned out to be a Nissan Gloria. “I was amazed … First of all, the shape and painting. (…) Even though we had polished cars, this car, even without paraffin, differed in something … Well, quality! The second difference is electronics. And I was surprised that the windows were raised, the air conditioner was and everything else accompanying it. And this was in those days! ” – Kozitsky recalls.
He said that many did not think whether such cars would withstand driving on domestic roads, but, as he later found out, they turned out to be very durable. After that meeting with a foreign car, Kozitsky became one of the first who, using a sailor's passport, crossed the border and arrived in Japan to buy a car. He favored trucks over cars. It was these machines that helped him build a construction business, because they did not break down as often as domestic ones. And if they broke, they were quite easily repaired. Kozitsky quickly figured out the internal structure of Japanese technology and began to help other Primorye residents with repairs.
The special project “Russian Fast and Furious” is dedicated to the life of motorists in the Far East and the unusual automotive culture that began to form in the region back in Soviet times. Already in the 1980s, the first Japanese cars began to be delivered to Primorye. Over time, a huge car market emerged in Vladivostok, which reached its peak in the 1990s. The active development of the automotive culture influenced the formation of the interests of young Russians and contributed to the appearance of the first Russian drifters in the region.