---
title: "Drivers of New York: Rich"
description: "A photographic portrait of America’s most unlikely car lovers."
date: "2015-10-26"
modified: "2015-10-26"
authors:
  - name: "The Drive and Classic Car Club"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/the-drive-and-classic-car-club"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/accelerator/640/drivers-of-new-york-rich"
categories:
  - "News"
---

# Drivers of New York: Rich

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No matter the shape, no matter the make, no matter the era, *The Drive* and [Classic Car Club](<https://classiccarclubmanhattan.com/>) have a love affair with the automobile. Somewhere under those steel roofs and carbon engine covers, there’s a personality. It might be that of a champion, or perhaps, more like your recovering alcoholic Uncle Eddie. But it’s undeniably there.

And thus, the birth of this photographic column. These are snippets, little insights into the life of a car and, more importantly, those of the people who own them. There will be no rolling prose, no feature-length interview. Just an automobile and its owner, as seen through the lens of Finnish phenom [Tuukka Koski](<https://www.tuukkakoski.com/>).

Broadway, Manhattan. 2000 Honda Civic Coupe

[@VRACEWORKS](<https://twitter.com/vraceworks>)

![driversofny\_richhonda\_art\_1.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/driversofny_richhonda_art_1.jpg>)
**Tuukka Koski (www.tuukkakoski.com)**

“It delivers a lot of power early. It’s a 1.9-liter engine that delivers 598 horses and 395 foot-pounds of torque to the wheels on pump gas. I used to race, but now I’m too old for that shit. It’s been on the cover of *Honda Tuning*, *USDM Freax* and a bunch of other magazines in the U.S. and Japan.”

![driversofny\_richhonda\_art\_2.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/driversofny_richhonda_art_2.jpg>)
**Tuukka Koski (www.tuukkakoski.com)**

“I bought the car years ago and just started working on it. Then I started my shop, [V Raceworks](<https://vraceworks.com/>). We have a location in New York and one in Massachusetts. Next week, we’re taking the car to a show at Mohegan Sun. We win a lot of car shows. That’s how Honda people know we have a great shop.”

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