---
title: "Hero of the Day: Found in Translation"
description: "A man, his Leaf and a ’67 Airstream."
date: "2015-10-30"
modified: "2015-10-30"
authors:
  - name: "Max Prince"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/max-prince"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/vintage/703/hero-of-the-day-found-in-translation"
categories:
  - "News"
---

# Hero of the Day: Found in Translation

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/images-by-url-td/content/archive-images/hero103015.jpg>)
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This guy, who’s towing a ’67 Airstream behind his Nissan Leaf. That’s Tomohisa Gora, an entrepreneur from Hakone, Japan’s hot-spring resort town. Two years ago, he imported the Airstream from San Jose, Calif. It arrived at the Port of Yokohama, and was soon converted it into a mobile eatery, [Cafe Ryusenkei](<https://cafe-ryusenkei.com>). Now, he travels around the country, selling beer and coffee and snacks, stopping periodically to charge up the Leaf. He told me that he loves whitewall tires and torque. Hero.

![inline103015.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/inline103015.jpg>)
**Max Prince/TheDrive.com**

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### Author social links  
[Twitter](<https://twitter.com/themaxprince>)