This issue captures a moment in time when MOONEYES was deepening its blend of custom-car/bike culture, retro fashion, and Southern-California-inspired lifestyle — all through a Japanese lens. The pages are full of custom builds: old-school hot rods, choppers, vintage bikes and cars reworked with attitude, each photographed with bright, bold style. It doesn’t just focus on the machines — the magazine also leans into lifestyle: garage vibes, street-art influence, and the kind of laid-back cool that evokes cruising under palm-trees even if you’re in Japan.
Beyond the builds and visuals, Vol. 9 works as a full catalogue of the era’s MOONEYES offerings: apparel, accessories, decals, parts and lifestyle goods, blending editorial with commerce. In this way it serves both as inspiration — a taste of custom culture — and as a snapshot of what MOONEYES was offering to fans at that moment.
