Gregory Wright and his team may not have created the curated car show, but they’ve displayed mastery of the concept only two events in.

The response to their first Invitational Exotic Car Show in December was so positive that they created another carefully crafted display of vehicles from their illustrious clientèle base under the theme Japanese Domestic Market (JDM) on Sunday, April 13 at the National Arena parking lot in St Andrew.

“JDM is something that, before all these supercars got to Jamaica, was what our car culture was built on. So, it’s just to give respect and give acknowledgement to these cars,” Wright told the Jamaica Observer’s weekly Auto magazine.

As managing director of Film Solutions Plus (FSP), Wright has access to a plethora of classic Japanese performance machines, as his business provides a wide breadth of protective solutions for owners of said vehicles.

“We’ve been blessed with amazing clientèle as FSP, and many owners just said if you want the car, you take it, it’s your responsibility, so it was a bit of logistics on our part to get them here,” he said.

Wright explained that his reason for choosing cars, rather than having an open invitation to the public, was to ensure quality for the patrons in attendance.

“We are charging the public to attend, and we need to make sure we’re not disappointing them, so we can’t leave anything to chance,” he argued.

For the JDM fan, the event was easily automotive nirvana with a wide range of historically relevant sports cars from the land of the rising sun, familiar on Jamaica’s streets and made iconic in various media throughout the years. Model names like Corolla mixed freely with worldwide legends such as the Supra, Skyline, and the car that redefined what the modern supercar could be, the Honda NSX. Modern JDM machines were represented by the recently discontinued Nissan GT-R and the still-in-production Honda Civic Type R.

“One car owner had 30 vehicles, but just to spread the love, we just had to mix and mingle with our other options.”

When patrons weren’t busy soaking in the rows of JDM perfection and goodness, there was the drift display put on by Nicholas Barnes, showing off the skills necessary to master the intrinsically Japanese motorsport.

“It’s my very first performance in Kingston, and I was looking forward to this. We had previous engagements to do, but those didn’t materialise, so just a very good feeling to showcase my talent in our capital city,” said Barnes.

Like the Invitational Exotic Car Show, Wright was very happy with the response to the JDM Car Show, and plans to take the feedback to ensure their successive events continue to resonate with the public.