

Kiri was bought at auction and has been touring the San Francisco Bay Area since July 2020. Kiri the tiny Japanese fire truck stops in front of a mural in San Francisco. And that led me to a little Kei (or micro-vehicle) fire truck. Something that we’ve never seen, that we have no analogy for and is very uniquely Japanese. … Once I figured that out, I realized I should get something completely alien to the United States. Under federal law we can import anything that’s 25 years old. How the whole registration process works. And when I did that I ended up learning about the system.

I imported a Nissan Skyline from Japan about three years ago, a right-hand-drive car. Q: How did you end up with a tiny Japanese fire truck?Ī: I was not looking for a Japanese fire truck. For more information, we talked with Todd Lappin, a content designer and longtime Bernal Heights resident who seems like less of an owner and more like the father in a host family for the vehicle, which negotiates San Francisco hills like a native and can actually put out fires. Kiri has an Instagram page, where the fire truck shares its adventures and speaks in the first person.
