SPEED HERO Blog — Automotive Life

When I was first getting into drifting the idea of drifting anything RWD was obscure and silly. It was Corolla's, S chassis, FC's and the odd sedan. With the increase in popularity comes variety due to desperation. I was desperate for wheels just before our last event. Weeks, months? Earlier I had purchased an SC400. It was going to be my missile for the year. I was excited. I'm a massive 1uz fan having a little experience drifting one around it was a great opportunity to jump...

Careful -> expensive.

Little gets posted these days. Initial wear seems too great. Burnt, the automotive world appears ever so vast. I'm quite lost in it. I've lost myself to be honest. There's so many things I wish to be a cause of. Things I want to build, things I need to break, or both. My life changed dramatically this past year, it's affected my out look. Speed hero was an excitement of automotive expression. I played with cars therefore these interactions were documented. People, anonymously co-enthusiastic for these standardized and/or original exploits. I changed. So worn out from confusion I'm not sure...

Working hard, slaving away making someone else's dream a reality is a constant reminder I have my own. I like cars, just a whole heck of a lot. Stashing cash like a squirrel with nuts, hogging away washing cars like a kid saving for summer camp, I managed to scrape enough together to buy a Lexus.  A big boat of a car, 1UZFE powered SC400, it was a hope of an upgrade in social status. The plans? To build a 'Big Corolla'. The idea was simple: Keep...

I'm a bad hipster, through some careful consideration I've come to the conclusion that hipsters are people who live their lives focused mainly around their topic of interest. The idea of elitism, their airs of proud individuality is given from their strong focus and obsession form their topic. This inability to relate others on a conversational level is proof of their depth of obsession. Art and music hipsters are the most common, and are the butt of " you haven't heard of them before" jokes. Often the hipster will move into towns and cities no matter the obscurity in order...