SPEED HERO Blog — Automotive Life

You can always count on Adrian Smith to fill those lonely driftless nights. Following his Chris Scremin and Kohei Nakamura videos, Pete Schroeder is the newest member to get immortalized in video form. The video is wicked and Pete Schroeder is rad as shit.

Evo!?! Where'd you get dat Evo!? So you think you know everything about Evo's do you? The fact of the matter is, "Evo" as far as the majorus populus is concerned is a Mitsubishi product. However, Evo, Evolution and Evoluzione, are markers for many models of vehicles. "Homologation"...Ahhh, it feels good even to type that word, is the cause of this name scheme. For those of you who were born yesterday, homologay..Homo...Homolg...Argh, I came. Homologation in the automotive world is the basically the best thing to ever...

So, a long ways ago, many moons before now, my mother was in the market for a car. Being a die hard old Japanese lover, she HAD to humor me and at least test drive something WORTH her money. James chauffered us for the ride, and we had a good time testing out this rare '75 Woodie Corolla wagon. Sadly though, she opted out of the insanely rare wagon. And bought a Cobalt,...

Daikoku Futo rest stop is one of those mystical mecca's of car culture. You've seen it in videos and magazines, it's been immortalized in manga. It sits on some island outside of time and space somewhere between Tokyo and Yokohama. Of course we ended up there mid-week which made for a mediocre mecca but it was still great to be there and bask...

As the year comes to a close I thought I'd take a look back at 2009. It really was a remarkable year. It marked Speed Hero's first year. There was a trip across the globe for Quinn and myself and a relocation across the country for me. Considering 2009 was just the beginning, I can only imagine what 2010 has to offer. So, to start off with a clean slate I'm going to drop some Japan content that was overlooked. There was a serious absence of Bosozoku in our trip to Japan but these two trouble makers made out day...