SPEED HERO Blog — DQ Philosophy

The year is 1979. Famous Australian racing hero Peter Brock sets out for the Bathurst 1000 race. Already Champion multiple times over, Brock not only managed to win the race 6 laps ahead of everyone else, but on his final lap set the lap record: 2:20.5.

My life has hit a stale moment. Trapped in an endless loop of basic work, little play. Most importantly, little hope. I do not function as a regular member of society. The sheer rage I...

You suddenly find yourself, lost in the market of choices for automobiles. You need a Drifto Magic Carpet Whip pretty much as soon as now. Where do you go? All your Option 2 heros cars are played out, filled with hip-young-YOLO kids and you can't get a brake on a nice granny getter import for the sake of your existence! So what do you want? -Mad Sick Torque, your going to swap the engine anyways. -Rear Driven Wheelies. -Tons of aftermarket support, chilling on the shelf at...

Momentum is a dangerous good, It's often dealt without warning and creeps in from the back corner. Growth is that hard guy smoking in school, leather jacket, cool but rough and unpredictable. If you know what your doing, if approached correctly, the momentum of growth can be harnessed for productive purposes, improvement. But like any thing, when you stack more weight on an object, we hope it can bear the increased load. The local scene is now conflicted, with the sudden increase in popularity there is a...

I can't say my work is quality, but I do proclaim to be one of the biggest fans of truck conversions. Car based trucks has always been a curiosity of mine, as a mix of rarity and obscurity, function and form the 'ute' is a concept that is uncommonly embraced for it's logical approach. The idea is simple and although Japan and many other countries received the ever so perfect Kei-trucks we were not as lucky. The next best thing is to achieve this...

I was thinking the other day, about the continous arguement of safety. The idea that new cars are safer has been something in question in my mind. An issues raised was one when I was driving down the side of the mountain in the rain just yesterday. the road slightly cambers through the corners on the way down, the inside of the corners being lower than the outside, as the camber changes between these corners so does the flow of the excess drainage. Coming down the road doing...