SPEED HERO Blog — Japanese Culture

Before and After

Driftwerks 3 is THE video that got me into drifting, and of course the beginning of my Ueo crush, however, I realized I never shared a little piece of information it held that I found interesting. Nobushige Kumakubo is the famed leader of Team Orange, as well as the owner of the drift heaven Ebisu Circuit (which BTW was in NFS:prostreet as their drift track but you'd never know it because you couldn't tell where you were looking in that damn game). What I love about this video is it's just a mashup of old Option video footage, and...


Conversations I have.

Sometimes I forget I've seen a lot of cars that other just haven't imagined. These are some pictures to prove from a conversation recently that Mazda did in fact, produce a hardtop Miata from factory. Both NA model and NB model. now if I could find pictures of the factory Spec A, B, and C miata's that would be awesome! Remember that "crazy" post a while back? Well to add to some of the 'crazy' links, here's some more car specific posts filled with pictures of rad rides. Read the article


Hiroshima Speedway Circuit

Although named similar, Speedhunters delivers pretty decent photograghs, generally the stories arn't to great. I find that they sometimes miss the good shit. Case in point, their recent coverage of a Celica by a group called Hydraulic Drifter Oldies. A post made a while back about their famous and crazy chopped roof Levin pickup showed a glimpse of a new drift track and what appears to be the home of HDO, Hiroshima Speedway Circuit!

Sadly I don't have the huge production...


Wagons for our hearts & other FR converts.

A Toyota Caldina GT, basically a wagon body slapped on a ST205 AWD Celica chassis from factory. This one? Converted to RWD.

And, if your really into FR conversions? How about a Toyota Corsa! Converted to RWD with a CA18det!


Outlets 4: Get Involved.

So, I've been on a bit of an emotional rollercoaster for the early part of this summer. Trying to get my shit together and get my car going. Part of my time has been in the fantasy world. Going back to my Digital Roots, I've been playing a lot of Street Legal Redline Racing. Recently a Tsukuba Time Attack challange came up and I was more than willing to participate, and you can too! So how do you get involved? Well you don't really need a...