SPEED HERO Blog

Brass Knuckle Balls.

This is the reason I prefer D1SL over D1GP. Simply because it's back to the roots of organized Japanese drifting. For those of you who don't know D1 Grand Prix is a drifting series out of Japan, professionals work their way to qualify and earn a D1GP license so that they can compete. It used to be very grass roots, meaning that people with small budgets were competing evenly with those with big budgets. However, at some point D1GP moved away from the smaller, slower multi-corner track layouts, to the larger, single corner track layouts. Many of the slower, low...


Chicken or the Egg 3: The melting pot.

So, which of these came first? The answer may surprise you. This isn't exactly the same challange as the previous two Chicken or Egg posts. The answer is surprising because there is none! And it has nothing to do with the Routan and Caravan being the same platform upon shared technology and co-ownership of the two companies..... I'm not very good at determining if something is ironic or not, but it seems odd...


Lost somewhere between NASCAR and F1

Somewhere in the annals of time, someone somewhere came up with what I think could have been the greatest idea for a racing series ever. No, I'm not talking about touring car racing.  That's awesome in its own right, but it's not what I'm writing about today. This is what I'm talking about. [caption id="attachment_2068" align="alignnone" width="595" caption="Look, it's dumped!"][/caption] This is an Alfa Romeo 164. [caption id="attachment_2069" align="alignnone" width="600" caption="I wonder if I could fit that...


Old School Vinyl Skills

I have a strange passion for vinyl work. It's wicked to watch someone commit to doing it all by hand.

Metallic vinyls are unforgiving and a little evil.


loose ends

I apologize for the lack of posts as of recent. I know you don't come onto this blog to read about the life of Quinn, but to enjoy pictures of cars and the odd bits of information associated with them. In lieu of that I'll try my best to put some pictures in for you. 1991 Tercel Type S. These cars are seriously badass, but people just don't realize it. This is Robin and I's chariot to the west. The "S" is somewhat of a special model...