Q Osborne

About Q Osborne

Quentin Osborne learned to love cars in the 80's, growing up in a family repair shop. He is now a professional driving instructor and event manager focused on promoting driving safety and skill through practical involvement in motorsports.

Since starting this website, the wheel info coming in has been overwhelming. I’ve learned so much. And I’ve also learned a lot about how wheel enthusiasts around the world are buying and exporting wheels out of Japan. I am lucky enough to have family in Japan that has helped me lots […]

Buying Wheels with Jauce

8 Oct, 2016 in Shopping tagged dollar / jauce / messy eater / yahoo / yen by Q Osborne

Southern Ways is best known for their Glids II mesh, but as this advertisement from 1979 shows, there are a whole lot of great kyusha wheels by Southern Ways. The headline reads, “Your disk, will you change it?” As the image suggests, all six wheels pictured share the same shell design […]

Having Fun With Three Piece

23 Apr, 2016 in News tagged adscan / cross / glids / seventies / southernways / strobo / three-piece / wars by Q Osborne

A reader was questioning my categorization of Silver Star wheels under the Yamaco brand instead of the Enkei brand. This explains the reason for that. Yamaco sold a fairly wide range of accessories and parts from wheels to decal packages. Early Yamaco wheels, like the Silver Star Three-Piece (later re-named […]

Yamaco Silver Star Three Piece

14 Apr, 2016 in News tagged 3-piece / enkei / footmark / ohtsutire / silverstar / yamaco by Q Osborne

You may not have heard of Topy Enterprises. That is forgivable. Although Topy has been producing wheels for more than 85 years, and today is a huge multi-national manufacturer, their focus has tended more towards commercial endeavours. They have served as a manufacturer for OEM application wheels (Nissan and Isuzu), […]

Topy Jovite

8 Apr, 2016 in News tagged adscan / eighties / jovite / topy by Q Osborne

If you have spent any time here at all, you have probably figured out, that I’m a huge Yokohama Advan honk. Yokohama makes some of my favourite wheels in both the eighties and nineties as part of their Advan line up. The Yokohama Almex line up however, is something that […]

Getting Started on Yokohama – aka. Almex

1 Apr, 2016 in Wheel Info tagged adscan / advan / almex / cast / nitto / panther / seventies / yokohama by Q Osborne

The Novan Wonder Rabbit is such a rare and unique wheel that I never imagined I’d ever find an advertisement for one. This comes from Robbie’s Motorfan collection and an issue from 1979. The translation reads. By our hand,something universal, the Wonder Rabbit, is created. This is the era for the […]

A Hero For Eighties Car Supplies

25 Mar, 2016 in News tagged 4-spoke / enkei / novan / rabbit / seventies / wonder by Q Osborne

Target these! The wheel of a sophisticated man: 3-piece Command. In racing, a 3-piece wheel has merit because, strength and rigidity and lightness can be maintained while making the rim wide. A 3-piece wheel however, though theoretically superior, cannot achieve a high rating unless it is accompanied by advanced technology. With […]

Hayashi Command

18 Mar, 2016 in Wheel Info tagged 3-piece / adscan / hayashi by Q Osborne

If you’ve found me on Instagram, you will know that I got a nice gift in the wheel last week from Robbie: nine beautiful Motorfan mags from the late seventies. Instant content, and a serious high that made my wife question my alcohol tolerance. The buzz is now wearing off […]

On Target Again

11 Mar, 2016 in Wheel Info tagged adscan / keystone / seventies / target / target racing by Q Osborne

Debuting in 1977, the Xray was the fourth wheel produced by Rays Engineering. Preceding it, was the now near unobtainable Volk Dish, and the more popular Volk 3-piece mesh and Volk II mesh. Like the Volk II mesh which also launched in 1977, the Xray used a two piece welded construction. […]

Xray Forecasting the Future

7 Mar, 2016 in Wheel Info tagged adscan / eighties / rays / raysengineering / seventies by Q Osborne

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