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.

More than 500 wheels in the database now means it’s time for a new desktop background. The 1920x1080p widescreen version above contains 510 wheels. Click Here for a standard resolution version (2048x1536p) with 520 wheels. Happy Holidays all. Thanks for your submissions and input!

More Than 500 Wheels Means…

28 Dec, 2015 in Downloads tagged background / desktop / wallpaper by Q Osborne

Cataloguing 30-year-old wheels is not a straight forward task. Time has passed. Often wheel manufacturers, whose own name is stamped on a specific example, can’t identify model names or even anything about them at all. There are also interesting relationships that exists between wheel manufacturers and tuning companies on a […]

PiaLoss FTW?

16 Dec, 2015 in Wheel Info tagged confused / enkei / sparco by Q Osborne

More than ten years ago, I stumbled upon my first Walter Wolf Racing wheel. At the time, I was browsing on an obscure Japanese message board. The wheel was fit to an AE86. Given the amount of weird romaji and Japanglish on the faces and center caps of other Japanese […]

Who Is Walter Wolf?

13 Dec, 2015 in Wheel Info tagged bridgestone / kyushashoes / walter wolf / walterwolfracing by Q Osborne

It’s been too long since anything happened at KyushaShoes. It would probably still be sitting idle, like it has for the past 11 months, if it weren’t for some serious stimulus from you readers. It started with a long lost AE86 friend stumbling upon my very first set of kyusha […]

Back To Work

6 Dec, 2015 in News tagged dunlop / geterdone by Q Osborne

Not my true sentiment… it’s just an excuse. It has been awfully dead in here lately, with no updates to the database coming for a full year. It’s time to shut it down. Thanks all for your contributions over the past decade, and my apologies to those who have inquired […]

やりたいこと…

21 Jan, 2015 in News tagged bonk by Q Osborne

お久しぶりです。 I should be apologetic, after all, I’m the guy who more than a year ago now wanted your emails… but I’m only one guy, and you all easily overwhelmed me. If you submitted content, and I didn’t respond, be sure that I checked things out and flagged your contributions […]

Square Wolf

12 Sep, 2014 in Rare Finds tagged bridgestone / walterwolf by Q Osborne

Some Canadian guy put the coolest wheels ever manufactured for a Toyota on his FRS, and it makes me extremely horny. Tom’s is making a modern Igeta for the ZN6, but it looks pretty lame with modern positive offset. WRONG CHOICE Tachi Oiwa Motorsports!

His Name Is Not Tom But…

24 Mar, 2014 in Rare Finds tagged toms by Q Osborne

A reader shared these ultra-rare AC Courreges ACB dish that recently came and quickly went on Yahoo Auctions. This is certainly the cleanest set I’ve seen! Sized 13 5.5J +38 with PCD100 they sold for 31000円.

You Fashion Designer You…

28 Jan, 2014 in Rare Finds tagged ac-courreges / yahoo by Q Osborne

Check out this reader submitted photo of Volk C1’s…. complete with aero rings and centers. I’ll admit, this is the first time I’ve seen a fully assembled C1… and it has rocked my world. If the Millennium Falcon needed wheels, you know they’d look like this. The same reader also […]

Rare Carbon

1 Dec, 2013 in Rare Finds tagged c1 / carbon / handoru / steering / volk by Q Osborne