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Vintage catalogs and reader submissions are great, but every once in a while we come across some really unique and interesting resources. Someone recently advised me to check through old US Patents for vintage wheel design information. With great excitement and hope, I dug in, did some research… and poured through literally […]

Patented Design

2 Dec, 2016 in News tagged cromodora / design / giugiaro / melber / patent 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

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

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

Kyusha Shoes Banzai! The old wheel upheaval is in force. Special thanks to DTA and Road & Track for sharing my passion. Check it out!

旧車クツばんざい

5 Aug, 2013 in News tagged road&track by Q Osborne

You may have noticed my list of Work wheels double in the last week. I’ve done so with the help and encouragement of Work Japan. Exciting indeed, but I’m hoping it’s just the beginning. Find more history on their Facebook page. Good stuff.

A Historic Work

1 Jun, 2013 in News tagged japan / work by Q Osborne

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