Wheel Info

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

In celebration of its 35th anniversary, JAWA (Japanese Alloy Wheel Association) released a very limited edition book detailing the history of the wheel, and the Japanese Alloy Wheel. As the standard setter for alloy wheels in Japan, JAWA has tested and stamped practically every wheel ever produced in Japan. This […]

My Work Here Is…

31 Jul, 2013 in Downloads / Rare Finds / Wheel Info tagged book / jawa by Q Osborne

Last month a reader shared with us his Italian made Hayashi Streets. An interesting find for sure, and enlightening, as we discovered that the stampings on the wheel back and face were identical to those used by Italian manufacturer Campagnolo. With many wheel manufacturers of decades past deceased, stampings […]

Hayashi – Factory Pimping

3 Jun, 2013 in Wheel Info tagged campagnolo / enkei / hayashi by Q Osborne

A reader was disputing my data on the Bilbo. I think this clears everything up. As far as I can tell, Pasco-Fame Corporation is long gone. No surprise, as it’s been close to forty years…

The Now Defunct

20 May, 2013 in Wheel Info tagged adscan / bilbo / pasco-fame by Q Osborne

Here is what looks like an interesting note about Hayashi wheels. We’ve observed a few variations of the popular Street wheel, and one reason for that seems to be that some of them were produced over seas. These particular wheels, as submitted by a reader, are stamped “Made In Italy” […]

Italian Streets

5 May, 2013 in Wheel Info tagged campagnolo / hayashi / italy by Q Osborne

Someone emailed this week asking about center-lock wheels and there fitment on cars with conventional hubs. We saw a couple months ago, a “faux” center-lock wheel by Volk. Hayashi’s 2463 system however, is a real center-lock that uses an PCD adapter. It’s very simple, as you can see. I certainly […]

Hayashi 2463 Center Lock System

22 Mar, 2013 in Wheel Info tagged center-lock / hayashi by Q Osborne

I’m crazy about showa era Advan wheels, but I’m not really sure why. Certainly the Carrot Flashpoint Trueno driven by Keichi in the late eighties is a part of why, but more than that Advans have a long history in Japanese racing that dates back to the early seventies. That’s […]

Advan Alphabet

28 Mar, 2012 in Wheel Info tagged a3a / a3b / a3c / a3d / a3e / advan / ae86 / carrot / flashpoint by Q Osborne

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