Projects

Mochi's JCE10 Q's New Era Hachiroku Ryan's SW11 projects-gda3

Past Projects

In the fall of 2001 Ryan and I started assembling and modifying cars together.  All started in different forms, some from scratch, others from near full build requiring only tweaking and tuning.  Nevertheless, all of these cars have been ours… we have a tendency to go through a lot:  lots that never even made mention here, and some that I spent hours writing and thinking about.  It is some form of A.D.D…. really.  In the first few years after we teamed up, neither of us managed to make it through a single season with one car.  They came and went. Mostly it was because we liked to dream, but it was also partly because there was always someone willing to buy.  Cash just looks so good.

Note: These charts are for fun.  Don’t confuse them for us being hard core and bad ass.  Check it out.

Q'S Power Wagon projects-bc62 projects-fjz80 Andrew's Trackick Qs Daily Still Qs AE86 Ryan's VZN170 Mochi's ZJ Mochi's UCF10 Arews BC6 projects-sabi project-aw11sc RN66 Boroi AW11 RNN14 Ryan's NA6CE GZ20 AH Civic projects-a1 Original AE86 All My Other AE86


Well shit. Life has evolved to a point where nearly everything I post here should stay out of the public eye. Good thing I’ve never used “Google” as a character reference. This post comes to you courtesy of The Chemical Brothers, Co-op brand IPA, and old men who leave voicemails. I’ve had the pleasure of making a meager living for […]

I Get My Rage On With Wrenches


懐かしい気持ち。 Still working on moving on. Some lessons learned: Be a man. Be like a truck. Carry things. Get shit kicked. Be ugly… but comfortable and dependable. Never sell that truck. Sometimes life is easy enough for sports cars… but then… This 22RTE truck was mine at a time between marriage and adult money. It was ragged and hacked, drank […]

Final Scenes – II



I’m entering my sixth year of owning the ZN6, and that is cause for celebration… and probably a reconsideration of what this car really is. I’ve never owned any car for this long. My panda AE86 coupe, which I bought and sold twice, and seems present in every single car life memory I possess… never spent this duration of time […]

Step Back and Look Again


By necessity, my ZN6 is now the daily tool. This is a great thing. 二十年間ハチロクを運転しているですからよ!IMHO an 86 should not thrive on the track, but it is supposed to slay every day. It does that in ways that cool people don’t recognize. I.E. it is no rocket ship. It is so great at showing love though. This may be a sign […]

86 Life Re-born?



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… Time to reminisce. By modest standards, I’ve owned some really good cars. Or at the very least… I’ve formed some really great relationships with cars that I’ve owned. For the last two decades, AE86 has always been front of mind. Raw, wrench friendly, and personal, I still dream of AE86 often. The AE86 however, is no longer a car […]

It’s Winter…


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2018 is done. I attended just four solo events this year. Fuck. The car and my performance often left me lamenting choices made. This SSC class, and the shit tires it comes with means that the car is very nearly one of the slowest cars in solo. This in itself isn’t the end of the world, but in a small […]

Super SSC Party




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  • Dave

    This post confuses me. You start out so down on the car/class. But then the event at the end shows the car getting not only top PAX, but also 2nd raw time. This makes it seem like a fun, capable platform. Unfortunately, we have not had a single SSC car built locally yet. So I can not judge from personal experience. Hopefully you find your groove with it. It took me a few events to click with my Cayman. I couldn’t understand how people were so fast with them. Then one day, I went from being top 15 PAX to top 5 at every event. Good luck finding that click moment 🙂

  • Q Osborne Post author

    Cheers for the comments Dave. That’s encouraging. I’m bored of the car, and would love to make some more fun changes (boy racer stuff). I think the car genuinely is a tough PAX car. It’s been a really really long time since neither Cam (2018 SS winner) or Ryan (2017 BS winner) won PAX. Both of those guys got me… so I’m obviously not as good as I’d like to think. And then… there is always another level. Parker but the beat down on us all, and that is inspiring, although also somewhat mystifying. The car is passively listed for sale on our local club forum… but I’m skeptical a sale will come given 8″ of snow on the ground.