The "1990s Japanese Turbo Era" gave us some truly spectacular tuner culture and few were wilder than "Smokey" Nagata's shop Top Secret.
He built this wild JZA80 Mark 4 Toyota Supra but, unlike his other massively overpowered builds, he went past the usual turbo 4 and 6 cylinder engines to Toyota's epic 1GZ-FE 5L V12 from their Century luxobarge, and then strapped two turbos to it. The wide bodykit and trademark Top Secret gold paint round out an insane creation rumoured to have topped 320km/h on a Tokyo highway.
The vehicle from what was arguably the peak of JDM Tuner culture is now for sale.
Iain Kelly is the turbo fan behind www.TheCreatorsOnline.com
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Iain Kelly
Contributing Journalist
A love of classic American and European cars drove Iain Kelly to motoring journalism straight out of high school, via the ownership of a tired 1975 HJ Holden Monaro.
For nearly 20 years he has worked on magazines and websites catering to modified late model high-performance Japanese and European tuner cars, as well as traditional hot rods, muscle cars and street machines. Some of these titles include Auto Salon, LSX Tuner, MOTOR, Forged, Freestyle Rides, Roadkill, SPEED, and Street Machine. He counts his trip to the USA to help build Mighty Car Mods’ “Subarute” along with co-authoring their recent book, The Cars of Mighty Car Mods, among his career highlights.
Iain lends his expertise to CarsGuide for a variety of advice projects, along with legitimising his automotive obsession with regular OverSteer contributions.
Although his practical skills working on cars is nearly all self-taught, he still loves nothing more than spending quality time in the shed working on his project car, a 1964 Pontiac. He also admits to also having an addiction to E30 BMWs and Subaru Liberty RS Turbos, both of which he has had multiple examples of. With car choices like that, at least his mum thinks he is cool.
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