After owning Porsche, McLaren, and other supercars, he bought a Japanese Supra
The “Supra National Meeting 2022” was held at Fuji Speedway in November 2022. As an event exclusively for successive generations of Toyota Supra, various Supra, and their owners participated from all over Japan.
After looking at 80 candidates of type 80 Supra, changed direction to the current model
The type 90 Supra was fully customized and radiated a strong aura of presence at the event. Mr. Hassy, the owner of this type 90 Supra RZ, rushed to Fuji Speedway with his car which had left the original body line only on the roof and pillars,
He bought this Supra 2 years ago. He was originally looking for a type 80 Supra RZ. He went around Japan looking for many candidates of type 80 Supra, almost 80 used cars. But there were no cars that kept the original power when he took the test drive. One of them cost 9.0 million yen(Ca.70K $ in current currency), but his friend gave the advice, those costs could buy the type 90.
Unexpectedly some catalogue of certain brands was put in front of him, at a glance he fell in love with this car.
Felt the passion for the Liberty Walk complete kit
The brand is Liberty Walk, which has a brand shop in Aichi Prefecture and now attracting attention in the custom scene around the world. Mr. Hassy purchased a car equipped with a full kit for Type 90 that was probably built as a sample demonstration for several cars. The car was originally equipped with a front and rear diffuser, rear wing, wide fender kit, side skirts, special hood, etc. It was covered with flashy decals like a racing car, but he removed them to start driving.
“I have driven Porsche, McLaren, and other super-performance cars, but I thought that would like to try the fancy Japanese product once. I feel like I stand out when I drive it. Because of bigger tires, Its drive feeling is more than normal Type 90, The stock Type 90 runs quite fast in safety, but it felt like on the rail performance, nothing dramatic. Even the air suspension and bigger tires pick up wheel tracks on the road, it feels more fun to drive.”
Convey the fun of cars to children
At the event, the car was at its highest height due to a malfunction in the air suspension but when the car is normally parked, it is so sticky the body almost touches the ground. This appearance catches catching eyes of children, who often come up to the car.
“AS one of the supercar generation, I invite them to drive by the passenger side. It is planted seeding to the mind of children for the dream of cars. In the future, I would like to create a production that takes advantage of the fact by Japanese. I’m thinking now of putting decals like Kabuki or cherry blossom snowstorm on it or something like that to give it a beautiful Japanese culture.”
