#jgtc

[touge-dreams]

[todomeaburre]

Honda NSX #8 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri

[hirocimacruiser]

JGTC Porsche 911 race cars.

[okosen]

[transportationlover3]

2010 Honda HSV-10 GT

[justcarz]

[tofupowar]

[hachitory]

[touge-dreams]

[todomeaburre]

Toyota Supra #36 Toyota Team TOM's

[understeerking]

[hirocimacruiser]

The All Japan Touring Car Championship was revived in 1985. It attracted a wide variety of cars from all over the world and became very popular. In 1989 2 Skyline GT-R were finished by NISMO to Group A regulations and the GT-R immediately dominated the series with its powerful 2.6-liter straight-six turbo 600bhp engine and four-wheel drive, and the competition between the teams became heated. At the 1990 Inter TEC, No. 12 in the photo (Kazuyoshi Hoshino/Toshio Suzuki) won the first overall victory for a Japanese car.

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[smashbandicooter]

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Fiery Robot

[radracer]

1999 Toyota Supra A80 JGTC

@mark_scenemedia

How does an old, awesome race car end up as the world’s fastest and most expensive flowerbed? Well, because nobody else wanted it. Which, considering it was relatively successful (finishing 14th overall in its final season, but also on the podium at Fuji Speedway) is a bit bonkers.

What you're looking at is the 1999 Toyota Supra #38 Cerumo FK/Massimo JGTC car that was driven by Yuji Tachikawa and Hironori Takeuchi. Not some half-arsed marketing buck, either, but the actual car that raced, complete with all its mechanical bits intact, apart from the transmission.

After the 1999 season there was a sponsorship change within the race team, so the main sponsor wanted to get rid of the car. But no one wanted it; it was too complex to run, too expensive. So the owners of the shop where it lives now managed to bag it for free and use it as an eye-catching momento outside the office.

It’s been sat in the same spot for the last 15 years. So long in fact, they can’t actually remember exactly how long it’s been there. But long enough for the paint to fade and crack, tyres to deflate and for the rust to set in and turn the motorsport parts a nice shade of sad, neglected brown.

As you can imagine, over the years they've been approached multiple times by people (from all around the world) wanting to buy it. Some have even offered heinous amounts of money. But they will never sell it. No matter how bad its increasingly decrepit condition gets, it's got tremendous sentimental value and drums up attention in a way a giant inflatable man or Freelander parked on some rockery simply can't. But will they ever restore it? Well, it's always been on their to-do list but they've never got round to.