The Euro-spec bonnet is one of Peter’s small touches, as is the left-hand-drive conversion – something that he didn’t have to do, but wanted to.

Peter originally imported the Supra from Japan, and thanks to one of its previous owners it had already been subtly upgraded with a Border front bumper, Bomex side skirts and 98-spec headlights and tailights. Of course, being an aircraft technician and obviously someone with an eye for detail has certainly helped the cause.Īnd there are details aplenty, whichever angle you view the car from. If that number wasn’t impressive enough in its own right, the fact that Peter built the car himself in his garage with no previous experience with Toyotas – or the venerable 2JZ for the matter – is testament to the achievement here. Interestingly enough, when Peter built the Supra he was never chasing a specific number or had a particular horsepower goal in mind, but through the evolution of its factory-fitted 2JZ-GTE engine a staunch 1,294whp is where it’s ended up. It doesn’t take a genius to work out that moving a fully-loaded Supra down the quarter mile in less than nine seconds takes an almighty amount of power, and as you’ve probably worked out by the title of this post, this one has rather a lot of it. And there’s a good reason for that, because when it comes to building cars – especially crazy-fast cars with outside-of-the-box thinking – Scandinavia does it like no other.īut amongst the mayhem you’ll find cars like Tobias Andersson’s 1993 Toyota Supra RZ – a well-known Swedish creation from the garage of Gatebil regular Peter Björck, aka ‘Bjørcks Busbil’, aka the builder/owner/driver of a certain Volvo 245 wagon. Not only is the JZA80 one of the cleanest street-driven Supras you’re ever likely to come across, but having stamped its mark on the strip with an 8.82-second pass with Peter at the wheel, it’s probably one of the quickest too. Think Gatebil and it’s not hard to conjure up thoughts of mutant creations with mind-blowing four-digit horsepower outputs being thrown sideways at speed.

Supra mk4 horsepower