In 2001, JUN returned to the salt flats with its ‘Akira Supra’ – a demo car build started three years earlier from a stock 1993 Toyota Supra RZ. In the grainy footage, the Akira Supra was filmed ripping through the gears along the Tokyo Aqualine at over 300km/h – the Wangan benchmark of the golden era. Even before I knew of its Bonneville exploits, the Akira Supra embodied everything amazing about the Japanese tuning scene at the time. The street version of the Akira Supra – JUN’s original look for the car – perfectly reflected the late-’90s/early-’00s Japanese tuner style. While these icons of Japanese performance tuning are sadly gone, JUN’s legacy will live on forever through cars like the legendary Akira Supra.