The view that greets a Supersport driver is one of the best in modern motordom: a long, sleek bonnet, swooping wheel arches ...

What used to go on in Japan after dark? Illegal street racing for the most part, though it wasn't as dodgy as it sounds ...

A Nissan Skyline Turbo Super Silhouette racer barrels into the first corner at a hair under full throttle, its comically outsized rear end just beginning to spin out wide as its super-sticky slick ...