Heritage Liveries  /  1990s

Supra A80 — the green sweep

The only curve on this page. A green sweep rising from the rear quarter to the nose, with a red line chasing it.

Toyota Supra A801995–2002

Stripe-geometry study — colour and geometry only. No sponsor logotype, wordmark, roundel or emblem is drawn.

Palette
Paper white#FFFFFF
Racing green#00703C
Signal red#D0021B
Specification
Team / entryTOM'S, All-Japan GT Championship
CarToyota Supra A80
Years1995–2002
Decade1990s
Hero-car issueIssue 03 — Toyota Supra Mk4

Read Issue 03

The study

Reading the geometry

Every other study here is built from straight edges. This one is not, and that is exactly why it became the most recognisable Japanese GT livery of the nineties. The green sweeps up from the rear arch, thins across the door, and lifts over the front wheel — a curve that follows the A80's own shoulder line rather than fighting it.

Below it, a narrower red line traces the same path a few centimetres back, and above it a second thin green line does the same. Three parallel curves at different weights: it is a rule set, not a drawing, and it can be applied to any body shape and still look correct.

The white ground is not decoration. On a car this long, an unbroken white field is what gives the curves something to be read against.

Reproduced here as colour and stripe geometry only. The oil company's marks are not drawn.

Presented as a historical colour study for editorial reference. All team names, marques and marks referred to remain the property of their owners.