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PROJECT CARS]

SIMM perfection

1998 Toyota Chaser JZX100

Words: Shaer Reaz Photos: Rahin Sadman Islam
This is it. This Chaser, the man behind it's wheel, the engine under the hood. Those smooth, handsome lines. This is the reason I absolutely love what I do, sacrificing weekends, sleep, and social life. Project cars like these are few and far between, an orchestra of just the right parts and platform coming together to yield something that is damn near perfect.
They say it's love when your heart skips a beat and comes back on with punches that threaten to tear your ribcage apart. Faced with Tanweer Zaman's E-P-I-C Chaser, the scrambling of emotions and the difficulty you face in pinpointing exactly what the car has that makes your pants tighter is a feeling you really have to experience to believe.
Understatement, restraint, and a thesaurus of synonymous adjectives can be flung upon the Chaser,
inch wheels, TRD front splitter and custom boot lip spoiler all add up to a simplicity and elegance which is hard to find in today's stance and "loud" body mods crazed world. Sometimes, beauty needs simplicity and elegance over brash in-your-face attitude; think Viki Dougan instead of the internet-breaking Kim Kardashian.
Under the hood sits the first 1-JZGTE swap into a Chaser ever done in the country. 2500 cc, WT-i, single turbo. The Supra-sourced in-line six cylinder unit has been nurtured and caressed with the best quality parts to produce 320 of the finest quality horsepower. It is impossible to imagine how a car of this size and weight can build speed that quickly, with an automatic gearbox, nonetheless. The only hints at the mental beast hiding underneath the subdued exterior are the
and it will brush it aside with the elegance of a veteran Audrey Hepburn-esque hearthrob not giving a second thought to the adoration of her fans. This is a brown car. Its not an exact brown, it's a fusion of bronze, silver, sandy brown, beige, champagne, and under different lighting, the near-alcoholic mix of colours give off the impression of a chameleon soul.
It really does have a split personality.
On the outside, the subtle wheel arches, wide 18
intercooler peeking out the front bumper and the muted-but-throaty Blitz exhaust out back.
Inside, it's the cleanest car from the 90's that you can find today. Find one scratch, one smudge, one speck of dust and I will print out ten copies of my article, cut them up into tiny 2x2 squares, and eat them for breakfast. Look at the hyper-rare 320 km/h TRD gauges, original TRD steering wheel, the red stitched black leather seats, Sparco gear knob, and the extra set of
First 1 -JZGTE engine swap into a Chaser in Bangladesh. Supra power, Chaser looks and (relative) practicality. And look at how clean that engine bay is!
gauges sitting four abreast on the dashboard, and you get the idea that this car has been built with a meticulous attention to detail.
Tanweer Zaman has a philosophy to building up each car he lays his hands on. With each progression, however, he tries to inject something new, something more. What results are cars which look and feel wildly different from one another, but cars which are all built with strict respect for the core philosophy: completeness. Every single part comes together to work perfectly. Everything.
He drives the Chaser daily. "The K-sport coilovers make it difficult to navigate over Dhaka streets, but if you are a bit careful, it is very surprising how useable this car is on a daily basis. It is difficult to find traction for the rear wheels on dirt, sand, mud or rain soaked tarmac, however. Having a grippy set of tires is quite necessary", says Tanweer.
Remember that person you used to have a crush on in high school, the one which will always pull your heartstrings, but that person who, in a cruel twist of fate, was always hitched to someone else? If luck ever shone on you and you got your chance, would you take it or let it pass? Tanweer has a new machine to build up (it's Japanese nickname starts with an H and ends with a U, if you can guess it, I think you'll be as excited as we are at Shift), and unfortunately, he has to let this Chaser go. If you would like to be the proud owner of what is probably one of the best project cars to ever grace Dhaka's streets, keep an eye on our Facebook page.