Kawasaki gpz900r

Growing up, Andrew Komurka was a self-professed gearhead. It's no surprise that he snatched up a Top Gun motorcycle replica, a 1985 Kawasaki GPZ900R.

It's been over thirty years since Tom Cruise blasted across the screen in an F14 Tomcat, in the cult classic Top Gun. But who remembers the motorcycle he rode in the film? We do: it was a red and black Kawasaki GPZ900R. Photographer Paolo Sandolfini wasn't even born when Top Gun came out, but he's a nut for everything 80s. So when he got his hands on a GPZ900R, the pop culture reference was too hard to resist. Paolo bought the GPZ900R four years ago, after owning a GPZ750. Even though he had…

As a child of the 80s, I believe this Kawasaki Ninja GPZ900R checks all the right boxes. An instant legend of a motorcycle further memorialized by a role in the 80’s classic Top Gun, and it…

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Some behind-the-scenes shots from the 1985 movie Top Gun featuring Tom Cruise and some GPZ 750/900s. I read somewhere that they used 750s with 900 bodywork because the 900 hadn't been released yet as the movie was being made. Maybe that's true, I dunno... #TopGun #KawasakiGPZ #TomCruise #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage

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