Top Secret would not be what it is today without it's founder, who also happens to be the owner and active president to this day. For More than 10 years now, Mr. Kazuhiko "Smoky" Nagata has been tuning and creating vehicles under the Top Secret name and making the world well aware of both presences. Mr. Nagata had been active in the automotive and tuning industry long before Top Secret was created. In fact, he was a critical person in another Japanese tuning/engineering company that will remain unnamed. Smoky, while working with that unnamed company, also began working on secretive projects and tuning vehicles at night. These projects were always referred to as Top Secret. When it was time to start his tuning shop, Mr. Nagata already had a name for his new project, TOP SECRET.

While the first creations of Mr. Nagata's were green in color, he found inspiration and motivation to succeed when the olympics came to town. Inspired by the olympic gold medal, Top Secret's now famous gold paint was then created.

Making a name for himself proved not to be too difficult for a man who liked the thrill of smoking the tires on any vehicle he was in. As captioned in Japanese in the picture below, "Anytime, anywhere, SMOKY!" Smoky's wild stunts of 340k plus speeds on highways and public roads havent gone unnoticed as you will see pictured below.