Here's a few shots of WRC driver Jari-Matti Latvala's Evo III build. This car was recently completed and is a near exact replica of Tommi Makinen's 1996 Rally Sweden winning Evo III. Figured the community would enjoy this

The original


The original and the replica being built


More work on the replica


Nearing completion


Some shots of the finished product

 

Nice

 

Thats bad *** thanks for shareing that.

 

Awesome! Nice Snow Tires!

 

damn cool.

 

Jari-Matti is actually my relative (which is why I'm able to get these pics ), and his father used to drive for Mitsu when he rallied. He drives a Fiesta WRC in rallies, but since there is no road-going AWD Fiesta, he's been recently driving an Evo 9 as one of his daily drivers. It inspired him to build this III, in honor of Makinen.

 

Thats awesome!

Nice restoration! I hope Jari does well in WRC this year!

 

love the pics and thanks for sharing it...

 

Thanks for sharing. Is that Corolla a WRC corolla? More pics of that too? Guessing he didn't want to wreck the original so that's why he built a replica?

 

awesome, wish i could see more details with the whole build. so jealous.

 

Here's a vid he shot back in August, the car was in the initial stage of the build at that point.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOT3XJRCQuk

 

That's pretty cool

 

that's so sick... thank you for sharing!!!

 

too cool that he's into these old rally cars.

 

Thanks for sharing.