Gaz86's 1994 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo II RS

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Nearly ready to pull the engine and running gear out now. Also got the rest of the interior bits off the pallet and cleaned up 👍🏻

Will have to fabricate a rotisserie in the coming weeks

I've also spent far too much this past couple of weeks on bits for this 🙈 Evo 3 bumper, skirts and rear spats coming from Malaysia and Indonesia, along with brand new headlights and orange indicators

Also picked this up on eBay, an original 1994 Rally Australia sticker from the collection of Martin Holmes 😎

www.autosport.com

Obituary: Rally co-driver and journalist Martin Holmes dies aged 80

When the rally world reconvenes after the Covid-19 hiatus it will be without one of its most ardent supporters and knowledgeable chroniclers, Martin Holmes, who died late last week after a long battle with cancer
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How did I miss this!😱 awesome mate. Considering what you did with the Mazda, this will be mint! What a project!😍
 

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Was the first video that came up. The previous owner drove it a lot harder!
 

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I've just discovered this car wasn't imported in 2000, it was imported on 1st July 2005 by a dealer in Craigavon somewhere and wasn't even registered in my friends name as he and his father had intended to track the car. They only did two track days at Kirkistown and was stored in quite a warm chicken shed (away from the birds) which explains it's remarkable condition 😁 Don't know how I didn't notice this on the HPI check. Good to know it's never suffered any of our weather 👍🏻

He said he should still have the receipt from when he bought it which will be nice to have
 

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Gaz86 said:
I've just discovered this car wasn't imported in 2000, it was imported on 1st July 2005 by a dealer in Craigavon somewhere and wasn't even registered in my friends name as he and his father had intended to track the car. They only did two track days at Kirkistown and was stored in quite a warm chicken shed (away from the birds) which explains it's remarkable condition 😁 Don't know how I didn't notice this on the HPI check. Good to know it's never suffered any of our weather 👍🏻

He said he should still have the receipt from when he bought it which will be nice to have
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ya dancer!!

Can't say better than that!
 

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Gaz86 said:
I've just discovered this car wasn't imported in 2000, it was imported on 1st July 2005 by a dealer in Craigavon somewhere and wasn't even registered in my friends name as he and his father had intended to track the car. They only did two track days at Kirkistown
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Doublechecked the archive and we have a winner:

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Taken 26th March 2006 at a Kirkistown Trackskills day 🙂
 

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azzamut said:
I had an Evo 1 with full roll cage.

Best car I've had, or best memories anyway.

the 1 came with a 4g63t also.

I've a front strut brace and a few other things lying about for them still.
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Ping me a DM with what other bits you have, you may have something I'm interested in 👍🏻
 

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Got a bit more work done tonight and a couple of deliveries from Latvia and Malaysia 😁 Evo 3 front bumper and sideskirts. Still waiting on the rear spats coming from Indonesia. I also managed to source a new front windscreen which arrives on Monday

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I also picked up this 1995 Rally Argentina decal, again from Martin Holmes collection 😎

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Yesterday I ordered the steel to make the rotisserie so just have to wait for that to arrive before I can go much further. Could be another week or two apparently.

I spent a couple of hours the other night removing old cracked sound deadening from the spare wheel well (not fun) and beating out a couple of dents in the rear drivers side pocket 👍🏻
 

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Going full on then Gary? Brilliant, should make a great motor when done. :heart_eyes:
 

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Going full on then Gary? Brilliant, should make a great motor when done. :heart_eyes:
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May as well. This is going to be my last project build and since it's already a pretty rare car (and will probably be worth a pretty penny when it's mint) it's definitely worth doing right so no half measures 👍🏻 in another few weeks all being well it'll be stripped to its knickers and ready to get the underside sand blasted ready for some serious underbody protection for being resprayed👌🏻 Staying white of course
 

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Fair play to you, that's class! Putting me to shame lol
 

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Fair play to you, that's class! Putting me to shame lol
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Well for me it's a learning experience, I enjoy picking up new skills. I bought the MX5 to cut my teeth at mechanicing and think I learned a fair bit in doing so but I've never really done any bodywork so I see this as an opportunity to do some of that. With this I'm going to teach myself to weld and repair bodywork although it only needs a few small patches I'll enjoy it all the same ☺️ obviously I'll be doing a lot of test bits on scraps before I touch the car lol
 
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