There's one obvious intruder here: the bright red Merc support truck, which points to the second subject the warehouse hides.
Whilst I was finding new Evo angles, of course I'd noticed the piles of debris on the left side of the warehouse. It was dark, so a big pile of stuff wasn't that interesting, surely?
Rod and Andy were looking around in the recesses of the warehouse, but I was called over. Pulling away from the Evos, I reluctantly sauntered across. But this was no pile of rubbish...
What we had was an entire set of spares for a World Rally Team. Everything. Literally. Hence the support truck. Evos forgotten for the moment, it was time to root about.
All the parts in here are from the Mitsubishi World Rally Championship programme originally run by British works team MML.
Backing up the Emkei wheels and body parts still stored at the main JRM/Sumo Power factory, this it the final piece in the WRC puzzle. There's an enormous amount of kit laid out. It gives you an idea just what is involved with running a factory effort. Given the body shells, you could easily make up half a dozen WRC cars from the parts.
When JR Motorsport acquired ADR, who had been running the Group N Evos in the British national Rally Championship, they also ended up with all the spares and cars from MML's operation. Springs? How many do you want.
The smaller, more manageable parts are piled up in wire containers. There's just a mind-boggling amount of stuff lying about.
Brake disks as sci-fi buildings?
Exhaust systems...
Radiators...
AP brakes...
Fans...
Fuel tanks...
And a seemingly Endless supply of pads. Okay. Bad joke.
Hub bearings and half a carbon gearbox casing.
It's stupid to say 'one interesting thing' when you've got this much racing treasure to delve through, but these out-rigger bumpers caught my eye. Safari-spec? Paint missing? Maybe seen action?
A whole stack of titanium prop-shafts was piled up.
These are substantial pieces of kit… not surprising when you think of the punishment they have to put up with.
What an amazing thing to see. Truly one of those places where if you love cars, you simply dont want to leave.
http://speedhunters.com/archive/2010...ce-of-evo.aspx
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