Juha Kankkunen, four-time winner of the World Rally Championship, has never given an "outsider" access to his private car collection — until today.
We're here at the personal invitation of Kankkunen and his car restorer-in-chief, Kari Mäkelä. He starts the tour by leading us through a modest office before continuing into a larger back room at his farm in Finland. There we come face to face with a quintet of Group B rally cars and a pair of Lancia Integrales dressed in Martini livery. Nice.
There's also a row of vintage Fords that includes everything from a Model A to a Lotus Cortina to a road-going RS200. To the left is a Formula Ford racer bearing the name "Mika Hakkinen," a Group A Toyota Celica Turbo and a Mitsubishi Evo III.
What makes the collection so special is its integrity. This is not the hobby of a playboy billionaire; these are mementos from a lifetime of achievement. From the early '80s to the mid-'90s, Kankkunen could justifiably claim to be the fastest driver on the planet.
The Peugeot 205 T16 Evo 2, for example, is the very car in which he won the Swedish Rally in 1986. http://www.insideline.com/features/c...-lifetime.html
1929 Ford Model A with a Ford BDA rally engine 250hp
Same car. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFSGSL3Nrmc
And rest of pics.
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We're here at the personal invitation of Kankkunen and his car restorer-in-chief, Kari Mäkelä. He starts the tour by leading us through a modest office before continuing into a larger back room at his farm in Finland. There we come face to face with a quintet of Group B rally cars and a pair of Lancia Integrales dressed in Martini livery. Nice.
There's also a row of vintage Fords that includes everything from a Model A to a Lotus Cortina to a road-going RS200. To the left is a Formula Ford racer bearing the name "Mika Hakkinen," a Group A Toyota Celica Turbo and a Mitsubishi Evo III.
What makes the collection so special is its integrity. This is not the hobby of a playboy billionaire; these are mementos from a lifetime of achievement. From the early '80s to the mid-'90s, Kankkunen could justifiably claim to be the fastest driver on the planet.
The Peugeot 205 T16 Evo 2, for example, is the very car in which he won the Swedish Rally in 1986. http://www.insideline.com/features/c...-lifetime.html
1929 Ford Model A with a Ford BDA rally engine 250hp
Same car. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFSGSL3Nrmc
And rest of pics.
http://www.insideline.com/features/p...e-gallery.html
142 Photos
Project pics.
http://www.mat.fi/n_index.php?nav=ga...gallery=13&p=1
