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After attending the Prescott Rally in 2005, I knew I had to build a rally car. Being a dedicated DSMer, I knew I had to build a Mitsubishi. I bought 1991 Galant VR4 195/2000. But then I thought, these cars are far too rare and way too sweet for me to build one up just to stuff it in a ditch somewhere near the border, so at the Prescott Rally in 2008, I lucked out and found 1992 Galant VR4 464/1000.

This site is dedicated to [464] Tarmac & [195] Gravel. One to stay clean. One to press on regardless.

A6MGVR4 Idea

Filed Under ([195] Gravel, gvr4) by DR1665 on 06-09-2009

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I was inspired by a post on Twitter by Chuck Reynolds.  He shared a picture of a sport bike done up to look like a P51 Mustang fighter plane.  It looked so awesome, I found myself browsing Google Images for pictures of Mitsubishi Zeros.

The Mitsubishi A6M Zeke, or Zero, was a formidable fighter plane which reigned terror upon the allied forces in the Pacific theater during WWII.  Many kamikaze, suicide pilots flew Zeros.  Considering my Galant 195/2000 is being built to one day face death in a ditch during a rally, I thought a Zero paint scheme might be fitting.  But what would it look like?

A6M7-BSh

This was my first – serious – attempt at drawing something in Photoshop as a vector file.  It’s pretty rough around the edges, but I think it turned out pretty damn cool.  The original idea was to draw the car up and then remove the photo beneath it, but I figure there will be plenty of time to practice in the future.

I plan on doing up a couple more versions of this theme to go with the multiple paint schemes I found during my A6M research this afternoon.  Let me know what you think!

A6MGVR4

EDIT: I’m going to keep adding the images to this post as I do them.

A6MGVR4B

None of these are as nice as I would like them, but they help me to visualize the ideas in my head.  The next challenge is already underway…

A6MA

A6MGVR4C

Another idea I’m considering is the one at the bottom of this very grainy, hard to read picture I found.  Considering the car is currently flat black, this might be a piece of cake to pull off in a weekend with some red spray paint. :P

Zero Variations

Finally, anyone out there think I ought to throw any kind of historic accuracy out the window and stylize one of the schemes a la this pretty awesome image I found from some video game out there?  What do you think?  Thanks!

zeroEvoX

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