By Tikkis:

I had the honour to meet one of the most signifigant rallyphotographers of our time in Finland – Marko Mäkinen. Marko has made his first rallyphotos already in early 70´s and sold his first rallyphotos to newspaper in 1973, at the age of 12!! After that he has been in the middle of event, specially 1000 Lakes Rally. So he has photos from practically all those legendary blue and white Saabs you can see on our website.

Marko is a freelancer journalist and writes stories for forexample the biggest motorsport magazine in Finland Vauhdin Maailma (VM http://www.vauhdinmaailma.fi/). Now he has a report series going on about famous finnish competition machines; formulas, rally and track cars, motorbikes etc. For this purpose he made a short visit to the Saabworks garage. One of the iconic driver and blue and white Saab combinations is Simo Lampinen and AEU-502. The story will published VM middle of august, in the same number as the report on 1000 Lakes of 2012. Buy one!

Marko took also some photos from Simo´s original driving overalls.

Marko took also some photos from Simo´s original driving overalls.

Saab 96 AEU-502 Jyväskylän Suurajot kuvaaja Marko Mäkinen

Saab 96 AEU-502 Jyväskylän Suurajot kuvaaja Marko Mäkinen

More info about Marko Mäkinen and his photos of the 1000 Lakes rallies in the seventies you can find on Markos Website.


Written by Saabworks.fi



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