Erg Racing Service Truck Ready For Its First Rally

It will be a few more weeks before we make any official announcement, but we’re still working on preparations to compete in our first rally with the Tatra this fall.

In the meantime, we spent last weekend getting the Erg Racing service truck ready for its own debut providing support for the LM 4×4 Nissan Patrol in the 20th Breslau Rallye in Poland at the end of the week.

Most of the important modifications were made in February, so the work was mostly cosmetic and for comfort.

We did a little sanding to remove a few spots of rust from the cab and then repainted.

IvecoSanding

The masking took almost as much time as the painting did,

IvecoMaskedDriverSide

IvecoMaskedPassengerSide

The paint on the cab was still in good condition, so to save time, we didn’t repaint everything, just the area we had sanded and the cargo.

IvecoPaintedDriverSide

IvecoPaintedPassengerSide

The new multi-colored look fits in with the colors of our two other trucks, and once it’s covered with stickers the color difference won’t matter anyway.

Once the paint was dry, we bolted the tent on the roof rack,

IvecoWithTent

and applied our own logo and web address.

IvecoErgRacing

IvecoRear

We’ll be leaving out tomorrow to pick up the rest of the team and then heading off for Breslau. We’ll try to post regular updates about the race over the course of the week.

Paint Design

Just for fun, we added a splash of color. The design is reminiscent of the original Swedish army camouflage patterns, but by using bright colors and minimizing the patterns, the allusion remains subtle and the dominant impression is more harlequin than military.

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Repainting

Military camouflage colors are not a welcome sight everywhere, so repainting was important.

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