If you thought getting up the hill was difficult, just you wait until you have to go down it again. ‘Jump man, jump! We need to shed some weight or we’ll never make it.’ He jumped. And at that moment, as time stood still and he found himself voluntarily throwing himself from a moving vehicle, […]
Pre Flight Checks: The Gambia Expedition Part 1
An in-depth look at the many preparations and modifications needed to cross the Sahara in a classic car… If someone said to you that they were going to drive to The Gambia, you might start by looking at a map before realising that this is no small undertaking. You would quickly notice that mainland Africa’s […]
A Tendency to Self Destruct
My first vintage car was a baptism of fire into the world of antique automobiles. One of the joys of driving old cars is that you never quite know what’s going to happen next. As a pilot of a historic machine one is constantly listening for new rattles and squeaks, in the knowledge that any […]
Genesis
In the beginning there was a Morris Minor. This car has undoubtedly changed my life more than I could have imagined.