Part 1: The First Stepping Stone
It started with a conversation about rallying historic cars and ended with cash changing hands behind a strip club in the West Midlands. For some months my good friend and navigator, Graham, and I had been trying to find an affordable but challenging form of historic car rallying. In this search we came across a European car rally called Monte Carlo or Bust. It looked like a lot of fun driving across Europe, raising money for your chosen charity, and ending in Monte Carlo where you had the option of seeing your car crushed! The only entry criteria was that the car should cost less than £500 (and by the way, there is no technical backup on the trip for your banger). With this in the back of my mind, I took to Ebay and lo and behold, an advertisement jumped out at me: An early 2000s Jaguar saloon that had reached the dizzying heights of £200 with just a few hours left of the auction. Not only that, but I recognised the house in the background o...