Part 6: A howl of distant engines drawing closer
Welcome back avid followers of Rally Quest (yes, both of you), it’s been a while. I did say this thing would probably take years, didn’t I? Here's what's been happening. 2019 Cast your mind back to March 2019. I’d just finished my weekend at Rally School. I was chomping at the bit to progress to the next level – buy a car, strip it out, chuck in some recaros and start competing... become a rally driver . But as my old man says: ‘life has a funny habit of getting in the way of your plans...’ My wife Annabel and I owned a 1-bedroom flat at the time, but we wanted to move to a bigger place. Not long after Rally School an idle tire-kick of an enquiry to our local real-estate agent quickly led to us listing, then getting a rather high offer– way more than we’d thought possible. Out of nowhere, another life's dream suddenly came into view. 10 years ago I would have said it’ll never happen . 2 years ago I would have said maybe in 10 years . But in the middle of last year, t...