I signed off the first instalment of my Honda Del Sol story with the line “I shall try not to leave it so long until the next update”. That was precisely 1 year, 2 months and 2 days ago, and was also the last time the Wreckless Abandon blog was updated. It is perhaps safe to conclude that I’m not very good at this game!
The Del Lolz – A Year On
An email dropped into my inbox a few days ago, it was a reminder from Greenlight that the insurance on my little Honda Del Sol was due for renewal. This came as a bit of a shock, not due to the price I must stress as that was very reasonable, but as I could scarcely believe it had already spent a year in my ownership. As I thought about this for a while it became slowly more plausible, as I reminisced about events and memories that had come and gone in the previous 12 months. My initial disbelief stemmed from the fact I felt I had achieved very little with the car whose V5 I had scribbled on in the dying embers of May 2015.
The Tarmac Terrorist – A Retrospective
This is a feature I wrote on my Mazda MX5, which was originally published in Japanese Performance Magazine Issue 142, dated November 2012. I have combined it with a smattering of pictures taken throughout the first 3 years of the build, between 2009 and the feature date. The car continued to evolve for a further year beyond this, and I shall endeavour to release a follow up post covering this very soon. In the meantime please enjoy this little retrospective!
The Highlanding – Making Sense of the Nonsensical
A few weeks later, once the adrenaline had well and truly subsided, I am afraid to say I was feeling a little despondent. Not just because the monotony of normal life was back in full flow, but because I couldn’t help but feel somewhat underwhelmed by what we had done, and I could not for the life of me put my finger on why.
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The Highlanding – Part 6
Day 5 – One Final Foggy Foresty Farewell
The Highlanding – Part 5
Day 4 – Overtaking and Biker Chasing: Applecross to Loch Lomond
The Highlanding – Part 4
Day 3 – The Big North Coast
The Highlanding – Part 3
Day 2 – Cairngorms, the East Coast and John o’ Groats
The Highlanding – Part 2
Day 1 – Mind-Numbing Motorway and Pitlochry Perfection
The Highlanding – 1700 Miles of Euphoria
I must warn you straight away that this will be a tale of two halves, well technically seven sevenths – but that doesn’t roll of the tongue quite so well. Anyway – conquer the first chapter, which is based around an almost inconceivable amount of relentless text-based drivel, and you shall be rewarded in the following instalments with countless astonishingly mediocre photographs, alongside yet more relentless text-based drivel. And for those brave souls who battle through to the end, there will await a congratulatory video montage of preposterously poor quality, and a stiff virtual pat on the back. Even so, this could well be the best thing you read for quite a while, assuming the only other things you plan on reading are the back of a cereal packet or any article ever published in ‘The Sun’. Let’s begin.
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