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!
Author: Wreckless Abandon
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.