The Beast Awakens!

'And lo, the Seicento did burst forth from the gates of Chris' garage; the engine screaming fury - a peal of thunder; and into the world came a steed coloured a yellow more ferocious than the sun's - the yellow of lightning, or a slightly jaundiced tiger. The heavens wept, and God did tremble.'
-Revelations 4:21*

As of 11:00am this morning the mighty Seicento is officially insured in mine and Jimmy's names. This is momentous news as it means that I've had a chance to drive the thing and see just how dodgy it really is. The brakes are somewhat impotent, the handbrake needs to be pulled skywards with a force greater than the engine's total output to get the thing to stand still on even the slightest incline and it took me about ten minutes to figure out how to turn off the rear windscreen wipers.The last of these things may admittedly be a fault with me rather than the car but nonetheless... this is going to be fun!

When I say this is going to be fun I say it completely sans sarcasm - the spirit of the Mongol Rally is to drive something 'unfit to do your shopping in' and with the introduction of the ten-year-young rule I was worried our car might turn out to be somewhat good. No such misfortune - the Rally spirit will be kept intact even if we won't be.

In other news it's less than two weeks to launch and we still have a decent amount of things left to do. Still, a team did everything in less than a fortnight one year so we should be fine. What's closer than even this impending deadline though is the quiz we'll be hosting at Hemel School this Friday to raise some monies for the lovely charities. We'd really appreciate any support and it would be great if people could get a team of 5-10 together and come down. Its £4 each but that doesn't matter because no one is reading this anyway. We'll also be drawing the car's name out of a hat so that should be fun. Oh well. Hopefully see you there. Please.

Much Wiki Wiki love,
Chris


*Not really.