Life is hard… Need to choose… In a showroom, wandering around like a little kid in a toy store, stroking a wing, opening a door, peeking at the engine, crawling underneath… maybe this one? and what about that one?..

We visited the first dealer in Belgium (300 classic cars!) and the first question we were asked: “pre-war (called a vintage car) or post-war (a classic car)?”. World War II of course. We chose four cars – two vintage (Chevrolet 1932 and Price-Arrow 1934) and two classic (Rolls-Royce 1960 and Mercedes 1955) and did a test drive with each. At the end of the day we decided we wanted them all (!) 

To the next dealer (in Wales) we have already come more prepared: “We are looking for a classic car (between the years 1945-55)”. Since our goal is to make a rally that crosses countries like Mongolia and Kazakhstan on the questionable roads, the car must be lightweight, powerful, high, and simple. This time Rolls Royce Silver Dawn 1950, Bentley Mark 6 (sounds like a tank name) 1951 and a few others were selected. The insight was: Silver Dawn or Mark 6 (veterans in the field, to say the least). Additional criteria were added, such as without a sunroof, preferably manual gearbox (quite rare in these vehicles) and preferably left-hand drive (very rare) and most importantly the vehicle should be fun and comfortable to drive. We have now focused on these two both of which are very similar and meet all our requirements and started our search. Of Rolls-Royce Silver Dawn only 760 vehicles were produced – we saw 6 of them and drove most of them, while Bentley produced several thousand and we also saw a few of those. And now all that remains is to choose Rolls-Royce (silver) or Bentley (blue).