EFFORT & SACRIFICE
Where were your thoughts when you were 15? Ah, okay, perhaps it’s best we don’t know! Mine were firmly on old cars, being a reader of car magazines from age 11 and always dreaming up what I’d build if I had the money. Carl Prosser was like me in many ways, but he had something that set him apart from 99% of people: discipline and the ability to truly delay gratification for a long-term goal: “I saved up all my school dinner money for a year when I was 15,” he explains. “I wanted a Beetle and decided the only way to get one was to not eat every lunchtime.”
“IT CAME WITH THE ORIGINAL ONE-YEAR-ONLY BASTARD ENGINE BUT WITH SCARCITY OF PARTS AND JUST 30BHP, IT OBVIOUSLY WOULDN’T BE UP FOR THE JOB”
Now there’s one thing deciding you’re going to do something, but another thing entirely sticking with
