As we get ever closer to the Home2Rome rally, we get ever closer to having a fully prepared car. To most people that means making sure it’s safe, solid, reliable, with things like an MOT and tax, perhaps a spare wheel, or maybe even some kind of breakdown cover.

To us it means putting stickers on the car.

And so it was early in the morning that we took The General down to Chatham Historic Dockyard where Spectrum Signs and Display’s Danny Jones was waiting for us, with a Confederate flag, some ‘01′ decals and the emotive words ‘General’ and ‘Lee’, all ready to be applied to the Lexus.

Some cutting, some hair dryering and some swearing later, and it was all in place. The respectable dark blue 1994 Lexus LS400 we purchased a few months ago now bore more than a passing resemblance to the Duke’s General Lee.

There’s still work to do – roll bar, push bars, wobbly CB aerial, and the like, as well as that pesky MOT – but we’re close enough to feel like we’ve nearly finished.

2010 Home2Rome