Officially organised by the Malaysia and Singapore Vintage Car Register in partnership with Louis Vuitton and Raffles Hotel, Singapore, the first race saw priceless pre-war and post-war machinery driven through the Malaysian jungle.
A slightly unglamorous start to life, though the iterations that followed over the next two decades read like a fever dream of a rally calendar: Singapore to Kuala Lumpur, Dalian to Beijing, the Tuscan countryside, a Bohème Run tracing Budapest to Vienna to…

