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B.C. father and son team up for Peking to Paris car rally

B.C. father and son team up for Peking to Paris car rally

In 1907 the editor of the the French newspaper Le Matin issued a challenge to readers to prove that the newly invented automobile was a viable form of transportation by driving one from China to France. That editorial gave birth to what's now known as the Peking to Paris Automotive Challenge, a vintage endurance rally that despite being more than a 100 years old has only been run seven times. Now after years and years of planning and a few hundred thousand dollars of automotive investment, a Kelowna father and son team are headed to Bejing to attempt the storied rally in their vintage British car. Travis Lowe has the story of Tom and Daniel Kinahan.

Read the story and watch the video here: https://globalnews.ca/news/10499274/bc-father-son-peking-paris-car-rally/

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