After becoming just the second Australian to win a Dakar Rally title in the great race's rich history, Daniel 'Chucky' Sanders was shown a picture of himself as a wide-eyed five-year-old kid proudly astride the peewee bike he'd been given that Christmas morning as his present.
What did that lovely snap of him at his family's Yarra Valley farm make him think now that, quarter-of-a-century on, he'd just joined the pantheon of Australia's motor sport greats by winning the most demanding race of them all?
"Wow!" he told SBS Sport at the Shubaytah bivouac where he was being feted for one of the great wire-to-wire victories in the 7700km, two-week Saudi Arabian slog.
