Sh#tbox Rally 2012

[sgt_doofey]

Well, it begins today! Unfortunately, I didn't get in this year and probably just as well as my wife is due with our first child in 3 weeks!
However, my cousin's husband is in it this year and driving a 1984 Mercedes 300 SEL. It was in a paddock for 5 years with the windows down and it still lives!
They drove over from Adelaide to Melbourne yesterday with only one repair needed!
Should anybody care to follow their progress, they are posting on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002877741717

If you want to donate towards their team, then here is the place to do it: http://www.everydayhero.com.au/boat_anchors
At time of posting, they've raised about $12,000 to go to the Cancel Council!

More info on the Sh#tbox Rally can be found here: http://www.shitboxrally.com.au/

Anybody else here on AFF in it this year?

[Jason[98.EL]]

such a great cause hope they do well

[sgt_doofey]

The beast itself!

[05_ENFORCER]

Love the eyelashes



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[MNM96]

Originally Posted by sgt_doofey

Cancel Council!

I am sure you meant Cancer Council, but Cancel Cancer would be a great name for this Foundation, wouldn't it!


Great to see your Family involved. Does this rally always run the same route at all? I envisage this might interest me for 2013.

[sgt_doofey]

Originally Posted by MNM96

I am sure you meant Cancer Council, but Cancel Cancer would be a great name for this Foundation, wouldn't it!

Yep! Would be a great name if they could cancel cancer!

Great to see your Family involved.

I personally want to do in memory of my Dad who we lost to liver cancer back in 2005, but I wasn't accepted this year. It's a ballot system as there is usually a lot of people wanting to enter and only about 150 teams all up.

Does this rally always run the same route at all? I envisage this might interest me for 2013.

No, it's different every year. Keeps it interesting I guess. I think from memory that last year, they finished in Darwin.

Originally Posted by 05_ENFORCER

Love the eyelashes

That's nothing! You should see the bedazzled wooden insert on the steering wheel! Also, the cow print dash mat is pretty good too! Just what 3 manly men want whilst driving around! They have my cousin to thank for all that. She snuck them in whilst her husband was at work!

[sgt_doofey]

Bugger! Didn't last long for them!
Blown head gasket apparently!

[Pedro]

What a shame it didn't get any further.
I did the Endeavour Rally once in a 68 Galaxie 390.

[Matty4]

4 of my work collegues are on it ATM.
3 of them in a little Corolla and one other in a hilux with some of his mates.

2 of the 3 in the 'rolla are mechanics, so I'm sure they'll make it...

Looks like fun..

[sgt_doofey]

It ain't over. Looks like they may have sourced another car to continue on...

[Bent Rod Tuning]

seen this cruise though mildura before. and wondered WTF is was all about!

[dylancox]

What exactly is a rally? The first to get to the destination wins the rally?

[sgt_doofey]

It's not a race, more of a cruise, but from Melbourne to Cairns for this year. The rally might be more in reference to the terrain they have to cover.

[MNM96]

Originally Posted by sgt_doofey

It ain't over. Looks like they may have sourced another car to continue on...

Good news Doof.

What sort of a shibtox they rollin in now?

[sgt_doofey]

Funnily enough, another Merc! No good photos of it yet though, only a crappy night shot taken with a camera on a phone.

[OffRoadFalcon]

I'd love to do this rally sometime! Someday, someday!

[sgt_doofey]

Not looking good! Mercedes #2 has now broken down. Musr have been a bad choice for the rally!
Am awaiting to hear if it lives overnight or not.

[flooded one]

I reckon that would be bloody fun too do!!

[sgt_doofey]

The second Merc didn't live and they ended up hitchhiking with other people throughout the rally. It's now over and they're relaxing in Cairns. Congrats to all that participated!