******* Rally

[Mack 6]

Hi Guys,

I thought I would start up a thread regarding the Sh*tbox Rally and see if anyone has taken part in it before and to share your experiences.
I have known about it for a few years, and missed out last year, but a mate and I have been accepted for the 2014 rally and are about to start fundraising.

The website is www.shitboxrally.com.au, but the general scope is to aquire, service and repair an old car for less than a grand, and drive it 3500km in 7 days across australia.

Our route is Perth to Darwin via the Kimberley, so you'd be thinking that a cheap but robust, strong and reliable vehicle would be on our horizon. Not really!
We have our sights set on a 90's Festiva 4 door, primarily because it allows us to create something unique in the field of 200 cars and compared to previous years.
Welcome Team Monsters"


A little know short clip from the original Monsters Inc movie titled "Mike's New Car"
In a broad stroke, we plan to recreate as closely as possible whilst retaining room for our stuff and us. Number 1 design idea is a custom spare wheel carrier at the rear with the rear "axle" lowered when stationary and raised when moving, foam and filler to extend the body. We'll even look at the quad tips, massive flares and 2 MEGA wings.

Both of us race and enjoy cars as well as creating stuff, so this will be a labour of love. Both have lost family to cancer and will be fundraising soon.

I will post here, but a lot of our pics and comments are on FB facebook.com/MonstersInc2014

So keep an eye out!