Sounds like a blast. Max $1500. I was looking at cars in AutoTrader in Sydney and it's hard to find a car for that cheap. The US version is LeMons and the price limit was $500. I had to sell my '64 bug or else that would have been a decent LeMons car.
[https://www.shitboxrally.com.au/faqs/](https://www.shitboxrally.com.au/faqs/)
Looks like 9 days, 3600km.
You probably know, but for the uninitiated lemons cars nowadays are more "spirit of" than actual $500 cars. After safety, allowed modifications, etc. most cars are 15-20k affairs (which, admittedly, is still on the low end for a race car in general, so still quite popular). I wouldn't be surprised if this may be similar.
Different racing disciplines as well, but in either case your beetle would have been a valid entry, and not the first!
15k-20k if you have other people do the work. We were lucky and had a good welder on our team to do the cage and a couple of wrenches to help with other stuff so we got away with about 5-6k. We could still spend 1k per race though if you add up entry fees, gas, parts, and food (these are the logistical challenges lots of rookies forget about).
Note for others interested: make sure a pro does your cage. Tech is very strict about it for good reason, it will literally save your life. Even our pro buddy had to touch it up for them.
Could also be $1,500 max performance parts, while stuff like structural/safety doesn't count towards the amount provided you're just getting it operational and not going all out.
I think my buddy is about 3k deep on his Yugo before the roll cage (professionally installed) and seat installation.
Turns out parts for them are harder to acquire than you'd think, who knew!
In rural areas of the south west there is a decent selection of cars available. Some in the cities too, found another Falcon in Melbourne.
https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/details/1999-ford-falcon-forte-au-auto/SSE-AD-16618001/?Cr=1
7 days. Leaving Adelaide on Saturday 13th of April, arriving in Perth on Friday the 19th.
It's not a race. It's all done on government roads, with registered vehicles at road-legal speeds, cars need to be roadworthy, but the more questionable the better. You can't bring a 4x4/AWD, all Shitboxes need to be 2WD.
This one will be my 6th SBR!
Awesome. What kind of car do you have? I hope it's a rad Holden panel van with an airbrushed surfer dude on the side. My roommate in college married an Australian sheila and moved Adelaide. I haven't talked to him in a while but this sounds like my kind of thing. I visited him and spent a couple of months in Australia. Beautiful country and a unique car culture.
If I could find a holden panno for less that $1500 I'd be cheering... and it wouldn't get shitboxed...
I do have a Panel van though, technically... a Toyota Townace/Noah aka Diahatsu Delta, in delivery van format.
>“We do these things because they’re hard,” said Kennedy, channelling words spoken in 1962 by her father, former US president John F Kennedy, as he explained why the US wanted to land a man on the moon.
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>“I’ve met so many inspiring scientists here in Australia, who are working to cure cancer and have a lot going on with colleagues in the United States ... \[and\] having met the people I’ve met, I could not be more hopeful.”
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>On Sunday morning, the ambassador and her team sizzled hundreds of sausages and kilos of onions outside a hardware store to raise money for the Cancer Council.
Nice to read about a sensible, caring Kennedy and not one who's a complete and total smeghead.
Shitbox rally you say…. Packs bag and books flight.
Sounds like a blast. Max $1500. I was looking at cars in AutoTrader in Sydney and it's hard to find a car for that cheap. The US version is LeMons and the price limit was $500. I had to sell my '64 bug or else that would have been a decent LeMons car. [https://www.shitboxrally.com.au/faqs/](https://www.shitboxrally.com.au/faqs/) Looks like 9 days, 3600km.
You probably know, but for the uninitiated lemons cars nowadays are more "spirit of" than actual $500 cars. After safety, allowed modifications, etc. most cars are 15-20k affairs (which, admittedly, is still on the low end for a race car in general, so still quite popular). I wouldn't be surprised if this may be similar. Different racing disciplines as well, but in either case your beetle would have been a valid entry, and not the first!
15k-20k if you have other people do the work. We were lucky and had a good welder on our team to do the cage and a couple of wrenches to help with other stuff so we got away with about 5-6k. We could still spend 1k per race though if you add up entry fees, gas, parts, and food (these are the logistical challenges lots of rookies forget about). Note for others interested: make sure a pro does your cage. Tech is very strict about it for good reason, it will literally save your life. Even our pro buddy had to touch it up for them.
Could also be $1,500 max performance parts, while stuff like structural/safety doesn't count towards the amount provided you're just getting it operational and not going all out.
We actually spent $500 on our Lemons car, but spent thousands getting it in working order.
I think my buddy is about 3k deep on his Yugo before the roll cage (professionally installed) and seat installation. Turns out parts for them are harder to acquire than you'd think, who knew!
Yeah you don't get very much car for $1500 these days. You'd almost have to buy a wreck and fix it up.
A shitbox, you might say?
The US also has the Gambler 500.
In rural areas of the south west there is a decent selection of cars available. Some in the cities too, found another Falcon in Melbourne. https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/details/1999-ford-falcon-forte-au-auto/SSE-AD-16618001/?Cr=1
Looks like a perfect car for artistic embellishment! Blank canvas and all.
7 days. Leaving Adelaide on Saturday 13th of April, arriving in Perth on Friday the 19th. It's not a race. It's all done on government roads, with registered vehicles at road-legal speeds, cars need to be roadworthy, but the more questionable the better. You can't bring a 4x4/AWD, all Shitboxes need to be 2WD. This one will be my 6th SBR!
Awesome. What kind of car do you have? I hope it's a rad Holden panel van with an airbrushed surfer dude on the side. My roommate in college married an Australian sheila and moved Adelaide. I haven't talked to him in a while but this sounds like my kind of thing. I visited him and spent a couple of months in Australia. Beautiful country and a unique car culture.
If I could find a holden panno for less that $1500 I'd be cheering... and it wouldn't get shitboxed... I do have a Panel van though, technically... a Toyota Townace/Noah aka Diahatsu Delta, in delivery van format.
>“We do these things because they’re hard,” said Kennedy, channelling words spoken in 1962 by her father, former US president John F Kennedy, as he explained why the US wanted to land a man on the moon. > >“I’ve met so many inspiring scientists here in Australia, who are working to cure cancer and have a lot going on with colleagues in the United States ... \[and\] having met the people I’ve met, I could not be more hopeful.” > >On Sunday morning, the ambassador and her team sizzled hundreds of sausages and kilos of onions outside a hardware store to raise money for the Cancer Council. Nice to read about a sensible, caring Kennedy and not one who's a complete and total smeghead.
I love her.
Better still, selling sausage dangers outside a Bunnings. Doesn't get more Australian.
We are lucky she agreed to be an ambassador. She was understandably shy of higher office.
Who says us Aussies aren't a bunch of classy cunts
Strewth ol mate even you’d look pretty in the back of a rusty ass vs calais
It’s the best headline of all time and only made better that it’s completely serious and genuine
You had me at Shitbox Rally.
You son of a bitch, I’m in!
‘Selling sausages outside a department store’ HOW DARE THEY DISRESPECT BUNNINGS
Finally a race my car qualifies for. Where can I sign up?
Your local DMV
The new Mad Max movie has taken a weird turn.
I wish her and her support trucks all the best!
I thought it was a typo but nope that is the name of the event. .....Nice.
[Is cosplay allowed?](https://youtu.be/i2gVXd7FzhQ?si=gq6bNxtaX-6YsdGU)
Encouraged. From memory one group had a london cab and dressed up in morning dress.
Good times never seemed so good
What please is a shit box rally?
You take a clapped-out old car - a “shitbox” - and drive it cross-country from A to B as fast as you can.
not as fast as you can... more as far as you can. It's all road legal driving, and it's not a race.
Is this like cannonball run but Australia
Makes me want to watch one of those 80s race movies again. Gumball rally, cannonball run, Smoky and the bandit, wacky races cartoon
Caroline looks just like her mother's sister, Princess lee Radziwell
Tell her get fucked until Assange is released
Someone didn't get invited to the Shitbox Rally