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"The Mongol Rally - Cannonball Run"

[URL] http://www.mongolrally.co.uk/index.htm [/URL]

Thank GOD for people who do things like this (and don't try and do it all yourself even when there's far too many people willing to help, note to self).

Basically, to anyone who'd rather not click and let me explain, it's as so.

Two people (or if you're suicidal, one) get a rather old car, no more than 1,000 cc engine, and then take part in a giant race from London to Mongolia, covering 1/4 of of the distance around the planet, 10,000 miles, 2 deserts, 5 mountain ranges, and not all that many roads. The whole idea is to try and make it.

But why? Well apart from being what should surely be a fantastic experience, the £1000 entrance money will be given to charity, and the costs of running the event.

So basically, it's an old banger cannonball run for charity. Everybody wins.

It's now the purpose of my year to get as much sponsorship and money to get the car and bits we need, and take part in this in 2005.

If you're interested, there's a heapload of information on the site, and it's run by incredibly friendly people with a hell of a sense of humour. Driving a quarter of the way around the world is a hell of a dream to take part in, and it's all for charity too. Beats any festival for the summer, without a doubt.

Now all I need is a mask...

Tell you what then, if you want to organise a short trek around Europe sometime, when I won't be tied up with uni lectures and stuff,
give me some notice, I'll cash in some premium bonds and do up the panda, and count me in :^)

Mumbai Duck wrote:
"Or we could organise our own lame Windowlicker Rally"

We were thinking this ourselves too, there's only 30 cars allowed next year, and well, with the amount of money to raise, we may not get in.

So either way, we really want to do something like this, just get an old car and go adventuring in it.

Mumbai Duck wrote:
> Maybe I'll just look into the visas and insurance requirements, and
> take myself for a cheap-ass holiday to visit our new EU brothers in
> the east :^D

Heh, I wrote 'visas' before I decided to name an EU destination.
Although showing myself to be a certified windowlicker may be no bad thing...

I was thinking about this and it occured to me - what's the point in waiting for the rally?

By the sounds of things, the only benefit would be a little organisational help, comeraderie on the road, and maybe a bit of roadside assistance from fellow Mongols.


Maybe I'll just look into the visas and insurance requirements, and take myself for a cheap-ass holiday to visit our new EU brothers in the east :^D


Or we could organise our own lame Windowlicker Rally, find people who wanted to meet up in a car park in Birmingham, then drive off round Europe some place.

*Ponders whether to look for somewhere in the world atlas called 'windowlicker'...*

LMAO! :0D

Mumbai Duck wrote:
> Supurb.
>
> I want in. Hell, I even have an old panda that would probably be
> reliable enough with a quick tune-up and a new exhaust. And I
> wouldn't mind ditching it in Mongolia.

I'm calling the RSPCA

Nice. I remember this sort of thing on Jackass once - the Gumball 3000.

Supurb.

I want in. Hell, I even have an old panda that would probably be reliable enough with a quick tune-up and a new exhaust. And I wouldn't mind ditching it in Mongolia.

And I thought taking it to Blackpool and back was going to be my last big trek in the thing! :^)


Hmm, not sure how it'd fit around my masters, but it sounds like it'd be in the summer, when I'd be out of lectures and could make space for a short holiday.

Dude! I just might actually get to do this!

I wouldnt drive it in any country where hinduism is prevalent though.

Sounds like fun, hope you do go for it and don't change your mind. And about the pink car:

1) You're not gonna be misplaced easily driving that through a desert

2) The interior seems very appropriate :)