Yep we are really doing this!!! Shitbox Rally Winter 2024! Melbourne to Alice Springs in 8 days in a car worth less than $1500!!
We have both lost parents to cancer - it is a shit thing to go through!!
We both also have a bit of adventure in us and after eyeing this off for a few years we have finally taken the plunge....
Both of us drove orange shitboxes on our wedding days and have longed for the day we could relive some shitbox memories!! Unfortunately orange Capellas and Galants are hard to come by these days - especially for less than $1500!!!!
We have secured ourselves a lush 1991 Toyota Camry for a hefty price of $1000 (it might have some cable ties holding it together!!) But its our baby and we are going to pimp it up to enable us to cruise up to Alice in style!!!!
Shitbox Rally is the largest community lead fundraiser for Cancer Council in Australia and is now in its 14th year. Part of the participation is that all teams have to raise a minimum of $5,000 but most teams raise well above this amount as you can see with the Winter 2024 rally target set at $2,000,000 plus.
The fundraising is the hard part, so any donation you can give is greatly appreciated.
And if you want to give us more but make it conditional (think… challenge Rod to wear a six-million dollar man suit for a couple days or Glenn to do XYZ…) then we are up to the challenge. Please make sure to follow our progress via this page and the blog post below.
Shitbox Rally is the adventure of a lifetime challenging participants and their cars, worth no more than $1,500, on a 7 day drive across Australia to raise money for cancer research.
The rally is not a race – it’s a fun, colourful, unpredictable adventure with participants travelling at their own pace in smaller groups. Vehicles often break down but “we never leave anyone behind” and each night is spent camping beneath the stars and celebrating the day’s achievements. It all adds up to an incredible opportunity to see Australia’s vast and beautiful countryside and make lifelong friends, many brought together after experiencing cancer themselves or seeing cancer impact family and friends.
Since it’s inception the rally has been the largest fundraiser for the Cancer Council nationally.
Shitbox Rally is a dedicated fundraising event for cancer research with funds going to Cancer Council.
Cancer Council is one of the largest non-government funders of cancer research in Australia. We conduct and fund research studies across all cancers and all stages of the cancer journey.
Thanks to the community funds raised such as Shitbox Rally we can fund world-class research that reduces the impact of cancer for everyone.
$41 million over the past 13 years has been raised by Box Rallies to date, supporting ground-breaking projects such as:
These projects wouldn’t be possible without your support.
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