How far can you go in a car worth under $1000?
Quite a distance if seems – as one local family seems about to prove.
Elphinstone couple Brian and Julie Colley were in for a little surprise when their Sydney-based daughter Erin called to inform them she’d just signed up for the famed Shitbox Rally – driving 3614km from Melbourne to Townsville via Birdsville in a “shitbox that cost under $1000” – all to to raise money for the Cancer Council.
The twist? She’d also registered them as her support crew for Team Wiggum Unpossibles, named after Simpsons tv series character, Ralph Wiggum – for the rally held over October 19-25. Full story in today’s Castlemaine Mail (Friday, September 27, 2019)
