Sub 500 quid Charity Rally - V-tec YO!!

[cort16]

FFS your miserable bunch sometimes. The objective is to get 35 cars to a destination in 3 days to deliver boxes full of christmas gifts to give out to a homeless charities when we get there not to spend 16 days nursing an Austin 7 down the hard shoulder of the m6 before coming home on the back of a low loader. If we miss the ferry on the first day (we have to get to Dover from Scotland the rest are already down there) then the whole things up the swanny. So do I want a reliable v-tec powered Honda? Fuck yes.

[CreepingJesus]

Just to add a positive note to this (and not be a misery guts), I'll stick my hand in my pocket.

Where's your sponsorship form?

I'll have to evict the moths from my wallet first, etc., har-de-har har.

[cort16]

What's the point of it being sub-£500 then? You might as well just go in your own cars.

 

Because the cars are auctioned off at the end and the profits go to charity.

 

Creepingjesus, thanks I'm going to set it up tomorrow.

[garycox]

What's the point of it being sub-£500 then? You might as well just go in your own cars.

 

Because the cars are auctioned off at the end and the profits go to charity.

 

Creepingjesus, thanks I'm going to set it up tomorrow.

 

So the profits over £500 (or the purchase price, if lower) go to charity, along with the sponsorship money?

 

Why then do people always try to devalue the cars as much as possible (without setting fire to them) by painting them up as KITT/ECTO 1/General Lee/Herbie/Thunderbird 2 etc and generally making sure nobody will ever want to drive them again?

 

Surely it'd be better to spend the 'modification' budget on some touch up paint and cockpit shine and polish them to buggery to get the maximum selling price for the charity (and give the cars a better chance of not being cubed).

[trigger]

I still think it's a bit too nice for a charity run, I used to collect these from the main dealer for bodywork when they were new and they are fantastic cars, much nicer then their Rover counterpart I'd say and would still like one now.

 

I didn't release they still sold for so much money though, especially in your spec, your talking well over £1000 for one still.

[Morgan84]

Got a Proton for 500 with MOT but no tax - please take it abroad and leave it there !

[cort16]

All the profits from selling the car go to charity. All the cars in the auction are sent through a special auction, which is hosted just for this event.

 

You can't really win as I wanted something that wasn't rare or interesting and this is neither rare nor interesting. What we've got planned for it is mostly reversable anyway.

[Cavcraft]

What the f*ck is all the fuss about? The title says £500 banger in it, does it really bleeding matter what car he takes as long as under £500 and he's not destroying something rare? Glenns raising money for charity not organising a 'Race round Europe but only in aautoshite seal of approval motord' ffd. How about we just get off his case about it and wish him luck raising money? Or is this website so far up its own arse we can't even do that now? Good luck Glenn.

[cort16]

Thanks Billy. I'm kind of past trying to justify myself so I'm just going to leave it at that.

[M'coli]

Aye, well said, Billy. Pop the link to the sponsorship thingummyjig up or in a PM when you have it, please.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I'm afraid i'm with Hirst on this one, don't get me wrong i'd love to drive to Spain just for the fun of it, it'll be a great adventure as any good road trip is. If it was all about the charity though, just flog the 35 cars (assume £17,500 will be raised at £500 per car), donate all the petrol money as well (35 x £250 = £8750) and spend a grand on getting all the presents couriered to the hospice or whatever it is by truck. Not half as much fun but the chazza is 50% better off! Saying that, theres no definitive 'event' then to use as a lever to force folk to dig deep so maybe its more difficult that way.

 

NB I did 3 x 1500-mile round trips in quick succession in my P100 TD this summer and didn't claim a bean in sponsor money.

[Wilko220]

I'm sure the charity is a really worthy cause and it's great to see people trying to raise cash for it. But the points made by Mr Boll and Hirst are true - most of us probably commute to work every day in cars that are older, less comfortable and less reliable than that Honda, so it's not exactly much of a challenge.

Still - it's far preferable to something old and rare getting wrecked in a "hilarious" way, so I'm not complaining. Good luck with the fundraising!