Czecheap Bnager Challenge.

[Jimmycrackcorn]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Czecheap-Challenge-Banger-Car-Rally-from-the-makers-of-Barcelona-Bangers-/201473912750?hash=item2ee8c7efae:g:x6MAAOSw7FRWVykt

Anyone here done it or even doing it next year. I really like the sound of it and I'm going to speak to the boss about seeing if he want's to give it a go.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

There is an increasingly large turnout locally when the banger drivers parade before leaving. It sounds a great laugh, but I guess you'd need to put aside a fairly reasonable wad of dollar for fuel, ferries and entry. Certainly doesn't sound like a cheap giggle. Most of the motors looked pricier than four hundred notes as well.

[Jimmycrackcorn]

If you could get a crew of 4 then cost wise I think it could be pretty reasonable. I'll contact them and try get an idea of cost as they only state the entry fee.

[PiperCub]

There is an increasingly large turnout locally when the banger drivers parade before leaving. It sounds a great laugh, but I guess you'd need to put aside a fairly reasonable wad of dollar for fuel, ferries and entry. Certainly doesn't sound like a cheap giggle. Most of the motors looked pricier than four hundred notes as well.

 

Agreed there, esp the price the cars have allegedly been bought for. What rather misses the point with me is surely the idea is to do it with a limited budget. Now to me, it means just that, not buy a cheap car then spend a shit load of money on it and claiming it's still a £500 or what-have-you car.

 

This is what Car Maniacs mag does almost every year, yes, it makes for quite interesting copy but if the mag stories are accurate (& I class CM as one of the few well-written car mags availalble today), clearly only a few crews on these rallies adhere to the spirit of the thing by doing it for a small amount of cash.

 

Feel free to correct me if you disagree and have actually been on one of these rallies (I haven't so maybe my view is biased) as I'd be interested to hear as I've a hankering to do one myself one day but do it properly on the cheap to see how far my luck would run. 

[Jimmycrackcorn]

Having a look at it I agree, like you say they may have bought the vehicle cheap but it does spoil it spending a shitload on it. I would want to do it as cheap and potentially shonky as possible.

[chaseracer]

Scally Rally 2006...

 

[Jimmycrackcorn]

Those pics just make me want to do something like this even more.

[chaseracer]

It was bloody good fun.  Through a retrospectoscope...

[PiperCub]

GSA - quality. That's more like it! 

[Jimmycrackcorn]

I can imagine it could be hell in the process.

[320touring]

I get confused by this...

 

Looks great fun, but 1500 miles in a £400 car?

 

Last holiday I had was 3800 miles (Glasgow to Prague and back, with some detours) in 8 days. In my 320i that I bought for £300 in 2005.

That aint a Rally, that's relaxation!

 

Reckon we should see about a couple of teams. Unfortunately, my CX cost too much:(

[chaseracer]

The GSA was utterly rotten, as my arse discovered going over the Col de Vars in the rain, when the water coming up through the massive holes in the body finally soaked through the back seat cushion.

 

Amazingly, the car still exists...

[Inspector Morose]

I want the registration. It's the reverse of the plate carried by the prototype midland red C5 - the first coach built for regular service on the newly opened M1 motorway. (Yup, sad. So very sad)

[Jimmycrackcorn]

I get confused by this...

 

Looks great fun, but 1500 miles in a £400 car? 

 

Last holiday I had was 3800 miles (Glasgow to Prague and back, with some detours) in 8 days. In my 320i that I bought for £300 in 2005.

That aint a Rally, that's relaxation!

 

Reckon we should see about a couple of teams. Unfortunately, my CX cost too much:(

When I read it was only over 4 days it seemed a bit disappointing and your right 1500 miles isn't too much to expect  from a £400 motor. Maybe an Autoshite challenge could be the way to do it?

[chaseracer]

I want the registration. It's the reverse of the plate carried by the prototype midland red C5 - the first coach built for regular service on the newly opened M1 motorway. (Yup, sad. So very sad)

Catastrophically so.  But you are among friends here, Andrew...

[Jimmycrackcorn]

Hey an opportunity to pour scorn on something, excellent! Here we go!

 

I'd like to drive one of my sub-£400 (or even sub-£200) cars to the Czech Republic as it looks like an interesting place with nice architecture and good beer, though I wouldn't go on a charity rally as I would want to kill everybody involved. I'd just go in one of my normal reliable cars and be a nice English tourist in a smart blazer. Nothing wacky would happen at all and I'd be pretty surprised if anything went wrong mechanically either.

 

Basically I'm of the opinion that unless you're a bit useless at buying stuff, £400 would almost certainly get you a car that would drive there and back with no grief and that if you want to explore Europe there's absolutely nothing to stop you from doing that without having to stick a load of crap on your car and say you're doing it for charity. People seem to get it into their heads that it'll be a load of fun driving this car that knackers up everywhere but I suspect the reality is either that it does the trip without any drama whatsoever or develops a major problem which can't realistically be fixed or bodged at the side of the road, leaving you in a position where you have to get it looked at in a foreign garage and possibly wait several days for a part that's on back order, resulting in you having to dump the car and sit in the back of somebody else's for the rest of the trip. In any case I think if a car has real problems you're unlikely to get it as far as driving it out of the country and if it can sit on a motorway here without overheating or pissing all its oil or coolant everywhere, it's likely to stay like that.

 

In summary:

Well, the Lada 1200 from Hungary, Moskvich Aleko from Lithuania and Fiat 126 from Poland in my area all seemed to manage it the other way no bother - so yes, I imagine very easily.

I wholeheartedly agree, bollocks to charidee, maybe something alongs the lines of from the sub £200 thread no extra money spent other than spare belt. filter etc and a toolkit. 

[chaseracer]

Maybe an Autoshite challenge could be the way to do it?

 

Yeah.  Bollocks to the organised rallies - let's do our own thing.  Tour of European chod museums, mountain passes/bridges/tunnels/viaducts, and other stuff simply because it's there?

 

I'm in.

[320touring]

Yeah.  Bollocks to the organised rallies - let's do our own thing.  Tour of European chod museums, mountain passes/bridges/tunnels/viaducts, and other stuff simply because it's there?

 

I'm in.

We need a Union first;)

[chaseracer]

A lot of the stuff that falls out of Cannock auctions would happily do Yurp 'n' back.  I'll take the V70 auto for 275 sheets.  I wish I had now!

[Jimmycrackcorn]

Sounds great, I would love do just do something like this on my own but I know I couldn't as I wouldn't have a clue what to see or do. I just motorway it then turn back around and head home. I would love to do a tour of Portugal, went for the first time this year to Tomar and it was amazing.

[Inspector Morose]

You know, you all might have an idea for 2016. Why not an Autoshite European tour? The AS calendar could cope with Shitefest AND this surely? All done the smallest budget to include as many who could afford to take a car and maybe discounted seats available in cars to those who couldn't. Take in a few motoring museums along the way. Could be good.

[320touring]

Sounds great, I would love do just do something like this on my own but I know I couldn't as I wouldn't have a clue what to see or do. I just motorway it then turn back around and head home. I would love to do a tour of Portugal, went for the first time this year to Tomar and it was amazing.

Got it all wrong.

 

Get in Car

Drive to Ferry

Get to Europe

Pick a direction

Spot a sign

get lost

get arrested

Go home

 

[320touring]

You know, you all might have an idea for 2016. Why not an Autoshite European tour? The AS calendar could cope with Shitefest AND this surely? All done the smallest budget to include as many who could afford to take a car and maybe discounted seats available in cars to those who couldn't. Take in a few motoring museums along the way. Could be good.

The only issue with this is that you really NEED to do some Swiss passes!

 

and they don't come cheap..

 

but aye-good plan!

[Dick Cheeseburger]

I guess the idea of being part of a large convoy of odd looking cars either appeals, or doesn't. It's a bucket list thing for me, I reckon. I've just managed to find a photo, albeit a crappy one, of one of the local 'bangers' on the 2015 rally. Most MR2s on an 03 plate are £1500+, so I guess there must have been some creative accounting.

 

It could also be fun* if a group of us on here got together, had a £250 budget to buy a shitter at a car auction in Penzance and make it from there to the John O'Scroats as quickly as possible, in aid of old people or something. Maybe.

 

*Edit: Not quick enough off the mark as I'd not seen all the replies above. AS does Europe in shonky motors would be great, I like.

[hauserplenty]

Autoshite Everest '16.

 

...because it's there.

 

72 hours of chodventuring. Ending at a brewery, where organizing a piss-up should be a piece of...

cake.

[Inspector Morose]

True but it really should be as affordable to as many as possible for it to be a success. It would also need to be fairly short in time as most normal (ha) folk on here do have a home life that gets in the way of such shite based jollies.

 

Could work though.

[Jimmycrackcorn]

The way I would do it would a weeks holiday from work and just fit it into that (obvs it wouldn't be over the full week). Dover-Dunkirk was £10 each way last time I used it and a veg burner could be the vehicle of choice.  

[Inspector Morose]

I'd rather it not be for any charity. You're going away on a jolly because you want to have a bit of a laugh, why disguise it with some noble* cause to make your conscience feel better?

[hairnet]

fuck the charity (in a good way)

 

give to them if you want not cos of a car rally

 

then do the rally anyway

 

peter sarstedt

[320touring]

I organised similar trips for e30 folks a few years back- used to cover 1500-2000 miles in 4 days. decent digs each night and a modicum of beverage..

 

Happy to look into a euro trip/help if needed:)