Strive to Arrive

Team 'Strive to Arrive' (Mark Weckert / Kathleen McCormick) are really pleased to announce that we're taking part in Shitbox Rally Autumn 2024! This time, all the teams are driving their shitboxes from Adelaide to Perth. This will be the first Shitbox Rally for Kathleen and the third for Mark.

Now if you don't know anything about the rally itself, we have to make the journey in a car that we have spent $1,500 or less on, and that includes the purchase of the vehicle and any mechanical improvements/repairs. And the rally isn't only on sealed roads, we will be traversing parts of the Oodnadatta track, swinging through Yulara, making our way through to Southern Cross and finally Perth - over 3,800kms of joy and were doing it all between April 12th to 20th 2024.

The car we have chosen for this rally is a 1977 Alfa Romeo Alfetta, un-affectionately known as Alfa Rusteo (for obvious reasons once you see it in person). It hasn't been on the road since 2000 and to call what remains of it neglected would be being generous. We paid a whopping $500 for the little Alfa, leaving us $1000 to spend on mechanical repairs - a tough ask! Luckily, one of us is an expert shitbox mechanic and the other an expert sweet talker which should come in handy when ordering parts!

You can follow us on this crazy journey through our social media pages as we take up the challenge, raising funds for a cause which is close to our hearts.

We all know someone whose lives, or those of their friends and family, have been affected by cancer. Please help up help those in our community who need more research and more options for a cure - any amount, big or small will help us reach our team goal and will impact so many people around Australia! These funds go to Cancer Council and we are extremely proud to be doing our part to support such a worthy charity.

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 Autumn 2024 rally target set at $2,000,000 plus.

Thank you,

Mark and Kathleen.