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Deal top Dundee Charity run
LBMEFM - 22/1/10 at 11:09 PM

My son and two of his mates are going to do a charity run from Deal, Kent to Dundee on behalf of the Air Ambulance. In Top Gear style they have each got to buy a car for under £200 and travel to Dundee not using motorways. They have ask me to set them challenges on route, I have a few ideas, but I think your guys will no doubt have some brilliant thoughts on what to give them to do. Have a look at there website on www.reverse-gear.com and please some comments as they are working so hard on it and if you feel like making a donation to the Kent Air Ambulance, you never know when you may need it, just £1 would be great go to www.justgiving.com/reverse gear Cheers Barry

MakeEverything - 22/1/10 at 11:10 PM

How about some sponsored laps at a race track to see which is the fastest lap?

mangogrooveworkshop - 23/1/10 at 12:42 AM

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Originally posted by MakeEverything
How about some sponsored laps at a race track to see which is the fastest lap?



nearest track will be knockhill.....

you could have chosen a better destination other than Dumpdee.......

something like Romania or the NoordKaap would be better as theres the language barrier as well. even better send them via tounge and JOGroats

Heck I drove down to london a few times to pickup parts.... down in the night and back in the day 24 hours round trip towings a bugger for slowing the trip down....

zilspeed - 23/1/10 at 09:56 AM

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Originally posted by mangogrooveworkshop
quote:
Originally posted by MakeEverything
How about some sponsored laps at a race track to see which is the fastest lap?



nearest track will be knockhill.....

you could have chosen a better destination other than Dumpdee.......

something like Romania or the NoordKaap would be better as theres the language barrier as well. even better send them via tounge and JOGroats

Heck I drove down to london a few times to pickup parts.... down in the night and back in the day 24 hours round trip towings a bugger for slowing the trip down....


On the other hand, the name of the trip has to be snappy.

Rust to Rome
Deal to Dundee.

I once bought a car off Peter Simpson, the editor of car Mechanics. It had been used for a banger reliability article where 3 £100 auction cars were taken on such a run. This one started in Peterborough, so it was :-

Peterborough to Peterhead.

I'm sure picked for no other reason than the name.

Next in the series :-

Kias to Kings Lynn.
Toyotas to Torquay
Gumperts to Greenock

hillbillyracer - 23/1/10 at 10:11 AM

On our Ramshackle rally to Valencia last year we had a few challenges:

Car Snooker using a digital camera, passenger takes snaps of the cars in colour sequence as in White Red Colour, White Red Colour & then clears the colours. The colour values were changed to reflect the rarity of the colour & the reds reduced in number to 8 to make it a bit easier to finish it.

Most number of items bought for under 1 Euro (in your case a pound), so all the receipts add up to less than £1.

Collect as many different beer mats as possible.

There were more challenges but I'm buggered if I can remember them now!

MakeEverything - 23/1/10 at 12:35 PM

Knockhill isnt the nearest!!

On the way they will drive past loads of tracks, inclluding Bedford Aerodrome, Donnington, brands hatch (at the start), silverstone (?), to name a few.