{"id":185,"date":"2014-05-25T15:26:21","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T05:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ivanlogan.com\/blog\/?p=185"},"modified":"2014-05-25T19:13:40","modified_gmt":"2014-05-25T09:13:40","slug":"we-are-go-for-shitbox-rally-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ivanlogan.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/we-are-go-for-shitbox-rally-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"We are go for Shitbox Rally 2014!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-185 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.ivanlogan.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/we-are-go-for-shitbox-rally-2014\/cfaibagh\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ivanlogan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/cfaibagh-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<br \/>\nI&#8217;m looking forward to Shitbox Rally 2035, when you&#8217;ll be able to pick up a 2009 Honda CRV for $1000. In 2014, it&#8217;s going to be a white 1990 Toyota Corolla where power steering is still the future. As Franzl points out, it&#8217;ll be good to build the guns up.<\/p>\n<p>This is the last chance to work out if the shitbox is up to the job, since a week from now we will finally be on the rally! Lessons learned from the 2011 rally include the (obvious in hindsight) revelation that shock absorbers are not a nice-to-have when you&#8217;re going to be doing 4000km, a quarter of which is going to be on some of the roughest dirt roads in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately Franzl&#8217;s mate Ray opened his workshop for us to fit a new set of shocks on the back. So, good that we now have rear suspension, but bad that some crucial parts were fitted by an IT guy&#8230;. Still, when we took her out on the limestone tracks north of Perth with Fletch as the navigator to test the shocks they held up pretty good. Well, we didn&#8217;t end up axle deep in a sand dune. Not that they sort of thing tends to happen to me. Ever. The night drive in the rain also passed without incident&#8230; too good to last, right?<\/p>\n<p>So now, it&#8217;s down to finishing off the decorations for the car and making tough decisions like just how many pairs of underpants counts as over-packing&#8230;!<\/p>\n<p>One last thing&#8230;we are still raising money to hit our $4000 target for the Cancer Council so if you want to sponsor us, here&#8217;s the link to our fund raising page: <a href=\"https:\/\/shitboxrally2014.everydayhero.com\/au\/brown-pointers\" >https:\/\/shitboxrally2014.everydayhero.com\/au\/brown-pointers<\/a> <\/p>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.ivanlogan.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/we-are-go-for-shitbox-rally-2014\/\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to Shitbox Rally 2035, when you&#8217;ll be able to pick up a 2009 Honda CRV for $1000. In 2014, it&#8217;s going to be a white 1990 Toyota Corolla where power steering is still the future. As Franzl points out, it&#8217;ll be good to build the guns up. This is the last chance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shitbox-rally"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivanlogan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivanlogan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivanlogan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivanlogan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivanlogan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivanlogan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivanlogan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivanlogan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivanlogan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivanlogan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}