02/10/2025
I couldn't have said it better - so have copied Alexs post 🥰
You can still donate to our rally Total. The link is open for a couple more weeks 😉
https://2025.lunchboxrally.com.au/maisie-and-mum
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Support 3, and Maisie and Mum - Lunchbox Rally 2025 are home.
After all the headaches leading up to the event, the little Matiz ran like an absolute Train, zero issues- not even a flat tyre. Not a drop of coolant or oil used.
And to think, if i hadnt picked it up, its next trip was to ‘Scrap Car removal Sydney’.
I think now it’s sorted, it’ll be sticking around for next years event.
Im so utterly utterly proud of Alicia and Miss Maisie, collectively raising (as of tonight) $6500 for the Cancer Council.
An absolutely MASSIVE thankyou to Doug Morgan-Thomas, EVERYONE who donated, sponsored, kicked the tin, came to the trivia night, Friends, Family, Acquaintances, whoever- thankyou from the bottom of our hearts.
You've made a difference- Collectively, we’ve raised nearly Half a Million Dollars purely on this Rally.
Massive thanks to Doug at Tyrepower Bathurst and others for donating Tyres and cheap/free parts to get the girls around. All up, the Mighty, 800CC Three Pot
‘Maitiz’ has done 3200 km in 8 days with half on some of Australias most iconic Dirt, with not a single issue.
*Bathurst to Broken Hill prior
*Broken Hill to Hawker
*Hawker to Arkaroola
*Arkaroola to Yunta
*Yunta back to broken Hill via a Billy Goat Track
*Broken Hill out to Silverton for the obligatory Mad Max Pics
*Silverton back to Bathurst.
In a sea of Raised Falcons, RTV Utes, Commodores and other cars, Mighty Maitiz more than held her own, and kept the Girls safe.
The girls had a magical experience, and if you’ve got a child aged from 7-15, and you want to do something you and your young’un will remember for a long, long time and make a difference at the same time, you simply can’t do better than to get out of your comfort zone, find a cheap, totally unsuitable car, and sign up for the .
My Daughter Maisie and I are taking a 1999 Daewoo Matiz into the Outback in September - as we participate in Lunchbox Rally 2025! We are raising money for the Cancer Council in honour of our family and friends who we have either lost, or are fighting.My husband...