Happy New Year to all from Marc & Ray

 

It has been steady progress since signing up for the 2014 Mongol Rally,we have come up with a rally name GENGHIS CONE (a take on Genghis Khan the great Emperor of the Mongol Empire) with the idea of sprucing up our rally car to look somewhat like an ice cream van ,To start this idea of Marc has been able to purchase two 20" tall illuminating ice cream cones to sit on the car!! We now have a web site for you to visit http://marctopbanana.wix.com/genghis-cone

 

 

 

Our "TRUSTY" Suzuki Jeep let us down in Redhill only having it for 206 miles! OMG we need it to cover 10,000 miles and back. It required a new water pump, so whilst it was stripped down we had the timing belt replaced, a new battery was also purchased as the original had a dead cell ahhhh!

 

Hyde Park London has been nominated as the official UK start on the 19th July, we still intend to have our offical start from our Reading Room in the village of Upper Heyford Oxfordshire on the 18th July

 

This is our present route, but if we can get through Iran cheaply we will . So these are the countries passing through- France,Belgium,Germany,CzechRepublic,Austria,Hungary,Romania,Bulgaria,Armenia,Azerbaijan,Turkmenistan,Uzbekistan,Tajikistan,Kyrgyzstan,Kazakstan,Russia,Mongolia and homewards Mongolia ,Russia,Latvia,Lithuania,Poland.Germany,Belgium,France ,Blighty

 

 

 

Our next task is to sort the Visa`s for the Rally, to me the not so fun part We have set ourselves a target of raising £1000 for ech of our charities Craft Aid UK and Coolearth, your chance of helping us is through our web site .

 

 

 

 

 

The Adventurists Mongol Rally 2014

 

What`s this you say? Mongolia is 10,000 miles from Upper Heyford - who in their right mind would go there!

Well, Marc Colclough-Hoey and Ray Funnell from the village of Upper Heyford are doing just that, to support two great charities -Cool Earth Rainforest Preservation and Craft -Aid UK, a small positive thinking charity helping those in Uganda with clean waterwells and clinics.

Our mission is to take this, our 28 year old Suzuki SJ410 with it`s 950cc engine (slightly larger than a lawnmowers), through 20 countries, covering 5 deserts and 3 mountain ranges to the capital of Mongolia Ulaanbaatar ,over a period of 8 weeks!,Oops, forgot to mention, and bring it back! Our start date from Upper Heyford Reading Room is Friday 18th July 2014 and sail from GB the next day.

This is us and our quest. We will keep you informed and aware of our progress so watch this space IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE A SPONSOR and have your company associated with this absurd adventure, be first and email either

 

raymondfunnell@hotmail.com or marctopbanana@gmail.com