Engines - of the two wheel-drive and under $1,500 variety - will rev across Newcastle on Saturday morning as a new season of the Shitbox Rally kicks off.
Teams of two will leave Newcastle in cheap cars, dubbed 'shitboxes' to take on mostly unsealed roads towards Townsville.
Branded a 'challenge' not a race, the event was started as a fundraiser for the Cancer Council 13 years ago after founder James Freeman OAM lost both parents to the disease.
