20-07-10: Big English update!

Big English Update

It has been 3 months since our last update on this part of the website. But we didn't sit still at all. Maybe some have seen the Dutch version of the website and notice that we've been doing a lot! We don't want to whithhold any information so pour yourself a glass of G&T, sit back and enjoy: The Big English Update!

Start in two days

In the last update we we're proud we had a car. It feels like years ago because the car doesn't look the same anymore.
Joshua Van Ginkel from Trim-Line and Kevin Markestein from KG-Tuning decided our Panda looked a bit dull. They raided their personal stack of wrapping foil, barbwire and all sorts of gadgets to pimp our car. The new colour: Applegreen with virgin-white. We even have cool racing stripes now. Not to speak of the mean evil grill we have today.

Prepwork

After the car got her new colour it was time to do some prepwork. We knew our car was in good shape but we decided to have a look anyways. It was good fortune we did this because some things needed to be fixed drastically. Our shock-absorbers were busted and some fittings needed to be replaced. Luckily the mechanic of Fiat Aarsman decided to sacrifice his saturday-afternoon to help us.

Tires

One day we we're working on the Panda in Ton's frontyard, true ghetto style. One of our friends, Hessel, came by and commented: "You boys think you're going to reach Mongolia with tires like that?". Unfortunatly he was right, our tires were shut. He started to call some of his friends and a couple of days later he came by with a big smile on his face. If we jumped in our car and drove to Staphorst we could pick up four new 14-inch rims including brand new tires. Van Nierop Banden, thanks a lot! After this good news a different tire company knocked on our door with the announcement they had a couple of spare tires. So the tire problem is all fixed now.

Benefit-parties

To get our charity some money we decided to throw two benefit parties. One during queensday and one in June. The day before queensday we had a big clothing sale. One of our neighbours got hold on a big stock of Jaguar clothing. Everybody we knew could get some nice new gear for a couple of bucks. The clothing we didn't sell that day was offered to the public. It was one big succes.
In June we threw the first annual Dutch Beerpong Championship. All our friends could join with a team and to start playing they first had to donate a few euro's to our charity. We had a real good laugh that night and made some money.

Press

Ofcourse we tried to get as much attention for our charity as we could get. After our first newspaper article they asked us for a second interview. One of the pictures below was printed in the dutch newspapers. After this article a magazine called "Living in your area" came out. We shined on the cover of July's edition. This picture is on top of this update. As I am typing this we are waiting on the camera crew of a dutch television called: Omroep Brabant. They found our website a couple of days ago and they asked if they could make a little item about our charity in a show. They can show up any minute now.

Newspaper article BN/De Stem


A picture in a magazine

14-04-10: Our car!

Finally at last! We got it! Our very own sweet little Panda"bear". This 2001 Fiat Panda with not even 32.000K is now our little baby. Last week we got a phone call from Toyota Andreae that we could come for a look on saturday. As soon as we got there we fell in love. After a quick checkup and a testdrive we knew enough. This is going to be the car for our MONGOL RALLY 2010! London, hold tight. Cuz the Dutchies are coming in a ferocious Panda!

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12-04-10: Extra sponsors plus insurance!

Our gassponsor was telling stories of such greatness about our trip that his dad C. Boshuizen sr. couldn't resist anymore. In one day not one but two companies gave their word of sponsorship. Boshuizen Beheer plus Ostheopathie Moerdijk thank you very much. Then a insurance company knocked on our doors. Schuijt Assurantiën is willing to pay our car and road insurance. You guess where this is going... We still need a car to make that sponsorship possible.

A very, very happy Ton & Timo

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01-04-10 : €1500 gasmoney from TTC Ridderkerk!

April foolsday turns out to be really well for us. At first we thought somebody was pulling a prank on us. But when we arrived at the office of TTC in Ridderkerk, a big calibration company in the Netherlands, our worries we're soon gone. Instead of the first amount what C. Boshuizen jr. said on the phone, he now offered us to pay all of our gasoline expenses! After a few quick maths he now donates us €1500! We stand up and salute you sir!
So no more worries about the gasfundings, next step is (obviously) a car!

TTC, Thank you very much!

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17-03-10 : We're in the Newspapers!

"By Nissan or Fiat in the tracks of Djengis Khan" prized the newspaper article. The "Rally For Mongolia Fund" hits the southern Dutch newspapers called: BN De Stem. We knew there was going to be a little article, but we never expected a huge centerfold. For those who can read Dutch; the article shows right in the newsfeed.

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10-03-10 : Video Mo!

We can tell what we want, but our words can't perfectly describe how/what the Mongol Rally is. That's why we put a video online from one of the drivers of last year. We met her at the meeting in London and we we're very lucky to do so. She now has to young chaps with who she can talk for hours about the rally, and we are getting LOADS of information. "Mo" did the Rally in 2009 and still gets chills when she thinks about it. Girl, here is your beloved car once again!
In the first bit of the video she tells her story and the second part are movies itself.

Definatly worth watching!

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Several years we´ve been talking about this already. But we never took action, and this is how a dream stayed a dream.But on Augusth 30th 2009 we scraped all our courage together and decided we are gonna live this dream; 2010 will be the year that two young adventurers from little Zevenbergen drive all the way to Mongolia.

The purpose of our rally is to raise money for several charities in Mongolia. In Mongolia a lot of people still live in poverty. And it isn´t high on the international `to do list`. Mercy Corps Mongolia is one of the charities we are going to sponsor. This charity offers education and shelter for the nomad families. Which most people in Mongolia still are.

Every year 250 rallyteams start their journey from London to raise and donate to the carities in Mongolia. In 2010 this rally donated over half a million British Pounds to the charities. In 2010 we, Rally For Mongolia, are going to tribute to this fundraising. So you can imagine, we can use your help really hard. For more information about the Mongol Rally, have a look at www.mongolrally.com.

Ton van Eck & Timo Farla
Rally For Mongolia Fund