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The pair have spent less than £100 on the car
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Two men from Kent are setting off to drive the
4,000 miles from Plymouth to Dakar in a battered
1992 Ford Escort that cost them less than £100.
Simon
Cray, from Strood and Dan Sergeant from East
Malling, are driving with more than 30 others
across Europe and the Sahara to Senegal.
After
the rally, which should take about three weeks,
the vehicles will be auctioned to help charities
in Africa.
The
pair are also hoping to raise £3,000 for
Yalding charity GamBLE.
Charity number 1096152
Limited
budget
Dan
Sergeant said: "It's going to be difficult
getting a two wheel car through the desert,
across minefields and across Africa.
"It
will also be difficult being together for three
weeks."
The
challenge was set up in 2003 as an alternative
to the Paris-Dakar rally.
Aimed
at people with a limited budget, the rules state
that competing vehicles must cost no more than
£100 and no more than £15 can be spent
preparing them for the rally.
So
far, rally competitors have raised more than £112,000
for charities in Senegal and The Gambia
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