The Children and Young People's Protection and Development (CYPPD)

So far, our route and car choice/developments have taken precedence on this blog. We shouldn’t be forgetting the reason as to why the rally is happening. David and myself have chosen to raise money for a charity called ‘The Children and Young People's Protection and Development (CYPPD)’. It’s a brilliant non-profit, non-governmental organisation working in Mongolia to support and protect vulnerable children. CYPPD supports children who are homeless, being abused or at risk of abuse, children at risk of trafficking and other exploitative activities such as child labour.

We are planning a fund raising party over the next couple of months, so stay posted.

http://www.childrensprotectionmongolia.org/

Stan plan (man)

A looming visa application deadline forced Dave and I to organise ourselves. Now we have decided our route through the 'stans'. Most of the blue flags below represent border crossings.

Visit the map: here.

MOT

After successfully passing a vehicle identity check, scraping the paint from the headlights, replacing the paint covered wiper blades and getting a new front nearside Dave took the Seicento for an MOT. It passed.

YES!

Our Fiat

Dave picked up the Fiat at the weekend. Here are a few more photos of the 1.1 litre beast. If we replace the front left it SHOULD sail through the MOT.

Finally

We finally have a car! eBay has found us a tidy little Fiat Seicento Sporting. Well, tidy except for the front of it. It only has 34,000 miles on the clock and there’s a fish sticker in the rear window – two plus points for reliability, hopefully.

It’s ‘Sporting’ too, so we should get a good time round The Nürburgring.

Colours

Whilst browsing the net I came across this rather inspirational painted car. I thought I’d share it with you.

Press coverage

We were featured in January’s issue of Truck and Driver. Dave looks twice the size of me. Click on the below image to view it larger.