We have to travel 2000 miles across Europe in a car that cost £300 and has dodgy brakes, a leaky fuel pipe and a strange clunking noise when you turn right.

Crazy? Of course. But just to add to the mayhem we are all going dressed as the Scooby Doo gang in our customised Mystery Machine!

Graeme, Skinner, Macca, Mads and Matt will be eating, living and sleeping as the ghostbusting team on the road trip from hell.

From LB to Paris, Munich, Prague and Berlin our bucket of bolts will attempt to clunk its way across five countries in the Coyote Rally – a Gumball for old bangers.

We will be travelling in a 1986 Toyota Town Ace (one careful owner, fsh)  and are wondering whether we will make the ferry to France.

Since we are taking Scooby Doo with us what better way to help other animals than by giving some cash to our supporting charity the RSPCA.

We have a blog and will attempt to update it daily. Stay informed at http://mysterymachinemaniacs.blogspot.com/

Here is the web-site for the rally.

http://www.coyote-rally.co.uk