TEAM HILLBILLY ROLLERS
PART 0.1 - PROLOGUE
Earlier parts
11th of March 2023
The 1969 IP Icarus diesel station wagon arrived outside Andreas place. Of course, driven by nobody else but Janne. And by his looks, there was no doubt that he was excited. He jumped out of the drivers seat, closing the door a bit too hard, sending a loud rattle through the surroundings, almost unable to breathe.
“We’re in a hurry now!”, he told Andreas and Marie.
“Hurry? What kind of hurry? Can you ever speak a language that I understand?”, Andreas answered.
“You know how I almost never check my e-mail since it is always spam and shit anyway?”, Janne continued.
“Yes. To be honest I don’t even know why you bother having that e-mail since using a dove would be both safer and quicker”, Andreas sighed.
“Well, I did today and…I found an e-mail from months ago. There WILL be a Shitbox rally for 2023 after all!”, he said, full of excitement.
“Yeah, and when will that take place?”, Andreas asked him.
“In three weeks”, Janne replied.
“THREE FUCKING WEEKS?”, Andreas yelled.
“Yes.”
“How the fuck…I mean…HOW WILL WE EVEN GET A CAR READY UNTIL THAT?”, Andreas asked, a bit upset. “I mean, this peace of shit…”, he said, kicking the yellowed whitewall tyre and the rusty steel wheel with the sole missing hubcap on Janne’s Icarus, “…is too old. We can’t use either your Boulder or my Grand Mirage, since both are too expensive. And if we start cleaning out all the trash from Marie’s Saarland by now, we will be ready by August, I guess.”
“There is a solution”, Janne answered.
“And that is…?”, Andreas asked him.
“We can always call Arne.”
“ARNE? What makes you think that he will be taking part in this?”, Andreas asked.
“Have Arne ever said no to doing something weird?”, Janne asked in return.
“Oh, well…sure. But what was your thoughts of a vehicle then?”
“Did you see all of the IP Ruggers he had? We can build one vehicle out of all of them. I saw the good bits, and…”
“AN IP RUGGER? We can’t sit four people in an IP Rugger for a whole Shitbox Rally, you fumbduck!”
“Here’s the good part”, Janne said. “The rules state that we can have a support vehicle this year. If Arne and Marie takes the Sanju, I can build some primitive camper inside it, and then we can still stuff both that and the Rugger full of useable parts…”
“Yeah and you know what? I am going to sit inside the camper for the whole rally doing absolutely nothing but drinking beer, and there is nothing you can do to stop me!”, Marie said.
“Well, I am calling Arne then…”, Janne said.