He drives the car under the team name of Redneck Rampage from Mount Isa on Thursday. 

It’s the third year that Mr Harman enters the Shitbox Car Rally but the second time in the EF Falcon XR8.

“It took me a while to get it running," Mr Harman said about the car that came from Urandangi. 

“She was dead, they did a lot of stuff to it. I replaced every relay in it, she was pretty stuffed.” 

Last year he drove the car with Bones Rayner from Canberra to Townsville via Birdsville. Mr Rayner wanted to enter the rally again this year but was unable to get the time off work. 

The car will presumably not make a third rally. It will be auctioned off for charity the following Saturday, the day after the rally drivers reach Hobart. 

“This time she will be left in Hobart. She’s a good old girl,” Mr Harman said, leaning on the car during the Colours for Cancer fundraiser at Lake Moondarra on Sunday. 

“I’m already sad thinking about it.” 

Mr Harman first entered the rally in 2014 to tick off an item on his bucket list. But in the lead up to the rally his friend died from cancer. 

“That kind of changed everything,” Mr Harman said. And then in the next few years he noticed how many relatives and friends were affected from cancer. 

He recalled a representative of another team in the rally last year who looked unwell. 

“I thought ‘he’s not really having a lot of fun,’” Mr Harman said, but did not realise until the man’s death this year that he had just completed a week of chemotherapy. 

“There’s not many people that haven’t been touched by it at all. 

“I didn’t realise how many people actually get it.” 

As of Wednesday morning he had raised $3678 through donations on his page on the Shitbox Car Rally website. 

His wife Emma Harman and her teammate Bek Moore have so far raised $5500 under team Pink BITZ.