TO anyone unaware of the infamous Shitbox Rally, the scene at Penrose Park in Silverton on Friday evening might have seemed bizarre.

Hundreds of cars decorated in outlandish themes descended on the campgrounds, with their drivers dressed up as farm animals.

At Mundi Mundi Lookout, one team watched the sunset while drinking a ‘shooey’ (a beer drunk from a shoe), and another team cycled on the...