{"id":716945,"date":"2026-07-29T08:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T08:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/716945\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T08:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T08:40:09","slug":"kidderminster-friends-dress-as-scooby-doo-characters-for-car-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/716945\/","title":{"rendered":"Kidderminster friends dress as Scooby Doo characters for car race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Four friends are set to take part in a driving challenge dressed as characters from the 80&#8217;s Scooby Doo cartoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scott Boraston, Graham Wilde, Steven Buckley and Matt McGinley, from Kidderminster, are taking part in The Rat Run 2026, a charity rally where teams drive a 1,300-mile route from the UK to Benidorm, Spain, in cars worth no more than a few hundred pounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They are taking part in memory of John Wilde, Graham&#8217;s brother, who took his own life earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They are hoping to raise money for a new, local mental health community centre set to open within the next couple of months, Boraston said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The group have decorated the vehicle to make it look like the Mystery Machine and hope it will get them to their final destination in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They will be stopping at five destinations during the 1,300 mile challenge before getting a police escort into Benidorm. More than 200 other cars are expected to take part.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All vehicles are tested with Top-Gear style challenges along the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four friends are set to take part in a driving challenge dressed as characters from the 80&#8217;s Scooby&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-716945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}