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October 14, 2009
24 Hours of LeMons: The Endurance Race for the Financially and Mentally Challenged
By Rob Krider
Racerboy
You’ve read about it in all the car magazines and you’ve been to the 24 Hours of LeMons website a hundred times, obsessively pouring over the rules. It’s the endurance road racing series for $500 cars. You’ve commented on numerous forums that “someday, if you can get a team together, you want to do LeMons.” Stop blowing bench racing smoke up everybody’s ass. Find a piece of crap car (that runs unlike a piece of crap), make four new friends (one with money, one who can weld, one who can fix motors and one who has a car trailer) and get yourself to the biggest thing happening in the world of motorsports. The 24 Hours of LeMons is absolutely the coolest thing you will ever do in an automobile.
To learn about cost, car preparation, adrenaline factor and how to actually win LeMons, read the rest at Speed Sport Life.
September 1, 2009
Krider Racing Integra Rolls to Victory at 24 Hours of Lemons
By Rob Einaudi
Editor-in-Chief
You may have read about this spectucular Lemons finish on Jalopnik last week. Well here’s the story right from Krider Racing’s Acura Integra ride page:
After being victorious at Altamont in 2008, Krider Racing came back to the 24 Hours of Lemons to try to be the first team to win the series twice. At Buttonwillow in 2009, Krider Racing led the first day, battled back and forth with Evil Genius Racing (winners of the 25 Hours of Thunderhill 2008) and then Krider Racing had the lead on the last lap of the race. The battle between the two drivers was epic and the pressure was on. Three quarters around the track at Lost Hill, Randy Krider rolled the Acura onto its roof in spectacular fashion giving the win to Evil Genius. Krider Racing still picked up a class win and, of course, a great story. Thanks to I/O Port Racing Supplies for keeping our driver safe.
Thanks to Rob Krider for the tip!
July 22, 2009
LeMons New England Wrap Up
By Jim Brennan
UDMan
I though I would do a final wrap up this series with how we placed in the top third of all the competitors, with the slowest car on the track. So if you’re interested, continue reading after the jump!
July 16, 2009
LeMons New England: Spinning Our Way to a 22nd Place First Day Finish!
By Jim Brennan
UDMan
Well, it was an adventure, entering the oldest car yet to compete in any 24 Hours of LeMons event. What was even more amazing was the fact that this 46 year old car, which was sitting in a Vermont Field for over a decade, was one of the most reliable machines on the track. When the race ended on Sunday, our team circled that Stafford Motor Speedway 813 times, placing 23rd overall, with the best lap time of 36.602 seconds, compared to the overall winner (The Kielbasa Kids Honda Civic) who’s best lap time was 31.011 seconds.
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July 15, 2009
LeMons: I :heart: ArcAngel
Atomicalex
See the chick with the angel wings? She’s got a grinder and a MIG welder, and if you’re bad, she welds stuff to your car. She welded a pig to the Corvair after one of our spinouts. She’s welding a BMW 7er grille with spikes on it to this LeMons racer. The spikes are pointed at the radiator, and in theory, the next time the drivers hit someone, their radiator buys it. I love this chick. She’s got style.
July 14, 2009
Lemons New England: TTTOS: All About the Team, the Car, and the Challenge
By Jim Brennan
UDMan
While Katherine has been busy posting all about our exploits in the 24 Hours of LeMons New England, I was steadily recovering from the event. Well, now that I’m back (with more Obscure Muscle Car Postings, I promise) let me tell you how this whole episode came together.
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LeMons: The Contender
Atomicalex
A SAAB 99 with a late 16valve swap was Team Trailing Throttle Oversteer’s only real competition for the Index of Effluency. Team Adopted by Jets fished the little beastie out of a field, and arrived with a few blades of grass still intact. The exhaust running up over the roof was a nice touch, but it wasn’t the afterburner they would have needed to catch us. Good work anyway, guys!
LeMons: Chard Beef Racing
Atomicalex
Ok, so I’m not sure where the Swiss chard was, but these guys and their BBQed beef car were in the paddock at the New England LeMons race for, like, ever. In fact, they were in the paddock for so long that they swapped two engines (they had three). Let me rephrase that: they did two engine swaps, which required three engines. At one point, they were wandering around asking if people knew other people with engines. The amount of effort these guys put out was incredible. They took home a prize for their work, and the respect of just about every person there who had ever turned a wrench.
LeMons: Pimpala Gets Cursed
Atomicalex
The Impala guys were back with both Vlad the Impala and the Pimpala. The Pimpala, another of the FWD versions these guys prefer, was replete with a cougar vinyl roof, a green and gold paint scheme, and a gold grille bearing a pimp hood ornament. It was voted People’s Curse, thanks to the aggressive and pretty offensive driving going on behind its wheel. A fair number of penalties were assessed to the team, but they did not get the message. The mechanics of the field were given five minutes to trash the car, and the mob of sledge-wielding wrenchers inflicted heavy damage, particularly to the heads involved. The heads on the engine, that is. In LeMons spirit, the team brought a cracked up Impala in to retrieve heads from and started working. By 4:55, the team was one part shy of getting the car back on the track, but no amount of black flags were sufficient to bring Vlad in for a retrieval and a victory over the peasants with pitchforks. Sucks to be you guys. You should have invested in some radios. More pics after the jump.
July 13, 2009
LeMons: VW Bling, and Yet Another 16v Goes Down
Atomicalex
The guys in the picture cracked me up. Their theme was Italian, in every way imaginable, including the North Jersey way. Their car was decorated with a Martini scheme, and they were wearing big gold chains with assorted VW badges dripping. Apparently, as they entered the BS zone, Jay Lamm appropriated one as a bribe. Hey, if it works. The bad VW news was that yet another 16v failed to finish. Prospects are improving for the high-strung 1.8l mill, because this one died the ignominious death of transmission failure instead of going the normal dropping-valves route.
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