2008 Nissan Pathfinder Color Paint Location
Now that I've had a adventitious to go through my photos of the 24 Hours of LeMons South event, it's time for the acceptable LeMons Über Gallery! You'll see a set of photos for every car that managed to barrage (or sputter) assimilate the clue in Kershaw, South Carolina, added links to aggregation websites and added citrus-flavored goodness.
Any of you LeMons South racers who appetite the uncropped, full-resolution photos of your team's car should email me with a appeal and I'll angle you up. If you feel like backbreaking the Gawker server hamsters some added still haven't gotten your LeMons Über Fix afterwards blockage out these shots, booty a attending at the LeMons SF '08 Über Gallery, the Arse Freeze-A-Pa-Looza LeMons '08 Über Gallery, and the LeMons SF '07 Über Gallery.
#00, Euro Trash
One of abounding BMW E30s- about all antic 325e emblems and low-RPM tachs- at the race; we were apprehensive of this car during BS inspection, but LeMons Supreme Court Chief Amends Lamm assured that it was too apathetic to be cheating afterwards a abrupt analysis drive. Euro Trash accomplished 24th overall. For the Euro Trash story, go here.
#0, Hong Noor Racing
These guys had a abounding set of Soviet and Democratic Party flags on their anti-Obama themed CRX (which they hauled through non-Gingrich areas of Atlanta afterwards incident) and were absolutely quick with the fourth-best lap time of the race. But what the CRX giveth on the racetrack with its abundant administration and crazy power-to-weight ratio, it generally taketh abroad with its fragility. Anchor malfunctions and added automated woes captivated this Honda bottomward to a still-respectable 30th-place finish. We capital to see the flags breach on for the continuance of the race, but allegedly their aerodynamic annoyance was accounted excessive.
#01, Ray's Redneck Racing
Can you get a late-90s Accord, complete with VTEC H22 engine, for beneath 500 bucks? Ray's Redneck Antagonism can... although we'd accept formed them with above BS lap penalties if the car's slushbox hadn't ashen its awful apprehensive appearance. This Honda was slower than I would accept accepted with so abundant Soichiro-grade adeptness beneath the hood, so I doubtable it wasn't absolutely alive at 100%. 57th abode finish.
#1, Aggregation Lemonjello
Someone appropriate that this aggregation took its name from Houston Astro Mark Lemongello, but I never did get about to allurement the team. What I did ask them was why the rotary in this car articulate so abundantly good, and the (Mazda mechanic) captain produced receipts for a agglomeration of apple-pie parts- totalling beneath 500 dollars, of course, and absolutely legit-looking. The car itself looked to be annual about $9, and Lemonjello's avant-garde de-roofing action apparently bargain the weight by about as abundant as the blight had. Of course, this car angry out to be fast as fetor on the track, demography 2nd abode by three laps; did we get taken in by a agglomeration of RX-7 slicksters in the BS Inspection, or were they aloof abundant drivers? Apparently some of each.
#02, Aggregation Ponticrap
We were charmed to see a Fiero advancing in this race, abnormally afterwards Car & Driver's Fiero brought such ache to its aggregation at the aftermost Altamont race. Sure, we sweated aggregation Ponticrap atrociously during the BS Inspection, aback the aggregation was so acutely arranged with Fiero-expert ringers and the agent articulate like added than 500 bucks annual of power, but we secretly capital to see the artificial Pontiac accomplish a acceptable run for the banderole that is checkered. Sadly, the backing acclimate and dejected Fiero administration led to abundant spinout-related atramentous flags, and the car concluded up actuality pulled from the chase due to assurance concerns. 61st place, but their 1:12 best lap time was appealing decent.
#2, She Got It All
You're attractive at the champ of LeMons South (and, of course, the champ of top-ranked Prayer Of Acceptable class)! The She Got It All RX-7 aggregation went about its business agilely (well, as agilely as is accessible for a Wankel) and afterwards drama, never alluring abundant absorption yet blockage in the advance for best of Saturday and all of Sunday. By all accounts, they raced apple-pie and didn't piss anybody off... and maybe they absolutely did anatomy their car for beneath 500 bucks!
#3, Aggregation Red Rocket
I'm not abiding what happened to the Red Rocket Escort; its 1:09 best lap time showed it had the speed, but the 64th-place finish- that's 330 aback of the winner- indicates abundant time advancing burst genitalia and/or penalties. You can watch Cartman accepting agape off by the Tunachuckers in the Schumacher Taxi video below:
#03, The Acceptable Stuff
We were awful agnostic about the angary of a sub-$500 Impreza during the BS Inspection... until we got beneath and saw that this one was a 2WD example. The guys on the Acceptable Being aggregation brought what amounted to a complete barbecue restaurant's annual of affable gear- hey, this is the South- and plied the absolute LeMons agents with accomplished barbecue craven and beer on Saturday night (the comestible arena in the pits would accept been annual the cruise to South Carolina, alike afterwards the race). FWD or no, this Subie fabricated it into the Top 20: 19th abode finish.
#4, Aggregation TWaffle
It was a spinout- one of many- of the Tokyo Auto Wreckers' 240SX that resulted in the Alive While Awesome Porsche bistro my rear bonanza at Altamont, and the aforementioned Nissan fell off its bivouac on the MacArthur Freeway afterwards the race. Conceivably because of this, I cringed aback I saw the TWaffle 240SX cycle up in Kershaw, but it accepted to be absolutely safe-n-sane. 37th place.
#5, Aggregation We-Todd
Here's addition actively quick Honda; We-Todd Antagonism had the third-best lap time of the race. One of abounding cars to action the abominable bargain eBay adjustable coilovers- you bigger accept we looked 'em up during the BS inspection- this Civic came in 28th overall.
#11, Double Aggregation Supreme
The pizza deliverer on the roof of this car was angrily realistic- the guys on the aggregation said it took them months to get it aloof right- but the befuddled rod that agape Double Aggregation Supreme out of the chase was alike added realistic. 66th place.
#6, BMWTF?
There was some agitation activity about the pits about what aggregation best adapted the Best Heroic Fix trophy. The Utility Muffin guys were mentioned frequently, as were the Turbo Schnitzels, but already we heard the affecting annual of Aggregation BMWTF, there was no doubt. These guys went through endless nightmares architecture their car- several bad engines, a complete car taken abroad due to some array of acknowledged hassles- and were still animate on their car as the clip car went about the clue on Saturday morning. Their L6 was quick- 1:08 best lap time attests to that- alike afterwards accepting T-boned by a Mustang and a agglomeration of added camber angled into the rear suspension- and managed a 59th-place adeptness to go with their Heroic Fix trophy.
#7, The Schumacher Taxi Service
That abundant in-car video you aloof saw came to us address of the Schumacher Taxi Corolla FX16, and doesn't that 4A-G agent complete glorious? They charge accept burst to adeptness 26th- abnormally with a abundant 1:09 best lap time- and maybe the abounding chance may be begin on their website. We adeptness as able-bodied accept to that agent a bit added (and you can watch abounding added Schumacher Taxi videos here:
#07, Aggregation Dai Mondai II
What are the allowance that you'll accept different teams with FX16s about accept 7 and 07 for their car numbers? This aggregation was fabricated up of a agglomeration of Toyota engineers and interns (here's their website), which triggered some anxiety accretion during the BS inspection. The slick-looking acrylic jobs on this car and their Celica didn't advice matters, but we let the FX16- which was absolutely appealing exhausted beneath the acrylic job- go afterwards any lap penalties. 49th place.
#08, Slee-Z Racing
Rust aficionados would accept admired the Slee-Z Antagonism 280ZX, which had abundant apparent areas not defined by Nissan engineers. As I recall, they had a atramentous banderole or two, added some bankrupt parts, and piloted their leopard-skin-adorned amethyst Datsun to an entitled-to-bragging-rights 40th abode in animosity of those setbacks.
#8, Inmates Alive The Asylum
Although the LeMons Supreme Court can be bribed during the BS Inspection, sometimes alike Boss Tweed-esque levels of banknote can't buy a aggregation abundant amends to get their car through the analysis unscathed. The Inmates Alive The Asylum guys put calm this car in their Spec Miata-building boutique and their bulk numbers aloof didn't add up to our satisfaction: 200 lap penalty. The car was fast and the drivers were very, actual good; in fact, they'd accept won the chase by a lap afterwards the penalty.
#09, Aggregation Dai Mondai I
This Celica was advised to be the faster of Dai Mondai's two LeMons entries, and it admiring affluence of administrative analysis during the BS analysis (say, do you accept a aggregation fabricated up of Toyota engineers adeptness apperceive a few tricks?). They were nice guys, so we cut them some slack; all the altercation angry out not be pointless, anyway, aback this car threw a rod on the third lap of the race.
#9, Doriftodogs
We got a allurement from the Doriftodogs acceptable to buy pizza for the accomplished LeMons agents afterwards the race, and they apparently weren't alike cheating (much)! The Dogs managed to breach some accomplished Bavarian parts, but still accomplished a solid 27th-place finish. The airedale grille analysis was appealing cool, reminding us of the Porcubimmer. Be abiding to analysis out their website. Here's some Doriftodogvision for you, too:
#11, Shark Sandwich Racing
The Toyota MR2 is a abundant LeMons car, with acceptable administration and a well-protected radiator, but... well, these are bristles hundred dollar cars. The Shark Sandwich Toyota started out strong, but afresh a rod bearing- absurd on abbreviate apprehension in Kershaw- gave up a few hours into the race; you can apprehend the accomplished chance at the team's blog. 65th abode overall.
#12, The Corporate Apparatus Corp.
These guys had aggregate we best like to see at the 24 Hours of LeMons: Absurd-yet-powerful car, abundant theme, analogous costumes, and austere never-say-die spirit. Alike afterwards the burning-brakes chance on Saturday (and all-night rotor/caliper job), afterwards bistro up a brace of advanced tires every two hours, afterwards every basic able of overheating was accomplishing so- yes, alike afterwards the Corporate Apparatus was bottomward to a half-dozen laps per assignment afore the agent and/or manual crapped out and appropriate a diffuse cool-off period, this aggregation kept accepting that Cad aback on the track. The DeVille's crazy administration abandoned would accept been abundant to accelerate basal teams alive for the trailer; I'm appealing abiding the access for "Understeer" in best dictionaries includes an analogy of the front-wheel-drive, 4.9 liter V8-powered '91 Cadillac DeVille. The Corporate Apparatus Corporation let me drive their car for a few laps- yeah, afterwards I went the amiss way bottomward the pit road, due to my actuality absent by the alarming of what would arise to me if I got a penalty- and all I can say is that 51st abode in this barbarian was absolutely an accomplishment. Slam-dunk People's Best award. Be abiding to booty a attending at their well-written aggregation website, afresh watch the video of my alive chance below:#13, Adamantine Luck Racing
It's amazing how you can acquisition Datsun ZXs for aloof a brace hundred bucks (hey, a austere sports car with six-banger adeptness and absolute rear suspension!), but such cars generally accept issues. In the case of the Adamantine Luck Antagonism Datsun, fuel-system nastification and caster stud abortion conspired to aftermath a 56th-place finish. We absolutely dug the ACME Secret Weapon and achievement to see this apparatus at approaching races. You can apprehend the accomplished Adamantine Luck annual here.
#14, Superkak Racing
This car was the affair of abundant acrimonious agitation in the pits, mostly absorption about the impossibility of purchasing a 18-carat V8/5-speed '94 Mustang GT- yes, the one with all the hi-zoot abeyance goodies- for beneath 500 bucks. Superkak's cost-accounting paperwork looked legit, but I was appealing abiding they'd accept been archaeologian allurement if alive penalties hadn't taken them out of altercation for the checky flag. As it turns out, Superkak gets the aloof rights that arise with the best lap time of the race.
#15, POP BANG POW
The POP BANG POW BMW did 112 laps on its way to a 67th-place finish, but I wasn't able to actuate its fate. If you're annual this, PBP guys, let us apperceive your story.
#16, What's That Smell Racing
Apparently acquisitive to chase in Arse-Freeze-A-Pa-Looza LeMons champ Red Meat And Poontang's annoy tracks, What's That Smell Antagonism showed up with a Mazda Protege (dubbed the "Accsmellerator 3000"). We admired the Little Tree theme, and the 18th-place adeptness shows that the Protege will agitate alike added suspicion abutting time is a solid LeMons car choice. Get the complete Accsmellerator chance here, afresh watch the don't-try-this-at-home video below.
#17, KML Antagonism 2
We couldn't advice but adore the audacity of the dodgy accounting and maybe-they-won't-notice supercharger we begin with this PT Cruiser, but we had no best but to duke bottomward a abrupt BS amends on the KML Antagonism PT Cruiser. Afterwards the 70-lap penalty, they'd accept been in the top 15; with it, they accomplished 31st.
#18, Rubber Biscuit Racing
While this Caprice managed an alike quicker lap time than the Punisher Antagonism Chevy- a beauteous 1:08 adjoin the 3rd-place Punishers' 1:09, automated problems captivated the Biscuit aback to a still-impressive 16th-place finish. The absolute chance here, however, is that this car absolutely survived the People's Curse at the LeMons Detroit chase aftermost year; see all the aliment on the roof? The chance and photos may be begin here. Rubber Biscuit aggregation affiliate Terry has this to say about their LeMons South experience:We had a abundant time but did accept some problems. The accomplished aboriginal day we were way bottomward on adeptness - couldn't get added than bisected burke afterwards the motor missing actual abominably and alarming atramentous smoke. We ample that we would lose added laps than we could anytime get aback if we brought it to the barn to bulk out the issue, so we aloof ran it that way the aboriginal 7-1/2 hours of the chase and dealt with it at the atramentous break. It angry out that the commuter ancillary O2 sensor had crapped out. We replaced it with a new AC Delco one and it was accomplished the abutting morning, but our lap times that aboriginal day were 5 abnormal slower than the baton and we were bottomward 23 laps by the end of Saturday. We would accept absent added laps than that if we hadn't raced in the rain for 2 hours aback anybody abroad had to apathetic bottomward too. Our car did abundant in the rain.
The abutting day the car ran great. We started up afresh at 8:30 AM and were alive laps 1-2 abnormal faster than the baton all morning. But our transponder had chock-full animate and Scoring didn't atramentous banderole us to let us apperceive of the botheration until over an hour into the day. We were able to accommodate with the accommodating scoring admiral for them to accord us 50 laps, but the baton had run 58 by afresh and we were faster than them all morning. Still - it was way bigger than nothing. By the 11:00 -12:00 "church break", we had fabricated up 8 laps and things were attractive acceptable for a top 10 finish. But appropriate afterwards the breach we cut a anchor band from some clue debris. We replaced the band but absent 15 added laps while we anchored the car. Afresh about 12:30 the manual chock-full animate into 3rd accessory - we anticipate a simple $5 about-face solenoid died. I assumption that banal motor (yes, it absolutely was cartilage stock) aloof didn't like 3 hours of actuality run up to the rev limiter in 2nd accessory on the 2 continued straights, so with 2 annual left, it threw 2 rods through the oil pan in protest. It apparently didn't advice that we had bumped the rev limiter up 400 RPM from stock. Maybe I should accept mentioned that to my aggregation mates... :)
#21, Clasp My Lemon
Here's addition Top 20 machine, added affidavit that Soichiro fabricated affluence of quick hatchbacks that authority calm for 300,000 afar (though I abide agnostic that it's accessible to buy any alive Civic for beneath $500 with the adumbration of five-buck gas looming beyond the land). The Clasp My Lemon Civic came complete with BMW M badges, and I accept it's additionally billed as a "Type R" to boot!
#23, Rusty Wankel Racing
The Rusty Wankel RX-7 seemed bedeviled by breakdowns throughout the race; they were alveolate absolutely abutting to LeMons Supreme Court HQ, and we saw the Mazda affective beneath aggregation beef adeptness added than once. Their quickest lap time (1:10.785) was aloof a half-second slower than the acceptable RX-7's, so we accept we'll see a adversary abutting time, already all the bugs are formed out.
#24, Utility Muffin Antagonism Team
What do you do aback you anatomy a chase car and afresh it break its camshaft in bisected during a convenance lap the afternoon afore the race? You could bandy in the towel- you know, wasn't meant to be... or you could do what the Utility Muffins did: crank up some Burnt Weeny Sandwich and drive absolute to Charlotte afore the junkyards close, afresh bend all night to do a arch bandy on the CRX and be accessible to chase the abutting morning. As so generally happens with CRX LeMons cars, added automated ills slowed bottomward the Zappa-themed team, but they managed a top-half 35th-place finish.
#25, Salazar Racing
We all apperceive how the chase concluded for the Salazar Antagonism BMW team. Sure, there was no way in hell that 325is was a $500 car, and maybe they apparent article of an advancing band out there on the track, but by all accounts they were nice guys (once they got out of the car) and they took their abuse with acceptable humor.
#26, Turkey Fryer Endurance Racing
We saw absolutely a few Ford Escorts at LeMons South, and their achievement ran the area from Top Ten to DNF. The Turkey Fryers kept their car animate and in the mix for best of the chase and accomplished 46th. The annual of their anatomy is annual reading.
#30, Ones2Drive
The Ones2Drive BMW was the almsman of the alarming Grille Of Damocles abuse (a Volvo grille covered with spikes is anchored to the advanced of the car, guaranteeing radiator afterlife in the aboriginal impact), and accomplished the chase with a crazy vertically-oriented radiator yanked from the carcess of a stricken competitor's car. This car absolutely got acclimated up on the way to its 60th-place finish, but at atomic the awning will alive on as adornment for Canada Antagonism HQ.
#33, Thunder Road
A Subaru SVX antagonism at the 24 Hours of LeMons? Wow! Thing is, the affectionate of SVX you can get for 500 bucks... well, there adeptness be a few compromises in the ol' believability department. The Thunder alley aggregation roared assimilate the clue activity able and optimistic to alpha the race, then- hey, why doesn't the council work? No problem, aloof bond up the alarming council apparatus and get aback on the track... oh no, we charge the tow barter again! That's how it went for Aggregation Thunder Road, who were baffled by South Carolina's Thou Shalt Not Advertise Car Genitalia On Sunday dejected laws in their final adjustment attack and managed a admirable absolute of six laps. It wasn't for naught, however, because they took home the coveted I Got Screwed trophy, abutting the brand of Aggregation Porcubimmer in that honor.#34, Loose Tool Racing
This Jetta seemed clumsily new- and fast- for a $500 car, but sometimes car shoppers aloof get lucky, right? We'll leave that for the readers to debate, but there's no arguing with the actuality that Loose Tool's VW got into the Top Ten, with a 9th-place finish.
#35, Kudzu Kommandos
The Kommandos were able to beating off the second-best lap time of the race, but the Ultimate Alive Apparatus tends to become the Ultimately Adamantine To Fix Apparatus aback that close-tolerance Bavarian adeptness goes awry. 54th place. Here's an annual from Kommando Ed:A befuddled fan belt and afterwards a adamantine tap that fabricated the motor accident the basal radiator corrupt pissed off the arch gasket. Later, two or three hoses, a baptize pump and a broiled oil burden about-face took us out of altercation on Saturday.Sunday we absitively all should drive one added time. We spent a book bulk of time and money to get there (we are not affluent by any amplitude of imagination) and anniversary disciplinarian alone had one about-face on Sat.After anniversary run we brought the car in, waited until we could get the cap off afterwards baking what was left, put in about 2 gallons of baptize and the abutting guy went out.The agent would get so hot on anniversary run the arch would alpha aperture oil on to the exhaust. Eyes would bake and the aftermost disciplinarian about threw up. GREAT FUN! WE WANT TO DO IT AGAIN! Acceptable is overrated.We ran that poor car with a absolute arch gasket for a day and a half. How's that for German engineering?
#37, Mary Kay Racing
If the Mary Kay salesforce had to be a little faster (and went to a array of ailing house-paint adaptation of Salmon Tumor instead of blush for their car blush of choice), this is what they'd drive. We were accessible to accompany the lap-penalty bang bottomward on this car during BS inspection, cerebration it was the six-cylinder Supra at first, but that 22R beneath the awning was authentic Celica. Mary Kay Antagonism collection to a able 11th-place adeptness overall.
#39, Dawg House Racing
This Prelude had acceptable junkyard wings and spoilers- army all over the car- to win the Dangerous Banned Technology trophy. According to official LeMons rules, the bays goes to the car with the best use, ie "didn't absolutely abatement off and annihilate anyone," of any accessory currently banned, no agnosticism wisely, by the FIA. (Partial list: sliding skirts, alive air brakes, alive wings, agent engines, assimilation fans, alive suspension, bifold axles, and apparently anon Max Mosley). As we all know, anniversary added addition adds 50 horsepower, which is acceptable the acumen Dawg House Antagonism racked up a boastworthy 15th-place finish.
#40, Malt Liquor Tech Racing
First of all, we were afflicted by the Schlitz Dejected Bull clear and 40-ounce advertence with the car cardinal (though we didn't absolutely see any Schlitz 40-dogs in the Malt Liquor Tech pits). While abounding of the BMWs succumbed to the accepted fuel/electrical-system problems that go with Bargain BMW Antagonism territory, Malt Liquor Tech's car captivated calm and came in fifth overall. That agency they took home not alone the pride of arise the LeMons Top Bristles but the Fastest German Car bays to boot. They additionally had the best aggregation decal of the race: a screaming-possum architecture that now adorns my laptop.
#42 Peg-Leg Rum-Runners From Outer Space
The association at Crownvic.net don't accept to be affiliated to this Badge Interceptor Crown Victoria, but I'm abiding they'd be blessed to apperceive it accomplished in the top half, with a 32nd-place finish. Their best lap time of 1:10.353 was aloof a beard slower than the acceptable RX-7's best time (though not as quick as either cop-car battling Caprice), which shows that those bargain ex-cop Crown Vics accept LeMons-winning potential.
#44, Aggregation Türbö Schnïtzël
Like the Porsche 944, the Merkur XR4Ti looks like an ideal LeMons car on paper. Lots of turbocharged power, rear-wheel-drive, IRS, and you can get animal ones for peanuts. In reality, though... well, let's aloof say we didn't anguish too abundant about cheating aback we BS-inspected this car, because it goes afterwards adage that all bargain XR4Tis draft up. We were up backward bubbler beer and cutting the bits with the Schnitzels on Saturday night, afterwards they'd anchored their absolute arch gasket... which promptly blew afresh on Sunday. The car looked abundant on the track, as did the team's "Fahrt Schnell" T-shirts, and we achievement to see these guys aback at approaching races. For the behind-the-scenes story, analysis out the Turbo Schnitzel blog
#45, TAJ Escort Service
Here's affidavit that bribery LeMons board pays! These characters showed up with a genuine, numbers-matching Escort GT and accepted us to accept they'd paid beneath than $500 for this awful approved classic. We threatened to hit them with a allegorical 5-lap BS penalty, aloof because their car smelled like cheating and the 95-degree acclimate had us in a abhorrent mood, but we were so afflicted with the banknote taped beneath their car's awning that we let them go. As it turns out, they fabricated the Top Ten by a bald four laps! Don't absence the aggregation website.
#46, Mad Cow Motorsports
It took me a while to bulk out that the article dangling from the advanced bonanza of this ex-cop box Crown Vic was declared to be a cow's tongue. There's annihilation like the afterimage of a big Detroit auto agreeable through the turns while a agglomeration of afraid imports try to clasp accomplished it, decidedly aback said Detroit auto is corrective to resemble a bovine. The Mad Cow Ford came in 38th; analysis out the team's chance here.
#50, Aggregation Thunderturd
You apperceive all those Thunderbird Turbo Coupe guys who go on and on about how quick their cars absolutely are (in animosity of actuality bargain Fox Fords that tend to afford genitalia aback activity over acceleration bumps)? If this chase is any guide, they're right! Aggregation Thunderturd came in 7th, with appealing acceptable 1:11 lap times and- abundant added important- no above breakdowns or penalties. The mailbox awning exhausted was a nice adorning touch.
#51, Buzzed Antagonism Is Fun Racing
We see a lot of German LeMons cars dressed up in WW2 aggressive arrangement (thankfully, the teams leave the swastikas off, appropriately sparing us the charge to administer the binding 100,000,000-lap "Nazi Punks Fuck Off" penalty). So how about painting a Ford Mustang to attending like a P-51 Mustang? This car looked abundant (we abnormally admired the aircraft-style exhausts on the fenders) and the aggregation had a accomplished name, but the (non-turbo) four-banger beneath the awning meant it had a boxy time befitting up with the competition.
#53, CMP Mafia
The CMP Mafia's antecedent plan was to accept several full-sized bicycles on the roof arbor during the race, which would accept been acceptable for affluence of fun aback they flew off and got run over by all the added cars, but assurance apropos allowable their removal. This Eclipse was run by a agglomeration of Carolina Motorsports Park advisers to a 6th-place finish. Abundant track, guys- I'm absolutely advancing aback for approaching races!
#54, RPDE Victory Junction Gang
An Opel in the 24 Hours of LeMons! Hooray! This Opel 1900 is a brain-scrambling Malaise Era mashup of GM-related marques; badged as a "Buick/Opel" and powered by an Isuzu engine, it apparently abashed the hell out of car buyers. This one is an abandoned-in-back-yard ex-race-car, run by a aggregation from the Richard Petty Alive Experience (no, we don't apperceive why it isn't #43). It was actual quick (best lap time was an accomplished 1:09.677 seconds), but penalties and/or breakdowns resulted in a 41st-place finish.
#55, Tunachuckers
We've already apparent the Tunachuckers, whose Volvo Amazon aloof kept ambit the track, hour afterwards hour, and accomplished in 47th abode (a three-hour crap-in-the-fuel-lines adjustment agape them able-bodied bottomward in the standings). These guys took home the Index Of Effluency trophy, which goes to the aggregation that does bigger than anyone anticipation accessible with their hopeless nontraditional chase car. Absolute LeMons aristocracy appearance the Index Of Effluency as the best celebrated trophy, alike bigger than the one for the all-embracing chase winner. Acceptable work, Tunachuckers! Their website is absolutely entertaining, by the way.
#57, Freeman's Car Stereo
I anticipation I saw this Accord auto ache a adverse agent access aboriginal on Sunday, the blazon that sends ablaze abutting rods addled off over the horizon; it charge accept been some added car, about (or the aggregation had a additional agent and crazy bandy skills), because the Freeman's Car Stereo Honda was still on the clue and affective beneath its own adeptness aback the chase ended. 33rd place.
#64, C.C. Canada
Here's the car run by our host (and architect of the Driveshaft Through The Skull design), Walker Player Canada. The ZX's V6 refrained from communicable on blaze (though there were some fuel-system maladies) and the CC Canada aggregation agape off abounding 1:09 laps on their way to an 8th abode adeptness and a Prayer Of Finishing chic trophy.
#65, Aggregation Animal House
You can be appreciative aback your aggregation wins the Best Acceptable To Leave In An Ambulance bays at the 24 Hours of LeMons, and that's aloof what Aggregation Animal House did with their Fox Thunderbird. Note the Deathmobile fins and annual of Chief Perpetrator Jay Lamm as awning ornament, afresh adventure to their in-car video:
#66, Wide F'in Open
Plenty of Civics showed up to chase at CMP, giving the E30s and Escorts a run for their money, and this one was the race's top Honda: 13th place. Hey, my '92 Civic would attending acceptable with a acrylic job like this car's!
#67, Aggregation Saab Story
Another "looks acceptable on paper" LeMons car is the Saab Turbo; usually you see the 900s, but Aggregation Saab Chance managed to acquisition a 9000 for (allegedly) beneath 500 bucks. They were appealing quick, battled through assorted anchor and manual ailments, and got themselves a admirable 21st abode adeptness and the No Prayer Of Finishing chic bays (they additionally won the Fastest Swedish Car medals, but weren't there for the awards commemoration and the Tunachuckers affective the medals instead). You can apprehend their chance here.
#68, SMV Racing
SMV Antagonism brought a brace of cars to the race; this GTI and a Pinto. We stomped on this car with our hobnailed lap-penalty boots during the BS judging- arise on, guys, you can explain abroad your budget-busting mods bigger than that- and that resulted in a 52nd-place finish. Their best lap time of 1:10.544 showed that this 3-wheeler could absolutely move.
#70, Deconstruction
How can you not adulation a Geo Storm at LeMons? Of course, the Storm wasn't actual fast and lots of being broke, but we admired this car anyway. The affectionate acrylic job aggressive us to band a map of Iran on the ancillary of the car. 58th place.
#71, KML Antagonism 1
Even a Camry can be a chase car at the 24 Hours Of LeMons! The 1:18.026 additional best lap time was garbage-truck-esque, but the Camry's adeptness to aloof accumulate activity gave KML Antagonism a nothing-to-sneeze-at 21st place.
#72, Quattro Libre
Since cars tend to crisis into anniversary added with abundant regularity at the 24 Hours of LeMons, you've got to adore a aggregation that fields a chase car with the timing belt amid about four inches abaft the grille. The Quattro Libre Audi 4000 survived the race, however, and did so with no above automated problems. While the car apparent some absolutely scary-looking anatomy angular in the corners, it absolutely endemic during the brace hours of rainfall. Aback you're done watching the in-car video below, apprehend their annual of their adventures here.
#74, Butchered Motor Works
That's right, it's yet addition BMW E30! It appears that Butchered Motor Werks never absolutely got their 325e animate absolutely appropriate (in animosity of the abundant aggregation name), but they best up a 42nd abode adeptness nonetheless.
#75, Howard J. Turkstra Motorsports
With a Supra acceptable aftermost year's Flat Rock race, we accepted the Howard J. Turkstra Toyota to be a absolute adversary at this race. Unfortunately, $500 cars don't always... well, you apperceive the rest. 62nd place.
#77, On The Run From Nuns
After seeing a brace of agent Benzes at the Altamont chase aftermost year (including one in the Top 20), we already knew the adamant believability of the OM617 agent makes these things LeMons contenders. The administration is accomplished for such a big car, too, and On The Run From Nuns took 25th place. They've got an all-encompassing set of photos here, but we still can't bulk out why they're alive from nuns.
#80, Modle Carlo
You booty an old dirt-track Monte Carlo that's been sitting in someone's aback backyard for a few years, bead an Olds 350 in it, administer some paint, and it's antagonism time! The abatement of the awning partway through the chase suggests overheating woes, but we never did acquisition out what array of automated problems were adverse the Modle Carlo. 39th place.
#81, Punisher Racing
Right at the end of the race, antecedent letters had the Punisher Caprice at 2nd place, but the Lemonjello RX-7 had a distinct lap on the big Chevy. Still, third abode in this chase is area for abundant strutting, boasting, and chest-thumping aback home, which is no agnosticism what's accident in whatever rust-plagued boondocks the Punishers barrage from. We were aghast that they wouldn't chase with the huge broadcast-tower antenna army on the roof, admitting conceivably the added 500 pounds had article to do with that. These guys took the No Prayer Of Acceptable chic trophy- appealing funny, accustomed how abutting they came to winning. Hey, why don't added badge departments accept "To Enslave And Torture" as their motto?
#83, Aggregation FDonk
It's acceptable to see a auto barter out there on the clue with all those cars, and Aggregation FDonk exhausted absolutely a few cars with their 29th-place finish. We enjoyed the "cuts of meat" acrylic job on this Nissan.
#84, Mad Bombers
This seems to arise every time I awning one of these races: one car manages to balk my camera for best of the race. Yes, I attempt aloof one photo of the Mad Bombers' Buick, which had a acceptable B-24-ish affair activity on. With alone 109 laps total, I accept the Bombers spent best of the chase spinning wrenches. Still they accomplished advanced of four added teams with their 68th-place ranking.
#85, Karmann Geddon
This car was by far our quickest BS inspection; afterwards ascertaining that they absolutely were activity to chase a Golf Agent (who the hell bought these things in North America?), we coiled them on by. Bummer about the breakdowns that bound Karmann Geddon to a bald 35 laps, though. 70th place.
#86, SMV Antagonism B Team
Explosive Racing! Anybody admired watching this Pinto, which nailed bottomward 34th place. But area was the Chevy Vega?
#88, BeerTech Racing
The BeerTech 318i was the chase baton for a few august hours on Saturday, arch us to feel that we hadn't been acrid abundant on their not-real-convincing insurance-buyback annual during the BS analysis process. By the race's end, they'd alone bottomward in the standings a bit, but 12th abode is a boss able adeptness in this car-killing event. Here's what the BeerTechs accept to say for themselves.
#90, Bang Down
You appetite rust? Bang Bottomward will appearance you rust! This adamant oxide-centric Mazda had the 5th-best all-embracing lap time and roared to a 17th-place finish.
#91, Saabs Gone Wild A
The Saabs Gone Wild maniacs arise to chase the 24 Hours Of LeMons about the country the way Deadheads already followed Jerry Garcia, and so we weren't at all afraid to see them with yet addition Saab 900 Turbo in South Carolina. While their car managed a smoker (literally) fast best lap time of 1:08.922, its accomplished Swedish engineering wasn't up to the arduous demands of the race: 44th place.
#96, Craigslist Built Our Hotrod
You appetite to apperceive why it's so important to advertise the angary of your car's account to the board during the BS analysis at this race? This Camaro would accept won the race... alone we gave it a six-lap BS Amends for activity over account on the build. You see, aback you appearance up A) with a small-block Chevy that sounds like it's authoritative about 400 horsepower, B) with your account area cacographic on the aback of a atom box, and C) your own algebraic shows you activity over 500 bucks, we accept no best but to amerce your Camaro. But still, Craigslist Built My Hotrod got 4th place.
#97, Guns, Girls, And Gasoline Racing
We knew this Fox Mustang was arranged abounding of cheatin' flava, but the admirable GG&G Ladies Auxiliary and the anxious allowance of a case of algid beer assertive us to affluence up a bit on the BS Amends laps. Not that it mattered much, because this car drew atramentous flags abounding and spent a abundant accord of time sitting in the break zone. Oh, it was fast (1:10.036 best lap), but that adeptness accept been the access of the Chemical Ali punishment. 55th place. Be abiding to watch the adulation tap accustomed to the BMWTF? car in the video below:
#98, Aggregation Flack
Here's addition archetype of how not to go through the LeMons BS Inspection. Every affiliate of the aggregation looked like Smokey Yunick, and their Camaro was powered by a lumpy-idling Chevy small-block of alien displacement. That's right, they didn't apperceive what agent they had- aloof begin it sitting around! I couldn't absolutely put my feel on it, but article seemed ambiguous with this car. I acquainted bad about the big lap amends we gave them as a result, because the engine, transmission, radiator, and abuse abreast aggregate abroad bootless on this car, and it spent best of the chase up on jackstands with its belly broadcast all over. 69th place.
#99, Aggregation Absolute Loss
Can you acquaint this is a Ford Escort? Neither could we. Technically, the auto bed makes it an Escachero; the triple-decker addition gave it the acceleration bare to get a 20th-place finish.
