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What's purple, costs less than $500 and has box flares like a Renault 5 Turbo 2? Yes, it's a trick question because you haven't yet seen how this 24 Hours of LeMons racecar went from Geo Metro to SHO-powered sicko. More »
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Bill Caswell became famous for telling Jalopnik of his adventures taking a $500 Craigslist car and beating $400K rally machines to stand on the podium at last year's Rally Mexico. Now he's doing LeMons in an E30. More »
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I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to partake in a few motorsports events, snap a couple of blurry photographs, mistype some finishing results, and report back here on Jalopnik. Here is a top 10 list of those adventures. More »
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Here's the first interior photo of the eight-wheel, dual-rotary juggernaut first profiled here weeks ago, and now dubbed the Greatest LeMons Racer of All Time, or GLCOAT. This is only the start of the engineering mystery underneath its fiberglass skin. More »
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Bill Caswell, Jalopnik's very own $500 Craigslist rally driver, as part of POSRacing's F'ed-Up Express BMW E30, just won the Arse Freeze-a-Palooza LeMons race at Buttonwillow Raceway Park. Sure, it ain't Baja, but it'll do. [Facebook] More »
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Be warned, ye who desire project cars, for hell filled with blood, death and unbelievably hard-to-find Russian parts await all who dare not heed our warnings. Even the august penmen of the New York Times agree. Forsooth and such. [NYT] More »
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If you walk into the parts department of your local Nissan dealership you might see a calendar hanging on the wall. For the month of November the car displayed is a prior Jalopnik-featured car. More »
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Friend of Jalopnik Speedycop took up the wrench thrown by the owners of the eight-wheel MazCorvUgar we highlighted a while back. Next stop: The 24 Hours of LeMons. Greatness is not granted, but earned by those who mate rotaries. [Speedycop] More »
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Racing is for the rich. Or the smart. Right? Wrong. Here's six ways to get you on a track for 500 bucks or less. More »
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Automobile racing is a lot of fun, a very expensive, time consuming, amount of fun. But just because it can be ridiculously expensive doesn't mean you can't be involved in motorsports. Join a pit crew. More »
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The LeMons race that threw a few rods has humorously been renamed: "The Painfully Bland Bowl Of Thin Lukewarm Oatmeal That Can Not Possibly Offend Anyone, No Matter How Much They Enjoy Being Offended, 24-Hour Season Ender." [LeMons] More »
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When you bring a 40-year-old air-cooled Volkswagen to a LeMons race, you expect to finish way, waaaay down in the standings. When your Type 3 Fastback pulls off a 39th-place (out of 123) finish, you get the Index of Effluency! More »
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Nobody thought a Volkswagen would ever win, just as nobody believed it possible for a Nissan Z, Taurus SHO, or Saab to win. Today is Mitsubishi's day of improbable triumph! More »
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The closest finish in 24 Hours of LeMons history ended on the last lap with one pizza undelivered and a yellow aerodynamic brick winning the race. Here's the punk rock video remix. More »
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Remember the Mid-Drive Crisis Mitsubishi Mirage? They all laughed when it entered the track! Well, nobody is laughing now, because the innovative Mitsu with the mid-mounted driver's seat now sits at the top of the Yeehaw It's Texas LeMons standings! More »
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I'm too busy to take many photos during a LeMons BS Inspection— the gauntlet through which all entrants must pass in order to prove that they stayed within the $500 budget— when we have 120+ cars. Timelapse video time! More »
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We're back at MSR Houston once again, and the LeMons Supreme Court sweated its way through a super-swampy hot day in Texas. Lots of Taurus SHOs, lots of BMW E36s, a couple of Mustang IIs, and much more! More »
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The 24 Hours of LeMons, Jalopnik's favorite weekend racing series of vehicles ostensibly assembled for $500, has drawn protests from Miami-area Cubans over using pictures of Che Guevara in an offhand fashion. ¡VENCEREMOS! UPDATE: Che may have been banished. More »
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After 35 LeMons races, a Volkswagen has finally taken the overall win! With a small field due to the usual first-time-at-new-track deal, the race for the win on laps became a Supra-versus-Golf affair early on. More »
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GM continues its dominance of LeMons racing's top prize, with a Chevrolet Beretta hanging with the VWs and Toyotas for an excellent ninth-overall finish. More »
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The Mutually Assured Destruction Of Omaha 24 Hours of LeMons race is over. The cars are on the trailers, heading home, and I'm at the Omaha airport doing the same. Finally, a Volkswagen has taken an overall LeMons win! More »
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Saturday was a long, sweaty, buggy racing session at the Mutually Assured Destruction Of Omaha LeMons, with engines nuking head gaskets all day long. More »
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Actually, this race is taking place in Iowa, but Omaha is the nearest big city and it's impossible to resist naming a race the Mutually Assured Destruction Of Omaha, at the "Omahanebraskarring." More »
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I spent the last week on vacation in Wisconsin, but now it's work time: busting cheatin' racers at the Mutually Assured Destruction Of Omaha LeMons race! Here's one of the first things we saw upon entering the state of Nebraska. More »
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34 races in, and a Nissan Z Car finally took an overall LeMons win! They said it could never happen, but then they also said that Saabs and Taurus SHOs couldn't win. Let's check out the competition! More »
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LeMons racing's highest award, the Index of Effluency, goes to the vehicle that achieves the most from the least. This time we saw a Daihatsu Charade finish 34th and a Plymouth Belvedere finish 33rd... but one car beat them both. More »
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How many times has the 24 Hours of LeMons ripped out the hearts of Nissan Z lovers? I can think of at least a dozen races in which Zs led or at least contended for the lead... and then disaster! More »
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The Honda Prelude has been one of the real heartbreakers of LeMons racing— plenty of power, great handling... and a head gasket that might as well be cut out from cereal-box cardboard. Today, however, a Prelude leads! More »
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As we know, The General intended the Corvair to be a roomy compact sedan, not a performance car. BZR joined UDMan's Team Trailing Throttle Oversteer Corvair team at the LeMons New England race and lived to write about it! More »
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After sweltering in the Northern California sun all day at the aptly-named Arse Sweat-A-Palooza 24 Hours of LeMons race, all coherence has been boiled out of my brain. Let's get right to the photographs. More »
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The New England LeMons races definitely give us a different mix of cars, compared to the rest of the country: more Civics, more Subarus, fewer RX-7s. Speaking of Civics, would you believe Civics in three of the top ten positions? More »
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When a LeMons team races a '61 Cadillac, then runs a '63 Ford Thunderbird at, drops a BMW V12 into the car and races it, then stuffs a BMW turbodiesel in it and races that... well, IOE glory will come! More »
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It looked like the Near Orbital Space Monkeys' BMW 528e had the 2010 New England 24 Hours of LeMons in the bag, but a certain Civic just kept looming closer and closer in the rear-view. More »
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Drag race, rallycross, paved circle track, road course, and a dirt quarter mile oval, win it all in one crappy car at the Leadfoot Rally and you could be crowned The Ultimate Shoe. More »
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Dropping an L28ET yanked from a Datsun 280ZX Turbo into a third-gen Firebird and racing the result was a good idea, which makes today's swap a great idea! More »
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When we started the race in hot, muggy Connecticut, 75 or so cars set out onto the track. When the race session ended at 10:00, only 35 cars were still running... and a BMW E28 had the lead! More »
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The Plymouth Superbird was just a Belvedere with a big wing, right? Right! More »
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