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What's worse than drunk driving? Drunk driving with your four-year-old in the car. What's worse than that? Fleeing the scene, crossing an interstate, and trying to shot-put the kid. More »
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What would you call a seven-foot-tall creature from South Carolina with red eyes, a scaly body and three fingers on each hand, who liked to bite cars? No, not "Earl." It's the, ahem, Car-Biting Lizard Man of South Carolina. More »
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Not to get all Tipper Gore, but people do realize that "Grand Theft Auto" is just a video game and not a self-help exercise? Because even if you're high, you shouldn't steal a police cruiser and wreck it. More »
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We're running out of ways to tell you NOT to hack electronic road signs, but after some recent unpleasantness we're grateful the quality's going up. South Carolina has hunters, zombies, and tanks… oh my! More »
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The 29th race in LeMons history took place last weekend, and we saw BMW tie Toyota for second place in the overall-win category (Mazda holds seven LeMons titles versus five apiece for BMW and Toyota). More »
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Once the race-leading S.O.B. Volkswagen GTI blew up late yesterday, there was no prying the Super Troopers' BMW E30 away from the top spot. Clean race, zero penalties, zero mechanical problems. Congratulations, Super Troopers! More »
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The weather was about what you'd expect for South Carolina in May, mechanical failures stacked up dead cars like cordwood, and the Penalty Box had plenty of clients. But some cars neither blew up nor spun out. More »
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What most quiet Southern towns want more than anything else is to block off downtown on Friday afternoon, run a parade of 89 so-called race cars down the main drag, and then endure a LeMons BS Inspection. Welcome to Camden! More »
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A Saab took the overall win, which was shocking, and GM continued its run of Index of Effluency dominance… which came as no surprise at all. It was cold, it was wet, but the racin' was great! More »
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We've spent a long, cold day in South Carolina, and the level of racing drama has been high. The lead changed again and again, the first- and second-position cars were knocked out by mechanical woes, and a Saab now leads. More »
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The first time we came to the 24 Hours Of LeMons South, we joked about the possibility of getting moonshine for LeMons Supreme Court bribes. No joke! More »
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It's much easier to just set up the BumperCam to document the BS Inspection than to shoot photos the old-fashioned way while also trying to bust cheaters, so here's we go! More »
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Another 24 Hours of LeMons BS Inspection in the books, and we didn't hand out quite as many penalty laps as usual. Part of it was our unwillingness to grovel in the mud to examine cheaty suspension parts, of course. More »
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With temperatures in the 30s and stinging rainstorms turning the LeMons Supreme Court's BS Inspection area into a sea of mud, the 66 cars we examined at the Southern Discomfort '10 24 Hours of LeMons race felt like several hundred. More »
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In a clear case of liberal media bias, the freedom-haters at the Wheels blog aren't covering a blatant case of big government attacking small business — the new NY plates — instead focusing on South Carolina's license plates. [NYT] More »
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We can't even fit half the great things about this van in the title! It's also got a household air conditioner (with generator) and authentic 1970s red-white-and-blue shag carpet in the back! More »
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The 19th race in the history of the 24 Hours Of LeMons is over, and Mazda has tied Toyota for the title of Most LeMons Wins: five apiece! More »
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Much as we'd like to see an Omni win a LeMons race, we're still pretty happy that a team has won both People's Curse and overall win in the same race! More »
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It says it right on the People's Curse ballots: Don't vote to crush a car just because it's ahead of you! Still, that's what happened today; the White Lightning RX-7 got the most votes. More »
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It's 98 degrees out, engine failures are proliferating like uranium centrifuges in the Middle East... and an RX-7 is leading the race. More »
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When you get Southerners and $500 race cars together, great things happen! In my opinion, LeMons South is the most fun of all the 24 Hours Of LeMons events. More »
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We've lined up the top ten cars from yesterday's racing session on pre-grid, and the green flag will be waving shortly. Tune in to the live video coverage and see who comes out on top! More »
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We get a lot of alcohol-based bribes at the 24 Hours of LeMons, but the folks here in the South take that tradition to a level we don't see in, say, New England or Texas. More »
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Now that I've had a chance to go through my photos of the 24 Hours of LeMons South event, it's time for the traditional LeMons Über Gallery! You'll see a set of photos for every car that managed to roar (or sputter) onto the track in Kershaw, South Carolina, plus links to team websites and other citrus-flavored goodness. More »
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While at the 24 Hours of LeMons South event, I saw four racing team members (on four different teams) wearing Driveshaft Through The Skull T-Shirts during the course of the weekend- pretty impressive, given that we only made 84 of them and they were shipped all over the world. The proud wearers of those shirts might have been surprised to discover that the artist behind the DTTS design was actually out there on the track with them, reaching the coveted LeMons Top Ten in an '85 Nissan 300ZX. Meet Walker Player Canada, South Carolina artist and racing fanatic. More »
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We've had quite a few great Down On The Street Bonus Edition cars and pickups so far, but how about great big diesels? The kind that's inspired even more country tunes than Death Row? Fortunately, road-test guru Wes Siler and a certain Czech Corvette-drivin' Jonny Lieberman were down in the Carolinas and came across this amazing Mack parked in some haunted-looking pine woods. Make the jump to hear the Loverman's description: More »
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The completely indecipherable photograph and PCH Superpower heritage of the '48 Morris Minor truck were the winning combination when it came to beating the 89-year-old Dodge in yesterday's Choose Your Eternity poll. Today we're going with a regional theme, because the last time we had two vehicles from the same American region was when we had the PCH Philadelphia Edition, and that's just too long. Today we're looking at some high-quality project material from the state where the Civil War began: South Carolina! Thanks (and a PCH Tipster T-shirt) go to Ktek01 for these tips! More »
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Perhaps South Carolina is part of the Bermuda Triangle, because that would be one of the few plausible explanations for how the cremated remains of a woman ended up at a car repair shop in Charleston. According to reports, a Buick was towed to Transmission Wholesalers, which is where mechanics found the urn and what was left of Izetta Dickerson. It gets weirder when you discover that the woman died four years ago and the owner of the car couldn't explain how the urn got in the Buick. Family members believe the urn was lost during a move, but can't explain how it ended up in a random person's automobile. Let this be a lesson that you shouldn't trust anything to Izetta Dickerson's family. [WCBD-TV] More »
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Riley Technologies, based just outside the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, is headed south to Mooresville, SC in a bid to gain more NASCAR business. The company, who've built open-wheel racers, sports prototypes and USAC cars and won the Grand Am championship last year, sees fewer and fewer opportunities in Indy and greener pastures in stock car racing. Admittedly, we'd rather live in the South than the Midwest, but somehow, this really bums us out. More »
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We're awfully fond of bears. Maybe it's that we were born under the Bear Flag, maybe it's our affinity for envisioning Teddy Roosevelt charging up San Juan Hill in a Gentle Ben costume during idle moments, or maybe it's all the time we spent down on Folsom Street when we lived in the Bay Area, but regardless, the fact that car-versus-bear accidents have doubled in South Carolina in the last year really has us bummed. It's an unfortunate and sad by-product of human encroachment into the animals' natural habitat. And it sure must leave a nasty dent. More »
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Cars stolen along the Eastern Seaboard and shuffled into South Carolina have begun popping up on SC officials' radar. With their VIN numbers replaced, the vehicles stolen are sold to innocent consumers and re-registered. Authorities noticed that some cars had duplicate vehicle identifaction numbers and began to investigate. Unfortunately, the buyers of these vehicles are out the cash for their purchase, making us wonder how many people will actually take up the South Carolina Department of Public Safety's request to call in with questions. More »
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