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Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
07/17/09

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Lemons was easily the most fun I've ever had at a race.

So, who has a collection of free Yugos lying around?
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NoBudgetRacing
07/17/09

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Well done No Budget Racing, after seeing the hand grenade that went off in our pumpkin 90% of the teams would have packed up and gone home, not us, with a 2.73 open diff, a little love with a hammer, some boogered parts, a few old shims and a little prayer we finished the race. the best part was tearing out our cross bar for the roll cage to use as a pinion bearing press. Try to explain that one to jay.....

Well done all

Chuck

P.s To schumacher taxi service, Sonny apologizes for any contact that may or may not have happened in the last hour of the race.
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Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
07/17/09

@NoBudgetRacing: You guys made a truly heroic fix to your rear end, and returned to the field in style. And your diorama display of home-sintering that you left by the pits was quite impressive.

Thanks also for testing the new Veyron's styling.
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NoBudgetRacing
07/21/09

@Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: the veryon styling was more function before style, in 2008 we made an "aerodynamic" modification with a sawzall and we decided to run with it... and as for the basket full of gear teeth, roller bearings, metal shavings, and assorted carnage, the pinion is soaking in parts cleaner awaiting its next life as a paper weight/discussion piece.
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mechimike
07/17/09

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Wow, look at all the Volvos! Regional differences in sub-$500 cars are amazing. here in the South, of the 2 races we did at CMP so far, there was only one Volvo- ours.

_3_ Italian cars in the top 10??? How is that possible? The odds against that must be....*calculating*...1,986,235,543 to 1!

Love that pic of the golf with each wheel making a different decision as to which direction the car should be traveling. And the 3-wheeled Fox. Hey, corners just as well, right? ;-)
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Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
07/17/09

@mechimike: That's 3 Milano's in the top 5. Finished 2-3-4.

And they all hung out together in a very classy corner of the paddock. Makes you wonder.
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CptSevere
07/17/09

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With all the beater Lawn Monuments we have here in Tombstone we should be able to get a team together, no problem at all. I'm going to try to shoot for next year's Reno or Las Vegas events. As Hunter S. Thompson said, "When the going gets weird, the Weird turn Pro." Time to get going on this. I need a whole trunkful of uppers, downers, screamers and laughers.
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Plecostomus [Tyrrell]
07/17/09

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Murilee on a THURSDAY?

Perhaps good times are here again.
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Plecostomus [Tyrrell]
07/17/09

@fuzzy plecoroom: By the way, a coworker of mine has a 94 Thunderbird with a blown up motor (4.6L V8 needing head gaskets IIRC) but totally complete for $220, contact Glenn @ Classic Industries, for those of you in SoCal needin a Lemon.
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AlienProbe
07/16/09

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Mannnnnnnnnnn...... I shoulda been there.
But I didnt have a team... or any money.

Just a car. heh. Maybe next year!
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UDMan
07/16/09

@AlienProbe: You could have just come to the track, and hung around with us....
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AlienProbe
07/22/09

@UDMan: I should have... dammit... Now i feel like a tool.
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ummagumma82
07/16/09

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Anyone know which engine the Cougar (43rd) has? My first car was a '93 with the base V6. It was painfully slow, but the lightweight engine made it one of the best-balanced cars I've ever driven. Four-wheel drifts were absolutely effortless.

My Mark VIII is on the same platform, it has exactly twice the horsepower, but it's considerably more nose-heavy. It takes a lot of throttle to counteract the understeer, plus the stupid transmission loves to shift down (or up, you never know) at the worst possible time, making it more of a straight line car. But still, 0-60 in ~6.8 seconds, versus twelve. So I always wanted to see how the two would compare at LeMons.
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UDMan
07/16/09

@ummagumma82:I'm not sure what the actual engine used in the cougar was, but I can tell you it's a V8, with a manual that every once in a while, one of the drivers missed a shift, with a particularly horrifying grinding sound.
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ummagumma82
07/17/09

@UDMan: Ahh.. A manual was available with the supercharged V6, and the 5.0 used the same bellhousing, so that'd be my guess. Thanks!
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SchumacherTaxiSerive
07/16/09

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The X-11 actually completed 87 laps even though it broke down on the opening yellow laps. On its last lap, the engine siezed in spectactular fashion actually welding itself together under full throttle and stopping the front tires.
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acarr260
07/17/09

@SchumacherTaxiSerive: Not many X-11's can say that they went out in such a blaze of glory!
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that ain't the way to have fun, son
07/16/09

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I gotta say, I'm impressed by the Alfa's smokescreen effect.

Up, James Blow-Up.

The Detonators' Golf...needs an alignment.

Yo, Vlad The Impala, having one giant bling wheel on the LR might have a negative effect on handling, though it helps grind low-hanging parts off the RF.

Clevah, grasshoppah...berry clevah....
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MushyHeirloom
07/16/09

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Wherever they're getting $500 late-'90s Outbacks, that's where I want to be. Must be horribly rusted and/or came with zero glass?

The PT Cruiser's fishy, too, but it's also a piece of shit.
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Syrax
07/16/09

@FP - missing Pete and the SHOwagon: Yeah, the Outback must have been underwater... turbo 4X4 for $500? Never.
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MushyHeirloom
07/16/09

@Syrax: Turbo?

The Outback Sport (Impreza) is AWD too, but a bit more believable, as it's older, smaller, and less desirable.
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UDMan
07/16/09

@Syrax: You really didn't want any part of the Outback before this team raced it last year. They got it for absolutely nothing, because it was hanging around the back of a body shop for a couple of years, and the owner never reclaimed it. Did I mention that it was also used as a love shack? According to the team captain, when they picked it up, and started stripping out the interior, there were dozens of used condoms everywhere. It smelled like ass. Oh and the brakes were seized up as well.....
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Syrax
07/16/09

@FP - missing Pete and the SHOwagon: You could get it here with the 2.0.
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MushyHeirloom
07/16/09

@UDMan: Two things: One, fucking shit, it just ate my comment. Again. Sorry about that. Two, oh, it's THAT Outback. As in, "parked outback and a bunch of people fucked in it". Did it have an encounter with a tree? I seem to remember that.

@Syrax (can't put two damn replies in one anymore, that's what got me before): Scha-weet!
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Subarufu
07/17/09

@Syrax: Subaru didn't do much turbo charging, in the US, during the late 90's. First gen Legacys could get EJ22Ts, but at '95 they went NA. Heck, not even the 2.5RS got a turbo charger. :(

That Outback does probably have a EJ25 though. Hopefully with replaced head gaskets...

Btw, how do Subaru EJs tend to hold up on the track? I imagine the EJ22 could run around all day.
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UDMan
07/17/09

@Subarufu: This particular Outback blew a head gasket last year, towards the end of the race. This year, the team seemed to be having all sorts of problems, but they were faster than last year when running.
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bzr
07/16/09

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The #46 Plymouth Laser gets bonus points for shearing off its lug nuts early into the race...

See the photo of the #11 Saturn there? There's its wheel being a massive road hazard there. The Laser came into the pits on the back of a flatbed and was unceremoniously dumped with a loud THUNK as nobody knew or cared how to get it off the truck properly.

Amazingly enough (to me, anyway), the team managed to repair the lugnuts, reattach the wheel, and get it racing again after a few hours. Who says American ingenuity is dead?
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bzr
07/16/09

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UDMan
07/16/09

@bzr: I know, you were speechless... By the way, do you have any pictures of us receiving awards.... no one seemed to have taken shots at the award ceremony....
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bzr
07/16/09

@UDMan: Check the CSRSL, just added a few from your team.
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Tier 5 royal, the Manic King
07/16/09

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Murilee, how many laps total for grouped together 3 IOE candidates?
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Murilee Martin
07/16/09

@Tier 5 Jalop, the King: Corvair: 813
Saab 99: 762
Peugeot 504: 49
Datsun 510: 743
Citation: 0 (blew up before actual race started)
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Surferjer
07/17/09

@Murilee Martin: No, the Craptation went 87 laps as noted above. Fo r those in the guessing contest, the total laps of the Peugeot, Corvair and Craptation was 949. At least we beat the Peugeot!
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Captain Liverspots
07/16/09

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One of the drivers of the #4 Fox posted this on another forum:

The best part, we got a lot of black flags because we were driving so aggressively and the rule about two wheels off was very strict [...] so we made a black flag for me to take out there with me and after the checkers were thrown I did a victory lap with the black flag like I just won lol. The crowd applauded the winner but when i showed at the pit entrance with the black flag they roared, then pulling into the pits it was just lined with people going beserk over it (a lot of teams were getting frustrated with the penalties).

I pulled into our paddock spot and climbed out on to the roof waving the flag like I just won Daytona, and the crowd followed, it was a riot!
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bzr
07/16/09

@Fading Captain: The VW Fox guys were nuts. Every time that shitbox turned a corner it always lifted a wheel, like clockwork. It was both death-defying and spellbinding to watch. Also, one of the drivers had to put on lederhosen and a skirt as one of the penalties.
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Wrenchguy
07/18/09

@bzr: You should have seen the two sets of brake pads we went through.
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Goes Like Stink
07/16/09

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How did they get a PT Cruiser for $500? It looks like they may have sold the seats and glass and even the back hatch. But still?
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Murilee Martin
07/16/09

@Goes Like Stink: This is the team that attained LeMons Legend Status by creating a corporation to sell themselves their own car (which, admittedly, had been totaled and bought back from the insurance company) for $1 at the first CMP race... and then tried to sneak a Roots-type supercharger on it. No, they didn't get away with it. Not sure how many penalty laps they got this time.
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that ain't the way to have fun, son
07/16/09

@Murilee Martin: $1, eh?

Overpriced. Should have been on the half-price table at the 99¢ store...and I'd have haggled on that, too.
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Tossed Accord taco salad over Malibu face
07/16/09

@Goes Like Stink:

The question you should ask.. is not how they got it for 500...

But how its still selling for over 15g.
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Plecostomus [Tyrrell]
07/17/09

@Murilee Martin: The only reason I can see them having evaded the people's curse is the fact that the PT cruiser is, in fact, worse than much of its competition (handling or not, it's a PT cruiser, that's what's wrong with it).

I've almost been forced to rent once but always have managed to make off with a better vehicle.
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Murilee Martin
07/17/09

@fuzzy plecoroom: The PT Cruiser is pretty much a Neon under the skin, and Neons tend to be seriously fast at LeMons. We won't cut any slack for PT Cruisers.
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