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So What's The Deal With This People's Curse Business?
After the thrice-Cursed Black Widow Miata team fled the People's Curse at the 24 Hours Of LeMons New Orleans, LeMons fans have been going through an Agonizing Reappraisal of the whole crush-a-car-at-each-race idea.
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The 24 Hours Of LeMons South Spring 2009 Über Gallery
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24 Hours Of LeMons History Lesson: The Winner's Circle, 13 Races In
Whether your team is considering a run at the overall win or the Index Of Effluency at the 24 Hours Of LeMons, it helps to know which cars have had success in the past.
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The Top 94 Lemons Of The 24 Hours Of LeMons South Spring 2009
After every 24 Hours Of LeMons race, we put together this list of the top finishers for you. And when we say "top," we mean "every single car that managed to get onto the track." More » -
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And The 24 Hours Of LeMons South Winner Is... The Dorifto Dogs BMW 325e!
You know how it works: you give the BMW E30 racers a hard time and one of them is sure to win the race. That's how it worked out today. More »
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Comment by X5SoB went to Jamaica!: A ragged-out BMW is still a hell of a good car. Take that Haters! 22 Responses | Other threads
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The Mob Has Spoken: The Superkak Racing Mustang GT Must Die!
We had another landslide vote in the 24 Hours Of LeMons People's Curse: the Superkak Racing v2.0 1995 Ford Mustang GT has a date with some heavy construction equipment! More »
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Comment by X5SoB went to Jamaica!: This punishment seems a little harsh and way too serious in a series that emphasizes a lack of seriousness. 14 Responses | Other threads
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Heroic Tunachuckers Perform Amazon Engine Swap In 90 Minutes, Back In Race!
Last year's LeMons South Index Of Effluency Winners, the Tunachuckers '66 Volvo Amazon team, had to come off the track just before the People's Curse began. Things looked bad: seized engine! More »
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Comment by Novaload Misses Murilee: So these guys just happen to keep an entire spare engine in their parts stash? 7 Responses | Other threads
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There's No End To The Hoonage At The 24 Hours Of LeMons South
In a two-day 24 Hours Of LeMons race, the madness always gets stepped up a few notches on Sunday. My internet access is getting a little spotty now, so be patient. More »
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Comment by A strolling player: Something's gotta be done about that E30. How about the Potsdam penalty? You know, the one where the BMW is... 6 Responses | Other threads
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Racers Revving Up For More 24 Hours Of LeMons Action In South Carolina
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!
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Comment by Mobius_1000_Club: Pardon my ignorance, but it's really more of 2x12 Hours of LeMons right? I actually used to think they ran... 6 Responses | Other threads
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24 Hours Of LeMons South Day One: Saab Leads, Fiero In Top Ten
After putting away some excellent bratwurst, courtesy of the Fahrt Schnell Merkur XR4Ti team, I've dug up photos of the top ten contenders at the end of Day One of LeMons South racing. More »
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Comment by How Wankelin' Got His Sig Back: I have a soft spot in my heart for the Pontiac Fiero. It pushes all the right buttons: rear-engine, rwd,... 3 Responses | Other threads
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Anything Is Possible: Saab Leading 24 Hours Of LeMons South!
No, we're not extending April Fool's Day here! The RBankRacing.com Saab 900 Turbo is the current leader with about 10 minutes of racing left for the day. Can you believe it? More »
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Comment by FuzzlessPlushroom, ya fuckin' berk: That's right. A car built in one of the most liberal nations on Earth, sold to yuppies and wealthy free-thinkers,... 6 Responses | Other threads
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Advances In LeMons Cruelty: The Bobby Bosch Relay Race
The Taiwanese National Anthem wasn't the only new penalty for the 24 Hours Of LeMons South Spring; though the TNA turned out to be quite spectacular in practice, it isn't most diabolical new penalty. More »
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Comment by BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ with quadrozontal expierience: 30, 86, 85, 87 and 87a somehow these numbers come to my mind when speaking of Bosch relays in old... 7 Responses | Other threads
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Schumacher Taxi Service FX16 Gets Shiny Side Down, Nobody Hurt
You know how we recommended the Toyota Corolla FX16 as a great LeMons car? That still doesn't mean it's easy to drive fast! Here's what happened to the Schumacher Taxi Service a little while back.
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Comment by mikedrawcar left his star around here somewhere...: I don't know about anyone else, but the video feed is pretty awesome to me. The side comments... not so... 5 Responses | Other threads
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Early Leader In 24 Hours Of LeMons South: Lightning McQueen VW Jetta!
Rejoice, water-cooled Volkswagen fans! A Jetta is leading the race... for now. Will they maintain that lead, or will the Opel (also a strong contender) get past them? More »
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Comment by Ralph Wiley, in sock form: Guaranteed not to win, though. The VW will spend at least three hours of the race having its trunk latch... 3 Responses | Other threads
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What About The Local Beverages?
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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Watch Live Video Of The 24 Hours Of LeMons South!
Hey, LeMons fans! Don't fret because I can't do proper coverage of the race and punish miscreants; just go rat cheer for live streaming video coverage. There's chat, too!
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Comment by A strolling player: I really wish the chat weren't filled with /b/tards saying "POLE POSITION" every four seconds. The webcast is friggin'... 4 Responses | Other threads
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The 24 Hours Of LeMons F—- Nonsorship Policy In Action
Remember the the 24 Hours Of LeMons Nonsorship Package, in which Detroit automakers were offered the opportunity to have their corporate names redacted from LeMons cars? More »
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Comment by How Wankelin' Got His Sig Back: a previous gen Ford Mustang for under $500? I don't believe it. And god knows those seats weren't worth the... 5 Responses | Other threads
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Don't Try To Bribe The 24 Hours Of LeMons Supreme Court With Natty Light!
A word of advice to LeMons racers who want to oil the gears of justice: don't try to give us cat-piss-grade beer. We have a new policy for such bribe attempts! More »
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Comment by .357: Did anyone bribe you with a 40 oz.? That shit is the bomb right there. 5 Responses | Other threads
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Here Comes Da Judges: Meet The Roadmaster Mobile LeMons Justice Unit!
What motor vehicle would best convey the sense of majesty appropriate to the 24 Hours Of LeMons judicial system? As far as we're concerned, there's only one choice: an LT1-powered Buick Roadmaster woody! More »
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Comment by maximum-sienna: If you guys can't find a problem beyond the fake wood in a 220K Roadmaster, you aren't looking. How much were... 5 Responses | Other threads
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Potential LeMons South Miscreants Beware: The Taiwanese National Anthem Penalty!
We were were too busy to adminster the Ozzy Osbourne Inertial Penalty Horn at the Gator-O-Rama 24 Hours Of LeMons, but not to worry! We're going to South Carolina armed with two very noisy penalties… More »
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Comment by FuzzlessPlushroom, ya fuckin' berk: Oh, by the way... I strongly suggest that if a team arrives at Kershaw having spent far more than 500 clams... 14 Responses | Other threads
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Guess The 24 Hours Of LeMons South Laps, Win Fabulous Prizes!
Before the Gator-O-Rama 24 Hours Of LeMons race, readers guessed how many laps they thought a couple of Index Of Effluency contenders might complete. Syrax takes that one, with an amazingly prescient guess.
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Frogmasters And Türbö Schnitzels: The Team Shirts Of The 24 Hours Of LeMons
Someday, when the 24 Hours Of LeMons is bigger than NASCAR, the custom T-shirts created by LeMons teams in the early days of the series will be valuable collector's items. Let's check out a sampling! More » -
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And The Winner Is... The Team Endurance Karting Mazda Miata!
I recall seeing a lot of Mazda ads at the Monterey Historics, thumping their chests about their racing prowess… but not a single mention of the 24 Hours of LeMons anywhere, in spite of the fact that Mazdas have now won three of the last four events (Protege, RX-7) and always contend. If Mazda's marketers had half the smarts of their engineers, they'd run a global advertising campaign centered on cars like the Endurance Karting Miata, which hung on for the win in New England today. Maybe a slogan such as "Even when it's an old beater, it will still be fast" could be a big hit, and it beats "Zoom-Zoom" by a long shot. In other big news, three of the top six cars today were Alfa Romeo Milanos! Make the jump for the complete final standings, courtesy of UDMan (and thanks to Drumhurrin for the photo above:
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What Would Smokey Do? 24 Hours of LeMons Cheating Tips From Judge Murilee!
Those of you who read Judge Loverman's account of serving on the 24 Hours of LeMons South Supreme Court might be telling yourselves "That's interesting, but I really want to know how to give my alleged 500-buck race car an unfair advantage at the next race and get away with it!" Of course you do, because- in the the immortal words of my uncle and early gearhead influence, Dirty Duck: "There's two kinds of racers- losers... and cheaters!"
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The Beauty Of Night Wrenching
Reflecting on the recent South Carolina round of the 24 Hours of LeMons, one of the best parts of the whole weekend was walking around the pits during the night break, when all the teams were wrenching away on their cars. It was a strangely beautiful mix of frantic frenzy and drunken stupor. The big American ex-cop cars were all replacing their brakes, the small high-strung foreign machines were all worried about their head gaskets, but everyone was still managing to thoroughly enjoy the agony. Per dollar, there just isn't any better way to soak in all the emotional and mechanical ups and downs of motor racing than participating in a LeMons race. More »
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The 24 Hours Of LeMons South 2008 Uber Gallery
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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The Race Is Not To The Swift, Nor The Battle To The Strong: Top 5 Lap Times At LeMons South
When you get a bunch of car freaks together and introduce them to the concept of the 24 Hours of LeMons, you always hear a lot of talk about what low-budget car should be the fastest. After all, it's all about being quickest around the track, right? The reality generally doesn't work out that way, however; while the winning Krider Racing Integra did in fact have the best lap time at the LeMons SF event, most of the time there's little correlation (for example, my team's Volvo had the fourth-fastest lap time at Altamont, yet finished 15th). It's consistency and reliability that'll get you the checkered flag at LeMons. This was made vividly clear in Kershaw last weekend, when only one of the five quickest cars even cracked the Top 20 places. Still, we should honor the teams who managed to build such fast machines on such a tiny budget. More » -
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Project Car Hell, LeMons South Edition: RX-7 or Caprice?
Welcome to Project Car Hell, where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! We had what may be our all-time closest vote yesterday, with the 4x4 Econoline beating the lowrider Econoline 202 votes to 200. Today we're going racing! We've had Arse-Freeze-A-Pa-Looza LeMons PCH and the LeMons San Francisco PCH, and now tradition dictates that we have a LeMons South Edition PCH. Just in time for teams still hoping to make the deadline for the Yeehaw It's Texas LeMons event! More »
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LeMons South Judges Bring The Gavel Down On Cheatin' Racers
Wearing those wigs and robes in swampy 95-degree weather wasn't so comfortable, and our outfits didn't make it easy to crawl under cars to look for brand-new bushings and adjustable coil-overs... but race judges must have dignity! In addition to providing innovative penalties and a not-so-blind-justice system that would have brought a smile to Boss Tweed's face, we had a helluva good time as Supreme LeMons Court Justices Martin and Lieberman. Justice Lieberman has written his impressions of the experience for Motive, and they're definitely worth checking out. [Motive]
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Comment by Ottobon: I was on the Space Pirate Moonshine something or other team (now defunct so far as i know) who raced... more » | Other threads
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Creator Of Driveshaft-Through-The-Skull Design Takes 8th Place At LeMons South
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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The Top 66 Lemons Of The 24 Hours Of LeMons South
We've seen the top sub-$500 race cars from the Altamont October '07 race, the Thunderhill December '07 race, and the Altamont May 07 race, and now we've got the top cars- in fact, just about all the cars- from the 24 Hours of LeMons South event last weekend. The sequence of winners from those races goes: BMW E30, Mazda Protege, Acura Integra, Mazda RX-7. You can look at the official race results here, and be sure you make the jump to see all the race machines in their low-budget glory.
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And The Winner Is...
As the checkered flag dropped at the 2008 24 Hours of LeMons race here in South Carolina, the #2 Mazda RX-7 finished in first place overall. The fastest lap of 1:10.268 around the 0.96-mile road course from the Team She Got It All entry proved to be not quite as fast as some of the Miatas and BMWs, but apparently the boys figured out a way to make the Wankel reliable. Congratulations to the team on a fine drive!
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45 Minutes To Go, RX-7 Still In First, Caprice Somehow In Second
Can a dead-stock LT1-powered Caprice cop car keep up with a bunch of speedy imports? Probably not, but the Punisher Racing Caprice is holding a close second place behind the She Got It All RX-7. Stay tuned for the exciting finish!
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Destruction Action Of The Cursed BMW
Here it is, the moment of carnage for Team Salazar Racing's E30 BMW 3-Series. With an overwhelming display of hatred from the other LeMons racers, the people elected the blue and white Bimmer as "The People's Curse." Cheaters beware, this is the fate that awaits you!
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By Mark ArnoldComment by mwoeber: @andy_wallwhore: sunshine speedway? I could never decide which was better, figure 8 bus races or figure 8 truck+trailer races. more » | Other threads
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LeMons People's Curse Victim: Salazar Racing BMW!
As we've seen before, pissing off your competitors in the 24 Hours of LeMons tends to backfire in dramatic fashion. Here's how it works: at the end of the first day of racing, each team votes for the team whose car they most wish to see destroyed the next day. The team with the most votes gets a date with a large piece of construction equipment. Today, the "winner" was Team Salazar Racing and their BMW 325. Make the jump to see the whole gallery and get the rest of the story. More »
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Extremism In The Defense Of Your Cadillac Is No Vice: Team Corporate Machine
While we've been blown away by the quality of the facilities and workers at Carolina Motorsports Park- by all accounts, the best venue in the history of the 24 Hours of LeMons- and the incredible friendliness of all the competitors has us staggering beneath the intake of barbecue and beer forced upon us, the teams here haven't reached the level of the California races when it comes to the whole theme thing. That will come in future events, of course (and LeMons will definitely be back here next year), but this time we've seen only a few teams with the full car-decoration/team-costume treatment. One bunch that stands out is the Barry Goldwater-themed Corporate Machine Cadillac; while we think it's a bit of a cop-out to go with a right-wing theme in a conservative region of the country (how about a George McGovern theme next time?), we can't argue with the execution. Good work, guys! More »
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Bustin' Parts At The 24 Hours Of LeMons South
They're back on the track for Day Two of racin' at the 24 Hours of LeMons South, and lust for the checkered flag has turned all these formerly polite Southern boys into a bunch of PCP-overdosed Junior Johnsons, with dramatic spinouts galore (yes, we'll have some action shots in a little while). A contributing factor to the higher speeds today is the less crowded track. Why less crowded, you ask? Well, when you pay $500 (or "$500") for a race car, you don't always get 100% bulletproof reliability. More »
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End Of LeMons South Day One: RX-7 On Top!
At last report, the Beertech BMW 318i was leading the race, and a bunch of other Bavarians were close behind. Now that the dust has settled and all the cars are back in the pits getting pounded into shape for tomorrow, we find the BMWs have been shoved aside by a rotary: the Team She Got It All Mazda RX-7. The Malt Liquor Tech Racing BMW 325e holds the second-place spot, and the Punisher Racing Chevy Caprice is in third. Hmmm... maybe we shouldn't have believed those Caprice guys when they said they had a stock LT1 in that rolling monument to iron oxide. Make the jump to see a blurry photo of the list of top finishers... and be sure to come back tomorrow for the balls-more-to-wall action of LeMons South Day Two! More »
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Chemical Ali Mustang Spins, Takes Out Innocent 6er
If this on-board footage from Team Schumacher Taxi Service's Toyota is any indication, the "Chemical Ali" punishment of a certain black-flagged Mustang was certainly effective. Apparently the dizzying aroma causes you to lose control and spin into unsuspecting racers. In this case, the victim was one of my personal favorites on the track, a brown 'n dirty BMW 6-Series. More »
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By Mark ArnoldComment by robnitro: Despite the negative camber, we ran a 1:08.xx (forget the exact time) laptime the next day! Now, I liked lemons, but... more » | Other threads
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Jewish Judge Forces Southern Racer To Eat Pork Brains; Moses, Stonewall Jackson Pissed
Some of you may have thought that my Chemical Ali punishment was on the harsh side, but I'm actually the nice judge in the good-cop/bad-cop team we have going. LeMons Supreme Court Justice Loverman has devised a punishment he calls the "Diabetic Discipline," and it goes something like this: We take some bribe money and send a local guy- we tried to find one with a cruel streak- out to buy the most grotacious food products he can find. Since this is South Carolina... well, make the jump to get the whole story. More »
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Comment by L6erDriver5: I was on the same team as the guy in the top 3 pics. We both like Cheerwine, they don't... more » | Other threads
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