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    The Top 152 Lemons Of The 24 Hours Of LeMons Arse Freeze-A-Palooza 2009!

    For The First Time, Chief Perp Lamm Claims A LeMons Car For 500 Bucks!

    Wienerschmoker E30 Gets Shiny Side Down, Brings Arse Freeze Rollover Total To Three

    V8olvo Gets Upside-Down, Roof Barely Dented: Volvo Bricks As Sturdy As Advertised!

    And The Other Winner Is...

    And The Winner Is...

    Italian Cars Totally Reliable At Arse Freeze, Just About Everything Else Blows Up

    More British Leyland Carnage: Spinout-Happy TR7 T-Boned By V8olvo

    Killer Bee MGB Wipes Out, Gets Rolled Into Ball Of British Leyland Scrap

    Day One In The Books, Germans Dominate Top Five
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    11/28/09

    In reply to The Top 152 Lemons Of The 24 Hours Of LeMons Arse Freeze-A-Palooza 2009!
    What a great field!
    But you have to love those two ancient MoPars--
    For some reason it reminds of this:

    Two MoPars, both alike in dignity,
    In fair NoCal we lay our scene
    From ancient grudge break to new mutiny--
    Our two hours traffic on the stage.

    Wait.
    This might be a tale told by an idiot!
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    11/28/09

    In reply to The Top 152 Lemons Of The 24 Hours Of LeMons Arse Freeze-A-Palooza 2009!
    Awesome gallery....who had the fastest lap? I've looked through a good bit of them and the #60 Crown Vic was the fastest I saw at 2:15.
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    Novaload promoted this comment Adamskiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiy was starred Adamskiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiy was unstarred
    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    11/29/09

    @Adamskiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiy: That's the fastest lap that isn't the result of an obvious transponder glitch.
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    11/28/09

    In reply to V8olvo Gets Upside-Down, Roof Barely Dented: Volvo Bricks As Sturdy As Advertised!
    I stand on my roof on a regular basis. This doesn't surprise me at all.
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    11/28/09

    In reply to The Top 152 Lemons Of The 24 Hours Of LeMons Arse Freeze-A-Palooza 2009!
    Basically, almost four black flags per car. Something more than three an hour. Given that I'm sure some teams didn't get any, there's a lot of bonehead driving, contact, and off-course excursions happening.

    Still, it's nice to see another golden age of Alfa Romeo's developing in front of our eyes.
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    Image of Armand Armand
    11/28/09

    @Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: On the first day, I was the guy in charge of telling the penalty box who had been black-flagged. It was pretty brutal. Even if you don't count the dozens of black flags that were given for transponder problems or mechanical issues (one of the corner workers was pretty freaked out when he saw the Caddy's brake discs glowing red) there was a lot of boneheaded driving. Too much contact, too much passing under yellow, too much spinning and going off track. It was annoying.
    Then, on the second day, I got to race. After ten laps, I became shrouded in the Red Mist, overcooked Turn 14 and slid the car into the dirt. After that, it was a little harder to get so indignant about other drivers making bad decisions.
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    Image of Fredrikkk Fredrikkk
    11/28/09

    In reply to The Top 152 Lemons Of The 24 Hours Of LeMons Arse Freeze-A-Palooza 2009!
    Jesus christ, how many Lemons races are there?!
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    Novaload promoted this comment Fredrikkk was starred Fredrikkk was unstarred
    Image of Novaload Novaload
    11/28/09

    @Fredrikkk: Not enough. There's never enough.
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    Image of CraigSu CraigSu
    11/28/09

    In reply to The Top 152 Lemons Of The 24 Hours Of LeMons Arse Freeze-A-Palooza 2009!
    Having now seen something actually resembling a 928 shooting brake (no.74), I want one now more than ever.
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    Novaload promoted this comment CraigSu was starred CraigSu was unstarred
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    11/28/09

    @CraigSu: That's the one that caught my eye, too! Ah, 928 estate and bill the cat - brings back memories of high school.

    This was before the internet, so I saw it in a coffee table book. I loved the 928, but not that version of it. Now, with a little maturity, I can appreciate it much better!
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    Image of joneez wants the clunkers he paid for joneez wants the clunkers he paid for
    11/28/09

    In reply to The Top 152 Lemons Of The 24 Hours Of LeMons Arse Freeze-A-Palooza 2009!
    I'm sure you could have bolted Michael Bay's entire film crew to the Belvedere without any serious effect on the handling.
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    Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet promoted this comment joneez wants the clunkers he paid for was starred joneez wants the clunkers he paid for was unstarred
    Image of mechimike mechimike
    11/28/09

    In reply to The Top 152 Lemons Of The 24 Hours Of LeMons Arse Freeze-A-Palooza 2009!
    I also think we'll see more SUVs in 2010. I used to work at the Linden assembly plant where they built the S-10 chassis SUVs. I test drove a few 2 door blazers and with the 4.3 they were damn quick; a few even came with 5 speeds. Lower the suspension and shed a few hundred pounds of superfluousness and you'd have an interesting contender.
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    11/28/09

    @mechimike: I wouldn't count out a few more minivans, too.
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    11/28/09

    In reply to The Top 152 Lemons Of The 24 Hours Of LeMons Arse Freeze-A-Palooza 2009!
    152 Cars. Holy Christmas.

    I think the dearth of Detroit iron was due to the location of the race. Everyone knows the BBQ-eatin', moonshine-swillin', Southern Discomfort will be packing some good ole American muscle*. The California races, though, tend to bring out more imports from the tooty-fruity left-coasters.

    *Except for me, I'll be driving a Volvo.
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    Image of BRAWNDO_POWERED BRAWNDO_POWERED
    11/28/09

    @mechimike:
    I fear there will be a rather sub-par field of racers at the Blagojevich 500. You'd think salt was free the way they throw it everywhere.
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    Image of AlienProbe AlienProbe
    11/28/09

    In reply to The Top 152 Lemons Of The 24 Hours Of LeMons Arse Freeze-A-Palooza 2009!
    #150 Wow, I would love to know what went into a silly little Nissan Sentra to warrant 150 penalty laps!

    I gotta hand it to them... if they decked that thing out with performance parts, a sentra like that is a pretty unsuspecting car that could have snuck by the judges.

    "The sentra proves that Justice is not blind." -Confucius
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    Murilee Martin promoted this comment AlienProbe was starred AlienProbe was unstarred
    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    11/28/09

    @AlienProbe: It's an SE-R with radioactive suspension.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    11/28/09

    @Murilee Martin: LOL! So now the judges will have to carry Geiger counters.
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    Image of günter macbeetle, codename: chrystlubitshi günter macbeetle, codename: chrystlubitshi
    11/28/09

    In reply to The Top 152 Lemons Of The 24 Hours Of LeMons Arse Freeze-A-Palooza 2009!
    umm murilee... you sure that the 2010 season is over? isn't it the end of 2009?
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    11/28/09

    @günter macbeetle, codename: chrystlubitshi: Aw crap. Will fix.
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    Image of günter macbeetle, codename: chrystlubitshi günter macbeetle, codename: chrystlubitshi
    11/28/09

    @Murilee Martin: no worries, i figured it was just a typo. thought i'd let you know

    on the other hand... i thought that it might be one more quirk to the LeMons series... much like cars... have the season be named for the next year rather than the year it's available in...??
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    Edited by günter macbeetle, codename: chrystlubitshi at 11/28/09 11:47 AM günter macbeetle, codename: chrystlubitshi was starred günter macbeetle, codename: chrystlubitshi was unstarred
    Image of Novaload Novaload
    11/28/09

    @günter macbeetle, codename: chrystlubitshi: Actually it's November 28, 2010. Where have you been? What's the last thing you remember? Dude, you've lost a year!
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    Image of günter macbeetle, codename: chrystlubitshi günter macbeetle, codename: chrystlubitshi
    11/30/09

    @Novaload: well sonuvabitch... NOT AGAIN!!
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    11/30/09

    @günter macbeetle, codename: chrystlubitshi: LOL!
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    11/24/09

    In reply to For The First Time, Chief Perp Lamm Claims A LeMons Car For 500 Bucks!
    Here's an excerpt from a statement from Team Diplomatic Immunity on the LeMons forums:

    "On a side note, I've seen some comments from a few folks thinking that Jay was being a jerk, or being greedy when he claimed the car. This was not the case at all - we made it clear to him early on that we were fine with a claim. For various reason it was already a forgone conclusion that this would be the ONLY race for this car and we did not want to tow the 5200lb beast back to San Diego. I was more than happy to receive $500 for the car and leave it at the track. We prefer to run our usual V12 Jaguar at Lemons anyway - compared to the S600 it is fast, nimble, light and reliable.

    The President of Paraguay informs me that he'll redistribute 10% of the claim money to his people and blow the rest in Vegas before he returns to his home country."
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    Edited by Murilee Martin at 11/24/09 4:37 PM Murilee Martin was starred Murilee Martin was unstarred
    Image of eggwich del fiero eggwich del fiero
    11/23/09

    In reply to For The First Time, Chief Perp Lamm Claims A LeMons Car For 500 Bucks!
    I understand the claim rule is there to discourage cheating, but if I put hundreds of hours into building my race car (I didn't), the claimant would be displeased to discover the inside of the car covered in a thin, milky layer of diahrrea beer schittz. Cuz I'm classy.
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    Image of CJinSD CJinSD
    11/23/09

    In reply to For The First Time, Chief Perp Lamm Claims A LeMons Car For 500 Bucks!
    This is not in the spirit of the claimer rule. This car had zero penalty laps. It was not a purpose built race car. It was a $500 car with an expensive roll cage that was completely in the spirit of the event. Jay Lamm is an opportunistic fill in the blank.
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    Murilee Martin promoted this comment CJinSD was starred CJinSD was unstarred
    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    11/23/09

    @CJinSD: As Jay says, "Don't like it? Start your own race!"
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    11/23/09

    @Murilee Martin: The golden rule might be a good rule, but it isn't the only rule.
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    Image of solracer solracer
    11/23/09

    In reply to Wienerschmoker E30 Gets Shiny Side Down, Brings Arse Freeze Rollover Total To Three
    I had a front-row seat to the rollover. I was passing the Corvair with our Peugeot coming out of 6 when the BMW blasted by on the inside and hooked it, either because of some dirt on the inside of the corner or because he got caught by the 3-series jacking problem and put his CG over his center of roll. It was a beautiful roll-over, the car did at least a one-and-a-half twist on the passenger side headlight before falling on the roof. I was worried about the driver because he stayed in the car until it was righted but he was fine and decided that he didn't want to undo the belts while upside-down. We caught some of it on video hopefully but the file with that part has a problem and we've yet to recover it. If we do I'll post it here right away.
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    FЯeeMan promoted this comment solracer was starred solracer was unstarred
    Image of FЯeeMan FЯeeMan
    11/23/09

    @solracer: I was with you right up until you said, " I was passing the Corvair with our Peugeot ".

    That threw me so far off track, the rest didn't really make sense...
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    Image of skitter skitter
    11/23/09

    @FЯeeMan: It's probably what caused the E30 driver to wreck.
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    Image of solracer solracer
    11/23/09

    @FЯeeMan: Just to make it weirder I own a Corvair as well.
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