<![CDATA[Jalopnik: contests]]> http://tags.jalopnik.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jalopnik.com.png <![CDATA[Jalopnik: contests]]> http://jalopnik.com/tag/contests http://jalopnik.com/tag/contests <![CDATA[Capitalism Takes On Communism In Ohio: 1961 Cadillac Versus Lada Signet!]]> The Lamest Day takes place at Nelson Ledges next weekend, and it will feature the best all-time Index Of Effluency matchup in 24 Hours Of LeMons history: a Soviet car taking on a finned Caddy!

Let me tell you, this epic battle is gonna make the Cuban Missile Crisis look like a kiddie squabble at the day-care center! Will Soviet-made Fiat technology triumph over 4,500 pounds of very rusty Detroit iron? Let's take a look at the combatants:

Otherwise known as the VAZ-2107, the Fiat 124-based Lada Signet was available in Canada right up through the end of the Cold War, so our own Comrade Teargaskov went up to Canada and brought back a running $200 example. This team isn't messing around; they've got a PA system in the car to crank the Hymn Of The Soviet People on the track, no doubt intimidating the other racers with the indomitable spirit of the revolutionary cadres, in addition to all the requisite red flags, hammer-and-sickle emblems, and the coolest 1921-in-Leningrad-style car numbers we've ever seen. Here's a little video that shows how seriously Total Loss Racing is taking this thing. The Lada is a simple, sturdy rear-wheel-drive machine and might rack up a lot of laps over the course of the weekend. Oh, did I mention that this race is a true 24-straight-hours event, with no overnight break to fix busted cars?

Now, when we heard that a Lada would be racing, we figured that nothing on earth could possibly challenge a Soviet car for the Index Of Effluency. Then Team Police Brutality (whose Lincoln Continental Mark VIII was one of the fastest cars at LeMons South) picked up a terrifyingly wretched '61 Cadillac sedan about two weeks ago… and figured that they had plenty of time to get it ready to race. No, really! Crazy as it sounds, they've got it most of the way there; the roll cage is installed, the engine runs, and the brakes are, uh, awaiting completion. The reason for all the urgency is that Team Police Brutality is racing to raise money to beat up breast cancer, LAPD style, and they're getting backers to pledge a buck per lap completed during the race to Susan G. Komen For The Cure. Want to join those backers? Go here and sign up! The question is, how many laps can a drum-brake-equipped rustmobile that hasn't budged for decades complete? More than the Lada? We'll find out next weekend!

Naturally, we need to make a contest out of this battle, with fabulous prizes from LeMons HQ for the winner. To enter, just put the number of laps you think each car will finish in a comment below. The course is about two miles long and the race will go a full 24 hours, so the faster cars that run the whole time might get 600+ laps. These two cars aren't going to be so fast, and they will almost certainly might fall apart experience some technical difficulties on the track… but you never know! Win the contest and LeMons HQ will send you some shirts that they can't get anyone to buy at the races cool 24 Hours Of LeMons swag!



Total Loss Racing's 1987 Lada Signet


Team Police Brutality - Beating Up Breast Cancer's 1961 Cadillac Series 62

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<![CDATA[You Choose The Winner Of The Lucas Electrics Photoshop Contest!]]> We got quite a few entries for the Prince Of Darkness Advertisement Photoshop Contest last week, and now you get to decide who wins the fabulous prize. Jump away to see the finalists!


We provided four early-50s-vintage Lucas Electrics ads, and contestants could modify one or more of them. We got some bonus remixed ads that weren't among the four; they don't count for winning the prize, but we'll include them in the gallery for your enjoyment. Now, here are the finalists. Vote early and often!

1. 13,383 Dollars In Debt, by Brickyard

2. 1351.83 Failures An Hour, by The Triborough Organization

3. 131.83 Miles In A Jaguar, by lumpyone

4. Making The Japanese Look Even Better, by Brickyard

5. New Friends Every Day, by Beni

6. Now My Car Won't Run, by Zachary

7. Better Buy A Case, by Brickyard

8. I'm Filing For Divorce, by Stuntdriver.

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<![CDATA[Old-Timey Civic Kid Wins Photoshop Contest]]> Congratulations to Robert Sanderson, creator of Old-Timey Civic Kid. By your skill you've crushed your opponents, won immortal glory and fabulous prizes including choice of beer pong balls and the very last "I Am The Hoon Of The Day" t-shirt.

Any astute poll-watcher could have probably predicted this outcome by the resounding victory in the first round of Civic Kid Photoshop Contest voting, but now it's official, by sheer force of clever and talent, Old-timey Civic Kid wins. In the grand prize voting round, out of a total 930 votes registered at the time the polls closed at 12:00PM noon eastern standard time, it garnered a commanding 461 votes, a decisive 38% victory over nearest opponent, Back to the Future Civic Kid.

Congratulations Robert, and as promised you now have the right to the very last "I Am the Hoon Of The Day" t-shirt as well as your choice of Jezebel or Jalopnik beer pong balls. Shoot me an email at ben@jalopnik.com and let me know your commenter account name and if you don't have one, we'll award you a shiny new star along with getting your prize details all worked out.

Many thanks to all who submitted entries and good luck next time, and for those who might have missed it, click through in the gallery to view all 71 original entrants:

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<![CDATA[Civic Kid Photoshop Contest: Grand Prize Voting Round]]> The entries in the Civic Kid Photoshop Contest have been whittled down to these final ten. Now you get to vote for your favorite. This one's for the fortune and glory folks. Well, mostly glory. Unless you like beer pong.

So here we are perched on the precipice of one of you commenters claiming victory. The polls will be open until Thursday at noon EST at which time we'll close down the voting and name the victor, awarding the grand prize of immortal glory and or a fancy commenter star if you don't have one, a set of your choice of either Jezebel or Jalopnik beer pong balls and the very last "I Am the Hoon Of The Day" t-shirts. So, with such rare prizes out there, all the voters need to anguish over their choice, really dig down deep into the artistic content of each image and compare it against other legendary works of imagination. That, or pick the one that makes you laugh. So get to it, and good luck to all the finalists.

Standard contest rules apply.

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<![CDATA[Ludacris Gives Away 20 Cars To Needy Fans]]> Rapper Ludacris has partnered with Atlanta's Nissan South dealership to give away 20 cars to winners in an essay contest wherein they detailed their need for reliable transportation. See, he's just a big softie concerned with self-promotion philanthropy.

The vehicular prizes were awarded to the most compelling stories pulled from around 4,000 entries all making the case as to why theirs was a situation of greatest need. The giveaway happened over the weekend on "LudaDay" (known to the rest of us as "Sunday") where the contestants posed for pictures with Ludacris. According to the AP, Luda was taken aback after reading the essays telling of the struggles facing not-platinum-selling-millionaire-rappers during this latest recession. Ludacris urged fellow luminaries to also "Do The Right Thang" because during these "Hard Times" the "Word On The Street" is that walking around at "Two Miles An Hour" isn't going to help anybody "Rollout" of unemployment. (Thanks for the tip Wes) [Yahoo News]

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<![CDATA[Photoshop Up The Best Lucas Electrics Ad Remix, Win A Fabulous Prize!]]> We like to tell British car jokes, but the best ones tend to focus on the maker of notoriously unreliable electrical components for those cars: Lucas Electrics aka The Prince Of Darkness!

Lucas Electrical Components advertised heavily in Autocar magazine in the early 1950s, so I've scanned a quartet of their ads from that era. Your job: to modify one or more of the chosen ads in the most entertaining fashion you can manage; I've primed the pump with a lame-o version that took me all of 45 seconds to create (see above). Don't worry about the challenges of extracting the images from the clutches of the Gawker Server Hamsters' galleries, because you can download hi-res versions of the ads from the MurileeMartin.com webserver.

So, what do you win? Hey, when we promise fabulous prizes, we deliver; the best Prince Of Darkness Photoshopper (or GIMPer, or Irfanviewer, or whatever image-modifying tool you prefer) will get a copy of this fancy coffee-table book about Dean Jeffries! Email me your entries, and I'll put the best ones in a post later on.

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<![CDATA[Triumphant Win-A-Wartburg Essayist Promises To Install Studebaker Six, Enter Car In 'Trifecta Of Crap']]> Remember the Win-A-Wartburg contest put on by the 24 Hours Of LeMons perpetrators, in which the winning "Why I Want A Wartburg" essayist gets a '58 Wartburg 311 and free LeMons registration? Here's the winner!

As soon the staff at LeMons HQ realized that Jim Thwaite (of Misfit Toys Racing fame) had felt it necessary to build his own widebody Yugo and has owned at least one example of every variety of Lancia Beta ever made, there wasn't much doubt about who would be dragging home one of East Germany's most advanced automobiles. Mr. Thwaite's plan is to install a Studebaker OHV six-cylinder engine- mid-mounted, of course- and then take on what he calls the Trifecta Of Crap: The 24 Hours Of LeMons, the BABE Rally, and the Grassroots Motorsports $2009 Challenge.

Where do I start? I guess I should first say, from one evil genius to another this is brilliant. Only an evil genius such as yourself could find a way to get people to beg him to take a Wartburg off his hands. And having a bit of that streak in myself I must say this car belongs in the evil genius family so it can live out its full potential.

Add to this you would be saving me from the absolute mediocrity imposed upon me when my team handed me a Toyota to build for our Lemons chariot. Where is the potential for evil goodness in that? Where is the flair, the panache? Vanilla is not a flavor I tolerate well. As sure as a swift shot from Auric's gun could have easily ended Mr. Bonds life a Toyota will be swift, accurate and reliable. But Mr. Goldfinger appreciated the flourish of genius, no matter how doomed to fail that the laser brought to the situation. Let this Wartburg be my laser as I set out on my hopeless yet entertaining mission to upset the 007's of this world.

Right from the outset let me tell you I will not be so mundane as to put a small block V8 anything into a gift of this uniqueness. I think this situation would call for a bit more flair and well, hopelessness. I have, sitting now in my garage, a 101,000 mile Studebaker straight 6. And not one of them fancy schmancy reliable flathead 6's. No this is one of the maligned OHV 6s which helped to doom Studebaker later in it's life. And why stop there, I'm thinking this requires mid-mounting in the car, just to ensure no one mistakes it for one of those mundane Wartburg's with a Studebaker 6 in the engine bay.

To be honest from the moment I saw this car I had impure thoughts about what could be. Not those wholesome family impure thoughts like I had when I met my wife's little sister. No, I'm talking about full blown, bottle of Bacardi, some used 40 weight, a Wartburg and me wearing nothing but a smile, kind of impure thoughts.

But I digress, I have a well established history of insanity when it comes to oddballs. My first autocross car was a 1973 VW Squareback with an automatic. I built a wide body Yugo...just to prove I could.

I have issues and I'm proud to admit it. I did not come by the name Misfit Toys Racing by accident, it was thrust upon me by other local racers who always remarked at the litany of oddballs I would bring to races.

Unconvinced? Did I mention I have owned one of every body style Lancia Beta ever made? Coupe, Zagato, Scorpion and HPE. I've suffered through Alfas, Fiats, Triumphs, Austin Healeys, MGs and a myriad assortment of other misfits but up until now something has been missing. Today I realize, that something is a Wartburg. Choose me and I will be able to look you in the eye and say "You complete me".

Remarkably my wife did not immediately hit me with a frying pan when I mentioned I wanted this car. She took a moment to set down her phone first, then took a swing. But she is understanding, and more importantly she realizes the more time I spend in the garage the less time I'm annoying her. Therefore I cannot promise the high quality amusement of marital discourse but I can pretty much guarantee my teammates tie me greased and naked to the hood and take parade laps to punish me for thrusting this upon them.

Generally all of the above might seem enough to make me seem like a complete loon. But please don't pass judgment until you hear me out on this final point. 2010 was to be the year of the Trifecta of Crap for my team. 1 car, 1 year, 3 events. BABE Rally, Lemons and GRM challenge. With this in mind the Toyota makes very good sense. I've never much cared for making sense, as you can tell by reading this diatribe. The Wartburg, oh god, the Wartburg is nonsensical as Dr. Seuss on a 3 day meth bender, it deserves this glory, I deserve this torment. I need this car. Now you may deem me a complete loon, but just as you couldn't turn away while that laser inched toward Bond's naughty bits, you know you want to witness the spectacle we will create.



You might also enjoy some of the the essays written by the runners-up.

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<![CDATA[Civic Kid Vote-Off: Time To Pick Your Favorites]]> The entries are all in, and there's a total of 71 "Civic Kid"s. Now it's time to thin the herd. We've given them numbers and put them in a massive gallery below. So get in there and vote!

There will be two rounds of voting with all entrants in the first round competing directly against each other. Everybody gets a vote which they can apply to whatever Civic Kid they like. Then, when we close the polls Tuesday at noon, we'll pick out the top ten most popular and you can vote for your favorites out of the finalists. Keep in mind, we'll grant the overall winner immortal glory and or a fancy commenter star if you don't have one - also a set of your choice of either Jezebel or Jalopnik beer pong balls and the very last "I Am the Hoon Of The Day" t-shirts. Good luck, and may the Civic Kid be strong with you.

Click through for the entire gallery

Standard contest rules apply.

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<![CDATA[Enter Civic Kid: Like SLR Guy, Only Nerdy]]> As amusing as SLR Guy was, there's a new successor to the 'wrecked car plus dopey pose' formula. His name? Civic Kid. We guess it's time for another photoshop contest!

Like the original blockbuster of stupid, we've got no background on this image, just a kid in a track suit doing the old devil horns and looking like Frankie Munez with a shiner — only dorkier. He might have gotten it rolling his super-awesome Civic with J-spec seat covers, or just an onlooker. It matters not, this is an image ripe for foolishness. In fact, we've taken the bull by the horns and made the first.

So here's the deal, you guys do your worst best at creating the funny and we'll do two rounds of voting on the results — e-mail us your photoshop work to the aptly-named photoshop@jalopnik.com. You have until Wednesday at noon to submit your entries. We'll grant the overall winner immortal glory and or a fancy commenter star if you don't have one — also a set of your choice of either Jezebel or Jalopnik beer pong balls and the very last "I Am the Hoon Of The Day" t-shirts. Good luck, and make sure to keep it clean. (Hat tip to dolo54)

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<![CDATA[Win A '58 Wartburg, Race It For Free At The 24 Hours Of LeMons!]]> How would you like to get your very own Warsaw Pact-built, proletariat-grade machine, equipped with a 3-cylinder/2-stroke engine with just seven moving parts… for free?

Now, we thought it was pretty cool that a Lada Signet would be coming to the Lamest Day LeMons, courtesy of Comrade Teargas, and LeMons HQ has decided the only thing that could possibly make the race even better would be the giveaway of a genuine Eastern European sedan! Actually, the blame credit for this terribly stupid brilliant idea goes to the team bringing an Eagle Premier to the race- yes, there's a guy who owns both an Eagle Premier and a Wartburg- for donating this DDR-iffic machine. Here's what LeMons Assistant Perp Nick (and BMW 2002 driver) has to say:

The rules are simple: Just tell us why you should be the winner of a 1958 Wartburg 311 sedan. Post your essays here or email them to Nick Pon; all entries must be received by September 1, 2009. The winner will receive a beat-ass 1958 Wartburg 311 sedan plus a one-year supply of Bactine, both presented at the Lamest Day race at Nelson Ledges, October 3-4, 2009.

What's a Wartburg? Think "East Germany's Buick to Trabant's Chevrolet." And why should you enter to win it? A) If you have to ask, you shouldn't. B) After suitable prep, this car will be automatically accepted in, given free entry to, and awarded ZERO B.S. LAPS at the LeMons race of your choice. So all you whiners—ahem, legitimate enquirers—who've asked about guaranteed entries and how to avoid B.S. penalties, the answer is now clear: Eine kleine scheissboxen.

The winner is responsible for hauling this fine machine away from Nelson. No, it doesn't run, but the current owner assures us this is the way it left the factory. A title? Ha!

There you have it! Write your essays, then be ready to hit Nelson Ledges to pick up your new race car! What could possibly go wrong? When you're done writing your essay, you can head over to Southwest Airlines Spirit Magazine to read all about the Toxic Asset Racing Program's MR2 at the last Texas race. Yes, Southwest passengers who forget to bring reading material will be forced to choose between reading the barf bag instructions or a 24 Hours Of LeMons article!



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<![CDATA[Guess How Many BMW E30s This Peugeot Will Beat At LeMons Reno, Win Fabulous Prizes!]]> The Goin' For Broken 24 Hours Of LeMons race just has too many Index Of Effluency contenders to have our usual guessing game, so we've come up with a modified version for the Reno event.

Anyone who has taken a look at the Goin' For Broken team list knows that the E30s will be out in force, with nine of them signed up for the race. The lure of the E30 is strong; you can have your pick of countless more-or-less-solid runners for under 500 bucks, they've got plenty of power and great brakes, and the junkyards are overflowing with parts. Perhaps inspired by the "Noch Einer Scheiß-E30" symbol we sprayed on it and all the other E30s at LeMons South Spring, an E30 team won the most recent 24 Hours Of LeMons event. Thing is, the LeMons E30 has two big strikes against it: First, E30s tend to develop maddening electrical problems and clog up the track with breakdowns. Second, there's something about an E30 that tends to turn a normally mild-mannered racer into- how shall I put this?- a raging, super-aggro jerkola on the track, a regular visitor to the penalty box (where we hear more aggrieved "it was the other guy's fault!" complaints from E30 pilots than from anyone else). We don't want the E30s (or the Miatas) to go away, but we do want new teams that are still in the "what the hell kind of car should we race?" phase to consider all the non-E30 options while car shopping. For example, let's say you're looking for a rear-wheel-drive European sports sedan with taut handling, all the power you'll need to crash repeatedly contend, and style galore. Before you become the 743rd LeMons team to show up with a 325e, why not follow the fine example set by the Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys and buy yourself a Peugeot 505 Turbo?

The tale of the Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys has had all the drama and heartbreak of an Emile Zola novel (and- we hope- the sexual perversion of a Georges Bataille's Story Of The Eye as well), what with the apocaplytpic black-ice wreck they suffered on the way to the Arse Freeze-A-Palooza race in December. You can read LeMons Supreme Court Justice Lieberman's interview of the team here, and then it'll be time to start calculating just how well you think their Peugeot is going to do at Reno-Fernley in three weeks.

The rules of this game are pretty easy: You guess the number of E30s (from 0 to 9) that you think will have lower lap totals than the Surrender Monkeys' Peugeot, and you put it in a comment on this post. So that we'll have a tiebreaker, you must also include guesses for the number of Miatas (from 0 to 3) that the Killer Bees Racing '77 MGB will beat and the number of MR2s (from 0 to 7) that the Unsafe At Any Speed Chevy Corvair will beat. Further tiebreakers will be solved via some unfair method we'll think of when the time comes. Got it? Three numbers, with the Peugeot-versus-E30 one being the most important. Prizes will be provided by the folks at LeMons World Headquarters in lovely Emeryville.
This seems like a good place for some polls, doesn't it?



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<![CDATA[UDMan Recruiting Corvair Race Team Members For LeMons New England, You Could Be Next!]]> When you saw the video of the Team Unsafe At Any Speed Corvair living up to its team's name at the Arse Freeze-a-Palooza LeMons, did you feel envious of those mighty Corvair jockeys?

Of course you did! Why, everyone at the track was scared to death in awe of the first-ever 24 Hours Of LeMons Corvair… and now you East Coasters have a shot at inspiring the same sort of dread respect from members of teams running humdrum RX-7s and yawnworthy E30s at the New England 24 Hours Of LeMons. That's right, the Powerglide-equipped 1963 Chevrolet Corvair 700 four-door being race-prepped by UDMAn is running fine, UDMan is starting to assemble an all-star team to drive it… and two openings remain on the roster! If you've got more guts than brains, know your way around a race track, and have sufficient greenbackage to pay your share of race expenses, UDMan wants to hear from you. Write your "I Think Ralph Nader Is The Devil - Sign Me Up!" essay in a comment below, comment in UDMan's CarDomain Blog post, or email me with a suitable rant and I'll forward it to UDMan. Index Of Effluency, here you come!


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<![CDATA[What Color Should Junkman Paint His Olsen Eagle For The Concours d'Lemons?]]> Remember the Olds Toronado-based Olsen Eagle that filled us with such awe last year? It now sits in Junkman's garage, and he's bringing it out to Monterey for the Concours d'LeMons in August!

Thing is, he wants to paint it a color appropriate to its majesty before unveiling it to the world. You see, the Concours d'LeMons is no ordinary car show; organized by the same perpetrators responsible for lowering the collective property values of the automotive world with Billetproof and the 24 Hours Of LeMons, its metastasization of Malaise Era Detroit economy clankers, best-forgotten British Leyland clinkers, and Brezhnev-Approved™ Iron Curtain clunkers should make attendees of those other Monterey events abandon those boring ol' millionaires' toys in droves. The truly enlightened car freaks will hit both the Concours d'Lemons and the Buttonwillow Histrionics 24 Hours Of LeMons that weekend, because what could be better than driving 200 miles in order to watch $500 race cars throw rods in the 110-degree bovine-emissions-scented air of Merle Haggard country?

Given the historical significance of the very first Concours d'Lemons, Junkman is really under the gun to make the Eagle perfect. He'll be instructing the orange-peel maestros at Ohio's most exclusive Maaco to shoot that crypto-Toronado with a color that will guarantee him the Most Eleganté trophy. The question is: what color? Junkman feels that Jalopnik readers have the sensibility needed to make such a crucial decision, so he's decided to make a contest for our readers out of it:

As you know, I acquired the infamous Olsen Eagle several months ago. Since the car I entered in the Pebble Beach Concours last year didn't win, I have decided to make an all-out effort for best of show in this year's inaugural Concours d'Ignorance (if it happens). I believe the Eagle is the perfect vehicle to achieve this goal but, as you can see, it needs a bit of cosmetic freshening. As a result, I have sent it to the local Maaco to make it concours ready.
It's just about ready for paint and, being artistically challenged, I could use the help of the wildly talented Jalopnik commenteriat in suggesting a new color and/or paint scheme. Photoshop or written suggestions would work. In addition to my eternal gratitude, I would reward the winner with a 1/18 scale model of a PT Cruiser and a package of Sham-Wows with only one towel missing. I'll even pick up the postage!

There you have it, folks! I'm thinking a two-tone job would be nice, with Pearlescent Caterpillar Orange on top and Unnecessarily Purple on the bottom. How about you?


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<![CDATA[Try Your Hand At The GM Downward Spiral Haiku Contest, Win A Fabulous Prize!]]> Franzouse has suggested another Haiku contest, since it's been so long since the last one. I've just finished DeLorean's On A Clear Day You Can See General Motors, so thematic inspiration is right at hand.

Here's the deal: you compose a haiku about some aspect of The General's long, long fall from his place as King Of The Automotive World, and then you put it in a comment for all to admire. Feel free to choose any examples of bad planning, bad design, bad business decisions, or just plain bad luck from any point in GM's decline (and it's up you to choose the time that marks the beginning of that decline; I'm torn between the late 1950s and the late 1960s, though a good case could be made for a much later date). I'll pick out a winner, and that brilliant poet will get my review copy of Mickey Thompson: The Fast Life And Tragic Death Of A Racing Legend. I'll prime the pump with one of my own:

Endless Iron Dukes
The warehouse overflowing
Put them in Fieros!

Yeah, I know, "Fiero" has three syllables if you're an obsessive enunciator… which I'm not. Thanks to The Old Car Manual Project for the photo!

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<![CDATA[Big Video Contest: Show Us Your Jalopnik, Win Fabulous Roush Prizes!]]> After snagging some hot swag from today's 2010 Roush Mustang reveal, we figure it's time for another contest. Below, how to win some Jack Roush-signed paraphernalia and what you need do to earn it.

The Concept: Film a two-minute or less short about why you're the most Jalopnik of them all. We'll be running a few of these contests as we've got a sizable stockpile of goodies to go around, so we'll keep this one hugely open-ended. Do whatever you like: Show us your car. Show us your pile of vintage. Keep it light, keep it interesting. Hoonage is highly regarded, but we're not responsible for any pain or damage you bring upon yourself.

The Judging: In the same vein of many of the college film contests, this is a very short deadline project. You've got 'til Sunday, March 22nd at Midnight to submit your video. Videos need to be submitted to YouTube.com with the tag "JalopnikContest1". Videos not conforming to this policy won't be accepted as we won't be able to find them. Optional: If you think you're really hot shit, you can submit your video link and a short blurb explaining why your clip is especially good to Didorosi@Jalopnik.com with precisely the subject line: "Jalopnik Video Submission: I'm In With You Like Brown On A Cow" We'll nominate our favorite videos and post five clips for one stage of voting. The winner of the voting earns the prize! What's the prize, you ask? Well...

The Prize:
One quart of official Roush Full Synthetic engine oil signed by Jack Roush! Winners will get their choice of tasty 5W-20 or 5W-30 weight oil, Sharpie-signed by the short, hatted racer himself. You can't buy this kind of merch, folks. Sit this shiny silver quart on your speedshop's shelf in pride as it unleashes the fury and precision of American craftsmanship onto all that you build under it's watchful eye. We'll also publicly declare the winner with an article featuring their video, so fame and glory is definitely on the table. After we run three video contests, we're likely to have a championship competition between the three winners; so think of this as edging your way into the semi-finals.

The Rules: Standard contest rules apply. If you're posting straight to YouTube, make sure to include your Jalopnik username in the description, or we won't know who we're giving the prize. We reserve the right to use your likeness in all posted videos and may post them to our site at anytime. After we announce a winner, the prize will be shipped cheapest possible option straight to a continental address of your choosing. Don't discount the carrier pigeon choice - those guys work cheap.

Get out there, have at it. Happy filming!

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<![CDATA["Where's Waldo" Prize Winners Crowned]]> When we announced the "Where's Waldo" competition earlier, we expected everyone to stay occupied for quite some time. WilliamG and his cohorts however found him quickly and now we announce their prizes.

We thought we were sooo sly, but you guys proved how annoyingly quick you can be. Waldo was hiding in the last image of The Auto Insider's hilariously headlined Brilliance Auto "Seeking Development With Mutual Benefit and Win-Win". Next time we do this we'll have to really work hard on our Waldo camouflaging skills. In any case, considering we've got plenty of goods to go around, we're going to hand out prizes to the first three valid submissions. All right now, let's tell em what they've won!

WilliamG came dangerously close to disqualifying himself by double posting, but since he didn't do it maliciously (or with the proper key words the first time) we have to hand over the grand prize to him. In only a half hour he managed to find Waldo and as a reward we're giving him a brand new, still in the packaging Geely tea set from the 2008 Detroit Auto Show.

The next valid entry came a few moments after WilliamG's submission, from camb6ell, who will receive a reward as a result of his sleuthing a commemorative Saab 92 scale model in a decorative casing. This one wasn't from the auto show specifically, but we've been waiting for a chance to give it away.

Finally, our third place winner is nairdasti and for his hunt will be rewarded with a wind up or car-chargeable LED flashlight and wearable USB thumb drive.

Our winners should shoot me an email at ben@jalopnik.com with their mailing address so we can get all those fabulous prizes out right away. Congrats to the winners, phooey to all of you who are way faster than we thought you'd be, and next time we'll make it way, way harder.

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<![CDATA[Where's Waldo: Win A Bag Of Detroit Auto Show Swag]]> Our swag bag overfloweth after this years Detroit Auto Show, and as a way to lighten our load, we've devised a devilish new game to give it away, hunting for the ever elusive Waldo.

In honor of the Chinese triumphantly storming the main floor of the 2009 Detroit Auto Show, we've decided the grand prize will be one we've kept squirreled away for a special occasion for a full year now. It's the complete, formal tea set given to us last year by China's Geely, who, amusingly, was absent from this years festivities.

So here's the deal, this year, in one of the many images we uploaded to a gallery, we slyly inserted everyone's favorite globe-trotting, stripe wearing cartoon character, Waldo. He's lurking in a post, somewhere in a post on our Detroit Auto Show tag page, between our official start of coverage at 8:00 AM last Saturday and today at noon. Be the first to find Waldo and you get the prize. That should keep everybody busy for hours, but when you do manage to find him, be very careful with the submission procedure, because if you make one minor mistake, your efforts will be for naught.

Here's the rules:

In order to claim your fabulous prize you must first post a comment in the comments section reading "I've Found Waldo," nothing more, nothing less. DO NOT post a link to the image in the comments or everybody loses. Within five minutes of posting the "I've Found Waldo" comment, you must send an email to ben@jalopnik.com with the subject line "Where's Waldo Entry." Then, in the body of the email, include the URL of the image where Waldo makes his appearance, and very importantly, a link to your comment saying "I've Found Waldo." To do this, click on the time stamp next to your commenter ID then copy and past the URL into the email. This email must be sent within five minutes of the comment being posted, otherwise the entry will be disqualified. Anyone posting "I've found Waldo" in comments more than once will be disqualified — so no gaming of the system.

As always, standard contest rules apply and submissions will be accepted until a winner has been announced or noon on Monday, January 19, 2008 — whichever comes first. Below is a list of posts where Waldo may be hiding, however nothing says he has to be hiding behind any of these posts. Good luck, and happy hunting.

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<![CDATA[Jalopnik Photochop Contest: The GEM Peapod]]> When we spotted the GEM Peapod outside of Chrysler's world headquarters in Auburn Hills and later with an actual press release, we couldn't help but think it has a face made for photochopping. We mean come on, it's so smiley! As a result, we want you to put your clever caps on and chop the heck out of this thing. Don't feel limited to the gated, smiley community, there's always the possibility of making it frowny too. Or a tyrannosaurus rex. Whatever you want, just use your imagination. Whatever you decide to do, remember to e-mail me your work at ben@jalopnik.com and we'll have a run-off vote for the winner. Feel free to post 'em in the comments section and if you need a little help on how to do that, check out the commenting guide here. Now go have fun. Also, hit the jump to see how we started off the car Peapod-shopping craziness!

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<![CDATA[How Many Tecates Did Team Porcubimmer Swill? Closest Guess Wins A Team T-Shirt!]]> When you spend all your spare time for months beating a sub-$500 car into a 24 Hours of LeMons racer, you develop a powerful thirst. Team Porcubimmer decided early on in their build that their thirst would be quenched exclusively by those red cans from Mexico, and then they decided that the smell of stale beer in the garage was so good that they'd save all the empties. So now the question: how many cans did they guzzle? You can submit your guess at their site, and the winner will get a team "Pricks Outside" T-shirt. [Porcubimmer.com]

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<![CDATA[Postal Service Scion Hako Takes Top Honors]]> Congratulations to reader and USPS aficionado suzq044, for the commentariat have dubbed you the winner of the Scion Hako Redesign competition. We were pulling for the Hakominos and earlier the paper-and-tape Rothified Hako, but saying so may have steered voting so we decided not to. We have to say the entries were most impressive, ranging from incredible technical prowess to displays of absolute comic genius. To claim your prize suzq044, send an email to me and we'll get those sweet, sweet Scion hats in the mail tout de suite. Thanks to all who entered and hopefully Toyota got the clue that we were none too thrilled with their latest box on wheels.

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