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Why Don't Datsun Zs Dominate The 24 Hours Of LeMons?
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I see junk ZXs at the pull-a-part yards fairly regularly, the only time I have seen an early Z was at the scrap metal yard. A serious SOLO racer had junked an old race car body.
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You blow it up/break it and make it better for the next race, and eventually you have a crapbox that can finish.
Sandbaggers get punished, but I think that most of the LeMons racers aren't that 'strategic' anyway. It's a race for $500 cars, for F* sake.
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Shhhh!
The entire car is put together/engineered well enough so that seemingly random parts fail due to what most consider excessive age/use/abuse. There's no telling how the vehicle was treated in it's history.
British Leyland...when the whole car sucks you have, well the GM J-car. Random part failure while still in the new car section of the car park is different.
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BA-ZING! Who saw that coming?! NOBODY! YES! HILARIOUS!
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Having worked as a service adviser in recent years, I'd be amazed if Dan Gurney and AJ Foyt could take a showroom fresh Nissan and win a 24 hour race against a Volvo 140 driven by 9 year olds.
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But clearly, on account of the flouridation conspiracy, Zs know we sense their power, and seek their racing essence. They do not avoid us. But they do deny us their essence.
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Your internet grammar makes me cry.
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Hail Murilee, full of race, the Ford is with thee; blessed art thou amongst minxes, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, DOTS.
Holy Murilee, Mother of PCH, pray for us Jalops, now and at the blowing of our head gaskets. Amen.
06/27/09
Racing in LeMons doesn't necessarily mean a car will be destroyed (although in some cases, it probably should.) Any of the neat cars that you'll see at LeMons (like my buddy's Porsche 914) would otherwise have been parts cars or crusher fodder. A racing series developed specifically for shitty cars gives them a new lease on life. I say bring on the (rusty, gutted) LeMons 510s!
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