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    Triumphant Win-A-Wartburg Essayist Promises To Install Studebaker Six, Enter Car In 'Trifecta Of Crap'

    Win A '58 Wartburg, Race It For Free At The 24 Hours Of LeMons!

    East German Pride Is Alive And Flourishing On The Streets Of New York City!

    Weed-Whacker In a Cardboard Box: NPR Drives The Trabant

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    Image of jaymcminn jaymcminn
    09/05/09

    In reply to Triumphant Win-A-Wartburg Essayist Promises To Install Studebaker Six, Enter Car In 'Trifecta Of Crap'
    I want to comment on Mr.Thwaite's brilliant essay, but I find myself captivated by that widebody Yugo. So sexy... so crappy...
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    Image of Jim Thwaite Jim Thwaite
    09/05/09

    @jaymcminn: an old build thread for your viewing pleasure [misfittoysracing.com]
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    Tomsk welcomes the Jezebanned home promoted this comment Jim Thwaite was starred Jim Thwaite was unstarred
    Image of Novaload Novaload
    09/05/09

    In reply to Triumphant Win-A-Wartburg Essayist Promises To Install Studebaker Six, Enter Car In 'Trifecta Of Crap'
    I read those in the Lemons email announcement. This one was greenhouse, roof, and luggage rack above the rest. The proverbial shoo-in.
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    Image of joneez wants the clunkers he paid for joneez wants the clunkers he paid for
    09/05/09

    In reply to Triumphant Win-A-Wartburg Essayist Promises To Install Studebaker Six, Enter Car In 'Trifecta Of Crap'
    Mr. Thwaite is certainly a good politician.
    First, he opens right away by kissing ass. Then he says he's not like other politicians and states how he's not going to bring "vanilla" into the race. He continues by detailing his history of "uniqueness" and "flair," making sure no one mistakes him for the "mundane."
    He immediately follows this with a good old fashioned sex and booze scandal with a little incest tossed in just to keep it interesting. But that seems to be OK with his "understanding" wife and he promises his private life is not going to effect the race.
    Finally, he finishes by saying that even though his plans may not seem to make sense, he asks that we not "pass judgment" until we carefully consider them against future forseeable events.
    I'm sure Mr. Thwaite would have a long and profitable career in Illinois politics.
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    Image of Jim Thwaite Jim Thwaite
    09/05/09

    @joneez wants the clunkers he paid for: Too many skeletons in this closet ;)
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    Image of joneez wants the clunkers he paid for joneez wants the clunkers he paid for
    09/05/09

    @Jim Thwaite: Like I said, an Illinois politician ;p

    Thank you sir for a great read, and good luck. I'm sure all of the Jalop will be cheering for you!
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    Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet promoted this comment Edited by joneez wants the clunkers he paid for at 09/05/09 9:49 PM joneez wants the clunkers he paid for was starred joneez wants the clunkers he paid for was unstarred
    Image of Turboner Turboner
    09/05/09

    In reply to Triumphant Win-A-Wartburg Essayist Promises To Install Studebaker Six, Enter Car In 'Trifecta Of Crap'
    Just make sure it's mid-engine AND FWD.
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    Image of Jim Thwaite Jim Thwaite
    09/05/09

    In reply to Triumphant Win-A-Wartburg Essayist Promises To Install Studebaker Six, Enter Car In 'Trifecta Of Crap'
    And so important it deserves a separate comment.
    Thank you to Mrs. Misfit, my beautiful wife Kelley who puts up with this crap year after year.
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    skitter promoted this comment Jim Thwaite was starred Jim Thwaite was unstarred
    Image of Jim Thwaite Jim Thwaite
    09/05/09

    In reply to Triumphant Win-A-Wartburg Essayist Promises To Install Studebaker Six, Enter Car In 'Trifecta Of Crap'
    Wow, thanks for the overwhelming responses and good wishes. I shall do my best to not disappoint. I also want to take a moment to acknowledge and thank the rest of the Misfit Toys crew who are making this possible and who DIDN'T try to lynch me when they found out I saddled us with this thing.

    So Chris Abbot, Jim Wakeman and Jeff Wakemen, thanks guys, its gonna be a hell of a year.

    And the associate Misfits who are offering up support and who have been there with us through past stupidity. Rafael Amaya, Eric Phipps, Ben Lamberton, Krikor Panossian, Jesse Congdon and all the great folks out there, you rock!
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    skitter promoted this comment Jim Thwaite was starred Jim Thwaite was unstarred
    Image of Novaload Novaload
    09/05/09

    @Jim Thwaite: You, sir, are awesome. True, you are deranged, but awesome nonetheless. Mrs. Misfit deserves a moment of silence for her awesome-osity, too.
    Plus you have a team of lunatics.
    How can this project go bad? It just can't, I tell you. It just can't.
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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    09/05/09

    @Jim Thwaite: You, sir, are hero material, and should definitely be considered for Jalopnik sainthood, along with Evel Knievel, Ken Imhoff, etc.
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    Edited by Six Flags Over Tomsk at 09/05/09 9:11 PM Six Flags Over Tomsk was starred Six Flags Over Tomsk was unstarred
    Image of Jim Thwaite Jim Thwaite
    09/05/09

    @Tomsk welcomes the Jezebanned home: Wow, not sure I can live up to all this. Im just hoping to survive the 3 events, its going to be a long year. I'm no hero, just a guy who never met a car he didnt like. I hope to meet as many folks as we can along the way, join up for BABE and join us for the ride, come out to Lemons and race with us, come out to GRM and see the event that started budget racing on a large scale. Or if you're ever in NJ just stop by and bench race or turn a wrench.
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    Image of MadcowsDiseased MadcowsDiseased
    09/05/09

    In reply to Triumphant Win-A-Wartburg Essayist Promises To Install Studebaker Six, Enter Car In 'Trifecta Of Crap'
    This certainly sounds like it was meant to be. Mr. Thwaite, I bid you good luck on this project, and can't wait to read about it in GRM's $2009 challenge, as well as in Murilee's coverage of the so-called Trifecta of Crap. This already has the ingredients for People's Choice, and more importantly, IoE brewing. We certainly live in an exciting day in age - not because we have computers the size of coins, or virtual reality porno, but because there are actually people out there who want to race an East German hunk-o-junk 20 years after the fall of communism.
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    skitter promoted this comment Edited by MadcowsDiseased at 09/05/09 5:56 PM MadcowsDiseased was starred MadcowsDiseased was unstarred
    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    09/05/09

    In reply to Triumphant Win-A-Wartburg Essayist Promises To Install Studebaker Six, Enter Car In 'Trifecta Of Crap'
    Can we call it a "Warteburger"?
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    Image of alexander_the_car_salamander alexander_the_car_salamander
    09/05/09

    In reply to Triumphant Win-A-Wartburg Essayist Promises To Install Studebaker Six, Enter Car In 'Trifecta Of Crap'
    Wow, I think I have found a new role-model.
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    skitter promoted this comment alexander_the_car_salamander was starred alexander_the_car_salamander was unstarred
    Image of GeeHalen GeeHalen
    09/05/09

    In reply to Triumphant Win-A-Wartburg Essayist Promises To Install Studebaker Six, Enter Car In 'Trifecta Of Crap'

    How about this Wartburg project with a V8 engine installed from fellow Hungarian mechanics?
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    Image of GeeHalen GeeHalen
    09/05/09


    @GeeHalen:
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    Image of Jim Thwaite Jim Thwaite
    09/05/09

    @GeeHalen: Any more info on that...I could use the inspiration!
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    Tomsk welcomes the Jezebanned home promoted this comment Jim Thwaite was starred Jim Thwaite was unstarred
    Image of theeastbaykid theeastbaykid
    09/05/09

    @Jim Thwaite: Looks like this thing: [www.youtube.com] which is clearly NOT a V8 and does donuts with just as effortlessly as my old 20R Toyota truck. (Which is to say, with a lot of frickin' effort).
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    Image of Jim Thwaite Jim Thwaite
    09/05/09

    @theeastbaykid: Yeah, Im more interested in seeing how they set up a V8 in that thing. Although the current build plan will go against whatever they did (it will be different than anything anyone has ever done with a Wartburg) still its nice to see how other people overcame certain obstacles.
     Reply
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    Image of DrLemming DrLemming
    09/05/09

    In reply to Triumphant Win-A-Wartburg Essayist Promises To Install Studebaker Six, Enter Car In 'Trifecta Of Crap'
    Very nicely written. This is better than C/D in its glory years.
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    skitter promoted this comment DrLemming was starred DrLemming was unstarred
    Image of NiceNurseRatched NiceNurseRatched
    09/05/09

    In reply to Triumphant Win-A-Wartburg Essayist Promises To Install Studebaker Six, Enter Car In 'Trifecta Of Crap'
    Jim Thwaite and this Wartburg have found each other in this crazy, mixed-up world because the forces of an unfair universe could not keep them apart. They have a cosmic bond which will always draw them together.

    It's like the stories of Jon and Kate; Britney Spears and Kevin Federline; The Captain and Tennille... but with cars and less grease.
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    Image of MarywithanM™ MarywithanM™
    09/05/09

    In reply to Triumphant Win-A-Wartburg Essayist Promises To Install Studebaker Six, Enter Car In 'Trifecta Of Crap'
    I'm getting a t-shirt, woo hoo! And, I don't have to haul that home from Ohio, double woo hoo!

    Are there plans for a formal awarding of the Wartburg at the Lamest Day?
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    skaycog - Game On! promoted this comment MarywithanM™ was starred MarywithanM™ was unstarred
    Image of skaycog was here skaycog was here
    09/05/09

    @MarywithanM: as you were: You have a message. :)
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    09/05/09

    @skaycog - Game On!: Are you two-timing Deathair II?
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    Image of MarywithanM™ MarywithanM™
    09/05/09

    @Novaload Is Just Plain Novaload Again: They are both cheating on me, right in front of me. I should be offended.
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    Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet promoted this comment MarywithanM™ was starred MarywithanM™ was unstarred
    Image of Jim Thwaite Jim Thwaite
    09/05/09

    @MarywithanM: as you were: Dunno if there's formal plans but we're comin out friday night and hoping to hoist a few with as many Lemons crews as we can. Please look for us, we'll be the nuts in the Police Tahoe ;)
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    Image of MarywithanM™ MarywithanM™
    09/06/09

    @Jim Thwaite: Excellent! Please keep in mind that generally I only will approach a Police Tahoe if there is a promise of a pat down. ;)
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    Image of skaycog was here skaycog was here
    09/05/09

    In reply to Triumphant Win-A-Wartburg Essayist Promises To Install Studebaker Six, Enter Car In 'Trifecta Of Crap'
    Heck, I would have entered the contest if it were "Win-A-Wertburg.
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    Image of Z71 Z71
    09/05/09

    @skaycog - Game On!: Yeah having one of those would have been fun, but they have a bad tendency to want to mid-mount their engine in other cars.
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    skaycog - Game On! promoted this comment Z71 was starred Z71 was unstarred
    Image of skaycog was here skaycog was here
    09/05/09

    @Z71: That comment should get you the JOTD award! Hilarious!
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    Image of Z71 Z71
    09/05/09

    @skaycog - Game On!: Thanks!
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    Image of Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing
    09/05/09

    @skaycog - Game On!:
    Yep. Gotta love the sumptuous Burberry upholstery in those up-market Werturg town cars...
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    Image of skaycog was here skaycog was here
    09/05/09

    @Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing: Point for you! ;) ("He" doesn't read weekend stuff, does he)?
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    Image of Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing
    09/05/09

    @skaycog - Game On!:
    Sure he reads the weekend posts. And he has a great sense of humor. Ray knows I wouldn't tease him if I didn't like and respect him.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    09/05/09

    @skaycog - Game On!: Hah! Be careful what you wish for. You might get the Wertburg Hammer edition!
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    09/05/09

    @skaycog - Game On!: There's only one way to find out for sure!
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    Image of skaycog was here skaycog was here
    09/05/09

    @Novaload Is Just Plain Novaload Again: Oh, oh, you're scaring me. How do I find out for sure?
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    08/05/09

    In reply to Win A '58 Wartburg, Race It For Free At The 24 Hours Of LeMons!
    The '58 Wartburg 311 sold for $1,686 in the US, according to the Standard Catalog. That was $141 more than a '58 Beetle, but $113 less than a '58 Datsun 1000. The really tough choice would have been between the Wartburg and the nearly identically priced '58 Hillman Minx. You could probably tell the Wartburg salesman "Knock 20 bucks off the price or I walk across the street to the Hillman dealership!"
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    Edited by Murilee Martin at 08/05/09 1:42 PM Murilee Martin was starred Murilee Martin was unstarred
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