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12/28/08
12/26/08
12/26/08
Okay, the entire concept rules. But the bowling ball especially.
12/26/08
12/26/08
Specifically, the Ozzy Osbourne Inertial Penalty Horn:
[jalopnik.com]
12/26/08
"Several beverages and a stack of scribbled-on cocktail napkins later, and they hammer out the engineering details for the Faster Farm's entry in the 2008 24 Hours Of LeMons Arse Freeze-A-Palooza..."
12/26/08
"Oh, and they all knew the job was dangerous when they took it..."
12/26/08
As for the car, I don't know which is funnier, the Lebowski-powered wing or the maniacal chicken sfx.
I also couldn't help but think that a couple of bowling balls would be the right size truck-nuts for this old MoPar.
12/26/08
12/26/08
/would be a dam good band name to
12/26/08
12/26/08
12/26/08
The Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys (The Index of Effluency contenders with a Peugeot) won't be making it to Thunderhill. Looks like the team captain, and the car were involved in a serious accident on the way to the event. Everyone is fine, if not a little shaken up.
It looks like the weather has taken it's toll with a lot of teams that were heading to the event from the great Northwest. One can only hope that the remaining teams from Oregon and Washington state have a magnificent time at the race. We should all offer a praise of "well done" for making it there, and hope that the Peugeot Team makes it to a future event, with high expectations of garnering a win (in any category).
12/26/08
[teamlemon.blogspot.com]
12/26/08
What was interesting was that the truck was totaled, the trailer was totaled but while a bit banged up the Peugeot drove 30 miles home *and* the Peugeot's roof took the impact of the trailer rolling over without the roll cage taking any of the impact. That's one strong car!
I tell you it was darn scary (I was in the back seat of the truck) but thankfully none of us were injured which is the most important thing.
12/26/08
Seriously, glad to hear everyone's okay, and I look forward to meeting the Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys at the next race. We can drink cheap red wine and talk smack about all the Japanese and German cars.
12/26/08
Bowling ball active aerodynamics control: making inertia work for you!
But will it work enough to offset the mass of the board and ball? Only his pit crew knows for sure.
12/25/08