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    PCH, Become A 24 Hours Of LeMons Legend Edition: Panhard PL17 or 1951 Studebaker?

    PCH, Deconstruction Edition: One Panhard or Two Renaults?
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    02/06/09

    In reply to PCH, Become A 24 Hours Of LeMons Legend Edition: Panhard PL17 or 1951 Studebaker?
    The biggest problem with the Stude, I believe, is that there's a strict legal requirement for driving it in competition. You have to have 'Fireball' as part of your legal name.
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    02/06/09

    In reply to PCH, Become A 24 Hours Of LeMons Legend Edition: Panhard PL17 or 1951 Studebaker?
    Studebaker....there's good old fashioned Pan 'Merican racing power just waiting to be released


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    02/06/09

    In reply to PCH, Become A 24 Hours Of LeMons Legend Edition: Panhard PL17 or 1951 Studebaker?
    I nominate this PCH for the most eclectic cultural smashup ever! First the obscure French Panhard, then Hunter S Thompson, rejecting the rent-a-car Benz "Do I look like a goddam Nazi? I'll have a natural American car or nothing at all..." and then Studebaker, the Citroen of US cars, and finally the trippy muppets, who are paying homage to the freaks of Arlo Guthrie and Alice's Restaurant et al, who lived in a church as well as the electric Koolaid acid test with a side of Parliament/Funkadelic--wow.

    Oh--car? I voted Panhard. It's the only thing in Junkman's garage I could ever afford.
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    02/06/09

    In reply to PCH, Become A 24 Hours Of LeMons Legend Edition: Panhard PL17 or 1951 Studebaker?
    Stude FTW. Suicide doors automatically win. BTW Murilee, I didn't know you were a fan of the Mayhem.
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    Image of Paul Y. don't drive too fast. Paul Y. don't drive too fast.
    02/05/09

    In reply to PCH, Become A 24 Hours Of LeMons Legend Edition: Panhard PL17 or 1951 Studebaker?
    Junkman would have a LeMons-worthy Panhard just lying around.
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    Image of Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.
    02/05/09

    In reply to PCH, Become A 24 Hours Of LeMons Legend Edition: Panhard PL17 or 1951 Studebaker?
    Gotta vote Stude. The Panhard would be an awesome car for sure, but it would be a shame to destroy it in a (probably successful) run at the Index of Effluency award.
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    02/05/09

    In reply to PCH, Become A 24 Hours Of LeMons Legend Edition: Panhard PL17 or 1951 Studebaker?
    The guy with the Stude has a whole LeMons/PCH FLEET! He has the old Chevy and a 61 Scout too. You could get all THREE fo only $750, that's tempting just for yard art (I don't think I could get the wife or the neighborhood association to approve though). Buy them all, sell off a couple of hulks/scrap metal and combine them all into one glorious 4WD bulletnose monster!


    Really the Panhard would be the greater hell though.

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    02/05/09

    In reply to PCH, Become A 24 Hours Of LeMons Legend Edition: Panhard PL17 or 1951 Studebaker?
    Gotta go with the Stude. While the unknown factors on the Panhard would normally give it the edge on hellishness, this is Junkman we're talking about, so, chances are, if he says it's relatively complete it really is... hell, it may even already be packing a SBC.
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    02/05/09

    In reply to PCH, Become A 24 Hours Of LeMons Legend Edition: Panhard PL17 or 1951 Studebaker?
    The PL 17 looks like an upside-down jonboat that some idiot built a car under. Oh, wait. It's French! Of course it was built by an idiot!
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    02/05/09

    @DrElectro: Boat and french car go well together


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    02/06/09

    @BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ - two wheels FTW: What THE HELL is going on in that picture? Actually, nevermind, I don't want to know.
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    02/05/09

    In reply to PCH, Become A 24 Hours Of LeMons Legend Edition: Panhard PL17 or 1951 Studebaker?
    Studebaker, because 4 of the last 5 PCHs have featured French cars. I know it's like shooting fesh in a barrel, but enough is enough.
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    02/05/09

    In reply to PCH, Become A 24 Hours Of LeMons Legend Edition: Panhard PL17 or 1951 Studebaker?
    I'm gonna' have to vote with my right foot and jump into the fire behind the wheel of that turd-pony Stude.


    But that is only because the Panhard belongs to Junkman, and he wouldn't condemn a fellow Jalopnikadian to the eternal damnation of PCH (well, maybe that Drearthair guy) so it's gotta' be cherry.


    I think, for the 24HoLMs, I'd mount a M242 Bushmaster cannon in the nose hole, and I'd paint the Stude to look like a P40 flying tiger. The gun would be to prevent passing (I'm pretty sure I can get it by the judges as I'll also mount an easily removable case of Mackeson triple stout and a DVD collection of Police Academy next to it for the inspection) and the paint will frighten the competition, and provide erotic stimulation to the ladies.


    It's a win/win all the way around.

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    02/05/09

    In reply to PCH, Become A 24 Hours Of LeMons Legend Edition: Panhard PL17 or 1951 Studebaker?
    Panhard all the way. Paint it red, weld a set of golden arches on the roof, and serve homemade pommes frites to anyone who stops by in the paddock.


    Team name? Merde Meal.

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    02/05/09

    In reply to PCH, Become A 24 Hours Of LeMons Legend Edition: Panhard PL17 or 1951 Studebaker?
    My head says Studebaker, but my heart says Panhard.


    Now there's a sentence I didn't think I'd ever write.


    The Stude would be wooly, squirrelly fun. Floppy handling and understeer, power coming on slow but hard. Way too much weight for the brakes. And it'd break, too. But it'd be pretty easy to fix, you could slap anything approximating the broken part in there and who'd know the difference?


    But the Panhard is really just a mobile launching ramp in disguise. Best to pain it to match the track color, then drive around at 35 mph, unpredictably darting out into the middle of the corners. Panhard's more likely to overheat, and that would be fatal. Hell, most any ailment would be fatal. But you'd be going so slowly to begin with, no one could tell. So, you'd be scored for twenty laps more than you actually did. Best thing would be to go with a sundial theme on it. That way it would win at least twice a day. No contest, really.

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    02/05/09

    In reply to PCH, Become A 24 Hours Of LeMons Legend Edition: Panhard PL17 or 1951 Studebaker?
    Why stop with a mere bar when you can have the whole car?
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    02/05/09

    In reply to PCH, Become A 24 Hours Of LeMons Legend Edition: Panhard PL17 or 1951 Studebaker?
    So, paint the car like Fozzie's, and have the whole team dress in leather jackets and life vests?


    Call the team Team Miscommunication.

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