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    The Best LeMons Team Application Video Ever: Porsche-Driving Team Rooster Juice!

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    Image of Number_Six Number_Six
    09/26/09

    In reply to The 1980 Porsche 924: Kicks Ass At Le Mans, Hauls Your Scuba Gear
    For some reason the 924 ad reminds me of Peter Cook as bandleader James Last.

    [www.youtube.com]
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    Image of korvetkeith king of teh horsepowers! korvetkeith king of teh horsepowers!
    09/22/09

    In reply to The Best LeMons Team Application Video Ever: Porsche-Driving Team Rooster Juice!
    Hipster beer. Hipster music. Bleh, other than it's all good.
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    Murilee Martin promoted this comment korvetkeith king of teh horsepowers! was starred korvetkeith king of teh horsepowers! was unstarred
    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    09/25/09

    @korvetkeith king of teh horsepowers!: Most hipsters I know would rather eat ground glass than listen to Weezer, though maybe some of them listen to it, you know, ironically.
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    Edited by Murilee Martin at 09/25/09 2:36 AM Murilee Martin was starred Murilee Martin was unstarred
    Image of lilwillie lilwillie
    09/20/09

    In reply to The Best LeMons Team Application Video Ever: Porsche-Driving Team Rooster Juice!
    Anyone balls enough to play with the (insert letter) -tronic is worthy.

    Nice videos.
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    Image of mikedrawcar mikedrawcar
    09/20/09

    In reply to The Best LeMons Team Application Video Ever: Porsche-Driving Team Rooster Juice!
    you have to approve those guys, if at least for proving that Abe Vigoda is still alive. And letting him race in LeMons!
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    Image of that ain't the way to have fun, son that ain't the way to have fun, son
    09/20/09

    In reply to The Best LeMons Team Application Video Ever: Porsche-Driving Team Rooster Juice!
    I'd never be able to change the radio station fast enough if this song started playing, but it's absolutely perfect for what is a video short-story better than most of what is on television.

    Guys, good work...all around.

    If it wouldn't screw things up, I'd lobby for a LeMons reality show. Real reality, too. Sometimes the oddly-timed spontaneous shit is the funniest.

    That Lincoln's engine is incredible sounding...when it's mobile. Though it sounds like they locked the transmission in 2nd gear, which I can understand the logic, but it'd be even quicker, while moving, if it could hit third.
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    Edited by that ain't the way to have fun, son at 09/20/09 8:43 PM that ain't the way to have fun, son was starred that ain't the way to have fun, son was unstarred
    Image of ummagumma82 ummagumma82
    09/21/09

    @so I goes to the local bar, y'know, people: I think it's actually in first-- due to its fairly high redline and ridiculously tall gearing, it'll get to 55-60 mph. 2nd gear tops out at ~95.

    I have two Mark VIIIs and I love 'em. That's pretty much what they sound and act like from the factory; the engine is (thankfully) surprisingly loud, and it pulls like crazy past 3000 rpm. Reliability is decent for a high-tech domestic car, but of course that's not saying a whole lot. Unless overheated, the engine is absolutely bulletproof, though.
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    so I goes to the local bar, y'know, people promoted this comment ummagumma82 was starred ummagumma82 was unstarred
    Image of that ain't the way to have fun, son that ain't the way to have fun, son
    09/21/09

    @ummagumma82:

    I feel less-bad about considering these as a beater-car replacement last January.

    A new Baby Beater-Benz beat it.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    09/20/09

    In reply to The Best LeMons Team Application Video Ever: Porsche-Driving Team Rooster Juice!
    Surely these guys will get accepted with that video--it's great--except for the soundtrack but then again, it kinda fits.
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    Image of freds4hb freds4hb
    09/20/09

    In reply to The Best LeMons Team Application Video Ever: Porsche-Driving Team Rooster Juice!
    Those Chumpcar guys have a deal going if you bring your lemons rejection letter ($100 bucks off) www.chumpcar.com
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    Image of BRAWNDO_POWERED BRAWNDO_POWERED
    09/20/09

    @freds4hb: If one were going to make a rip-off of .Lemons, why wouldn't one at least try to make it different? I think tossing out the expensive safety requirements might snag some teams. (not that I'm condoning that, it just doesn't make sense to do a complete carbon-copy of Lemons and in no way change it).
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    Image of tonyfreak215 tonyfreak215
    09/21/09

    @BRAWNDO_POWERED: The chumpcar guys are actually having events down in my area. The nearest Lemons race is too far away.
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    Image of freds4hb freds4hb
    09/21/09

    @brawndo_powered: As you can see by the article Lemons is super popular. Also, there are a lot of people that don't get to participate due to it being so full (it is a ton of fun and I love what Lemons is by the way). As there are a lot of people that haven't got to participate in this style of racing ChumpCar has come along to fill that extra need. They do have some other rules and regs to make it a bit different. Feel free to check out the differences at the site (the rules and F.A.Q. all address this point). Additionally the focus is on not overlapping with lemons events (200 miles and 30 days) so that lemons drivers can do ChumpCar events as well. The whole point is to get more people racing. The point is not to "rip-off," it is to provide racing opportunity.
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    Turboner promoted this comment freds4hb was starred freds4hb was unstarred
    Image of Turboner Turboner
    09/21/09

    @freds4hb: Dittos, it is nice to have an event closer to home for denizens of the PNW, but I am going to be in Maui during the Portland race. The only thing different, from what I can tell, is the lack of a theme requirement. If this ruins it for you, then maybe you don't really need to find an "affordable" road race?

    Go Dirty Drifters!
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    Image of eggwich del fiero eggwich del fiero
    09/20/09

    In reply to The Best LeMons Team Application Video Ever: Porsche-Driving Team Rooster Juice!
    That one-second clip of Phoebe Cates from Fast Times was enough to cause me to make teh juice.

    And while I knew LeMons was the fasting growing motorsport in the universe, it never dawned on me that applicants actually get rejected. Like paulmer below, I too wonder the most common cause of rejection. For me, it's usually due to social awkwardness.
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    Image of paulmer hates electric cars paulmer hates electric cars
    09/20/09

    In reply to The Best LeMons Team Application Video Ever: Porsche-Driving Team Rooster Juice!
    Why do most teams get rejected? Is it for a lack of humor or what?

    It's definitely a pipedream, but I want to race an E32 750 in 24HoL..perhaps I shall call my team Serious Business Racing :D

    would be epic, 332ft-lb of torque in a lightened chassis tearing around the track, passing all who stand in the way
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    Murilee Martin promoted this comment Edited by paulmer hates electric cars at 09/20/09 7:18 PM paulmer hates electric cars was starred paulmer hates electric cars was unstarred
    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    09/20/09

    @paulmer hates electric cars: They get rejected because there's not enough room on the track for everybody. This mostly applies to the West Coast, MSR, and CMP races; New England and New Orleans usually have open slots pretty late in the application schedule.
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    Image of paulmer hates electric cars paulmer hates electric cars
    09/20/09

    @Murilee Martin: Surely a V12 would be priority over an E30 or Miatia, I would hope? :D
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    09/20/09

    @paulmer hates electric cars: Yes, there is a 99.99 and several more nines percent chance that a V12 car will get in.
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    Image of Clown Shoe Pilot Clown Shoe Pilot
    09/20/09

    @Murilee Martin: and only a slightly smaller chance of it having a catastrophic (pronounced "totally awesome") failure somewhere on track.

    i'm a giant bmw nerd, and i love that v12 engine, but i don't have the heuvos to bring one racing :)
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    Image of Tony Taylor Tony Taylor
    09/20/09

    In reply to The Best LeMons Team Application Video Ever: Porsche-Driving Team Rooster Juice!
    I think FoMoCo accomplished what they set out to do with the Mark VIII's. I've been trolling the pick-a-part for one of those engines. The block is aluminum and cast by Teksid- one of Ferrari's suppliers. It can handle 1000+ HP and weighs 85 lbs.
    There is one Mark VIII that still has the engine but that thing has 80K miles of leaky oil cooler smothered all over everything.
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    so I goes to the local bar, y'know, people promoted this comment Tony Taylor was starred Tony Taylor was unstarred
    Image of that ain't the way to have fun, son that ain't the way to have fun, son
    09/20/09

    @Tony Taylor:

    It's not an engine covered in oil gunk... Dude, it's externally-lubricated!!!

    See, this makes it faster/easier to remove/replace when time is of-the-essence.

    Seriously, though, there is an LSC I see, daily, which is on flat suspension, and looks as if it hasn't moved in a year, at least.

    If I manage to hit a lottery, I'm gonna buy that LSC, the 1968 300 convertible on the same lot, and both 1981 square-trunk Imperials he has...just for fun.
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    Image of Tony Taylor Tony Taylor
    09/20/09

    @so I goes to the local bar, y'know, people: it almost pisses me off that someone would drive it leaking like that one was. Those O-rings are like $3.50 each. That $3.50 sure would make my life easier. There was a *clean* LSC camped out across from me at CMP. I thought about pulling the old switcheroo late in the night. What are the odds grandma noticing that she has 20 less horsepower and 70 extra lbs under the hood?
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    Image of FormerlyPreferredCustomer FormerlyPreferredCustomer
    09/20/09

    In reply to The Best LeMons Team Application Video Ever: Porsche-Driving Team Rooster Juice!
    All the money that Ford spent on the ill-fated MN-12 program has finally paid off.

    Well, actually for me it paid off the first time I saw my dad get out of his then-new green-over-white leather Mark VIII wearing a full length leather coat and a fur hat, despite the fact that my father is not (to my knowledge) a pimp.

    But now it's really paid off for everyone else.
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    Murilee Martin promoted this comment FormerlyPreferredCustomer was starred FormerlyPreferredCustomer was unstarred
    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    09/20/09

    @FormerlyPreferredCustomer: I think the MN12 has great LeMons potential, once reliability problems are sorted out. The Police Brutality car is seriously fast and handles very well.
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    Image of dculberson dculberson
    09/20/09

    @Murilee Martin: I did notice that nothing was passing them in that video.. and they were passing pretty much everybody. Good driving, too. Shame it broke on 'em.
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    Murilee Martin promoted this comment dculberson was starred dculberson was unstarred
    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    09/20/09

    @dculberson: I think they should replace the busted DOHC motor with the plain ol' SOHC unit out of a Crown Vic- maybe 50 fewer horses, but way more reliability.
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    Image of something_unique_and_descriptive something_unique_and_descriptive
    09/20/09

    @dculberson: It looked like it was just sooo much faster on the straights. Held on in the corners then a straight would come and everyone else went backwards.
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    Image of zsvdkhnorc hates when Jalopnik gets political zsvdkhnorc hates when Jalopnik gets political
    09/21/09

    @Murilee Martin: How'd their motor die? As I recall, the rule of thumb with the InTech is replace chains early and often.

    @ummagumma82: There were a few inches of length, too, that the FN-10 had over the MN-12. I've driven both. MN-12 feels spritelier, yet the Mark VIIIs are spritelier.
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    Image of P161911 probably shoudn't have P161911 probably shoudn't have
    09/21/09

    @zsvdkhnorc: Having driven both of the hottest MN-12s (I had a 92 T-Bird S/C 5-speed, my father had a 96 Mk VIII LSC) I would say you are about right. The S/C might run away from the LSC in the turns, but it would be pretty close on the highway. The air suspension in the LSC is deceiving. The S/C still had more torque 315 vs. 285.
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    09/21/09

    @zsvdkhnorc: They had cooling problems all weekend, and I think the engine finally just seized due to overheating.
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    Image of damnelantra™ damnelantra™
    08/07/09

    In reply to Porsche Cayman Shooting Brake Uncovered?
    its so ugly it just might work!
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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    08/06/09

    In reply to Porsche Cayman Shooting Brake Uncovered?

    Yeah...
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    Image of skitter skitter
    08/06/09

    In reply to Porsche Cayman Shooting Brake Uncovered?
    Step 1: Tease devoted Jalops with Cayman shape altered to alienates even clown shoe pilots.
    Step 2: Release 928 successor with similar shape on Panamera platform instead, to the relief of most and the dismay of a few.
    Step 3: Profit.
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    Image of TheGuinnessTooth TheGuinnessTooth
    08/06/09

    In reply to Porsche Cayman Shooting Brake Uncovered?
    This car makes me want to get a job.
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