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    Whores, Poker, And Thrown Rods: Get Ready For The 24 Hours Of LeMons, Nevada Style!

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    Image of Bret Bret
    05/18/09

    In reply to Whores, Poker, And Thrown Rods: Get Ready For The 24 Hours Of LeMons, Nevada Style!
    We Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys are bouncing with glee at going to Reno. We have two vehicles capable of towing the trailer, and Pujo! is street licensed and insured. We are getting to this race come hell or high water.
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    Image of LTDScott LTDScott
    05/18/09

    In reply to Whores, Poker, And Thrown Rods: Get Ready For The 24 Hours Of LeMons, Nevada Style!
    ....however, I am taking my racing gear just in case I get called into driver duty, heh.
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    05/18/09

    In reply to Whores, Poker, And Thrown Rods: Get Ready For The 24 Hours Of LeMons, Nevada Style!
    I too shall be there, although only as support crew for my friend's team and not as a driver. To show just how much I am supporting, today I picked up some of the special brew that will be used to "lubricate" the judges. Mr. Loverman will be especially interested.
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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    05/17/09

    In reply to Whores, Poker, And Thrown Rods: Get Ready For The 24 Hours Of LeMons, Nevada Style!
    That Capri looks the business, and the name is great. I wonder if they've nicknamed the car "Ray?"
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    Image of wrappedinbacon wrappedinbacon
    05/17/09

    In reply to Whores, Poker, And Thrown Rods: Get Ready For The 24 Hours Of LeMons, Nevada Style!
    At first glance, I was thinking that the Capri better be a lot more janky close-up if it wants to make it past the judges. From far away, or at low resolution, it looks pretty damn good. Then I saw the angle that they're playing: charity. Damn their big hearts.
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    05/17/09

    @wrappedinbacon: From all accounts, that Capri is completely terrible. I mean, terrible even by LeMons standards.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    05/17/09

    @Murilee Martin: The sort of car with a good body, a terrible unibody, and serious mechanical problems from sitting too long?


    In other words, the opposite of my current Volvo, and the very embodiment of my all-rust-underneath parts car.

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    Image of Armand Armand
    05/18/09

    @wrappedinbacon: I saw that Capri before it received its new green paint job; it's pretty messed up. It looks cool, though, and that's half the battle at LeMons.
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    05/17/09

    In reply to Whores, Poker, And Thrown Rods: Get Ready For The 24 Hours Of LeMons, Nevada Style!
    I will also be there. I will also be accepting booze and rides as bribes.
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    05/17/09

    In reply to Whores, Poker, And Thrown Rods: Get Ready For The 24 Hours Of LeMons, Nevada Style!
    I'll be there (along with my old college roommate) ready to wield my strong hand of technical justice. Yes, I will be using all my years of hanging around Dad and his Citroens to qualify as a "tech inspector". Brides in the form of driving will be accepted. Oh yeah, that and booze. Ketel One Citroen highly accepted.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    05/17/09

    @vwminispeedster, pronounded Si-trow-in: You're expecting teams to bring brides?? You better get more specific and at least wedge in "attractive brides" and other details.
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    05/18/09

    @Novaload Misses Murilee: good catch. They may end up with some leftovers from the defunct Mustang Ranch. Bribes will be more readily accepted.
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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    05/17/09

    In reply to Whores, Poker, And Thrown Rods: Get Ready For The 24 Hours Of LeMons, Nevada Style!
    See ya there.


    Mad_Science Senior and I will be manning the cameras again.

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    Image of Andrew Ian Dodge Andrew Ian Dodge
    05/17/09

    In reply to Whores, Poker, And Thrown Rods: Get Ready For The 24 Hours Of LeMons, Nevada Style!
    Actually UK Capris weren't bad cars considering they were from the age of malaise. Yu should plug the hell out of having a Capri in the LeMons race. Capri fanboyz will love to watch it race.
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    05/17/09

    @Andrew Ian Dodge: Or they'll send death threats for not restoring it...
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    Image of TurboBrick [LIGIER] TurboBrick [LIGIER]
    05/17/09

    In reply to Whores, Poker, And Thrown Rods: Get Ready For The 24 Hours Of LeMons, Nevada Style!
    That Capri is brilliant. Dungeons Dragsters, LOL. What does this switch labeled "SHIT" do?
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    05/17/09

    @TurboBrick: It does shit.
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    Image of MadHungarian MadHungarian
    05/17/09

    @TurboBrick: And, since that function has been enabled, shouldn't the letters on the hood be rearranged to spell "CRAPI"?
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    05/17/09

    @MadHungarian: Or iCrap if it's wireless enabled.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    05/17/09

    @Novaload Misses Murilee: You do too, eh?
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    Image of dwegmull comments for the purpose of obscurity dwegmull comments for the purpose of obscurity
    05/17/09

    In reply to Whores, Poker, And Thrown Rods: Get Ready For The 24 Hours Of LeMons, Nevada Style!
    I can't believe I clicked on a video of a blinker... What was I expecting, aside from, you know, a lot of blinking?


    In other news, I have a set of genuine (temporary) Swedish license plates if the Volvo team with the name too long for my lazy fingers to type is interested...

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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    05/17/09

    @Dwegmull is minding the gap: Here's the blinker control circuit in the trunk. Note the Painless Wiring wire left over from crew chief Hellhammer's '27 roadster project:


    And here's the dash switch that controls the blinker. It's a BMW 2002 hazard switch with the bulb removed (so as not to annoy the driver); this switch controlled the talking skulls and Opeth-blastin' PA system when the car was the Black Metal V8olvo:

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    Image of something_unique_and_descriptive something_unique_and_descriptive
    05/17/09

    In reply to Whores, Poker, And Thrown Rods: Get Ready For The 24 Hours Of LeMons, Nevada Style!
    So are the V8olvo guys going to be instructed to stick to their theme and act as a rolling chicane always on the proper racing line? (Of course they would need immunity from People's Curse)
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    05/17/09

    @something_unique_and_descripti...: Sadly, they are paying no attention to my driving instructions. Also, nobody was willing to rig up an oil dripper that fed diesel into the intake and made the car smoke. Volvos with the Eternal Blinker option often burn oil.
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    Image of MarywithanM™ MarywithanM™
    05/17/09

    @Murilee Martin: So no eternal flame for the unknown vegan?
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    05/17/09

    @MarywithanM: You know, I feel the urge to hit them with a bunch of laps just for refusing to add all the features I felt the car needed for theme perfection. And let's not even get started on the costume topic...
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    Image of Vexorg Vexorg
    05/17/09

    @Murilee Martin:


    Just come up with a custom penalty involving protest signs (and perhaps in extreme cases, nudity) and call it good.

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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    05/18/09

    @Vexorg: Actually, as former team members Judge Jonny and I will recuse ourselves if the Mustard Yellow Volvo shows up in the penalty box. We'll have Jay take care of them. Heh, heh.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    05/17/09

    In reply to Whores, Poker, And Thrown Rods: Get Ready For The 24 Hours Of LeMons, Nevada Style!
    Oh, one final thing: I don't think all of 'em do this (don't remember if my parts car did) but my 240's turn signal won't shut off when the wheel is straightened. You can feel it click as it tries to (there are some corners I hold the stalk down out of habit from driving other cars; the western/northern terminus of Route 124, with its left c..., is the classic example.


    So the granola lefty in the beat-ass DL with their blinker constantly on may only mostly be at fault.

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    05/17/09

    @FstrPssycw: I wonder how far I could [CENSORED] into a hamster before it [CENSORED YET AGAIN]?


    "...with its left corner followed by, usually, a left-hand turn onto Route 101..."

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    05/17/09

    In reply to Whores, Poker, And Thrown Rods: Get Ready For The 24 Hours Of LeMons, Nevada Style!
    Oolong the VW is simply amazing. There will be a giant pancake, right? Right?


    You guys have found the perfect theme for your "Scruffy Dog" plate frame, I think. I'm proud to say that I haven't added any stickers or other pointless decorations to my original-V8olvo-colored '89.

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    Image of Anaximander Anaximander
    05/17/09

    In reply to Whores, Poker, And Thrown Rods: Get Ready For The 24 Hours Of LeMons, Nevada Style!
    Well done on the bumper stickers. Really brings me back. But shouldn't there be a plasti-chrome Darwin fish as well? (Admittedly those were slightly clever once upon a time, but I a few years ago I spent a week looking for a single O.G. fish in the east bay and ended up with a count something like Darwin:148 Jesus:0)
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    Image of something_unique_and_descriptive something_unique_and_descriptive
    05/17/09

    @anaxomander: There's one on one of the faculty cars at my school I especially like.


    It's just the standard christian fish, but instead of saying "Jesus" it says "Chips"... mmmmmm, fish and chips

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    05/17/09

    @something_unique_and_descripti...: See, that's funny, isn't really trying to force anything on you, and lets you tell who the uptight assholes are by their reaction.


    I may have to get one.

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    05/17/09

    @anaxomander: NEEDS MOAR STICKERS1!!!11!





    or maybe just another one of these:
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    Image of something_unique_and_descriptive something_unique_and_descriptive
    05/17/09

    @FstrPssycw: There's a couple of good ones here: [evolvefish.com]


    Here's the one on the car:


    (please work)

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    05/17/09

    @something_unique_and_descripti...: Amazing.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    05/17/09

    @FstrPssycw: Jalopnik. It's a hell of a drug.


    I just biked over to take care of my aunt'n'uncle's dogs, and in one of their neighbors' driveways was a hubcapless, white, post-restyle (early '90s) two-door Tempo. With a plastigold shark quite similar to EvolveFish's.


    Kweeeeeh.

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