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Hoon of the Day: Team Red Meat And Poontang
After winning the 24 Hours of LeMons race at Thunderhill last month, a member of Team Red Meat and Poontang decided to celebrate in true hoon fashion: by getting the Protege up on two wheels in a parking lot! But is it really hoonage if the car has a cage? Thanks to Belvedere Adrian for the video!
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While we saw the Top 50 finishers of the 24 Hours of LeMons race at Thunderhill last month, we didn't get to see the bulk of the photographs I shot, nor did we see a lot of the stuff sent in by members of the various teams. That's because my laptop's hard drive took a dive during the race and I lost the best stuff... but now the sick Maxtor has yielded up its contents and we're ready to take a look at the long-awaited Über Gallery. Many thanks to all the team members who have been so patient about this; you know who you are!
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Finally, The Thunderhill 24 Hours of LeMons Uber Gallery!
While we saw the Top 50 finishers of the 24 Hours of LeMons race at Thunderhill last month, we didn't get to see the bulk of the photographs I shot, nor did we see a lot of the stuff sent in by members of the various teams. That's because my laptop's hard drive took a dive during the race and I lost the best stuff... but now the sick Maxtor has yielded up its contents and we're ready to take a look at the long-awaited Über Gallery. Many thanks to all the team members who have been so patient about this; you know who you are!More »
12:00 PM on Sat Jan 26 2008
By Murilee Martin
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Latest by theeastbaykid: @Stoatmaster: Pretty effin' far, um, so I hear. I also hear it was cold. more »
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We showed you Team Field Find's 1965 Mercedes-Benz 190 race car during the 24 Hours of LeMons race, but we didn't mention that the team went on to win the coveted People's Choice award. Sure, the old Merc wasn't very fast around the track, but it kept slogging along in its stolid Teutonic manner while other cars blew up or wiped out... and it looked great doing it. Make the jump for even more photos of this fine machine in the thick of the racing action.
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People's Choice: Team Field Find's 1965 Mercedes-Benz 190
We showed you Team Field Find's 1965 Mercedes-Benz 190 race car during the 24 Hours of LeMons race, but we didn't mention that the team went on to win the coveted People's Choice award. Sure, the old Merc wasn't very fast around the track, but it kept slogging along in its stolid Teutonic manner while other cars blew up or wiped out... and it looked great doing it. Make the jump for even more photos of this fine machine in the thick of the racing action. More »
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Ferrari 328 GTS Spied in the Magical LeMons Parking Lot
You've already seen what can happen just by walking around the parking lot at a 24 Hours of LeMons event. So, this should come as no surprise. Now, in the past I may have given the Ferrari 328 (and 308) more than its fair share of grief. But even I will admit that the 328 is just frickin' hot. This one even had a Highway Patrol sticker in the window, which is even kinda hotter. Dammit Johnson, you win again...
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Looking at the top teams of the 24 Hours of LeMons race last weekend, we thought it was great that a Detroit car finished in second place. Of course, Neons make great race cars, so no huge surprise there... but what about an '85 Chevrolet Cavalier wagon finishing in the Top Ten? That's not a typo- a Cavalier finished ninth! Better still, one of the team members is our own commenter Xargs, who was justifiably disappointed that I didn't get any shots of his car at the Altamont LeMons event a few months back.
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Jalopnik Commenter's Cavalier Wagon Comes In 9th At Thunderhill!
Looking at the top teams of the 24 Hours of LeMons race last weekend, we thought it was great that a Detroit car finished in second place. Of course, Neons make great race cars, so no huge surprise there... but what about an '85 Chevrolet Cavalier wagon finishing in the Top Ten? That's not a typo- a Cavalier finished ninth! Better still, one of the team members is our own commenter Xargs, who was justifiably disappointed that I didn't get any shots of his car at the Altamont LeMons event a few months back. More »
24 hours of lemons
Loverman: How did the 24 Hours of LeMons start?
Jay Lamm: Basically, with way too much beer and chinese food. We'd been doing this road-rally thing called the Double 500, a 500-kilometer road rally for $500 cars, for years. I came up with the general idea for the Double 500 one day after the California MIlle, while I was taunting Martin Swig that it was too easy for the Mille guys to just solve all their mechanical problems with a check wrench. I was pretty much just busting his chops, but Martin isn't one to take that lying down. He called my bluff, and actually wound up organizing and hosting the Double 500 as a street rally. Anyway, a few years later, a bunch of us SF car guys were sitting around at our regular Saturday lunch one day, and we all kind of agreed that the Double 500 had gotten too easy... More »
11 Questions with 24 Hours of LeMons Founder Jay Lamm
Loverman: How did the 24 Hours of LeMons start?Jay Lamm: Basically, with way too much beer and chinese food. We'd been doing this road-rally thing called the Double 500, a 500-kilometer road rally for $500 cars, for years. I came up with the general idea for the Double 500 one day after the California MIlle, while I was taunting Martin Swig that it was too easy for the Mille guys to just solve all their mechanical problems with a check wrench. I was pretty much just busting his chops, but Martin isn't one to take that lying down. He called my bluff, and actually wound up organizing and hosting the Double 500 as a street rally. Anyway, a few years later, a bunch of us SF car guys were sitting around at our regular Saturday lunch one day, and we all kind of agreed that the Double 500 had gotten too easy... More »
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Team Armageddon's '65 Mustang, Now With Added Video!
Since Team Armageddon's 1965 Ford Mustang caught the interest of so many of our readers, we're going to show you more of it. And not just still photos- thanks to helpful team member Marco Maggiora (check out his race photos here), we have some action-packed in car video for you, complete with roaring V8 noise. Make the jump to check it out.More »
choose your eternity
The last time we felt the flames of Project Car Hell licking at our flesh, the 2002 Maserati Coupe was beating the 1985 Ferrari Mondial by about a 60/40 margin in the polls. What lessons may be learned from this remain uncertain, but what is certain is that I've got 24 Hours of LeMons fever and I've got it bad; I'm scouring Craigslist day after day, looking for the right car to run in the Altamont race in May (even worse, sellers know I'm looking). That can mean only one thing: a Choose Your Eternity poll covering the cars driven by the top two teams at the Thunderhill LeMons race!
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PCH, Thunderhill LeMons Edition: Protege or Neon?
The last time we felt the flames of Project Car Hell licking at our flesh, the 2002 Maserati Coupe was beating the 1985 Ferrari Mondial by about a 60/40 margin in the polls. What lessons may be learned from this remain uncertain, but what is certain is that I've got 24 Hours of LeMons fever and I've got it bad; I'm scouring Craigslist day after day, looking for the right car to run in the Altamont race in May (even worse, sellers know I'm looking). That can mean only one thing: a Choose Your Eternity poll covering the cars driven by the top two teams at the Thunderhill LeMons race!More »
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The Trophies of the 24 Hours of LeMons
Among the many cool things that set the 24 Hours of LeMons apart from the more boring forms of motorsports is the stuff that goes to the winners. In addition to back-breaking sacks of nickels, beautiful handmade trophies are handed out to the teams who triumph in their classes. So, after you check out the official list of winners, jump like a Datsun B210 and check out some of the highlights!More »
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Fastest Car At Thunderhill: Team InAccuracy's Acura Integra
When you go check out the lap times for the 24 Hours of LeMons race of last weekend, an interesting figure jumps out at you: 1:13.649 seconds. That's the quickest lap time of any car at the race, and it was not set by the overall winner, nor by the #2 or #3 cars; in fact, it's nearly four seconds faster than race winners Team Red Meat and Poontang's Mazda's best lap. Meet the #4 finishing car, the Acura Integra run by Team Fantasy Junction/InAccuracy! We're not shocked by this car's crazy-fast lap- not after seeing how quick a similar Integra was at the Altamont race (sadly, that Acura dropped some connecting rods on the track, which slowed it down considerably). The lesson here seems to be: consistency, not speed, wins this race.
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Wagons Ho! More LeMons Action Ahead!
Just because the race is over doesn't mean we're done showing you the racers and vehicles of the Thunderhill 24 Hours of LeMons race. This is definitely Jalopnik-approved racing- where else would you see a couple of Volvo wagons duking it out with a Chevy Cavalier wagon for a shot at 800 pounds of nickels? Stay tuned for closeup portraits of some of the more interesting cars we saw at the event. And LeMons team members: send your accounts, photos, and videos to me (murilee at jalopnik dot com) and we'll share them with the world!
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Early Morning LeMons
Going through the mega-gigage of images we shot over the weekend at the Thunderhill 24 Hours of LeMons, I came across these pics of a bunch of LeMons racers pre-race. In fact, I believe these pics were taken as the Judges checked the cars in and penalized 'em. Above is the very, very awesome Alfa Romeo Ecurie Ecrappe. Much more LeMon fun if you dig through the gallery. Just a bit of automotive eye candy to start your day off right.
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Your Favorite LeMon?
My head is still spinning from this weekend's hoontastic voyage. And by spinning I mean that after two straight days of TOTAL COVERAGE I drove straight back to Los Angeles and am now somehow awake before 8:00 am. Anyhow, if you weren't near a computer this weekend, here's what you missed. If you were, you now have that much more info to process. And no, sadly, you cannot count the Caddy Wagon as a LeMons car. You have to pick one of the $500 crap boxes. Me? My personal favorite was the Nissan Sentra SE-R. Not so much for the machine itself, but for the mad men behind it. Totally inspiring to be around. Only next time I hope they decorate their car with a few rattle cans. Hate to see this thing get cursed. But, that's me. What's abouts yous?
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The types of cars that really dominated at the Thunderhill 24 Hours of LeMons weren't quite the same as the ones we saw owning at the October race at Altamont. With the track's long straights and the new hardass, black-flag-o-riffic policy about aggressive driving (not to mention the outlawing of nerf bars), straight-line power and sturdy engine internals were far more important than the sticky grip and ability to take repeated impacts that proved so crucial at Altamont. We saw Detroit iron making a far more respectable showing, while the Bavarian Bullies no longer ruled the race. Make the jump to see how things sorted out by the time the Flag That Is Checkered made the scene...
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The Top 50 Lemons of 24 Hours of LeMons
The types of cars that really dominated at the Thunderhill 24 Hours of LeMons weren't quite the same as the ones we saw owning at the October race at Altamont. With the track's long straights and the new hardass, black-flag-o-riffic policy about aggressive driving (not to mention the outlawing of nerf bars), straight-line power and sturdy engine internals were far more important than the sticky grip and ability to take repeated impacts that proved so crucial at Altamont. We saw Detroit iron making a far more respectable showing, while the Bavarian Bullies no longer ruled the race. Make the jump to see how things sorted out by the time the Flag That Is Checkered made the scene...More »
10:00 AM on Mon Dec 31 2007
By Murilee Martin
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Latest by Murilee Martin: @LTDScott: The Supra-versus-Celica thing confused me with Team TURD- it has a 6-banger engine, so I assumed Supra. In fact, it's a Celica GT with an engine swap. more »
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Heading Back To Reality
As always seems to be the case, a weekend full of full-throttle organized hoonage must come to an end. Jonny is heading back down to El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula, and I'm back in Alameda (where I have a backup computer subbing for El Computadora Muerte, which crapped out just after racing started Sunday morning). The Man's salt mines await us tomorrow, though productivity might be lower than normal, as we contemplate the #1 issue in our racing-fevered brains: what kind of car will we run in the May race at Altamont? We'll be giving y'all a steady stream of 24 Hours of LeMons posts during the next couple of weeks, with close looks at many of the individual cars and teams. So, for those of you who were kind enough to tell us your stories at the track, we'll be sure that your tales get relayed to your fans around the world!
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Yep. A 1.6-liter bone stock 1999 Mazda Protege just won the Thunderhill running of the 24 Hours of LeMons. This friends, was an exciting race. With about 70 yards to go the #08 MR2 wound up on it's roof! We were hanging with the SE-R guys, helping them cheer on their driver as he made a desperate push to leap from 6th place to 5th. He must have come through the main straight at about 130 mph. Just cooking it. Beautiful racing all around, but the mega props go to Red Meat and Poontang, who told us the morning of that if they finish, they'll be on the podium. Good show guys, very good show.
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And The Winner Is... Red Meat And Poontang!!
Yep. A 1.6-liter bone stock 1999 Mazda Protege just won the Thunderhill running of the 24 Hours of LeMons. This friends, was an exciting race. With about 70 yards to go the #08 MR2 wound up on it's roof! We were hanging with the SE-R guys, helping them cheer on their driver as he made a desperate push to leap from 6th place to 5th. He must have come through the main straight at about 130 mph. Just cooking it. Beautiful racing all around, but the mega props go to Red Meat and Poontang, who told us the morning of that if they finish, they'll be on the podium. Good show guys, very good show. More »
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What Do You Do With A Crushed Mazdasaurus? Haul It Away With A Caddy Wagon!
Now this is a Cadillac! Murilee had to physically restrain me from jumping in and popping off a lap or two. The details are very few and far between, but we know that it is one of five Caddy wagons and that it sat in a barn for a very long time.More »
