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.

We spent a few minutes talking to Jay Lamm (on the left), the mastermind behind the 24 Hours of LeMons. We were of course most curious as to who got penalized — and for what. As Jay probably hasn't slept in close to 48 hours, he couldn't remember every single car, though most that caught the judges ire got 30 laps.…

The people have spoken, spoken in voodoo, and their collective voices cursed and then crushed the living shit out of the Mazdasaurus Wrecks. First of all, a tip of the NFC North Champ Green Bay Packers cap to the artist they got to work the excavator. Amazing. He actually yanked the engine out like it was a still…

What, eh? Me, eh? You calling me a hoser? No, you're the hoser, for sure, eh? One of the reasons so many of the FWD cars are still alive and contending is an effort at Thunderhill to discourage kamikaze-style driving techniques. As a result, cars are getting busted! Remember the white Volvo 740 wagon that was

You can only hope to document it. Hey, it's day 2 of an endurance race where you can't spend more than $500 on your race car. You know the pits are where the real action's at. Like the #56 car, which is most likely an '84 Bimmer. No one was really sure/too busy to talk to us. Here's what we know. The left rear wheel…

We is back. Murilee's laptop just ate his hard drive. But he's doing a lot better than some of the teams. I say some, as shockingly, most of the LeMons are back on the track continuing the mega-hoonage. From what we saw, Mazdasaurus Wrecks has pulled the governor from its F1-sounding engine and is gaining a quarter lap …

Since we're looking hard at the Datsun Z as a potential Team Jalopnik car for the May race at Altamont (though the Renault Fuego Turbo is the current favorite, followed closely by the Dodge Mirada), we've been following the progress of Team DDT's '79 280Z with great interest. They spent much of Day One among the top…

We just want to give a little shout out to one of Alameda's finest sons, Belvedere Adrian. While he doesn't get paid the suitcases stuffed with cash that Murilee and I do, we did get the Gawker Overlords to cough up $1.66 to buy him a pair of gloves at the WalMart. True story. Except for the part about the Gawker…

Yesterday you all got a gander at the wiped out B210. A commenter who goes by the suspicious handle of "Kelly" earlier asked:

After day one wrapped up Murilee and I went team to team and took an informal, anonymous survey of which car they were most afraid of. A few cars, like the Rockford Pile and the Size Matters Fury got a vote here and a vote there. But it soon became a statistical impossibility for any car other than the Mazdasaurus to…

This is racing! It's about 37 degrees out. There are no spectators here; no fans, just the drivers and the crews. Yet the teams aren't quitting. Unless they are forced to. Like the SE-R, which somehow lost 3 of its 4 studs on the right front wheel. That's metal fatigue for you. Team Dilligaf got three black flags for…

If you're going to race a truck at this race, you might as well make it a Toyota! In most-unToyota-like fashion, however, this '83 ate a main bearing early on in the race and is now being wrenched on by some very focused team members. Before the auto-parts stores closed, they managed to obtain new bearings, and now…

First of all, the driver is fine. Totally, absolutely, 100% fine. Second, I feel like a gosh darned ambulance chaser. Stories are (of course) conflicting, but the accounts range from him winding up on the door, to rolling three times and winding up on his roof. The truth? Somewhere in between. They just lifted the red…

When we last saw the pair of broken '79 Alfettas, the combined might of both teams was being directed at making one good engine out of two broken ones. They managed to replace the busted oil pump drive in one engine with parts from the engine with the thrown rod, and now they're back on the track and looking good. For …

Now we're starting to see more and more cars limping- or being dragged- into the pits for hours of frantic repair work. In some cases, it becomes clear that the car is finished. Here's one where it's too early to tell: an RX-7 gushing smoke from the engine compartment, surrounded by worried team members. A while back, …

The sun has gone bye-bye. The pits are overflowing with busted rods, cracked blocks, snapped linkages, empty beer bottles and bloodied knuckles. Did we mention burnt bearings? Still, most of these warriors are soldiering on, hooning their adrenaline-soaked asses off on the now dry — but still frosty — Thunderhill…

Since Belvedere Adrian is here with his Belvedere (no, not this Belvedere- we mean the nice one) and Serro Scotty trailer, we decided to take a break from the 37-degree weather and whomp up some eatin' vittles. Even though the trailer isn't exactly balmy, we're out of the chilly wind as we snarf our sausages and…

Team Motoring J-Style has the only Isuzu at today's race... in fact, this may well be the only Isuzu ever to race at the 24 Hours of LeMons (anyone who knows of another, please let us know). We're giving these guys serious props, not just for their choice of car, but for the Save The Enzos T-shirt sported by this team …

Hell to the yeah. Sure, the 1999 Mazda Protege is no longer being called "Super Jonny," but the #67 car's real name is even better. And it's running hard, finishing 99 laps in the first 2 hours. 3 laps behind in second place is that Nissan SE-R. We're not shocked. From there on down it's a jumbled mess of beater metal.…

Anyone who followed our coverage of the Altamont 24 Hours of LeMons race in October knows that we really, really enjoyed seeing a 1979 Alfa Romeo Alfetta participating in the race. And not just participating, but contending... well, until a blown head gasket sidelined the car. So we were overjoyed to find that the…