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    The BS Inspections Of The 24 Hours Of LeMons Arse Freeze-A-Palooza 2009

    Google Street View Maps Thunderhill Raceway

    The 24 Hours Of LeMons Arse Freeze-A-Palooza Ãœber Gallery!

    The Top 100 Lemons Of The 24 Hours Of LeMons Arse Freeze-A-Palooza

    Faster Farms Chickens Join The LeMons Arse-Freeze-A-Palooza Upside-Down Brigade

    Four Hours Down, 21 To Go: Welcome To The 25 Hours Of Thunderhill!

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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    08/18/09

    In reply to Google Street View Maps Thunderhill Raceway
    Sweet, now we can get some virtual practice before LeMons in November!
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    08/18/09

    In reply to Google Street View Maps Thunderhill Raceway
    I've never seen Thunderhill with such blue sky! Does that mean it's not always stinging horizontal rain and 39 degrees there?
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    Image of Mobius Mobius
    08/18/09

    @Murilee Martin: I've never seen Thunderhill with such nice cars! Does that mean it's not always thrown rods and cross-dressing penalties?
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    Image of finite_elephant finite_elephant
    08/18/09

    In reply to Google Street View Maps Thunderhill Raceway
    Between this, the Dream Cruise and those tricycles they've been running through non-car areas, it's just a matter of time before someone uses Google Maps to do an updated version of the opening title sequence for "Police Squad!"
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    Image of evoCS-Hench-Minion to the stars evoCS-Hench-Minion to the stars
    08/18/09

    @finite_elephant: I love that sequence, and that show. Heart click for you.
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    Image of Pixel Pixel
    08/18/09

    In reply to Google Street View Maps Thunderhill Raceway
    I love the modded beetle you end up chasing around the track
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    evoCS-Hench-Minion to the stars promoted this comment Pixel was starred Pixel was unstarred
    Image of BaconSandwich and the generic grey civic of doom BaconSandwich and the generic grey civic of doom
    08/18/09

    @Pixel: Is that kind of like greyhounds chasing an inflated silver rabbit?
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    evoCS-Hench-Minion to the stars promoted this comment BaconSandwich and the generic grey civic of doom was starred BaconSandwich and the generic grey civic of doom was unstarred
    Image of Brimful of Ash on the 78 Brimful of Ash on the 78
    08/18/09

    In reply to Google Street View Maps Thunderhill Raceway
    I've been to Kansas quite a few times. And I've spent a lot of time in Arizona, too. But I have never seen a landscape so treeless in my life. Not even Iceland, and that's a pretty treeless place.
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    Image of vwminispeedster, pronounded Si-trow-in vwminispeedster, pronounded Si-trow-in
    08/18/09

    @Ash78: welcome to the home of the LeMONS ARSE-FREEZE-APALOOZA. Oddly enough a couple miles outside the track its a wetland area with all sorts of wildlife preserves. Flocks of birds can be so thick it looks like low hanging clouds or smoke. It's definitely in the butt-crack-of-nowhere in California.
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    Image of ssurfer321 ssurfer321
    08/18/09

    In reply to Google Street View Maps Thunderhill Raceway
    I keep missing the apex of the corners [FAIL]
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    08/18/09

    In reply to Google Street View Maps Thunderhill Raceway
    You need to switch over to the maps.directions tab to get your time to destination. Then you can work out the average speed.
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    Image of Neil Allan Neil Allan
    01/10/09

    In reply to The 24 Hours Of LeMons Arse Freeze-A-Palooza Ãœber Gallery!
    needs less post-process vignetting.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    01/10/09

    @Neil Allan: Uh, what? There's never too much LeMons. Pick and choose what "vignetting" you like. Or have none. Think of it as a traditional massive Jalopnik buffet that just gets larger and crazier every time.
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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    01/10/09

    @Neil Allan: No, that was me blowing it with the settings on my camera.


    I had it set to underexpose b/c I was screwing around with my flash the day before.


    The mega-pile you see here are the good ones from something like 3-4000 pictures. There was no time for post-processing, I assure you.

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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    01/10/09

    @Mad_Science: Yeah, the only post-processing that happens is ID-ing photos and maybe a quick-and-dirty crop job via Irfanview.
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    Image of Elderly Douche Elderly Douche
    01/10/09

    In reply to The 24 Hours Of LeMons Arse Freeze-A-Palooza Ãœber Gallery!
    Hm, did I see something from the fifties/early sixties lurking behind the corvair?
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    Image of Elderly Douche Elderly Douche
    01/10/09

    @Elderly Douche: Got it. It's a slightly modified Volvo 244 with fins. Looks great nevertheless.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    01/10/09

    @Elderly Douche: And even with the stock B230F/automatic, it came in 15th... proving that I could, theoretically, do the same.


    However unlikely that is.

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    Image of TechnoDestructo TechnoDestructo
    01/10/09

    In reply to The 24 Hours Of LeMons Arse Freeze-A-Palooza Ãœber Gallery!
    Jesus, that middle car in the top picture...you can see the entire car flexing in that corner.
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    01/10/09

    @TechnoDestructo: No, it arrived "pre-flexed" to the race, having hit a couple of parked cars at 60 and bent the frame. That's why the Faster Farms guys got it for free. Now it's survived that crash plus a LeMons rollover, and it's still being street driven.
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    Murilee Martin was starred Murilee Martin was unstarred
    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    01/09/09

    In reply to The 24 Hours Of LeMons Arse Freeze-A-Palooza Ãœber Gallery!
    I love the Volvrolet in the General Motors preview photo.


    Did we ever figure out what that front bumper was from?

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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    01/09/09

    @FuzzyPlushroom: It's a truck of some kind, but I didn't write it down when they told me.
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    Image of casadelshawn casadelshawn
    01/10/09

    @Murilee Martin: ***cough*** Tacoma

    :D

    Sweet stuff, as always, Ms Martin!
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    01/10/09

    @casadelshawn: Can't find a Tacoma with that bumper using Google images - did it get Sawzall foglight-holes?
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    Image of Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable
    01/10/09

    @FuzzyPlushroom: I can't find it either, but I'm pretty sure that's a late-'90s/early-'00s F150 bumper- maybe an "XLT" or some such. Definitely familiar, though.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    01/10/09

    @Slantsick, now with 30% less wit: My first thought was F150, it'd have to be some obscure trim level though, as Google can't find that either!
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    Image of discontinuuity has left the Jalop until further notice discontinuuity has left the Jalop until further notice
    01/09/09

    In reply to The 24 Hours Of LeMons Arse Freeze-A-Palooza Ãœber Gallery!
    Murilee, I love the titles for the sub-galleries. You haven't lost your edge.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    01/09/09

    In reply to The 24 Hours Of LeMons Arse Freeze-A-Palooza Ãœber Gallery!
    As always, an amazing and hilarious set of pictures. And great links.
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    Image of TR3-A TR3-A
    01/09/09

    In reply to The 24 Hours Of LeMons Arse Freeze-A-Palooza Ãœber Gallery!
    Somebody ought to put together a video of each race. it doesn't have to be fancy, just comprehensible (like the cars). A little narration would be nice as well. I'd pay $19.95 plus shipping for one.
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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    01/09/09

    @TR3-A: This is pretty close. More of one team's perspective:

    [www.rahulnair.net]


    There were a bunch of guys there with pro AV equipment...not sure what they were going to do with the footage.

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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    01/09/09

    @TR3-A: It seems that every single LeMons race has at least one pro camera crew, not affiliated with any team, shooting footage. Then we never hear from them again. Someone, someday, is going to come out with the definitive LeMons documentary... I hope.
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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    01/09/09

    @Murilee Martin: Really? That's hilarious.


    I figured those guys were the "Official Media Crew" or something. One of those guys even went out on the infield during the race, which I assumed you had to be special to do.


    Amazing what a snazzy vest can do for you.

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    01/09/09

    @TR3-A: As long as we get such gems as "the Taurus behind me has his windshield washer nozzles aimed at the car behind him" and "Aww, god damn it", I agree.
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    01/10/09

    @Mad_Science: Nah, anyone who claims media status can usually talk his or her way into forbidden areas at a car event. Done it many times myself.


    Seriously, I've seen at least a half-dozen video crews with nice gear shooting at LeMons events, yet nobody has yet done the Great Americans LeMons Movie. Come on, wannabe documentarians! Here's your chance!

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    Murilee Martin was starred Murilee Martin was unstarred
    Image of mechimike mechimike
    01/10/09

    @Murilee Martin: I have the perfect title for it:


    From Rust to Glory

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    Image of TENGRAM TENGRAM
    01/09/09

    In reply to The 24 Hours Of LeMons Arse Freeze-A-Palooza Ãœber Gallery!
    that is a very straight 85/86 mustang GT for a lemons car. there are 4 or 5 beaters in a four block radius here that would have been a better choice IMO. wonder how much they claim to have spent on that one...
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    Image of pillowball pillowball
    01/10/09

    @TENGRAM: The Mustag-Do was indeed less than $500. It was probably the fact that it was sitting in a field for 6 years, or the dead squirrel in the dash...or both. We thought LeMons would make for a fitting Viking funeral for it, but the damn thing kept running...
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    01/10/09

    @pillowball: Oh, you'll get used to accusations of breaking the 500 buck limit. Happens to everyone except those driving 80s front-drive GM cars.
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    Murilee Martin was starred Murilee Martin was unstarred
    Image of mechimike mechimike
    01/10/09

    @Murilee Martin: I don't think _anyone_ accused us of spending more than $500 on our car. Then again, when your car is the only one in the race that has:


    a) points

    b) a single chamber master cylinder

    c) two British carburetors

    d) four mismatched wheels

    e) tuna


    you will tend to be given the benefit of the doubt.

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