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December 7th, A Day Which Will Live In Infamy: The LeMons Junkyard Scavenger Hunt!
With the 2008 Arse Freeze-A-Palooza 24 Hours Of LeMons race coming up in just a few weeks, all 100 or so teams are fully locked intototal panicfinal-stretch mode,frenziedly thrashingworking onevery last goddamn thinga few final details to get their ironheapssteeds ready for racin' action. Naturally, all the teams will be spending a lot of time at self-service junkyards, scrounging up bargain-priced components in ahopelessheroic attempt to meet the deadline, and so LeMons Chief Perpetrator Lamm has found a way to add to themiseryfun: the first-ever 24 Hours Of LeMons Junkyard Scavenger Hunt! More » -
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Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: Factory Racer Porsche 914-6 For $325,000?
We had the Herbie The Love Bug replica score a 44% on the Crack-Pipe-O-Meter™ last Friday, but that was due to 21% of the vote going to "other", thanks to a poll glitch. Today we're going with a car that most likely earns an approval rating of about 99.9999% from our readers: a factory-built Porsche 914-6 race car that spent its working life as a test vehicle in Stuttgart and never got beat up on the race track… until a few years ago, when it hit the vintage-race circuit. The car's seller adheres firmly to hallowed eBay tradition and goes for the EASY ON THE EYES CAPSLOCK style, though we're going to have to dock him some points for insufficiently incorrect spelling and punctuation, but it's the car's price that really gets our attention: $325,000! Great car, but would you need to smoke a rock the size of your head to have that price make sense?
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LeMons Veteran SE-R Triumphs In NASA Performance Touring Race At Infineon
Remember the SE-R that we saw at the Arse Freeze-A-Palooza '07 race, the one that placed 5th? Krider Racing (who won the LeMons SF '08 race, got their Chrysler Cordoba into the California State Demolition Derby Championship, and apparently plan to take on every form of racing the planet has to offer) spent a few more bucks on their SE-R and took it to the NASA Performance Touring race at Infineon. Make the jump for the whole batch of photos and the official Krider press release.
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Enough With The Suspense, Here's The Whole Arse-Freeze-A-Palooza LeMons Team List
We've been doling out the info on individual teams for the Arse Freeze-A-Palooza 24 Hours Of LeMons race, which takes place during the final weekend of December, but thewhinesdemands from readers who know that the complete team list got leaked to us a while back have worn us down and we've decided to be nice by sharing the whole thing. Actually, the mean judge of the Good-Judge/Bad-Judge team, Lemons Supreme Court Justice Loverman, has- for some inexplicable reason- gone all softhearted and fired a big ol' spoiler torpedo by putting up the entire team list on Autofiends, forcing our hand. You get the car types, team websites, the works- everything you need to start speculating on favorites, award winners, etc. Jump, jump!
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80s Nostalgia Comes To Rampaging Life On The Race Track: Huey Newis And The Lose!
Not all the cars at next month's 24 Hours Of LeMons Arse Freeze-A-Palooza are as gloriously twisted as the CBR900RR-powered Geo Metro or Ghettocharged Frankenmiata, but even a run-of-the-mill Fox Mustang can show up with a great theme. That's exactly what's going on with Team Huey Newis And The Lose, who have painted their '85 Mustang in a painfully 80s pink-and-gray combo and are now assembling team uniforms comprised entirely of Members Only gear. Yes, these guys have a rich cultural vein to mine with their schtick, and you can read their mission statement (and see all the photos) by merely making the jump.
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Hayabusa-Powered Geo Metro To Take On LeMons, Sneers At Ghettocharged Miata
Did you think that the Ghettocharged FrankenMiata, Faster Farms Chickenmobile, pair of X1/9s, and other awesomeness meant that the upcoming 24 Hours Of LeMons Arse-Freeze-A-Palooza couldn't possibly get any better? Wrong! We've just received a few photos of the Team Metro-Gnome Geo Metro, which is powered by- hallelujah!- aHayabusaCBR900RR engine! It's a front-wheel-drive setup, chain-driving the original Suzukitransaxledifferential… and, yes, that is a toilet plunger being used as a grease seal. Make the jump to get the story from team member Alex.
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Eyesore Racing's Ghettocharged Miata Fears No Turbocharged Peugeot Surrender Monkeys!
You know how these know-it-alls keep telling you that you have to be all, like, scientific and stuff when you want to add turbocharging to your engine? Forget that noise! When you're on a 24 Hours Of LeMons-mandated $500 budget and you've already spent $17.99 on the most hideous wrecked Miata imaginable, you can't go throwing away money on complicated-ass fuel-delivery crapola. No, you do what Eyesore Racing did with the Ghettocharged FrankenMiata! Make the jump to read about yet another reason that the 2008 Arse Freeze-A-Palooza race will be the best yet.
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The Fastest MG In North American Road Racing: Les Gonda's 1973 MGB-GT
The Ford 302-powered MGB-GT we saw a couple months ago looked pretty good, but we want to see some V8 MGBs tearing up the race track! As if on cue, the not-so-sane folks over at BritishV8.org are back with an exhaustively detailed story on the '73 MGB-GT V8 that's beating up on Porsches in SVRA's Group 8, A-production class. No Malaise Era 62.5 horsepower B engine here; instead, there's a 13.5:1 compression, quad-Webered, 3.5 liter Rover V8, and it just keeps getting better from there. Make the jump to check out the photos and read the whole article.
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The Faster Farms Chickens Suit Up For Arse Freeze-A-Palooza LeMons Glory
We've spent many months following the progress of Belvedere Adrian's 1966 Plymouth Belvedere race car, but we've never mentioned the theme this team will be using. Now, anyone from California will tell you there's only one possible theme for an old Belvedere...
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