24 Hours of LeMons LoL, MCF Members should `do this LOL
#1
10-04-2012, 04:35 PM
24 Hours of LeMons LoL, MCF Members should `do this LOL
Hi Member's,
Get a $500 car & go Rac'in
Would you like to do `it ? Let us know `Ok..
Make a post...
Check out the below LOL...I'd like to race Taz (Lou), Rick, Mike, Devin, Keane, Seattle Mike, Mike(JG) & youLOL
24 Hours of LeMons Gator-O-Rama: The Winners
<SMALL>October 1, 2012 at 2:56am by Murilee Martin</SMALL>
After a weekend of rain, trashed engines, and crashes at MSR Houston, the checkered flag waved on Sunday afternoon and we had a fresh set of winners at the 81st race in 24 Hours of LeMons history.
Proving that their two previous overall LeMons wins weren’t just flukes, the Z-Wrecks team beat their 76 competitors in decisive fashion. The 31-year-old Datsun 280ZX finished the race with a three-lap cushion separating it from the Team BenzGay 1986 Mercedes-Benz 300E, taking the Class A trophy for good measure.
The Class B win— and fourth place overall— went to the Blue Goose Audi 4000S. This 10-valve, non-turbo Quattro thrived during the rainstorms and looked pretty good in the dry as well.
Class C was another typical hard-fought battle, with the TARP Racing Simca 1000 (actually a sectioned Simca body welded over the body of a very thrashed Toyota MR2) overcoming a fairly steep lap handicap (the team was given the choice of Class B with zero penalty laps and Class C with 8 penalty laps) to beat some tough competition.
That brings us to the I Got Screwed Award, which want to the Apex Vinyl Mater six-wheeled Toyota Hilux pickup. With its slushbox transmission and ill-suited-for-LeMons-racing 20R engine, the six-wheeler isn’t anywhere near fast, but the Apex Vinyl team looked to have the class win nailed down with less than an hour to go on Sunday. Then the truck wouldn’t start after a pit stop, and the TARP “Simca” got the Class C win by two laps. Screwed!
The Team Unter Puff Opel GT burned a piston during the first hour of racing on Saturday, and nobody on the team had ever opened up an engine before. Rather than give up, the team got a shop manual, found an Opel 1900 piston, and spent all day and night Saturday taking a self-taught crash course in engine repair. It worked! Sadly, the car spun out on Sunday, stalled, and got bashed by a BMW 325i, but we expect the Unter Puffs to pound the bent bodywork back into shape for the next Texas race.
Our special race-specific trophy this time was the Most 1980s
-Grade Car In The World Award, in this case for the Datsun “210ZX” of Ratsun Racing. This B210 got its 210ZX kit back in the day, was parked and forgotten in 1984, and then revived for the Gator-O-Rama. Ratsun Racing needed until Sunday morning to get the car running, and it only managed to turn six laps, but we fully expect this machine to return with all the bugs worked out.
Your LeMons correspondent and Chief Justice of the LeMons Supreme Court often finds himself in terrible dilemmas when helping to choose the winner of a race’s Index of Effluency award. In many cases, there’s a fairly unsuitable-for-racing car that climbs to stratospheric heights in the standings… and also a staggeringly horrible car that barely creeps into the top two-thirds. Such was the case at the 2012 Gator-O-Rama, with the 1991 Mercury Capri of Team Mostly Harmless performing the astounding feat of cracking the top ten. For reasons that will be made clear shortly, the Capri couldn’t get the IOE, but the team deserved something for their weekend of great driving: Judges’ Choice.
Why would you race an electric car in an endurance race, knowing that batteries aren’t as good as gasoline for this sort of racing? If you’re been around LeMons for a while, you know the answer: because it’s a tremendously bad idea that also happens to be really cool! Team Pulp Friction B put a forklift motor and a bunch of Mercedes-Benz Sprinter lead-acid batteries in a 1968 Datsun Sports shell and managed just two very slow laps (maximum speed attained was 32 MPH). 76th place overall… and the Organizer’s Choice award.
Some LeMons teams take a well-proven car as the basis for the race machine, then go through it and do all the suspension modifications possible within the $500 budget (or beyond, in some cases). This is why we see so many Civics, Mustangs, and BMW 3-Series. Other teams, however, find a super-rusty 40-year-old sedan, put a cage in it, and go racing as-is. That’s what the Green Cornet team did with their super-hooptied-out 1972 Dodge Coronet, and the ancient Mopar slipped and slid its way around the track, its well-worn 318-cubic-inch V8 roaring and its body leaning at alarming angles. When the race ended, the Green Cornet had climbed to 58th place, which is an achievement on par with a cow finishing in the top three-quarters of a greyhound race. For that, the Green Cornets took home the top prize in LeMons racing: the Index of Effluency.
For more 24 Hours of LeMons coverage, go here.
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Get a $500 car & go Rac'in
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Make a post...
Check out the below LOL...I'd like to race Taz (Lou), Rick, Mike, Devin, Keane, Seattle Mike, Mike(JG) & you
LOL24 Hours of LeMons Gator-O-Rama: The Winners
<SMALL>October 1, 2012 at 2:56am by Murilee Martin</SMALL>
After a weekend of rain, trashed engines, and crashes at MSR Houston, the checkered flag waved on Sunday afternoon and we had a fresh set of winners at the 81st race in 24 Hours of LeMons history.
Proving that their two previous overall LeMons wins weren’t just flukes, the Z-Wrecks team beat their 76 competitors in decisive fashion. The 31-year-old Datsun 280ZX finished the race with a three-lap cushion separating it from the Team BenzGay 1986 Mercedes-Benz 300E, taking the Class A trophy for good measure.
The Class B win— and fourth place overall— went to the Blue Goose Audi 4000S. This 10-valve, non-turbo Quattro thrived during the rainstorms and looked pretty good in the dry as well.
Class C was another typical hard-fought battle, with the TARP Racing Simca 1000 (actually a sectioned Simca body welded over the body of a very thrashed Toyota MR2) overcoming a fairly steep lap handicap (the team was given the choice of Class B with zero penalty laps and Class C with 8 penalty laps) to beat some tough competition.
That brings us to the I Got Screwed Award, which want to the Apex Vinyl Mater six-wheeled Toyota Hilux pickup. With its slushbox transmission and ill-suited-for-LeMons-racing 20R engine, the six-wheeler isn’t anywhere near fast, but the Apex Vinyl team looked to have the class win nailed down with less than an hour to go on Sunday. Then the truck wouldn’t start after a pit stop, and the TARP “Simca” got the Class C win by two laps. Screwed!
The Team Unter Puff Opel GT burned a piston during the first hour of racing on Saturday, and nobody on the team had ever opened up an engine before. Rather than give up, the team got a shop manual, found an Opel 1900 piston, and spent all day and night Saturday taking a self-taught crash course in engine repair. It worked! Sadly, the car spun out on Sunday, stalled, and got bashed by a BMW 325i, but we expect the Unter Puffs to pound the bent bodywork back into shape for the next Texas race.
Our special race-specific trophy this time was the Most 1980s
Your LeMons correspondent and Chief Justice of the LeMons Supreme Court often finds himself in terrible dilemmas when helping to choose the winner of a race’s Index of Effluency award. In many cases, there’s a fairly unsuitable-for-racing car that climbs to stratospheric heights in the standings… and also a staggeringly horrible car that barely creeps into the top two-thirds. Such was the case at the 2012 Gator-O-Rama, with the 1991 Mercury Capri of Team Mostly Harmless performing the astounding feat of cracking the top ten. For reasons that will be made clear shortly, the Capri couldn’t get the IOE, but the team deserved something for their weekend of great driving: Judges’ Choice.
Why would you race an electric car in an endurance race, knowing that batteries aren’t as good as gasoline for this sort of racing? If you’re been around LeMons for a while, you know the answer: because it’s a tremendously bad idea that also happens to be really cool! Team Pulp Friction B put a forklift motor and a bunch of Mercedes-Benz Sprinter lead-acid batteries in a 1968 Datsun Sports shell and managed just two very slow laps (maximum speed attained was 32 MPH). 76th place overall… and the Organizer’s Choice award.
Some LeMons teams take a well-proven car as the basis for the race machine, then go through it and do all the suspension modifications possible within the $500 budget (or beyond, in some cases). This is why we see so many Civics, Mustangs, and BMW 3-Series. Other teams, however, find a super-rusty 40-year-old sedan, put a cage in it, and go racing as-is. That’s what the Green Cornet team did with their super-hooptied-out 1972 Dodge Coronet, and the ancient Mopar slipped and slid its way around the track, its well-worn 318-cubic-inch V8 roaring and its body leaning at alarming angles. When the race ended, the Green Cornet had climbed to 58th place, which is an achievement on par with a cow finishing in the top three-quarters of a greyhound race. For that, the Green Cornets took home the top prize in LeMons racing: the Index of Effluency.
For more 24 Hours of LeMons coverage, go here.
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10-04-2012, 04:42 PM
Legends of LeMons! Last Season’s Most Epic Teams and Racers
<SMALL>June 21, 2012 at 3:29pm by Murilee Martin</SMALL>
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<HR noShade>Keep in mind that nearly all these Gluon Medal–winning Legends of the 2011 LeMons season have been building on and (in most cases) surpassing their achievements during the 2012 season. We’ll get the ’12 awards done much sooner after this season, but in the meantime, let’s hear it for the latest Legends!
24 Hours of LeMons South: Winners!
LeMons South BS Inspections: 1950 Mercedes-Benz 170S, a Caddy That Zigs, and a Parade
LeMons South Day One: Pair of Mazda MX-3s Lead, V6 Mustang Close Behind
<SMALL>June 21, 2012 at 3:29pm by Murilee Martin</SMALL>
<NOSCRIPT></NOSCRIPT>I’ve been awarding the annual Legends of LeMons prizes for the past few years, but the 2011 LeMons season produced so many legends that the task was nearly overwhelming. Six months into the ’12 season, however, the rest of the perps and I have finally chosen the nine Gluon Medal Legends of LeMons for last year. Here are their stories!
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Chris Overzet
This crazy Californian has been racing in 24 Hours of LeMons events since the early days at Altamont Motor Speedway, and he may be responsible for dragging more newcomers into the series than any man alive. He helps every team in the paddock with their wrenching, puts a random cast of arrive-and-drive racers into his battered fleet of horrible Hondas, and caged a stretch limo for race use. Check out the photos below for more of Mr. Overzet’s 2011 hijinks.<NOSCRIPT></NOSCRIPT><HR noShade>
<NOSCRIPT></NOSCRIPT>Brandon Spears
How many miles would you tow your crapcan race car during a single season? Brandon dragged his engine-slaughtering Jetta from his base in Texas to races in California and Nevada, in addition to flying to far-flung race venues to bust his knuckles on other teams’ hopeless cars. In addition to the Jetta, Mr. Spears races a 1967 Mercedes-Benz 200 and a 1986 560SEL. More of his story in—you got it—the gallery.<NOSCRIPT></NOSCRIPT><HR noShade>
<NOSCRIPT></NOSCRIPT>Hong Norrth Racing
Serious LeMons aficionados don’t care much about who drives the most laps at a race (although we have mentioned a few of the standouts), but Hong Norrth’s undefeated run in 2011 vaults them into Gluon Medal status: five races, five wins. More in the gallery.
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<NOSCRIPT></NOSCRIPT>Speedycop and the Gang of Outlaws
It would take hours to merely list the accomplishments of Washington D.C. police officer Speedycop and his gang of equally maniacal henchmen in 2011. You’ve seen the E36BuickDodgePlymouth, but that was just a tiny fraction of the story. How about a full-on donked Pontiac Bonneville? A terrifyingly rusty ’65 Impala wagon? Jump into the gallery to get the full idea.
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Killer ZomBees
Entering a misshapen British Leyland product in several years of West Coast LeMons races is bad enough, but using the race car as a daily driver, tow vehicle, and show car takes the ZomBees MGB to the next level. The gallery captions will enumerate the ZomBees’ adventures.
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<NOSCRIPT></NOSCRIPT>Bust-A-Nut Racing
This team turned a Mazda MX-6 into a blimp—and kept it registered and street-driven. The year before, the car had been the “Sleigher” Evil Santa’s sled. More in the gallery.
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Florida is the weirdest state in the country, and so it makes perfect sense that NSF Racing hails from within its sunny and swampy confines. During the ’11 season, NSF raced a Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9, a fabulously rusty 1963 Plymouth Fury, and some kind of turrrrible Camaro. The photos in the gallery will cause Bondo to ooze out of your internet-siphoning device.
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<NOSCRIPT></NOSCRIPT>Spank
Spank and his mighty cast of teammates are the only team in the LeMons world that can rival Speedycop and the Gang of Outlaws for sheer quantity of hooptied-out race cars. In the 2011 season, this San Diego native campaigned such road-racing naturals as a Simca 1204, a turbocharged Austin Mini, an Austin America, and a Mini Moke, as well as flying into Louisiana for an arrive-and-drive on an Index of Effluency–winning Ford Granada. Visit the gallery for the rest.
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Dave Morrow
Dave Morrow, of Pittsburgh’s Morrow’s Auto, showed up to multiple LeMons events in ’11 with a Pontiac 400–powered Toyota Supra that looked just like a GTO Judge, as well as a Bradley GT with supercharged GM 3800 power. Jump to the gallery for more.<NOSCRIPT></NOSCRIPT><HR noShade>Keep in mind that nearly all these Gluon Medal–winning Legends of the 2011 LeMons season have been building on and (in most cases) surpassing their achievements during the 2012 season. We’ll get the ’12 awards done much sooner after this season, but in the meantime, let’s hear it for the latest Legends!
24 Hours of LeMons South: Winners!
LeMons South BS Inspections: 1950 Mercedes-Benz 170S, a Caddy That Zigs, and a Parade
LeMons South Day One: Pair of Mazda MX-3s Lead, V6 Mustang Close Behind
Gotta get me a turbo for the MCF Staff Yugo. And I'm there.
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10-05-2012, 06:26 AM
LoL `Lou (Taz), I think it would be a lot of fun & a great way to get 2gether with friends without spending tons of $'s...
I never knew about this type of auto event...Have you ?
Has any of our member's been to any of these events ? or been in them ? Please post `if you have or what you think ?
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