Sometimes the most interesting cars at any car event are right in the parking lot. It was no different at this weekend’s New England Lemons race. There were interesting sports cars, sedans, and trucks. New and old, common (not many pics of those) and unique. Below is a gallery of the cars seen in the parking lot… with a few surprises.
While wondering aimlessly around the Lemons infield/paddock I started snapping pictures of anything and everything interesting. New Hampshire Motor Speedway has some nice garages which are assigned on first-come-first-serve basis where all the “off-track” action takes place. It is nice to have a clean garage where you’ll need to fix your hoopie but the Lemons teams take it to the next level.
The 2012 24 Hours of Lemons New England spring race (there is also an October race) is in the books. Follow the Car & Driver blog to get the latest details on Lemons racing written by our sexy little friend Murilee Martin. I managed to escpape my family for a few hours on Saturday and attended the race. With my limited time I managed to snap some pictures and head back home for my 4:30pm LEGO play-date with my daughter and her friend. Here is the first in a series of Lemons photo-dumps, the race “cars”.
How many penalty points for a newer GM?
We typically shy away from press releases, but this one was too good to leave alone.
Do you have an autonomous $500 car that you want to race? Jay Lamm announced today that you are now able to bring it to the LeMons races, with restrictions of course. Keep reading for all the info.
[Source: 24 Hours of LeMons | Image: Tartan Racing]
It’s 10am, Saturday morning at Buttonwillow Raceway in central California, and the sun is finally starting to take the bone-aching cold out of our toes. Around one hundred thirty crappy old hoopties and ultimate driving machines circle the track in a motorized spectacle that can only be described as part Burning Man, part mid-20th century NASCAR, waaaay back when they actually raced street-based cars. Teams gather along the pit walls to watch the start of the race – chatting nervously, giggling and pointing out various goofy themes and creations as they cruise by.
Suddenly the green flag drops, the din grows to a screaming roar, smoke billows and cheers fill the air. The 24 Hours of Lemons “Arse-Freeze-Apalooza 2011” has just begun; a 2-day battle of endurance, perseverance, absurdity, a little strategy and a big steaming pile of plain old dumb luck. … Continue Reading
The 24 Hours-of-LeMons is one part race, one part craziness, mixed in with art cars. Lets face it, the judges and organizers are looking for not only the crappiest cars on the track, but great themes as well. Here is your chance to have both, with a grouping or wretched early 60s Mercury Comets, with a built in theme. Just mix in a little puke (something that comes naturally in this event by the way) and you have the Vomit Comet…
Continuing on with combing through Craigslist, I wanted to stick to a formula for this weekends postings. What I did was to keep the search between 1960 and 1965, with a price tag between $100 and $1,500, and I also wanted at least one image in the listing. And look what I found…. three different Studebakers, with six-cylinder engines, just begging for the Index of Effluency award…
Welcome to another Hooniverse Weekend. For this weekend I thought I would try and introduce all of you, our loyal Hooniverse fans, a way of enjoying a 24-hours-of-LeMons event in the only way one should, by participating in one. A little confession here… I did participate a couple of times in these events, but getting a car running isn’t really one of my all time favorite things to do. I know I know, I should turn in my Hoon card for that remark, but trying to diagnose an electrical problem in an overcomplicated crappy German LeMons racecar, or changing a head gasket on an overstressed Japanese Crap Car is not my idea of having a great time on the track. Therefore, I thought I would go out and find some under stressed Detroit iron, currently in running condition, that would get you the most time out on the track, while needing very little mechanical expertise if repairs are needed. Let’s start with a couple of mid 60s Oldsmobile F-85s…
Midrace at the BFE GP a couple Saturdays ago, I spotted these life jacket clad dudes in their garage
wrenching the clutch underneath the bonnet of this cobbled together Fiat Moke and to get it up and at ‘em once again.
My fellow Hoons that’s what keeps the LeMons spirit alive.
Dateline Denver, Colorado
Over the past couple days we here in the Hooniverse have been blessed with two really fantastic posts about automobile racing. One an excellent Bucketlist Post about the 24 Hours of LeMans and the other about a sneak into Lime Rock Park for an ALMS race. And while those posts were excellent in their own right with fantastic prose and professional quality images, this olelongrooffan thought I would post up just the opposite, as is only fitting, and provide my fellow Hoons with some action shots of the BFE GP 24 Hours of LeMons I gathered last weekend with my elcheapo 28 dollar ebay acquired camera.
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