24 Hours of Lemons, Tech, The Überbird, Wrenching

German Warning Icon May Well Be Our New Logo

Simply put: how awesome is this warning icon?
“No normal people. Mechanics only” is likely a single 97 letter word in German, so it was much simpler for Lemförder (the source of our latest Überbird guibos) to stick with this. I might just get this logo as a tattoo.

24 Hours of Lemons, The Überbird

The Uberbird Readies for Flight

While our Corvair drivin’ man Jim slogs it out at Stafford (there’s no WiFi at the track, so hit Jalopnik for what few updates there are), we were getting our slog on at Der Science Haus. Actually, the day got started with a visit to the Early Rodders with our man in Washington, [...]

The Überbird

It Lives...Again!

The button press heard 'round the (crapheap racing) world…

At Casa_de_Science, the beast so ridiculous fearsome other LeMons teams dare not speak its name is roused from its slumber. Sights and (garbled) sounds of this momentous occasion after the jump.

Friends of Hooniverse, Modern Art Monday, The Überbird

This Papercraft Überbird Soars into My Heart

Insert Slot Awesome into Tab Bad-ass

Reader SmokyBurnout has recently taken up the wonderful art of papercraft. He stumbled across a template for a 1984 BMW 635CSi. Not content with the basic German goodness contained in the kit, he decided to produce his own version. The result has my jaw on the floor. Hop the [...]

24 Hours of Lemons, Hoondeavours, The Überbird

California Wagon Dreamin' - LeMons Part Hauler Edition

That bush ruins all of my pictures

How’d your Saturday go? This week we decided to skip Cars and Coffee this week in favor of More Sleep and Coffee. We needed the extra energy to spend a day reveling in bottom-end Automobilia. You see, for nearly a year I’ve been sitting on a [...]

Hooniversal Car of the Year

HCOTY Nominee: Reader Submission Volume 2 - The Uberbird

Call it what you want, but yes – we are posting a car of our own creation here for nomination. However, this wasn’t our idea really – it was yours. Numerous comments and a few emails suggesting our LeMons racer can no longer go unheeded… So I submit our beloved Uberbird for consideration as a [...]