Making a Lemon into...um, a LeMon.

We turned a rusty neon into an entertaining race car for the lowly sum of $500. Now the challenge is to repeat our accomplishment in other races in the 24 Hours of LeMons without killing ourselves, the car or each other.

Sunday, May 27, 2012

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Lecture overheard in penalty box: car in for a spin. Judge points-- "this is the front of the car. This is the back. Keep that in mind....

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Middle of the night and still rolling. All three cars! Had some brake issues with the Beetle but it's rolling again.
Saturday, May 26, 2012

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Gah! The Cordia is ahead of our Neon! This cannot stand.

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Rae has finished first Beetle stint and declared it fun! Mustang II is off in the pits at the moment. Fairmont was in but has returned to ac...

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Mustang/mustang collision took out the SHOstang already, sadly!

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ECR full 24. We're trying three cars: neon, 944, and Mike's 66 Beetle. Crazy! All going around thus far, though several cars are alr...
Friday, February 3, 2012

Belated 2011 update part 1

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OK, way back in June our updates abruptly stopped when I turned lazy after connectivity problems at the Colorado event in the 24 Hours of Le...
Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Eek.

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This has been idle too long. I'll try to start putting some posts here to recap the latter half of 2011 before we get rolling for 2012 r...
Saturday, July 9, 2011

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Drat, we don't have a good signal here so I can't post any of the photos I have of the very cool cars here. Green flag in 50 minutes...
Friday, July 8, 2011

Special Lemony Activity

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This weekend we have a special Lemons experience-- two of us (Doctawife and Chris) are joining Rich and Mona's Colorado-based team, Rock...
Thursday, May 19, 2011

Re-theme in progress

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Ren & Stimpy theme at work!
Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Repair and retheme

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Once again it's time to re-theme the Tetanus Neon and prepare it for the next race. Bye-bye, Authorized Vehicle graphics.
Sunday, April 24, 2011

Wow, we won something!

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Recap later. We got Least Horrible Yank Tank for North Dallas Hooptie!
Thursday, April 21, 2011

On our way to Eagles Canyon

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Rolling along to Decatur Texas for our next 24 Hours of Lemons race. Wish us luck!
Thursday, April 7, 2011

Thottle body!

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We were awarded the huge gift of a $300 residual. Holy crap do we have a pile of shite! Using our hard earned cash, we decided to follow a...
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Car night

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If you don't bleed on/for your race car, you ain't doin' it right. I'm doing it right.
Monday, March 14, 2011

The unsexy side of LeMons

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In a perfect world, LeMons should be about going fast in crapheaps or going fast-ish (sometimes) in stoopid silly crazy macheens while we al...
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Wednesday, March 2, 2011

2011 Gator-O-Rama Thank Yous

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The pits were fun and friendly, the racing was clean, the fixes heroic, and the judging was excellent. Thank you to everyone involved. I l...
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Monday, February 28, 2011

Belated Sunday Recap for Gator-O-Rama

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By now most followers of Lemons will have already read Sajeev and Phil's semi-official Lemons coverage , so I'll just share a few ti...
Saturday, February 26, 2011

Repair update

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The neon is reassembled but needs some fluids in the morning. The Jetta had a catastrophic engine mount failure -- sufficient to leave its s...
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