24hr of Lemons

Blase · Apr 8, 2013

He kept on going for a while. I would have thought he was supposed to pull off right away to keep **** off the track! :****:

InDaShop · Apr 8, 2013

Blase said:
He kept on going for a while. I would have thought he was supposed to pull off right away to keep **** off the track! :****:

There are definately two delays in racing. At least I think i can attest to.

When **** goes wrong (i.e. not normal) your brain processes WTF just happened??? Explosion, boom, fire, CHECK.
But wait I'm still moving, better go as far as possible it might have been nothing. LOL

So here is a kinda funny vid of me shattering the rearview mirror. I was not looking directly at it when it explodes, which leaves you as the watcher wondering, why I kept playing with it at roughly 95mph on the front straight at ECR.
****ing glass was everywhere a bunch in my lap and made the next 2 hours a bit painful on left handers as one shard kept trying to impale my leg and I couldnt get it out since I was harnessed in so tight.

wyattmirror

InDaShop · Apr 16, 2013

Re: Re: 24hr of Lemons

Sneak peak of the new one.

Pink in the Middle

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InDaShop · Apr 25, 2013

I know they are junkers, but got damn this is the funnest cheapest racing I can imagine.

From the guy that editted this:
I edited together some of the footage from the GoPro I stuck on the rear bumper of the Chevette last weekend. Because the Chevette was so slow, you'll see just about every car (that was running for a two-hour period on Saturday morning) in this video.

Diesel Chevette pass-fest at 2013 Gingerman 24 Hours of LeMons

zukiscott · Apr 25, 2013

InDaShop said:
Sneak peak of the new one.

Pink in the Middle

MMMAN whats the new one???? ,,,Nissan truck maybe :dunno:

,,,,,I know yall havin FUN ;D

Bones · Apr 25, 2013

The chevette is going so slow I can count the pavement joints. laughing1

InDaShop · Apr 25, 2013

zukiscott said:
MMMAN whats the new one???? ,,,Nissan truck maybe ,,,,,I know yall havin FUN ;D

4x4 Comanche with a 4.0l
And it sits F-ing low for a 4x4.

Since I can see the rear shocks hanging and no backstays on the cage, I'm guessing this was pretty early so its another 1" or so shorter all the way around.

OG in the field when it got bought

zukiscott · Apr 25, 2013

AHHHH,,,brain fart I remeber seein it earlier in thread now :spin:

InDaShop · Apr 26, 2013

to share my pics over here.
Drove it out of garage last night, took a lap around the neighborhood. Had fan wired backward it was pushing vs. pulling got hot quick. But other than that, shes race ready.

InDaShop · May 5, 2013

Re: Re: 24hr of Lemons

Currently 1st in Class B with Cherokee, 1st in Class C with Comanche. 5.5 hrs of racing tomorrow.

http://blog.caranddriver.com/lemons-dallas-day-one-model-t-gt-cherokee-comanche-leading/

InDaShop · May 6, 2013

OMG what a weekend. We honestly dominated the field this weekend. A lot of people hating on the Jeeps and praying we got parked.

We won Class C with the new Comanche we built for this season, had an 18 lap lead at the end (roughly 50 minutes). And we did so with only 4th gear.
Crappy Peugeot 5 speed crapped the other gears.

On Sunday we got caught in the Class B Cherokee, we just werent as fast as some of the competition so we had to beat them off the track in clean pit stops, and clean driving, plus praying they had long pits, blackflags and breakage. We executed a perfect race in the Cherokee, zero downtime under green, and we lost by 3 laps. (7 1/2 minutes over 14 1/2 hours).

Out of 70+ entries.
Class B Cherokee finished 2nd in class and 5th Overall
Class C Comanche finished 1st in Class and we think 21st Overall. The SOB's paid us out in nickels. $600 in nickels. I guess thats one way to get back at the Triple Nickel.

Bones · May 6, 2013

That's come funny ****! laughing1

Blase · May 6, 2013

No I don't care who you are that's some funny ****!!

I like the TGTW OFFROAD stickers also. kind of like a :flipoff1:

to the field.

InDaShop · May 6, 2013

Awesome lil clip from the Pulp Friction BMW. Cherokee getting the door slammed on it so it hard it hits the door! And a Mustang going 4 off seconds later.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hurSbPVYG8

InDaShop · May 7, 2013

Winners write up in Car & Driver.
http://blog.caranddriver.com/24-hours-of-lemons-north-dallas-hooptie-the-winners/

bgredjeep · May 7, 2013

Nice. The Comanche looks bad ass. Did you ever post any videos from the Boom camera on the Cherokee?

InDaShop · May 7, 2013

bgredjeep said:
Nice. The Comanche looks bad ass. Did you ever post any videos from the Boom camera on the Cherokee?

we are the kings of filling memory with vid files and doing zero with them.
This last race cameras were an afterthought. Though I did see some awesome ****.

I had a sick full drift around a "U" corner for a 3 car pass. Completely on accident!!!

InDaShop · May 7, 2013

Ride along in the Dirty Manchez from Saturday morning. Somehow this is the lap where no one was remotely near it.

Jeep Comanche Road Racer

InDaShop · May 24, 2013

In the June '13 issue of Car and Driver, the results of a reader poll revealed that "LeMons" racing was nearly twice as popular as IndyCar.
No typo, Eddie Alterman confirmed they didnt mean LeMans.