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LeMons Good/Bad Idea of the Week: Mazda Rotary-Powered Opel GT

– We see a lot of engine swaps in 24 Hours of LeMons cars, some more ridiculous— ridiculously awesome, that is—than others. There’s the Polaris snowmobile–engined Miata, the E30 BMW with Chrysler...

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LeMons Chicago BS Inspections: VW Type 3s, a Bomb, and an Airplane-Engined MR2

Yup, this is the third 24 Hours of LeMons race in as many weeks, and for this contest we’re returning to the Autobahn Country Club in Illinois for the third annual Showroom-Schlock Shootout. There are...

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LeMons Chicago Day One: Honda CRX Leads, Paddock Now Knee-Deep In Busted...

The first day of the ’12 Showroom-Schlock Shootout 24 Hours of LeMons dawned hot and muggy and stayed that way until the checkered flag waved at 7:00 PM. The lead changed frequently during the day,...

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24 Hours of LeMons Chicago: The Winners!

The racers have dragged their battered hoopties onto the trailers, the members of the LeMons HQ staff have departed Illinois for points west, and the spectators are still amazed by the...

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Chicago LeMons Racers: American Irony Deadline Is This Saturday

The Showroom-Schlock Shootout at Autobahn Country Club in Joliet, Illinois, was one of the better races so far in 2012, and the 24 Hours of LeMons Traveling Circus returns to Autobahn in October. The...

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LeMons Chicago Inspections: Supercharged Rotary Opel, Flying Pig Mustang, and...

The 24 Hours of LeMons last visited Autobahn Raceway in June, for the Showroom-Schlock Shootout. That race was fun, but these once-sane Midwesterners apparently spent the summer cooking up some...

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LeMons Chicago Day One: Celica, SC2, Neon, Fiesta, 245 in Top Five

We saw some extremely wild machinery lined up for this weekend’s American Irony race at Autobahn Country Club in Illinois, but we all expected the usual half-dozen Midwestern contenders to be battling...

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24 Hours of LeMons American Irony: Winners!

The third annual American Irony 24 Hours of LeMons race, held at Autobahn Country Club in Joliet, Illinois, is in the books. It was a rainy, blustery, guardrail-bashing affair, with plenty of...

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LeMons Chicago Inspections: V6-Swapped Geo Metro Battle of the Century, Iron...

Note: Judge Phil aka Murilee Martin is on vacation; Judge Eric, mastermind behind the best Richard Nixon-themed race car in LeMons and creator of the world’s foremost crapcan-racing blog, is handling...

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LeMons Chicago, Day One: Camaro Somehow Leads, V6 Metros Skirmish

Perhaps more than in any other region, Midwestern 24 Hours of LeMons races face the wrath of Mother Nature, from howling winds to torrential downpours. After a pleasant day for Friday’s Doing Time in...

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24 Hours of LeMons Chicago: GM Sweeps All Classes!

At Friday’s Doing Time in Joliet BS Inspections, we saw some fantastic Geo Metros and Saturday’s racing brought us a startling leader. Now, the race has ended and it appears the results may have...

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24 Hours of LeMons Chicago: Many Porsches, Many Former Winners, and a...

We’re back in the Midwest once again, for the fifth visit of the 24 Hours of LeMons to the Autobahn Country Club and this year’s running of the Doin’ Time In Joliet race. With more than a hundred...

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24 Hours of LeMons Chicago: The Winners!

For the 24 Hours of LeMons’ fifth visit to the Autobahn Country Club in Joliet, Illinois, we started things off with inspections of some strange-O engine-swapped machinery on Friday, then ran one long...

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