Where The Fords And Lincolns Were Settin' The Pace
August 12, 2015 4:49 PM   Subscribe

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I thought sure this was a typo, but apparently not.
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 6:12 PM on August 12, 2015


I'm not a car guy at all but I've loved the 24 Hours of LeMons ever since randomly coming across a link to a Miata with a pull-start snowmobile engine a team built for the race.
posted by jason_steakums at 6:23 PM on August 12, 2015 [2 favorites]


Roadkill took a car to LeMons a couple of years ago.
posted by bradf at 6:24 PM on August 12, 2015


They put a turbodiesel into a 911.

That's so wrong it's right.
posted by eriko at 6:56 PM on August 12, 2015


If it were a typo, that $500 would be missing about six zeros.
posted by sideshow at 7:25 PM on August 12, 2015 [1 favorite]


Lemons has a lot of great stuff: the plane, the upside-down Camaro, the Homer replica, the radial engine MR2, the classic Frankenmiata, the Harley-engined Prius, etc. etc.

FWIW, Roadkill is now the main sponsor of Lemons; they brought their cheaty turbo'd 240Z, but got beaten by a friggin' 1964 Humber Super Snipe -- 121 laps to 24.
posted by Monday, stony Monday at 7:29 PM on August 12, 2015 [1 favorite]


1. How did Top Gear never find this?
2. Who's going to do it better when they do, Chris Evans or the transplanted TG team?
posted by Devonian at 7:44 PM on August 12, 2015


A buddy of mine does this and has SO much fun - if I had even a shred of mechanical ability I'd be all over this...
posted by twsf at 10:00 PM on August 12, 2015


They put a turbodiesel into a 911.

That's nothing. The Hells Treehuggers took an 883cc V-Twin from a Harley Sportster, bored it out to 1100cc, and stuffed it into a Toyota Prius.

Thanks to an amazingly huge loophole in the California Vehicle Code, it's street legal and smog exempt.
posted by toxic at 11:35 PM on August 12, 2015 [2 favorites]


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