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September 10, 2019
Hella Sweet Lemons Cars of the Week: Veggie-Oil-Powered Mercedes-Benzes at Altamont 2007
Depending on how you count, we’ve had 219 Lemons races since that first one at Altamont Motorsports Park in the fall of 2006, and #220 and #221 will take place this weekend (in Colorado and South Carolina, respectively). With all those great races and all those great cars, you might be surprised to learn that […]
Read MoreSeptember 5, 2019
Lemons Wish List: Late-Model Chrysler Models Provide a Ripe Batch
Many Chrysler cars from the last 20 years might be your ticket to Lemons fame. Or notoriety. Which is basically the same as Lemons “fame.”
Read MoreSeptember 4, 2019
Lemons is Hiring a Logistics Manager!
Hey, Lemons fans and potential future employees: A lot of moving parts go into a season of Lemons racing. We’re looking for a super-organized, highly attentive, deeply detail-oriented (okay…“borderline OCD”) new hire to learn our suite of existing systems and keep them all humming smoothly. This position includes full responsibility for: -All inbound and […]
Read MoreSeptember 3, 2019
Sunbeam Rapier: Not Sharp and Not Dull (Hella Sweet Lemons Car of the Week)
Your Hella Sweet Lemons Car of the Week is a great mashup of Rootes Group and 1970s domestic economy car. It’s Lemons’ first Sunbeam Rapier!
Read MoreAugust 20, 2019
Fiat X1/9 Frankenstein: A Rotary-Swapped Hella Sweet Car of the Week
It’s time for another Hella Sweet Car of the Week and it’s another Fiat…kind of. The Italian Stallions built a rotary-powered monster out of a Fiat X1/9.
Read MoreAugust 19, 2019
NHMS and the IOE: Maximum Effluency in New England
We’ve visited New Hampshire Motor Speedway 10 times—we didn’t even need toes to count yet—so we recap the Index of Effluency winners from NHMS.
Read MoreAugust 16, 2019
Heroic Lemons Buick Reatta and Toyota Supra Exploits Documented in Hella Sweet Comic Book
A comic book documenting the struggles of Morrow’s Auto and their Buick Reatta and Toyota Supra 24 Hours of Lemons race cars.
Read MoreAugust 14, 2019
Tony Swan Never Say Die Memorial: Race in Michigan to Raise Money for Cancer Research
Sign up for the Tony Swan Never Say Die Memorial race by this weekend. The race will raise funds for cancer charity in honor of our late friend Tony Swan.
Read MoreAugust 13, 2019
Hella Sweet Lemons Car of the Week: the Scuderia Fluffball Fiat 128 sedan
If there’s one kind of car we love to see on our race tracks, it’s Italian cars. Yes, passionate, soulful Italian cars, and no car could be more Italian than the little front-wheel-drive sedan that revolutionized the European automotive world in 1969 and was built all the way through 2009 (in Egypt): the versatile Fiat […]
Read MoreJuly 18, 2019
Hella Sweet Lemons Car of the Week: Wonderment Consortium’s Honda Civic
We cover the always-colorful, always-decorated Wonderment Consortium Honda Civic in this Hella Sweet Lemons Car of the Week!
Read MoreJuly 10, 2019
Lemons New England 2009: 10 Years Later!
We look back at Lemons New England at the tiny bullring that is Stafford Motor Speedway. This one had a Corvair, a Curse, and fine Italian machines.
Read MoreJuly 2, 2019
Hella Sweet Lemons Car of the Week: Delinquent Racing’s 1996 Ford Taurus SHO
We return to the Hella Sweet Lemons Car of the Week series (go here for the older HSLCOTW posts) with one of the few surviving race cars whose history goes all the way back to the earliest days of the series, when cars swapped paint and teams performed unsafe repairs at the hallowed site of […]
Read MoreJune 24, 2019
The Tommy Salami 1989 Pontiac/Daewoo/Vauxhall/Opel/Asüna LeMans/Racer/Kadett/Optima SuperBoss
Those of us in the 24 Hours of Lemons world who try to be Bad Influencers™ often use our sinister power to induce teams to make terrible choices in race cars. Sometimes those choices cause endless misery character-building, while others lead to unalloyed glory. We’d been pleading for a 1988-1993 Pontiac LeMans, the Daewoo-made crapboxian […]
Read MoreJune 17, 2019
Corrupt the USATODAY 10 Best: Vote Concours d’Lemons for Best Car Show
The Concours d’Lemons has been nominated for a USA Today 10 Best award for best car show. We’d better show how corrupt we can be. Stuff the ballot boxes!
Read MoreMay 31, 2019
Hella Sweet Lemons Car of the Week: Team Babel’s M-Ark-2
Sometimes a Hella Sweet race car looks spectacular on the track and would have been the focus of everyone’s attention at a Lemons venue with fewer than 100 entries— say, GingerMan or High Plains— but gets overshadowed by even crazier builds at Sears Point or Thunderhill, where we’ll see more like 200 teams. The Team Babel […]
Read MoreMay 29, 2019
Lemons Washington to Host Game of Thrones Reboot
With a questionable conclusion to Game of Thrones, Lemons Washington racers will have a chance to appear in the rebooted series.
Read MoreMay 22, 2019
Reno and Lemons ’09: 10 Years Later
We look back to Lemons’ first visit to Reno-Fernley Raceway in Nevada. We couldn’t possibly cover more than a few cars, but here’s a bit of the action.
Read MoreMay 21, 2019
Race Car Hauler, Cheap-Style: Black Iron Racing’s Box Truck 2.0
How should you haul your crapcan race car? With a crapcan box truck of course. Chris from Black Iron Racing describes their box-truck race car hauler.
Read MoreOctober 24, 2023
Lemons Releases 2024 Race and Rally Schedule
The 2024 Lemons race and rally schedule are out! Sign up for your 2024 Lemons events right now or plan to visit as a spectator.
Read MoreOctober 12, 2022
Lemons Releases 2023 Race and Rally Calendars
It’s time for the Lemons 2023 schedule! Rallies and Races, get yourself signed up right now for next year!
Read MoreNovember 10, 2021
Lemons Rally: Six Events and a Rental Car Class for 2022
Lemons Rally brings a half-dozen road trips in 2022 as well as a new class just for Rental Cars. Get the details here!
Read MoreNovember 3, 2021
Halloween Meets Gasoline Prize: Cash & Trophy for Stupidity? You Bet.
“Halloween Meets Gasoline.” We’ve said it for years and now we’re putting our money where our mouth is. Theme hard, win cash. Simple enough.
Read MoreOctober 13, 2021
2022 Calendar: Lemons Announces 31-Event Calendar
2022 Calendar is out for the 24 Hours of Lemons, Lemons Rally, and Concours d’Lemons. See what’s happening in 2022!
Read MoreFebruary 19, 2021
PittRace: 4 Great Lemons Cars From Our First Race in PA
We’re headed back to PittRace near Pittsburgh and Yinz need to see these awesome cars from our first PittRace visit.
Read MoreJanuary 11, 2021
Barber Race, Retreat From Moscow Rally COVID’d
Due to COVID-19, Lemons will postpone our race at Barber and our season-opening Lemons Rally. Details within.
Read MoreDecember 4, 2020
2021 Lemons Rally: Schedule includes five crapcan rallies
2021 Lemons Rally schedule is out with a handful of fantastic roadtrips for you, your crapcan, and your friends/family/enemies.
Read MoreOctober 22, 2020
Lemons Releases 2021 Schedule
We’ve got the Lemons 2021 Schedules right here, hot and ready and mostly complete, even. Check it out and register early!
Read MoreApril 8, 2024
Conn Law, PC sponsors new trophy at 2024 California CdL
In what is perhaps the most fitting sponsorship ever, Conn Law, PC, a California-Based Consumer Protection Law Firm that focuses on Lemon Law and Auto Fraud will be presenting the “This Car Should Have Been a Lawsuit” Trophy at the 2024 California Concours d’Lemons, Aug. 17, 2024, at 440 Harcourt Ave, Seaside City Hall lawn during Monterey Auto Week. “The statute of limitations has long […]
Read MoreApril 8, 2024
Oris – Official Timepiece of Concours d’Lemons CA 2024
Oris, an independent mechanical watch brand from Hölstein, Switzerland, is the official timepiece of the 2024 California Concours d’Lemons. Taking place August 17, 2024 at Seaside City Hall, at 4400 Harcourt Ave, Seaside, CA. the Concours d’Lemons brings a great car show with a bit of fun to an otherwise straight laced Monterey Auto Week. […]
Read MoreMarch 6, 2024
2024 Amelia Island Concours d’Lemons – Winners and Photos
The Concours d’Lemons returned the beach at Main beach Park on March 1, 2024, as part of Classic Motorsports Magazine Amelia Kick-Off party. The event included a sports car show, celebrity panel discussion and the Concours d’Lemons. The pouring rain did not deter hooptie owners or spectators from showing up and having a great time […]
Read MoreAugust 24, 2023
2023 California Concours d’Lemons – Photos & Winners
For the 14th time the Concours d’Lemons rumbled into Monterey Auto Week, leaking oil and spreading smiles on the lawn of Seaside City Hall on Aug. 19, 2023. Hoopties of every description thrilled a record crowd of crap car connoisseurs as bribery prone celebrity judges awarded thrift store sources trophies. The judges loved the heartwarming […]
Read MoreMarch 7, 2023
2023 Amelia Concours d’Lemons – Winners and Photos
The Concours d’Lemons sputtered onto the 1st Fairway of the Amelia Island Golf Club on March 4, 2023, as part of Hagerty’s The Amelia event that included a high end concours, Cars and Community with Lemons and RadWood. Hoopties of every description from all over the southeast were subject to a drenching when a passing […]
Read MoreFebruary 8, 2023
2022 Amelia Concours d’Lemons – Winners and Photos
The 2022 Concours d’Lemon Amelia Island took place on the 1st Fairway of the Amelia Island Golf Club, as part of Hagerty‘s Cars and Community, a saturday morning prequel to the famed The Amelia concours the following day. The Concours d’Lemons was situated next to the spectator shuttle bus stop, ensuring the thousands who entered the […]
Read MoreJanuary 25, 2023
2022 Detroit Concours d’Lemons – Photos and Winners
Hoopties of all descriptions dripped oil at Comerica Park on Sept. 17, 2022 at the Detroit Concours d’Lemons showcasing the Oddball, Mundane and Truly Awful of the Automotive World as part of Hagerty’s Cars and Community event. Owners offered up bribes to capricious celebrity judges in hopes of taking home dollar store sourced trophies in […]
Read MoreOctober 27, 2021
2021 Greenwich Concours d’Lemons – Winners and Photos
The inaugural Greenwich Concours d’Lemons clattered onto the waterfront green at Roger Sherman Baldwin Park on Saturday, Oct. 23, 2021, as part of Hagerty’s Greenwich Concours weekend. A revised two-day format featured a full classic concours on Sunday and a less buttoned down gathering on Sat. that featured RadWood, Porschella and the oil burning, rust […]
Read MoreSeptember 10, 2021
2021 California Concours d’Lemons – Photos and Winners
The Concours d’Lemons California came roaring back from quarantine with a field full of the worst cars imaginable. From a chop top KV Mini ! To a 1969 Toyota Corolla Wagon that was more rust than wagon the show offered much needed relief to the expensive and often pretentious Monterey Auto Week. Self proclaimed Concours […]
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