We run down the winners from the recent Four-Bangors Banger Lemons Rally that traversed from Michigan Maine with horrible heaps.
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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.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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!
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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 […]
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With a questionable conclusion to Game of Thrones, Lemons Washington racers will have a chance to appear in the rebooted series.
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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.
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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.
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It’s here: A matchmaking tool to make it easier to find drivers or teammates for the 24 Hours of Lemons. It’s OK Stupid and we’ve got the details here.
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“What is it?” It’s a Bitter SC and while you may not know it, you should know that this 1980s Deprecation-mobile is perfect for the 24 Hours of Lemons.
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The typical cheap race car build focuses on going fast on a budget. But this is the 24 Hours of Lemons, where speed is secondary to endurance, and overall finishing position is secondary to racing a weird car. So, when Black Iron Racing decided to take a break from trying to win a Lemons race […]
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Get ready for the second-ever convention of crappy and weird not-quite-classic cars. Yes, it’s HooptieCon West at Sonoma Raceway and you can sign up now!
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Revered motorsports and automotive magazine Autoweek has inexplicably stepped up to sponsor the first Rust Belt GP at Gingerman Raceway.
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No joking about this: If you can win a 24 Hours of Lemons race with your electric race car, you can get a 5.5-ton haul of nickels.
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The dos and don’ts of bribing your wise and fair 24 Hours of Lemons Supreme Court judges.
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A Sucker Truck, American domination, future famous Lemons cars, and penalty innovations galore. We look back 10 years to MSR Houston in 2009.
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We run down the trophy winners from the 24 Hours of Lemons Alabama at Barber Motorsports Park. Lots of wild and great stuff here.
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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.
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It’s time for the Lemons 2023 schedule! Rallies and Races, get yourself signed up right now for next year!
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Lemons Rally brings a half-dozen road trips in 2022 as well as a new class just for Rental Cars. Get the details here!
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“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.
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2022 Calendar is out for the 24 Hours of Lemons, Lemons Rally, and Concours d’Lemons. See what’s happening in 2022!
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We’re headed back to PittRace near Pittsburgh and Yinz need to see these awesome cars from our first PittRace visit.
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Due to COVID-19, Lemons will postpone our race at Barber and our season-opening Lemons Rally. Details within.
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2021 Lemons Rally schedule is out with a handful of fantastic roadtrips for you, your crapcan, and your friends/family/enemies.
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We’ve got the Lemons 2021 Schedules right here, hot and ready and mostly complete, even. Check it out and register early!
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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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