Did Lemons ruin the BMW E30 for everyone? Maybe, maybe not. What we do know is that we’ve had a lot of those 3-Series BMWs over the years.
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We hate to cross another race off our calendar this year, but we must announce our June 13-14 race at New Jersey Motorsports Park has been COVID’d. If you were registered for the Real Hoopties of New Jersey, your team captain should have an email from us about your options. Basically, you can roll your […]
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Due to COVID, we’ve rescheduled the Lemons Route 66 Rally to October. We hate to do it, but we know that the full Route 66 experience is worth the wait.
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Jay Lamm answers some of your inquiries about COVID procedures when we restart and we give you a better idea of when we think that will be.
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Hi Again: As promised last week, here’s what we currently think an event during Covid would look like to racers and crew. There will still be fine-tuning–this is only an overview. Face covers required Social distancing aggressively enforced (by both track and Lemons staff) Symptomatic and/or high-risk entrants must stay home Streamlined gate, tech, and […]
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Jay Lamm gives an update on how Lemons will proceed with events held during this strange time of the COVID-19 Crisis. More details next week.
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Due to COVID-19, Lemons will have to push back our plans for the Yokohama Days of Thunderhill . on May 30-31. More details coming later this week.
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We’re doing a second season of the Lemons iRacing League. Here’s the schedule through the end of June and the nightly schedule for May 7!
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A test to help prospective 24 Hours of Lemons racers determine how much approval they will receive from the wise and fair Lemons Supreme Court justices.
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A test to help prospective 24 Hours of Lemons racers determine how much approval they will receive from the wise and fair Lemons Supreme Court justices.
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Is this Aston Martin a proper supercar that has found its way into Lemons? Well, yes. Kind of. There’s at least a little Aston Martin left in it.
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We’re taking questions on Reddit this Monday, April 27! Check out the /r/Cars section of Reddit and ask Jay, Nick, and/or Eric Lemons/car questions!
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24 Hours of Lemons online racing would be so much better if everyone had 8-track players, ’61 Studebaker steering wheels, and 6-on-the-tree manual shifters.
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Lemons iRacing? We may not quite yet know WTF we’re doing. But hey, it’s Lemons and we had no idea what we were doing when we started this stuff.
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As you perhaps heard Chief Perp Jay Lamm announce on our new (and necessary) weekly Lemons Thursday Therapy, we have some schedule changes to announce because of the assorted COVID-19 shutdowns. We don’t like having to change and remove things from the calendar, but in this case, we’ve waited as long as we can for […]
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In the very early days of Lemons, the Do or Die Cadillac Hearse dominated the track at Altamont’s rinky-dink “road course.” Lemons has changed a bit since.
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Yo cats, this post from 2015 got lost in a website update a few years back, so we have restored it to its original glory. One thing that we’ve learned putting on these races is that automotive journalists make the worst Lemons racers. They— or, more accurately, we, because just about everyone running Lemons is […]
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Welcome back to the Hella Sweet Lemons Car of the Week series! One of the things we love best about the series is vans on the race track, and another is lunatic body modifications that make everyone watching the race do huge doubletakes and wonder what they just saw go by. The Mod Squad Racing […]
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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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It’s not too late to join the Hell on Wheels California Rally! Here’s what you need to know for this socially distanced crapcan roadtrip!
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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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Thunderstorms of near biblical proportions forced the 2021 Concours d’Lemons off the sodden fairways of the Inn at St. John’s in Plymouth, MI and into parking lot behind the hotel, next to the dumpsters, where it really belonged. Crap cans from all over the midwest braved the damp weather and shared their hoopties with the […]
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The inaugural Pacific NorthWrecks Lemons Rally sputtered and smoked its way across Washington and Oregon June 11-13, 2021. Participants in vehicles ill-suited to the nearly thousand-mile, three-day rally set off from Griot’s Garage Headquarters in Tacoma, WA, hoping to accumulate points by finding unique and humorous checkpoints outlined in a hastily prepared route book. Rally […]
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The inaugural Concours d’Lemons NorthWorst took place on June 12, 2021, at Griot’s Garage Headquarters in Tacoma, WA to the delight of hooptie fans all over the NorthWest. RattletTraps and RustBuckets gleamed in the rare northwest sunshine as a large crowd of bewildered spectators enjoyed stunning weather, great stories from the car’s owners and laughs […]
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The Concours d’Lemons returned to ruin the Amelia Island Concours weekend on May 22, 2021 at Main Beach Park in Fernandina Beach, Florida. A lighthearted spoof on high end concours, the Concours d’Lemons features the oddball, mundane and truly awful of the automotive world. Hoopties from all over the southeast rattled or were pushed into […]
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The Inaugural P(into) G(remlin) A(mc) Miniature Golf Tournament will take place during the 2021 Florida Concours d’Lemons on May 22, 2021 12noon-4pm at Main Beach Park, Fernandina Beach, FL. Each car entry will receive a token good for a round of miniature golf at the immediately adjacent Putt Putt Amelia Island course. Other shows happen […]
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Watch to find out which parts were wrong. It took us a little while to find out, but some of the parts we got to fix the 1977 Pacer were wrong. Running for the first time – Episode 1 Driving for the first time – Episode 2 Big Problems – Episode 3 Wrong […]
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