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June 5, 2020
BMW E30, #LemonsWorld 57: How Many Have Raced Lemons?
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.
Read MoreMay 29, 2020
COVID Updates, May 29: New Jersey Race Postponed
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 […]
Read MoreMay 22, 2020
Route 66 Lemons Rally: New Dates – October 26-31!
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.
Read MoreMay 18, 2020
COVID Updates, May 18: CMP, High Plains Postponed & Series Restart Info
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.
Read MoreMay 15, 2020
Jay Lamm: Here Are Some Ops Changes Expected During COVID
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 […]
Read MoreMay 8, 2020
Jay Lamm: How We Think Lemons Starts Racing Again
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.
Read MoreMay 6, 2020
COVID-19 Update, May 6: Thunderhill COVID’d
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.
Read MoreMay 5, 2020
Lemons iRacing Season 2 Schedule
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!
Read MoreApril 29, 2020
How Much Will the Judges Like Your Hooptie? Take This Simple Test and Find Out!
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.
Read MoreApril 29, 2020
How Much Will the Judges Like Your Hooptie? Take This Simple Test and Find Out!
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.
Read MoreApril 28, 2020
Aston Martin DB7: The ‘Half-Asston’ Is a Lemons Supercar
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.
Read MoreApril 24, 2020
Reddit AMA Session, April 27: Heaven Help Us, Lemons HQ Are Taking Questions on Reddit
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!
Read MoreApril 15, 2020
Build 6-on-the-Tree Column Shifter, Dominate Lemons Online Racing!
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.
Read MoreApril 7, 2020
Lemons iRacing: How to Suck at Racing, Virtually
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.
Read MoreMarch 27, 2020
COVID-19 UPDATES, March 27: Schedule and Fee Deadline Changes
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 […]
Read MoreMarch 26, 2020
Hella Sweet Lemons Car of the Week: The Do Or Die Cadillac Hearse
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.
Read MoreMarch 19, 2020
Roadkill Guys Do Pretty Well For Car Writers, Still Lose To ’64 Humber Super Snipe at Buttonwillow
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 […]
Read MoreMarch 18, 2020
Hella Sweet Lemons Car of the Week: The Mod Squad’s VW Vanagon
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 […]
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 MoreAugust 11, 2020
Hell On Wheels California Lemons Rally: What You Need to Know!
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!
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 […]
Read MoreJuly 27, 2021
2021 Concours d’Lemons Michigan – Pics and Winners
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 […]
Read MoreJune 21, 2021
Lemons Rally NorthWrecks 2021 – Pics and Winners
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 […]
Read MoreJune 16, 2021
Concours d’Lemons NorthWorst 2021 – Winners and Photos
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 […]
Read MoreJune 2, 2021
Concours d’Lemons Florida 2021 – Photos and Video
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 […]
Read MoreMay 12, 2021
Inaugural P(into) G(remlin) A(mc) Miniature Golf Tournament
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 […]
Read MoreMarch 19, 2021
Wrong Parts! – 1977 AMC Pacer
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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