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March 4, 2020
Very Pointless: Lemons’ First Visit to Sonoma, 10 Years Later
We’re looking back at races from a decade ago. Next up is the 2010 Sears Pointless race, Lemons’ first visit to California Wine Country.
Read MoreFebruary 26, 2020
Racing the Clock: 24 Hours to Thrash a Hyundai Scoupe and Subaru XT Into Running
The Most Heroic Fix award has long been part of 24 Hours of Lemons tradition, but many times we have multiple teams deserving of the award and the others don’t get much recognition. At the 2015 Doin’ Time in Joliet race, two teams spent just about the entire weekend in a panic-stricken frenzy to make […]
Read MoreFebruary 24, 2020
Malaise Era Six: A Lemons Wish List of Slow, Unsteady Fords
The Malaise Era is rich with true Lemons content. Ford in particular had some delightful Malaise Erea hoopties that are Lemons Ready.
Read MoreFebruary 20, 2020
Gator-O-Rama 2010: One Race, A Bounty of Bad Ideas in Houston
We look back to Gator-O-Rama a decade ago a MSR Houston: the Fall Guy, a skunky Le Car, surprising winners, and so very many bad ideas.
Read MoreFebruary 18, 2020
Hella Sweet Lemons Car of the Week: The “Alpine 210” of the Mulsanne Straightjackets
We’re back with another Hella Sweet Lemons Car of the Week, this time with the Organizer’s Choice winner from the 2015 Doing Time In Joliet race. The Mulsanne Straightjackets built this beautiful replica of a 1966 Alpine A210, of Le Mans fame, and it ran flawlessly for most of the weekend at our race. The […]
Read MoreFebruary 18, 2020
Hella Sweet Lemons Car of the Week: EAT ME Volvo Birthday Cake
When we’re choosing the Hella Sweet Lemons Car of the Week, we tend to lean in the direction of serious body modifications or ill-advised engine swaps. We’ve got one of the former type for you today: the Too Stupid To Know Better Volvo 740, better known in Lemons circles as “The Birthday Cake.” We like […]
Read MoreFebruary 13, 2020
Depreciation Specials: Chief Perp Drops by VINWiki Car Stories Again
Jay Lamm dropped by VINWiki to talk about severely depreciated luxury cars and some of the more spectacular expensive-when-new-but-now-trash cars in Lemons.
Read MoreFebruary 13, 2020
Blown and Blown Up: The Supercharged Heroic Fix Camaro, Hella Sweet Lemons Car of the Week
What do you do when your supercharged Camaro is blown up and the replacement engine is an eight-hour round trip? Well, you go get it, duh.
Read MoreFebruary 13, 2020
Retreat From Moscow 2020: The Winners
We give a rundown of the Retreat From Moscow Lemons Rally winners in 2020. Appalachia presents some awesome roads for cars, crappy or otherwise, turns out.
Read MoreJanuary 30, 2020
Lemons Valet (What Could Go Wrong?): Photo Highlights From the Retreat From Moscow, Day 2
Valet your Lemons car? There’s no potential for failure there, surely. That was just one (mis)adventure from Day 2 of the Retreat From Moscow Rally.
Read MoreJanuary 29, 2020
Winter Wonderland: Photo Highlights from the Retreat From Moscow, Day 1
Day 1 of the Retreat From Moscow Lemons Rally is in the books and we encountered a winter wonderland on the Maryland-West Virginia border.
Read MoreJanuary 23, 2020
Arizona Misadventure: 10 Years After Lemons’ First Race in The Grand Canyon State
Ten years later, we revisit Lemons’ first trip to Arizona, which was mired by incredibly weird regional weather and the only time we’ve done timing by hand.
Read MoreJanuary 17, 2020
Rules Changes 2020: Rookie Drivers Earn Bonus Points
We’ve made only a couple of minor tweaks to the 2020 Rules. Among them: a rookie driver on your team will score two extra championship points!
Read MoreJanuary 16, 2020
White Pony Dry named ‘Desperately Needed Absorbent of Lemons’
You all spill lots of fluid everywhere and now we have an official fluid absorbent of Lemons. White Pony Dry can also clean fluids in many other venues.
Read MoreJanuary 14, 2020
The Greatest New Lemons Cars of the 2019 Season
Some of the most terribly spectacular and spectacularly terrible 24 Hours of Lemons race cars that debuted during the 2019 season.
Read MoreJanuary 9, 2020
VINwiki: Chief Perp Tells a Lemony Tale of Accidental Collector Car-ness
The Chief Perp Jay Lamm makes an appearance on VINwiki Stories. He talks about the (extremely) rare Lemons team that (accidentally) made money on their car.
Read MoreDecember 20, 2019
Champions of the Lemons World: Your 2019 Winners!
We give the rundown on Lemons’ national and regional champions (term used loosely) for 2019. ‘Twas a good year for crapcans.
Read MoreDecember 9, 2019
Hella Sweet Lemons Car of the Week: The Run-EXP 1982 Ford EXP
During the 1980s, when you wanted a two-seat version of a huge-selling and much-beloved subcompact, what car did you buy? For most people— boring people, that is— the answer was the Honda CRX, the shortened Civic. For those who wanted to roll in true Ford Escort style, there was the Ford EXP and its Mercury-badged […]
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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