Archive for July 27th, 2008

TMZ’s reporting Transformers star Shia LaBeouf faces misdemeanor DUI charges after he allegedly made an unsuccessful left turn in front of another car this morning at the corner of La Brea and Fountain in Hollywood. The Ford F-150 he was driving flipped with such force Spike Witwicky’s real life counterpart sustained an injury to his… »

As the checkered flag dropped at the 2008 24 Hours of LeMons race here in South Carolina, the #2 Mazda RX-7 finished in first place overall. The fastest lap of 1:10.268 around the 0.96-mile road course from the Team She Got It All entry proved to be not quite as fast as some of the… »

When you see a ‘66 Volvo Amazon entering a race like the 24 Hours of LeMons, you figure it’s going to finish. No, it won’t be fast, but it will still be moving under its own power long after 75% of the Hondas have blown their head gaskets and 50% of the BMWs have succumbed… »

Can a dead-stock LT1-powered Caprice cop car keep up with a bunch of speedy imports? Probably not, but the Punisher Racing Caprice is holding a close second place behind the She Got It All RX-7. Stay tuned for the exciting finish!

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newVideoPlayer(”/LemonsSouthPeoplesCurse.flv”, 494, 290,””); Here it is, the moment of carnage for Team Salazar Racing’s E30 BMW 3-Series. With an overwhelming display of hatred from the other LeMons racers, the people elected the blue and white Bimmer as “The People’s Curse.” Cheaters beware, this is the fate that awaits you!

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As we’ve seen before, pissing off your competitors in the 24 Hours of LeMons tends to backfire in dramatic fashion. Here’s how it works: at the end of the first day of racing, each team votes for the team whose car they most wish to see destroyed the next day. The team with the most… »

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Aspiring German automaker Loremo has unveiled the newest images of their production intent model. Although they’re only 3D renderings, they already show what the production model should look like. After the initial prototypes, the car gets the definitive shape, which is slightly more conventional in… »

While we’ve been blown away by the quality of the facilities and workers at Carolina Motorsports Park- by all accounts, the best venue in the history of the 24 Hours of LeMons- and the incredible friendliness of all the competitors has us staggering beneath the intake of barbecue and beer forced upon us, the teams… »

They’re back on the track for Day Two of racin’ at the 24 Hours of LeMons South, and lust for the checkered flag has turned all these formerly polite Southern boys into a bunch of PCP-overdosed Junior Johnsons, with dramatic spinouts galore (yes, we’ll have some action shots in a little while). A contributing factor… »