« previous next »
Pages: [1]

Author Topic: Tour de lemons  (Read 5044 times)

Nick1911

  • Administrator
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 8,492
Tour de lemons
« on: April 28, 2010, 12:27:16 PM »
http://www.24hoursoflemons.com/

Looks AWESOME.

I totally want to get some guys together and do this.
Report to moderator   Logged

crt360

  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 2,206
Re: Tour de lemons
« Reply #1 on: April 28, 2010, 02:26:26 PM »
That looks like fun.  The closest races to me are "North Dallas Hooptie" in Decatur, TX and "Yee Haw, it's LeMons Texas" in Angleton.  Both are several hours drive from here.

"Sears Pointless" and "Mutual Assured Destruction of Omaha"  :D
Report to moderator   Logged
For entertainment purposes only.

Bogie

  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 10,675
  • Hunkered in South St. Louis, right by Route 66
    • Third Rate Pundit
Re: Tour de lemons
« Reply #2 on: April 28, 2010, 03:03:09 PM »
I'm thinking that the hard part is going to be finding something that runs for under $300 or so...
Report to moderator   Logged
Blog under construction

Laurent du Var

  • friends
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 719
Re: Tour de lemons
« Reply #3 on: April 28, 2010, 03:10:00 PM »

But before reaching the grid, you'll have to survive trials like the Personal-Injury-Lawyer Anti-Slalom, the Marxist-Valet Parking Challenge, and the Wide Open Throttle Rodthrowapalooza.

 =D =D =D
Report to moderator   Logged
Vada a bordo, Cazzo!

AZRedhawk44

  • friends
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 14,032
Re: Tour de lemons
« Reply #4 on: April 28, 2010, 03:14:10 PM »
We've got one in PHX, it appears.  At least, we did earlier this year.

I could spring for $250 to split an entry car with someone (or less, with 3 someones).  I've got a truck that can pull a non-street-legal clunker to my home, no HOA to give me crap about working on a junker, a big backyard where we could work on such a car by my workshop out back.
Report to moderator   Logged
"But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist."
--Lysander Spooner

I reject your authoritah!

PTK

  • friends
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 4,318
Re: Tour de lemons
« Reply #5 on: April 28, 2010, 03:19:13 PM »
I can find half a dozen working 80s CVPIs for under $300 up here. =D

Could be fun to get something together like that, though I did enjoy the "crash" derby I did years ago in a beat up Datsun. I "won".
Report to moderator   Logged
"Only lucky people grow old." - Frederick L.
September 1915 - August 2008

"If you really do have cancer "this time", then this is your own fault. Like the little boy who cried wolf."

Balog

  • Unrepentant race traitor
  • friends
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 17,774
  • What if we tried more?
Re: Tour de lemons
« Reply #6 on: April 28, 2010, 03:25:45 PM »
I really need to get a CVPI one of these days. Love those cars.
Report to moderator   Logged
Quote from: French G.
I was always pleasant, friendly and within arm's reach of a gun.

Quote from: Standing Wolf
If government is the answer, it must have been a really, really, really stupid question.

PTK

  • friends
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 4,318
Re: Tour de lemons
« Reply #7 on: April 28, 2010, 03:26:41 PM »
Quote from: Balog on April 28, 2010, 03:25:45 PM
I really need to get a CVPI one of these days. Love those cars.

You can get them quite inexpensively, and they're a dream to work on. Quickest maintenance of any car I've ever owned. Just changed the upper and lower control arms in forty minutes flat, in fact.
Report to moderator   Logged
"Only lucky people grow old." - Frederick L.
September 1915 - August 2008

"If you really do have cancer "this time", then this is your own fault. Like the little boy who cried wolf."

Mabs2

  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 4,979
  • セクシー
    • iCarly
Re: Tour de lemons
« Reply #8 on: April 28, 2010, 03:31:29 PM »
Sigh.
I thought this thread was about sour fruit.
Report to moderator   Logged
Quote from: jamisjockey
Sunday it felt a little better, but it was quite irritated from me rubbing it.
Quote from: Mike Irwin
If you watch any of the really early episodes of the Porter Waggoner show she was in (1967) it's very clear that he was well endowed.
Quote from: Ben
Just wanted to give a forum thumbs up to Dick.

280plus

  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 19,131
  • Ever get that sinking feeling?
Re: Tour de lemons
« Reply #9 on: April 28, 2010, 04:35:08 PM »
The rules are a riot.  :lol:
Report to moderator   Logged
Avoid cliches like the plague!

never_retreat

  • Head Muckety Muck
  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 3,158
Re: Tour de lemons
« Reply #10 on: April 28, 2010, 10:24:00 PM »
Am I the only one that thought tis title said tour de lemons?
Report to moderator   Logged
I needed a mod to change my signature because the concept of "family friendly" eludes me.
Just noticed that a mod changed my signature. How long ago was that?
A few months-mods

Perd Hapley

  • Superstar of the Internet
  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 62,153
  • My prepositions are on/in
Re: Tour de lemons
« Reply #11 on: April 28, 2010, 10:31:04 PM »
Quote from: crt360 on April 28, 2010, 02:26:26 PM
"Mutual Assured Destruction of Omaha"  :D

The first time around, I thought that said "Obama."  It was less delightful after that second look.  Still good, though.
Report to moderator   Logged
Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God?
--Thomas Jefferson

Scout26

  • I'm a leaf on the wind.
  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 25,997
  • I spent a week in that town one night....
Re: Tour de lemons
« Reply #12 on: April 29, 2010, 12:21:19 AM »
Quote from: crt360 on April 28, 2010, 02:26:26 PM
"Mutual Assured Destruction of Omaha"  :D

Having spent most of my day on the phone with several various completely unhelpful mouthbreathers from Mutual of Ummmaha.....I can get behind that........ >:D >:D >:D
Report to moderator   Logged
Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants won't help.


Bring me my Broadsword and a clear understanding.
Get up to the roundhouse on the cliff-top standing.
Take women and children and bed them down.
Bless with a hard heart those that stand with me.
Bless the women and children who firm our hands.
Put our backs to the north wind.
Hold fast by the river.
Sweet memories to drive us on,
for the motherland.

Balog

  • Unrepentant race traitor
  • friends
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 17,774
  • What if we tried more?
Re: Tour de lemons
« Reply #13 on: April 29, 2010, 12:24:00 AM »
Quote from: PTK on April 28, 2010, 03:19:13 PM
I can find half a dozen working 80s CVPIs for under $300 up here. =D

I can't find any CVPIs that cheap.  =| I need to visit PTK in Montana I think...  =D
Report to moderator   Logged
Quote from: French G.
I was always pleasant, friendly and within arm's reach of a gun.

Quote from: Standing Wolf
If government is the answer, it must have been a really, really, really stupid question.
Pages: [1]
« previous next »