Home of the Toxic Asset Racing Program! Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale about the misfit adventures of a derelict Toyota MR2 and the mostly ill-informed attempts to un-derelict the car in almost certainly futile attempts to run it in endurance racing.
So Dave came over this afternoon to review our mighty steed, the blue MR2. My dad had helped me to clean out the garage enough on Saturday night so that we could roll Blue into the garage to facilitate nighttime work and, since it’s getting about as cold as it gets here in Dallas, it’s a little warmer inside. We knew that the engine was a mess; our plan was to pull the old spark plugs, put in fresh plugs, top off the oil and coolant, install the new battery, and try to start Blue. I pulled off the trunk lid and engine cover to make some room to work:
Ok, so the video in the first post, maybe it’s not perfectly illustrative of the racing in LeMons anymore. They are now black-flagging folks who make contact with other folks, at least if they see it. All TARP drivers (a/k/a the true “toxic assets” of our race team) should watch this video; it’s the driver’s meeting from the Houston LeMons race in October 2008. Good stuff here, especially the part about not fighting over positions in an endurance race (9 minutes, 59 sec):
We’ve decided to make a go of it for the 24 Hours of Lemons race in Houston (a/k/a LeMons Gator-O-Rama) on Feb 28-March 1, 2009.
Whoa, there, you say! What in blazes is this LeMons thing, and are you crazy? If you know me, you know that your second question is superfluous. But the first one is a legit question. Although you could surf on over to the LeMons site that was so handily linked above, they say that a picture is worth a thousand words and that a YouTube video is worth even less. But I think this is descriptive, illustrative, and it gives me goose bumps every time I see it:
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