We were just at New Jersey Motorsports Park a couple of months ago, and we liked it so considerably that we’re back again. Yes, it’s the 2014 There Goes the Neighborhood 24 Hours of LeMons, featuring 132 in-your-face, dive-bombing, engine-obliterating East Coast teams! Let’s check out what the justices of the LeMons Supreme Court (I’m taking this race off, so the judges this time are Matt Adair, Matt Yip, and Tom Newman, all veterans of the LeMons Supreme Court bench) saw for the duration of Friday’s car inspections.
Team themes based on Tv shows and films abounded. Right here are the members of Group Game of Crumplezones, with their Acura Integra.
Group Make It Quickly, I’m In a Hurry might be about the 87th LeMons team to do a Smokey and the Bandit theme. Reproductions of the “Screaming Chicken” Trans Am hood decals have turn out to be so low cost that we may start requiring them on all LeMons cars.
We also had our 87th Back To the Future “DeLorean” team, in this case a Nissan 300ZX run by TK Autosports (not to be confused with the 300ZX “DeLorean” that won the Chicago race a couple weeks back). Sadly, a single of the drivers hit a wall in the course of Friday practice and the vehicle looks like it may possibly be accomplished for the weekend.
Team 4 On the Floor converted their Honda Civic into a Flintstones auto.
And, of course, Speedycop and the Gang of Outlaws are back, this time with an extremely accurate replica of the Ford Explorers in Jurassic Park. They picked up the Explorer with a cage already installed, thanks to the people at Grassroots Motorsports, and they’ll be the first team to race this variety of automobile in the 24 Hours of LeMons.
The Outlaws also brought their Toyota MR2 and some Jurassic-y costumes.
This Integra team calls themselves The Science Project, and their vehicle came by means of inspections with an active volcano on its roof.
When a group brings a vehicle that both exceeds the official $ 500 price range requirement by an absurd amount and in fact has some chance of becoming somewhat swift on the race track, the LeMons Supreme Court feels compelled to dish out some penalty laps. Most of the time, a lap penalty in the 50-to-100 range guarantees that the price range-busting team will not run away with the race… but at times the numbers get higher.
In truth, at times they get a lot greater, normally when the group decides that they’d rather have the glory of becoming punished massive. In this case, the 2004 Mazda RX-8 of the Wankel Wankers Rotary Club got a record-breaking 4 billion penalty laps, one particular for every year of the earth’s age. This tops the preceding record of 2,000,000,007 laps earned by Group Sensory Assault’s RX-7 at the 2014 North Dallas Hooptie and the 500,000 laps dumped on the Fukushima Debris RX-7 Does the LeMons Supreme Court feel that rotary Mazdas are more suspicious than piston-engined cars? Could be!
Some teams respect the racing tradition of cheating so much that they honor it with their group themes. For example, this Lance Armstrong/Smokey Yunick vehicle.
Some really enthusiastic spectators built this London Bus out of what appears to be a golf cart.
Meanwhile, due to the fact it is New Jersey, several teams ruined their vehicles during practice and will be spending the evening in a wrench-spinning frenzy. Here’s California racer, Spank, helping 3 Pedal Mafia put but another GM V6 in their soul-crushingly unreliable Triumph TR-7.
Yes, they’ll be up all evening, but most of the vehicles will be ready to go on Saturday morning. Be sure to verify in later to see what occurs!
Photographs by Spank, Judge Matt Yip, Judge Tom Newman, Judge Matt Adair, and Speedycop
LeMons New Jersey Inspections: Jurassic Park Ford, Smokey and the Bandit BMW, Game of Thrones Acura
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