We’re back at GingerMan Raceway for the 2014 Where the Elite Meet To Cheat 24 Hours of LeMons, and it’s the largest field we’ve ever seen at a Michigan LeMons race. We’ve got the usual Upper Midwest hordes of Ford Escorts, Saturn SC/SLs, and GM F-Bodies right here, but Detroit’s finest machinery is also represented by some a lot more unusual models. Let’s verify them out.
Here’s a frighteningly accurate replica of the 1972 Ford Pinto campaigned by Car and Driver in the 1974 IMSA Goodrich Radial Challenge. Don Sherman, Tony Swan, and Csaba Csere are all here, racing their 1988 Honda Prelude, so we’ll see if they can beat the Pinto this weekend.
We see several Back To the Future-themed teams in LeMons racing, but the Ford Tempo appears to have an especially apt name for this decor.
TEMPOral flux!
3 classic American vehicles have been the genuine stars of the day, even though. The debut of the first-ever Dodge Mirada in LeMons history had many racers scratching their heads and asking “what is that issue?”
It need to go without having saying that the Mirada came with Soft Corinthian Leather, and that Team Sheen (which also runs a very swift Acura Integra) kept as considerably of the original interior as achievable when installing their roll cage and race seat.
The Mirada is a close cousin of the Chrysler Cordoba, so it’s only proper that we’d also have a 1st-year 1975 Cordoba right here.
Which of these 318-powered private luxury coupes will triumph? We’ll locate out during the course of the weekend’s racing!
Of course, the only thing that could have any prayer of upstaging a Mirada and a Cordoba would be a superbly executed replica of Super Fly’s Pimpmobile, which is what we have here. Based on a 1972 Pontiac Grand Prix and featuring a 400-cubic-inch V8, handcrafted grille, and salad-bowl “headlights,” the Group Can You Dig It Superfly automobile need to be reasonably swift on the race track.
It will be a fine race for patriotic Detroit Iron aficionados.
Or for fans of wildly inappropriate applications of Lambo Doors.
The airplane-engined Toyota MR2 is back, this time with a a lot much less fascinating V6 out of a Toyota Sienna minivan.
Many teams want to get car quantity 2, for factors that need to be made clear from this photograph.
Bust-a-Nut Racing, creators of the legendary Blimpwagen, are back with their Mazda MX-6 now themed as team CARP-ocalypse and modified to resemble a giant Asian carp.
Scary!
It’s going to be an exceptional race, so verify in right here Saturday night to see how the very first race session sorts out.
LeMons Michigan Inspections: Malaise Mopars, Superfly’s Pimpmobile, and All the Saturns
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