Car and Driver writers have been rubbing Bar’s-Leaks-smeared elbows with the miscreants who put on the 24 Hours of LeMons since the very first race, and so it follows— the way the Daewoo Maepsy followed the Holden Gemini—that we’d make an inexplicable sponsorship arrangement out of this common interest in a strangely competitive race series for $500 hoopties. What it means for you, the crapcan-racing fan: You’ll be able to keep up with the LeMons action right here on C/D.com.
Our 24 Hours of LeMons: Inexplicably Presented by Car and Driver page will offer live race updates, plus stories on ill-advised LeMons cars, even-more-ill-advised LeMons lifestyle choices, and any other rod-throwin’ LeMons mayhem we find in our travels around the country. Among the content you can find there already: race schedules, the best team costumes from the 2011 season, the most memorable Judgemobiles of all time, and past LeMons feature stories we’ve done at C/D.
Your host for much of the action will be Murilee Martin—a.k.a. Judge Phil of the 24 Hours of LeMons Supreme Court—and he’ll be taking the occasional break from his duties busting racers who “bought that M6 engine from some crackhead for 50 bucks” to bring you the coverage. On race weekend, he’ll provide updates on all the on-track action, including on the storied Humber Super Snipe v. Chrysler TC by Maserati rivalry.
The rest of the time, he’ll fill you in on wild car builds, heroic examples of Field Expedient Engineering, recipes for Valve Cover Chili, and other LeMons highlights. For those of you not familiar with the glorious, racetrack-property-value-lowering five-year history of the 24 Hours of LeMons, we suggest you check out Judge Phil’s Encrustation of 24 Hours of LeMons Nonsense for a crash course. Full LeMons info, of course, also is available at 24hoursoflemons.com
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