Charlie Sheen, Charlie Sheen, Tigra, and Bunny: Sears Pointless BS Inspection Gallery

Murilee Martin
by Murilee Martin

You’ve seen the timelapse video of the Sears Pointless 24 Hours of LeMons BS Inspections, but the timelapse camera didn’t capture the twisted cars and car themes we saw Friday.

How many Charlie Sheen themes can you get at one race? We had three.

An Audi GT!

The most accurate mid-80s custom minitruck theme ever, complete with Tigra and Bunny. I’m too tired to write more now, and I’ll be back at the track at oh-dark-thirty AM tomorrow, so here’s a big gallery to keep your LeMons jones under control.























Murilee Martin
Murilee Martin

Murilee Martin is the pen name of Phil Greden, a writer who has lived in Minnesota, California, Georgia and (now) Colorado. He has toiled at copywriting, technical writing, junkmail writing, fiction writing and now automotive writing. He has owned many terrible vehicles and some good ones. He spends a great deal of time in self-service junkyards. These days, he writes for publications including Autoweek, Autoblog, Hagerty, The Truth About Cars and Capital One.

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