And the Real Winner Is…
The Killer Bees MGB has participated in just about every West Coast 24 Hours of LeMons race for the last couple of years. The Bees have done quite well, generally finishing in the top half of the standings, but somehow another entry managed to take home LeMons racing’s top prize in each of those races; even a British Leyland product has a tough time when submerged in a field of 150+ entries. This time, however, the yellow MGB finished well into the top 10 of the standings and claimed the IOE in a no-doubt decision.
Here’s what the Bees’ car survived in one of its early outings; a new cage and a lot of really crude bodywork fixed the car right up. Now the much-battered MG owns the big prize. Congratulations, Killer Bees!
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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Well done, ZomBee!
It seems to me the IoE competition has really heated up. Did the organizers make some conscious decision to start awarding it to less bad cars that do better, rather than horrible cars that manage just to finish the weekend under their own power?