TTAC 24 Hours Update: The Benz We Didn't Race And The One We Did

by Jack Baruth

Published: September 30th, 2013

ttac 24 hours update the benz we didn t race and the one we did

Gorgeous, huh? She appeared in the night like a white-robed dream, resplendent in her restrained livery and requiring just four or five hours of work to be ready to race.

Problem was, the race had already started.

In the upcoming week, you’ll get to hear from each one of the participants in our ill-fated LeMons race, but here are the salient points: The SLC wasn’t ready to race, so we borrowed another Mercedes-Benz that was also not ready to race and a Jetta that probably should not have been racing. We got the Benz ready and it ran for 1.5 laps before it died. Then we got it ready again and it rained.

How many laps did we complete? Not very many. How did we finish? Not well at all. But our rookies have been appropriately blooded, so to speak, and there was more than the usual hilarity and stupidity involved. Watch this space.

Another thing that didn’t happen: our TTAC shirts didn’t arrive. When they do arrive, we will be awarding a total of ten shirts to randomly selected commenters in the original TTAC racing post.

#24HoursOfLeMons #Gator-O-Rama

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Felix on Oct 01, 2013

See....107 Classy

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Autojim on Oct 02, 2013

It came. Eventually. It saw. The track. Briefly. It conquered. That piece of grass in the back paddock next to Spec Racer Sports where it spent most of the event. At least there's a picture of Jack pretending to be sorting something underhood on the Rattan Jetta in Murilee's C/D writeup. :) It was great meeting everyone I hadn't met previously, and I'm really glad you didn't wreck my supervisor-for-the-weekend's Ruckus, DK. ;)

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