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And the Winner Is…
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Murilee Martin
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Published: February 27th, 2011
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The third annual Gator-O-Rama 24 Hours of LeMons endurance race is in the books, and a 29-year-old Datsun just beat out 80 or so competitors— most of them less than half the Datsun’s age— to bring home the Win On Laps trophy for Team Z-Wrecks.
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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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I think this car should have won the IOE as well. 280ZXs were pretty terrible cars even measured against their 1981 competition. Tercels are overdogs by comparison.
Wow, this has to be the first Z car to ever take the overall win at LeMons. Agreed with CJinSD, it definitely coulda been an IoE contender as well.