Endless Lines of $500 Cars Lower Infineon Raceway's Property Values: BS Inspections of the Sears Pointless 24 Hours of LeMons
Supposedly we had 185 teams signed up for the Sears Pointless 24 Hours of LeMons, which may be a record for road racing, but only 150 or so managed to get their heaps running well enough to make it through the pre-race inspections Friday. “Only” is a relative term, though; scrutinizing 150 terrible clunkers for safety and adherence to the LeMons $500 budget limit makes for a long, long day.
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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Some of these vehicles look suspiciously like expensive, exotic Italians. Since that can't possibly occur at a LeMons event I shall await the uber-gallery and subsequent explanations from Murilee.
I'm surprised there isn't more Panther love instead of all those Civics.
I am still amazed that you guys can find anything for $500 that doesn't require considerable additional investment. I didn't intend to participate but out of curiosity I looked around to see what was available for $500. Maybe I looked in the wrong place, but I couldn't find anything close. So to the participants who manage...well done.