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LeMons racers really need to be ready for the unpredictable to take place on the track; sometimes you'll whack into the wall , sometimes you'll blow up , and sometimes other drivers will make apparently unwise decisions. Here we see a nicely edited video, put together from in-car footage shot in the Pandamonium Racing BMW during the 24 Hours Of LeMons Arse Freeze-A-Palooza race last weekend. We see some drivers who have Chicane Perception Disorder, an extremely ill-considered track reentry by an off-roading Mustang, the Unsafe At Any Speed Chevy Corvair showing some funky handling characteristics, and much more. The Pandamonium driver's shouted comments on the action really add comedic value here. When you're done here, be sure to check out LeMons Supreme Court Justice Lieberman's 20 Coolest Cars Of The Arse Freeze list. Thanks to Adam of Pandamonium Racing for sending this in!
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LeMons racers really need to be ready for the unpredictable to take place on the track; sometimes you'll whack into the wall , sometimes you'll blow up , and sometimes other drivers will make apparently unwise decisions. Here we see a nicely edited video, put together from in-car footage shot in the Pandamonium Racing BMW during the 24 Hours Of LeMons Arse Freeze-A-Palooza race last weekend. We see some drivers who have Chicane Perception Disorder, an extremely ill-considered track reentry by an off-roading Mustang, the Unsafe At Any Speed Chevy Corvair showing some funky handling characteristics, and much more. The Pandamonium driver's shouted comments on the action really add comedic value here. When you're done here, be sure to check out LeMons Supreme Court Justice Lieberman's 20 Coolest Cars Of The Arse Freeze list. Thanks to Adam of Pandamonium Racing for sending this in!
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LeMons racers really need to be ready for the unpredictable to take place on the track; sometimes you'll whack into the wall , sometimes you'll blow up , and sometimes other drivers will make apparently unwise decisions. Here we see a nicely edited video, put together from in-car footage shot in the Pandamonium Racing BMW during the 24 Hours Of LeMons Arse Freeze-A-Palooza race last weekend. We see some drivers who have Chicane Perception Disorder, an extremely ill-considered track reentry by an off-roading Mustang, the Unsafe At Any Speed Chevy Corvair showing some funky handling characteristics, and much more. The Pandamonium driver's shouted comments on the action really add comedic value here. When you're done here, be sure to check out LeMons Supreme Court Justice Lieberman's 20 Coolest Cars Of The Arse Freeze list. Thanks to Adam of Pandamonium Racing for sending this in!
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While Team Unsafe At Any Speed will be bringing a '65 Corvair to the Arse Freeze-A-Pa-Looza 24 Hours Of LeMons next month- thus snarfing the coveted Ralph Nader theme- they'll only be tying the record for Oldest LeMons Car Ever, since Team Field Find's Mercedes-Benz 190 was also a '65. Not only that, their car is safe at some speeds, because by '65 the Corvair had a Communist-mandated IRS rear instead of the patriotic swingaxle of the early models. UDMan , however, is made of sterner stuff, and he's gearing up to race a 46-year-old Corvair at next year's LeMons New England race… and he's looking for teammates! Make the jump to see all the photos and get his story, then vote on whether you think the car should still get a Ralph Nader theme. galleryPost('LNE09UDManVair', 3, '1963 Corvair Prepares To Race At LeMons New England 2009'); Should UDMan's Corvair race with a Ralph Nader theme, even after Team Unsafe At Any Speed's car makes...
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This is Down On The Street Bonus Edition , where we check out interesting street-parked cars located in places other than the Island That Rust Forgot . Key West, Florida, gave us the excellent Trusty Justy , and now has photographed a pair of VW Transporter competitors that still work for a living. Jump away to see all the photos and read his description. galleryPost('DOTSBEKeyWestFCVans', 6, 'Forward Control Vans Down On The Florida Street'); Hey man, Down in Key West I found two classic, American forward-control vans still rolling daily and parked on the street. You can find the photos attached.It's a GMC Handivan and a Corvair Greenbrier, two classic examples of America combating the Volkwagen Type 2. I saw the Greenbrier cruise past me the next day, driven by a woman no less. Cool! P.S: I also included a pic of the very...interesting...Key West Bible Class official van, which is very, very professional. DOTS FAQ
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We're going to stay in Orange County a while longer, heading from Costa Mesa to neighboring Huntington Beach. We'd mention that Huntington Beach is the official Surf City USA, only we'd probably get howls of outrage from Santa Cruz ; in any case, HB's climate is great for preserving old cars. ß®@ƒƒ spotted this unsafe-at-any-speed '61 in very nice shape- though not so sure those are the best-looking Corvair wheels we've ever seen- parked with the top down to facilitate photography. Do that jump thing to hear what ß®@ƒƒ has to say about his experience. galleryPost('DOTSBEHBCorvair', 8, '1961 Corvair Down On The Huntington Beach Street'); Saw this on the way home from the gym yesterday... which is pretty remarkable. Not the car, the fact that I went to the gym for the first time in 3 months and didn't pass out on the treadmill. Thanks, ß®@ƒƒ! Now let's listen to a catchy little tune from our favorite HB band:
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We're going to stay in Orange County a while longer, heading from Costa Mesa to neighboring Huntington Beach. We'd mention that Huntington Beach is the official Surf City USA, only we'd probably get howls of outrage from Santa Cruz ; in any case, HB's climate is great for preserving old cars. ß®@ƒƒ spotted this unsafe-at-any-speed '61 '64 in very nice shape- though not so sure those are the best-looking Corvair wheels we've ever seen- parked with the top down to facilitate photography. Do that jump thing to hear what ß®@ƒƒ has to say about his experience. galleryPost('DOTSBEHBCorvair', 8, '1964 Corvair Down On The Huntington Beach Street'); Saw this on the way home from the gym yesterday... which is pretty remarkable. Not the car, the fact that I went to the gym for the first time in 3 months and didn't pass out on the treadmill. Thanks, ß®@ƒƒ! Now let's listen to a catchy little tune from our favorite HB band:
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When commenter of the super-stars, Startlton_Heston , offered up some photos from the Lee Johnson Chevrolet 75th Anniversary Car Show we assumed there would be a dozen or so photos to throw into a gallery. Little did we know, although we probably should have assumed, Mr. Heston was insane enough (in the best way) to send us more than one hundred lovingly taken photos detailing 69 years of Chevy metal. Being Seattle, the VCCA meet was a little rainy. A report from the Omega Man as well as some more photos below the jump. 1930 Chevrolet Coupe galleryPost('vcca30chevycpe', 5, ''); 1931 Chevrolet Five Passenger Sedan galleryPost('vcca31chevy5', 6, ''); 1936 Chevrolet Standard Sedan galleryPost('vcca36chevystd', 3, ''); 1937 Chevrolet Coupe galleryPost('vcca37chevycpe', 6, ''); 1940 Chevrolet Business Coupe galleryPost('vcca40chevybus', 6, ''); 1941 Chevrolet Club Coupe galleryPost('vcca41chevycc', 3, ''...
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In a rare upset, a French car actually lost a Choose Your Eternity challenge! Not only that, front-wheel-drive triumphed over a rear-engined machine. Yes, the Fiat 128 Rally beat the Simca 1000GL in our last Project Car Hell! Today we're going to look at a pair of vehicles that do interesting things with the concept of scale : a tiny German Thunderbird or a huge Seattle Hot Wheels car. Anyone who doesn't like the idea of a 50-year-old front-wheel-drive German car that looks like a Thunderbird and gets its motive power from a three-cylinder two-stroker... well, you've come to the wrong website! And since the rest of you presumably want to walk the walk in addition to talking the talk, we've got just the project to fill that empty space in your garage and create an even emptier space in your wallet: this 1958 Auto Union 1000 SP , which is currently sitting at a nice friendly sub-$2500 price, with no reserve. This is one of the most complete 1000 SPs you're going to find...
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You know how all the 30-year-old British Leyland vehicles in England dissolved into heaps of reddish powder long ago? That makes us wonder how in the hell it was possible for a 45-year-old Chevy Corvair- one of the all-time rustophilic cars ever built- to thumb its nose at the odds and remain all bright and shiny in Colchester, England. The aptly-named Rust-MyEnemy caught this '63 in a parking garage and had low-end phone camera at the ready; read his description after the jump. galleryPost('DOTSBEColchesterCorvair', 6, 'British Corvair Somehow Avoids Rust'); Had just installed my car into a dent'n scratch-while-u-wait multi-storey car park, in Colchester (Britains oldest recorded settlement, fact fans), where I came across this here poorly photographed Corvair soft-top. I have an exceedingly wondrous top-o'-the-line cellphone with a 5 megapixel camera. Tragically, while I still own it, it's current location is somewhere in the vicinity of Tokyo station....
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Once again, Kitt finds us another cool car parked on the streets of Denver; this time she's persuaded the owner to open the doors and engine cover, in an obvious attempt to knock the DOTS crown from Alameda's dome. This time the car is a 1960 Chevy Corvair convertible, which, judging from its showroom-floor condition, doesn't live on the street all the time. Rudy Giuliani must be envious! Make the jump for many, many more photos. galleryPost('DOTSBEDenverCorvairTop', 6, 'Corvair Down On The Denver Street Part 1'); galleryPost('DOTSBEDenverCorvairJump', 48, 'Corvair Down On The Denver Street Part 2');
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When we found out from Eric at CorvairProject.com that the '66 Chevrolet Corvair convertible once owned by presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani is for sale, we spent a few minutes just imagining how great a Giuliani-versus-Nader presidential race would be. The debates might start out with Rudy trying to slap his customary "Hero of 9/11" label on every statement, but they'd quickly degenerate into a snarling match over GM's omission of a rear swaybar and collapsible steering column on the early Corvairs. Giuliani last owned the car in 1996 and it's been sitting ever since, so it probably needs months of some work. [eBay Motors] galleryPost('RudyCorvair', 6, 'Rudy Giuliani Corvair For Sale');
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