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It's 2:00 AM on race day in a nondescript warehouse farm just outside of Detroit. Bryan and I are bending the roll cage hoop while Bill cuts the mounting plates and Ben notches tubing. Our Celica-turned-race car sits dejectedly on jack stands, gutted and ready for welding. Preparation work that normally takes weeks is being compressed into two days and crucial safety equipment is being fabricated on a college-term-paper timeline. A final pull on our tubing bender and a vital component of the tool breaks. This is racing. It had been 24 hours of non-stop work, final checks and double checks, desperate scavenging for tools and parts which under normal circumstances would take weeks to acquire, but favors are called in, neighbors lend a helping hand, and the impossible becomes possible. We manage the installation with no time to spare, and the skies have opened up and poured down flooding rains upon Detroit, slowing our rush to the track We arrived at Toledo Speedway about an hour after...
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We've been keeping most of the details under wraps up until this point, but we've been feverishly prepping an entry for this weekend's 2008 Detroit(ish) 24 Hours of Lemons at the Toledo Speedway . We won't go into how long we've had to transform this 1988 Toyota Celica GT-S from a police-auction special into a rip-roaring Lemons machine, but suffice to say, it's not been nearly long enough. The frantic work pace is evident in that it took us but 6 hours to go from "fully complete road car" to "stripped down and ready for a cage." Battling time and the parts counter, we're coming into the final build day confident of success. galleryPost('24htoledo', 6, '1988 Toyota Celica GT-S Prepping For Lemons'); These shots come at you from the first build day, and we're not planning on showing the finished result 'till we get it all done. It has been a battle of wills at times, with enough busted knuckles and extremely late nights...
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