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We're going to follow the exploits of some of the 24 Hours of LeMons teams that have members who comment here regularly, and today's team is Freds4HB's Scuderia Punk Rock Chef. They're going to be racing a 1977 Datsun 280Z, they're based in the East Bay, and apparently the "chef" part of their name is for real. I hope that means they'll be whompin' up eatin' vittles for all of us! These guys and Team Porcubimmer have really set the bar high for team logo quality, so the rest of us better start making nice with our graphic-artist friends. [ScuderiaPRC]
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Since we're looking hard at the Datsun Z as a potential Team Jalopnik car for the May race at Altamont (though the Renault Fuego Turbo is the current favorite, followed closely by the Dodge Mirada), we've been following the progress of Team DDT's '79 280Z with great interest. They spent much of Day One among the top contenders... but some penalties and a nasty wreck toward the end of the session dropped them down to #22 by the time the dust settled. Things looked bad at first, but Team DDT is made of stern stuff... galleryPost('THL280Z', 6, 'Team DDT 280Z'); They managed to pick up five very thrashed 280Zs and 280ZXs for $500, including one that had already been used as a race car and had a cage ready to go. So they built a universal electrical control panel that they can just switch- along with the cage- between cars as they destroy them. Smart! Then there was a little mishap involving a Neon, the upshot of which was one Neon with the trunklid bashed into...
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