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Those of you who watch a lot of automotive TV shows are probably familiar with Year One's Keith Maney, who appears on My Classic Car, Dream Car Garage, American Muscle Car, Hot Rod TV, MuscleCar TV, Horsepower TV , etc. What you may not know about is Keith's insidious influence on this site; both yours truly and Andrew Stoy worked for Keith at YO (along with Driveshaft Through The Skull creator Walker Canada and military-vehicle expert commenter Clinto ), and he's a bad, bad influence on anyone who might want to retain some semblance of vehicular sanity. Naturally, I figured he'd be perfect for the 24 Hours Of LeMons , and he agreed that building a car for next year's LeMons South race would be a fine idea. The initial plan was to use "The World's Rustiest '78 Trans Am," conveniently sitting in the woods behind Year One's Georgia HQ, but that's not what happened… galleryPost('KeithDatsunHell', 3, '1969 Datsun Roadster Heading For...
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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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Yesterday you all got a gander at the wiped out B210 . A commenter who goes by the suspicious handle of " Kelly " earlier asked: Why would he not conitnue??? The car is *still* in better shape than some of the others were, at the start of the race! All the tires appear to hold air, none of the wheels are horribly outta whack, at least it's not obvious... You gotta figure anything which was loose inside has been shaken out, so, if anything, it'll be lighter and ever faster than before!!! So a top speed of maybe, what, 37 MPH? Here's the deal... galleryPost('damageddatsun', 6, 'Two Heroes'); I ran into the driver who rolled the B210. Apparently, the wheels are designed to handle 185 tires. However, they were running 225s. That said, he thinks the right rear wheel may have cracked. He felt the B210 shudder, tried to correct once or twice and the next thing he knew the is driver's side door pointing at the sky. Did he roll it? He thinks so, once or...
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First of all, the driver is fine. Totally, absolutely, 100% fine. Second, I feel like a gosh darned ambulance chaser. Stories are (of course) conflicting, but the accounts range from him winding up on the door, to rolling three times and winding up on his roof. The truth? Somewhere in between. They just lifted the red flag, and all the cars that can (a few teams have been triple-black flagged and are done for the night) are back out on the track. We'll keep you posted. Also, I heard the damn Diants lost to the double-damn Patriots. So, I'm out another fifty bucks. Back to work! (Jump for pre-crash shots of the mighty Datsun) galleryPost('busted210', 6, 'Post Crash B210'); galleryPost('pre210', 6, 'Pre Crash Datsun B210');
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