Project Frankenmiata – Failure is ALWAYS an Option
Project Frankenmiata: Failure is ALWAYS an Option by Dave Coleman It would be easy to mistake the Eyesore Racing 24 Hours of LeMons juggernaut for a polished, finely…
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Angry Hamster EVO II: Holy Crap, I drove it! (and now I’m deaf)
Angry Hamster EVO II Holy Crap, I drove it! by Dave Coleman It takes 3 or 4 stalls to get rolling with only 1 liter of torque, no flywheel and…
LeMons at Le Mans – Part 2
From LeMons to Le Mans, Eyesore Racing's Victory Tour Part 2: More Than You Ever Wanted to Know About the Le Mans-Winning Corvette's Air Conditioner. by Dave Coleman…
From LeMons to Le Mans – Part 1: Le Mans Night Practice
From LeMons to Le Mans, Eyesore Racing's Victory Tour Part 1: Le Mans Night Practice by Dave Coleman Northern France is, in a word, Iowa. The two…
24 Best Cars at the 24 Hours of LeMans
How did we know we were finally getting close to Le Mans? Morgans, that's how. When you see 7 of those whatchamacalit modern, BMW-powered Morgans in a land of Schitroens,…
Technobabble – The Garden Sprayer That Won 2 Championships
Technobabble – The Garden Sprayer That Won 2 Championships By Dave Coleman Ten years ago, I moved into a hundred-year-old Victorian house in Orange, California. Splitting rent four ways, virtually…
Frankenmiata Dyno Secrets Revealed!
Frankenmiata: Dyno Secrets Revealed For The First Time! by Dave Coleman One of the best things about LeMons (and there are a lot of great things…) is the complete engineering…
Technobabble (blog) – Help Us Help You Avoid Tetanus!
Technobabble (blog) – Help Us Help You Avoid Tetanus! by Dave Coleman 6 themes, 9 races, over 150 hours on the track, and our bucket of bolts is only…
Tire Test, LeMons Style: Falken Azenis RT615-K
The typical new tire introduction goes like this: The new Pazoosy Jaberwoky XR 745 Ultra R Super Star uses triple-inverted diagonal ply Inconel belts and a directional, asymmetrical tread pattern…
FrankenMiata – Handling with a Hacksaw
Best-Engineered Cars of Lemons – The FrankenMiata Part III: Making it handle with a hacksaw. by Dave Coleman The FrankenMiata is a handling machine. Sure, it slices through fields of $500…
Best Engineered Lemons #3 – The Angry Hamster PART II
The Best-Engineered Cars of LeMons #3 Part II: the Angry Hamster Gets an Engine Last week, we introduced you to the Angry Hamster, and showed you how much cutting and…
Best Engineered Lemons #3 – The Angry Hamster Z600
The Best-Engineered Cars of LeMons #3 – the Angry Hamster Honda Z600 What you are about to see is a ridiculous feat of LeMons engineering. At 1400 lbs and 116…
The Best Engineered Lemons – #2 the MetroGnome
The Best-Engineered Cars of Lemons #2 – the MetroGnome You think the big story here is sportbike power in a Geo Metro, but you're wrong. The big story is the…
Best-Engineered Cars of LeMons
The Best-Engineered Cars of LeMons By Dave Coleman The 24 Hours of LeMons is recognized as many things. Incredibly stupid. Safer than OxyContin. A flagrant waste of natural resources.…
FrankenMiata: Part I – Freebuilding the Engine
FrankenMiata: Part I – Freebuilding the engine By Dave Coleman There is a moment of magic at the end of every engine build. It's that mysterious and suspenseful instant when a…
EVENT COVERAGE: 24 Hours of LeMons – Buttonwillow Histrionics 2009
Text and photos by Jeff Naeyaert (Click any image to view full gallery) I took a trip to the high desert this weekend to shoot the 24 Hours of LeMons…