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Hella Sweet Lemons Car of the Week: LemonAid Racing’s BMW-Powered Geo Metro

Ah, the lowly Geo Metro. With paper-thin sheet metal and a 1.0-liter, three-cylinder engine, the badge-engineered Suzuki Swift was the thrift-seeking driver’s dream in the 1990s. However, 24 Hours of...

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Hella Sweet Lemons Car of the Week: A Real (Bad) Quad 4-powered Oldsmobile W41

The Sheepshaggers, headed by a man known in the paddock as Kiwi Steve who some may know as a tech inspector at Speed Week, didn’t bring the first Quad 4-powered car to a 24 Hours of Lemons race, but...

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Hella Sweet Lemons Car of the Week: The Binford Tools Chevy Beretta

Remember the Chevy Beretta? If you grew up in the Midwest during the 1990s, you undoubtedly saw them parked everywhere. Today, it’s rare to see two in a week (unless you’re attending Beretta Fest 2018,...

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Hella Sweet Lemons Car of the Week: Turtle Eclipse of the Heart

The Turtle Eclipse of the Heart Mitsubishi Eclipse that showed up to race at 24 Hours of LeMons’ Summit Point Raceway race in 2013 was really a trifecta of goodness: a first-rate team name, a man...

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Hella Sweet Lemons Car of the Week: Dust ‘n’ Debris Plymouth Duster

The 24 Hours of Lemons’ organizers and correspondents often point out that the K-It-Forward Plymouth Reliant must be the worst car in Lemons history. In reality, it seems that any of Chrysler’s K-based...

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Hella Sweet Lemons Car of the Week: Little Lebowski Urban Achievers’ Volvo 245

Back in 2013, I came up with a metric called “Domination Factor” for comparing the relative performance of car types in Lemons races. We don’t bog you down with deatils, but the relevant piece of...

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Hella Sweet Lemons Car of the Week: Gone in 60 Characters Ford Contour SVT

We tend to think of the best 24 Hours of Lemons cars as oddballs, garage-engineering masterpieces (or disasters), or unlikely race machinery for road racing. However, occasionally a Lemons car’s...

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Hella Sweet Lemons Car of the Week: The Bodge Engineering RoLex

Engine swaps! We love engine swaps in the 24 Hours of Lemons, and the more ridiculous the swap, the more we like it. Some great Lemons swaps are done just because a genius engineer wanted a fabrication...

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Hella Sweet Lemons Fail of the Week: Bad Company’s Acura RSX

The Acura RSX has started to show up in the 24 Hours Lemons and it’s easy to dismiss it as a “new” car. However, they are more than 15 years old at this point and can be found, a little bit at least,...

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Hella Sweet Lemons Car of the Week: The Ho-Chunk ‘Jeep Cherokee’

Every so often, a car shows up unexpectedly to a 24 Hours of Lemons race and blows away the staff like the Azz Backwards F-150 pickup truck some years ago. At the recent Cure for Gingervitis race at...

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