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Last Auto Account – Jalopnik Names Top 70 Lemons In Texas 24 Hours Of LeMons God absolve the irreverant association at Jalopnik, bedeviled as they are with the Cult of Cars. They ability occasionally resort to affecting account about, say, urea injection, but their top-ten (or top-70, in this case) lists are artlessly brilliant. We snagged a brace of our admired pics from their advantage of the The 24 Hours of ..Last Auto account –

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God absolve the irreverant association at Jalopnik, bedeviled as they are with the Cult of Cars. They ability occasionally resort to affecting account about, say, urea injection, but their top-ten (or top-70, in this case) lists are artlessly brilliant. We snagged a brace of our admired pics from their advantage of the The 24 Hours of LeMons Texas, but we appetite you to bang the above-mentioned hotlink and analysis out the 70-some-odd photos of beater-car brilliance.

For those of you not in the know, The 24 Hours Of LeMons has accomplished cult-status as a chase wherein old beater cars chase for primacy. One big catch: the chase is alone for cars “purchased, anchored up, and track-prepped for a absolute of 500 dollars or less.”

Prior to accomplishing a abode on the starting line, anniversary car have to accomplish it through a assembly of trials such as “the Personal-Injury-Lawyer Anti-Slalom, the Marxist-Valet Parking Challenge, and the Wide Open Throttle Rodthrowapalooza.” As you ability imagine, affluence of 500-dollar junkers yield their endure blow just aggravating to qualify.

Halfway through the 24-hour enduro, a adversary voted People’s Choice is awarded a banknote prize. And to accumulate the ying and yang in antithesis and the Gods of Racing appeased, a People’s Curse is aswell elected, and promptly destroyed by a mob wielding baseball bats, annoy band and added instruments of automotive torture.

Maybe I should access in my own beater, the 1982 Mercedes 300TD turbodiesel I’m prepping to yield from Atlanta to L.A. in December active on annihilation but acclimated veggie oil. I did buy it for $500 two years ago. But I’ve put in apparently ten times that bulk in repairs, so I assumption that makes me an burning DQ. Besides, the anticipation of affronted mob with baseball bats would accumulate me alive at night.–Colin Mathews

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