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apheaps roulez 24 hours of lemons hits louisiana once again wednesday nov 17 2010 automotive 500 24 hours of lemons beaters cars clunkers endurance racing lemons racing sketchler 18 48 you heard right it s the time of year again the 24 hours of lemons is back in full force if you haven t heard of the series well shame on you i m here to help though many moons ago lemons chief perpetrator jay lamm decided to take all of the glitz and glamour of the classic 24 hours of lemans endurance race and flush it down the proverbial shitter just like lemans this is a 24 hour endurance race testing not only the drivers skills but also their pace their stamina and their ability to keep a car running for an entire day except that these cars can t cost any more than five hundred dollars the result of course is a race filled with miserable clunkers festooned with hilarious decoration combined with two badass judges with even badasser facial hair and with a penchant for hilariously humiliating penalties it makes for an utterly hilarious weekend in the words of the lemons perps and i may be paraphrasing racing isn t just for rich idiots anymore now it s for all idiots well if these idiots are anything like the cajun jihad team from last year pictured below then i say let em run wild i bought a fancy 3g plan for my fancy new ipad and my friend derek is bringing his fancy camera i ll be covering the race from the race all weekend and i ll be doing so over at the hooniverse see you there one response how to make a v8olvo for over 500 friday jan 8 2010 automotive 940 v8 v8olvo volvo sketchler 12 16 you might think this volvo 940 is owned by someone with a refined sense of irony you re probably right you re probably wrong too after noticing the oversized exhaust pipe the r type wheels and the gauges running up the a pillar i figured i might actually be onto something i know the v8olvo has been done before and for under five hundred dollars but if you ve got more cash than that why stop there in the name of truth my brother who just acquired a volvo 940 himself and i elected to eat our mr roo s po boys inside instead of at home we took a seat near the window to make sure it didn t run away and near po boy s end we saw two men walking up to it i stepped okay ran out of the restaurant and asked the man what he had under there ls1 wanna see unlikely but possible indeed be sure to check out the full size photo for maximum effect we ll be following suit in about three years i think you re next 2 responses 1969 chevrolet kingswood sunday jun 14 2009 automotive 1969 chevrolet down on the street family values kingswood mean ass cruiser station wagon sketchler 12 13 there was a time at which much of the common man s life aspirations and disposition could be determined simply on the basis of which chevrolet he owned before the days of meaningless trim levels like st and glx grand luxury excitement a car s equipment level and often its bodystyle were directly affected by the name carried on its flank i d venture to say that everyone s pretty familiar with the sedans by now the bel air had been the name of gm s full size car since 1950 in 58 the lesser biscayne was first offered for the budget conscious and in that same year the impala name came to represent their halo model complete with the six taillight design that would come to represent the impala for years 1965 brought the caprice an even more high zoot model than the impala and a nameplate that would stick around for better or much worse until 1996 the impala was the best selling of all the models still cheaper than the equivalent olds pontiac buick or caddy but well equipped think of it this way most of the camrys you see clogging up our roads are le models which falls nicely between the dx ce and the xle as the mid range reasonably well equipped trim this is exactly the role the impala filled four decades ago a man who drove a bel air just wanted a standard family sedan on his modest means a biscayne owner was a no frills kind of dude who didn t need eight cylinders or power brakes a caprice man was either aspirational or a chevrolet executive that couldn t be caught driving anything else got a family get a wagon simple well that changed in 1969 you see in that year chevrolet thought it prudent to give entirely new names to the full size wagons the spartan brookwood complemented the biscayne the townsman was counterpart to the bel air the kingswood was a wagon shaped impala and the big money kingswood estate replete with wood paneling paneling wood paneling and a slightly upgraded interior everything but the brookwood was v8 only as is appropriate this one looks like it could use a 427 power rear windows three row seating it s a shame more average americans don t see these old wagons shift their desires and lobby and focus group detroit into giving us proper family cars again it s about time 11 responses midship amusement 1991 honda beat thursday apr 9 2009 automotive 1991 beat down on the street honda keicar midship amusement sketchler 20 45 me and the beat we go back a long way ever since that giant book of convertibles i had in something like first grade i ve remembered the beat because it stood out from the 56 cadillacs and 64 continentals and whatnot it d be a decade before i had any idea what the hell keicar meant but to this day among the honda that s and the suzuki mightyboy the mitsubishi town box and daihatsu move for me the beat stands alone japanese automotive taxes are quite strict very specific size displacement and power regulations group cars into categories determining the road tax they must pay japanese cars are more often than not designed to fit snugly into these categories to make them more attractive for potential customers japan s camry in the 90s was an entirely different car from the one all the export markets were given simply so theirs could be small enough to fit into a lower bracket than the export car these cars show japanese automakers most extreme efforts there s a very specific reason all the tiny cars you could buy in gran turismo had 660cc engines that made exactly 63 horsepower in march 1990 japan raised the k class maximum displacement from 550 to 660cc this may be the move that incited honda to show the world they could make a keicar exciting utilising a 656cc straight 3 with something called mtrec translation one throttle valve per cylinder the pininfarina penned beat made you guessed it 63 brake horsepower at 8100 rpm damn that s a lotta revs honda went on to sell the basic beat design in 1995 to mg who then used it to build the mg f which was the basis for the mg tf which hammond built into a limousine on top gear two years ago nice 23 responses 1941 cadillac saturday mar 14 2009 automotive 1941 cadillac down on the street i wanna be a balla shot calla sketchler 17 28 the 1941 cadillac what is there to say about a caddy a caddy back when a caddy was the car more specifically before the invasion of america by the germans that eventually led mercedes benz to be considered the epitome of luxury and the subsequent usurping of the throne in 1990 by the lexus ls400 cadillac was it back in the 50s and 60s i m told your net worth could be pinpointed by which gm branded car you drove the poor have chevrolets the slightly richer have pontiac the next step up drive oldsmobiles the reasonably well monied bought buicks and the real players all drove cadillacs like this one 1941 saw a whole mess of improvements and alterations to the cadillac the 1940 models excepting the sixteen was rather plain looking with a regular bar grille just like any ol chevrolet in 41 though the bar grille was replaced with an egg crate which simply exudes luxury somehow other improvements were made as well the headlights were mounted flush with the fenders for the first time on a cadillac one of the taillights flipped up to reveal the fuel filler and cadillac s first air conditioner was offered on this car although it was enormous and could only be turned off by removing a belt in the engine compartment more importantly 41 was cadillac s return to a one make one engine policy after discontinuing production of the series 90 or sixteen the 346 cid v8 powered everything they made mated to that engine was perhaps cadillac s most pivotal development yet and one that would arguably ruin the automobile for decades to come hydra matic the first fully shiftless transmission in the luxury class the hydra matic was developed by oldsmobile the year before and became an option on the caddy in 1941 however unfortunate it is that cadillac led to the removal of quite a lot of the purity and fun of driving it s a decision that makes sense a cadillac driver should not be required to do something so plebeian as shifting his own gears this is a task best left to someone else like a servant or a torque converter it doesn t seem like three on the tree would be quite as visceral as a proper stick i can t stay mad at you cadillac did i mention that the gas filler is part of the driver s side taillight fixture that needs to make a comeback 8 responses 1957 austin a35 monday feb 16 2009 automotive 1957 a35 austin down on the street old britannia tea and crumpets sketchler 14 28 hello i m austin the austin a35 was the successor to the austin a30 which was according to austin the new austin seven the seven was britain s equivalent to the model t ford wildly outselling every other car in britain throughout the 20s true to form the a30 was also very successful selling nearly a quarter million cars between 1951 and 56 austin s answer to the morris minor the a30 was one of britain s first monocoque designs this allowed high strength and low weight which allowed the 0 8 litre engine forty nine cubic inches take that america to give the austin a blistering top speed of at least 63 miles per hour the a35 featured such luxurious and upscale features as a painted grille with chrome surround replacing the a30 s chrome grille and actual blinking turn signals instead of semaphores or trafficators it was thus named because of the new more powerful 34 horsepower engine it therefore performed slightly better than the 28 horse a30 which took 28 seconds to get to sixty count that out then imagine merging onto a motorway cor it s a cute little thing though i wonder if this guy is using it to just run about town cause hey who needs a valid american number plate for that right 4 responses 1955 desoto fireflite saturday jan 31 2009 automotive 1955 desoto down on the street fireflite sketchler 21 06 in order to get this series off to a fortuitous start there are a few criteria i have to meet the first car in a dots series should be at least 50 years old should be from a defunct manufacturer and should have at least a three tone paint job this car has all three the fireflite was introduced as the top of the line desoto in 1955 with 255 horsepower huge for its day in that enormous body i bet this thing is a hoot to drive this beautiful car s master owns a store on magazine called sputnik ranch which specialises in cowboy boots but sells all kinds of other odd nicknack the gentleman crosses the street occasionally i ll sell him cigarettes and he ll tell me about some of his experiences with the car he s evidently registered the car on some sort of list that film companies use to solicit period correct cars in a certain area this car may well have starred in benjamin button design this elegant and this refined would reignite the public s desire for american cars i think why is it that all the raddest cars were made by all the companies that don t exist anymore oh and that s second to the best hood ornament ever rest of the gallery available here 6 responses stickshifts safetybelts bucket seats have all got to go saturday jan 31 2009 automotive cars down on the street jalopnik sketchler 19 45 i started this blog without any direction i m a fan no a connoisseur of a lot of things cars cigars movies music to varying extents i love them all i can t really review them all though music easy enough movies i have a netflix cigars well yeah but cars cars were my first love evidenced by late 80s video footage of me behind the wheel of mom s mazda 626 i ve had the driver s itch no not that one probably since birth or conception i started to fulfill that urge on a daily basis five or six years ago with a 1996 toyota camry v6 in white i loved the hell out of that car roary torque steery fun off the line no abs fun all over the place it was a solid ride through friends parents and jobs i ve driven a smattering of cars ranging from the pontiac grand am to the porsche cayenne s from the 1965 studebaker cruiser to the 2009 toyota land cruiser whether for half a minute or half a week and i have at least vague impressions of them all but there isn t a whole lot of content to write about and rarely have i been able to drive the version of the car i wanted to drive my dad went from an automatic is 300 to an automatic g35 the first may well have been on rails and the second accelerates like it has a few fiery twigs up its bottom but neither were as rewarding to drive as they could or should have been alameda explained some backstory the best blog on the interwebs has been gracing us with a feature entitled down on the street in which legendary minx murilee martin brings us photos of a different interesting old car every morning all shot on the streets of his native island of alameda he calls alameda the island that rust forgot the combination of old no garage construction always unsalted roads and somewhat wacky residents means the island is home to myriad largely unrusted vintage iron parked well down on the street uptown new orleans is a similar place no road salt we never need it no garages most of the houses were built before or near 1900 and no dearth of interesting folk create a perfect environment for the same kind of thing murilee finds in alameda and i ve been inspired so one of the functions of this blog at least is going to be the exposition of certain interesting and or old cars i see around the neighbourhood and elsewhere we open tonight leave a response blogroll firebird man phil the pill rust chronicles the hooniverse the truth about cars sketchpix more photos sketchtags 500 24 hours of lemons 940 1941 1955 1957 1969 1991 a35 austin beat beaters cadillac cars chevrolet clunkers desoto down on the street endurance racing family values fireflite honda i wanna be a balla jalopnik keicar kingswood lemons mean ass cruiser midship amusement old britannia racing shot calla station wagon tea and crumpets v8 v8olvo volvo blog at wordpress com subscribe subscribed the sketchpad sign me up already have a wordpress com account log in now privacy the sketchpad subscribe subscribed sign up log in report this content view site in reader manage subscriptions collapse this bar loading comments write a comment email required name 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