We tossed a few ideas around, including making the Volvo look like a crash test car, giant cardboard box, and giant robot head. Then Chuck Chuck’s wife suggested a Lego theme, and everyone latched on, so now we are planning to attach Lego nubbies to the top of our car somehow, and acheive this effect:
Today we picked up the Turbo Brick. It has been sitting in the grass for a year, so it developed some surface rust on the underside, and in the engine bay. The last 6″ of the exhaust pipe rusted off the car, and was laying in the leaves. But, it started up, and drove well. [...]
We’ll we started with 5, but Leigh bagged out. So, Chuck asked his old friend from North Carolina, Jeremy, to join, and I asked my friend, Keith, who also happens to be a primo VW & diesel mechanic who does all the work on my TDI. So, now we have a team of 6 again. [...]
Well, we read through all the rules for the 24 Hours of LeMons, and after adding in 2 fire suits, helmets, gloves, shoes, roll bar, etc, etc, etc, it looks like it is going to cost us between $600-$750 for a 6 person team. We can do it for less if we can undercut our [...]
Saturday 5/2 was the deadline for submitting our Team Essay for getting into the 24 Hours of LeMons race. After submitting it, I looked and found a total of 73 teams that had applied for entry to the LeMons New England race. They only accept around 20-30 teams into the race, so we had a [...]