You go to a LeMons race to witness the barking mad, clapped-out
vehicles perilously navigate turns at 6 mph. You go to watch the
officiators utilise the “Wheel of Misfortune” to decide a punishment for
lousy driving, such as the “Mime Your Crime” penalty, where the driver
must paint their face in white and mime their infraction before being
allowed back on course.
At last weekend’s LeMons race at
New Jersey Motorsports Park, the premier of the Upside Down Race Car, a
Speedycop production created by the wackiest of LeMonsters, Jeff Bloch,
was revealed.
Under his Speedycop banner, Bloch
and his cronies have been famed for their Franken-wheel creations,
leading up to the debut of the Spirit of LeMons – a 1956 Cessna 310 and a
minivan engine blended to create a road-racing airplane. All in,
Speedycop has built 14 lemons over the years.
The Upside Down Race Car, despite looking like the results of a rough
street race, is a 1999 Chevy Camaro flipped on its lid and fitted with a
beat-up, 190,000 mile 1.3 liter Ford Festiva engine and subframe.
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