Topic: New Texas Team officially started build on Friday Nov 13 2009
So yesterday three astute gentlemen banded together with a common cause, saving America. A mission, a pact. The 24 Hours of Lemons Win. The Overall, the Index of Effuluency, bathing in Nickels. Iconism. Winning a Bingo Championship before the age of 43.5. All goals we share, and we will work to attain in the epic battlefield known as Lemons.
Today we present to you, Rust in the Wind.
Hailing from Texas, the current trio brings an interesting resume to the Lemons field.
Derrick Rodgers, 28, Houston, TX. Currently finishing up his Math and Physics degree from Houston Baptist University in Houston, TX. He is the proud owner of a beat up Mazda Miata, and some other never-to-be-finished project that involves a Ls1 or something in a Miata with some sort of Ford rearend or something. Derrick was well-known for his 2004 success in Formula Drift and events across Texas in a blue-and-rust colored El Camino Drift car. He was also very well known within the Texas A&M Sports Car Club, and has built/helped build some of the best machines to come out of Texas that are competing in the Drifting circuits across the nation. Derrick also has several Auto-x championships under his belt, as well as being the 1st person in Texas to drive a skyline into a K-rail.
Michael Peters, 24, Huntsville TX. Currently finishing a Business Degree at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, TX, Mike brings a love for mustaches, sideburns, and cheap but awesome t-shirts and argile socks to the team. His daily weapon of choice is a 1995 Tomos Sprint, or a 2003 Dodge 2500 with a 5.9L Cummins Turbo Diesel. If you can get around the standup jetski parts in his garage you will also see a 1993 Nissan 240sx coupe he is building to replace his old drift car, which was the worlds 1st LS1 Powered S13 (240sx) in the world, and helped create an image for him after he drove the Bubba Drift/Flowmaster El Camino to the 2005 Formula Drift Rookie of the Year and 8th place finish in the points. Mike has dreams and aspirations of winning Lemons, and that John Denver really is a very under-rated American Hero. Like Derrick, Mike also has several wins/championships in several Autocross classes. His wheel to wheel experience however is limited to beating Wade Marcantonio on Gran Turismo two, and at Basketball, and several pie eating conests and buffet eat offs.
Wade Marcantonio is the 3rd Leg on the team. 23 Years old from San Antonio, Texas, Wade is ironically the youngest one of the three, and also the only one with a completed degree. Class of 2008 from Texas A&M's Mechanical Engineering Department, while Wade never dropped out of school to pursue motorsports like the other two, Wade has 2006 & 2007 Formula SAE Titles under his belt as he was Texas A&M's Driver of choice during their championship stints in those years. Wade also won the Chevrolet Rev-it-up challenge in 2006, scoring himself a free Chevrolet Cobalt for being the fastest competitor in the whole country. Wade enjoys playing video games, and spending time with his kitty-cat, Kidder, who does not like swimming pools as Mike Peters has discovered. Wade also has recently started a real estate agency, which is good since any expanding Lemons operation will need several yards to store crappy sub $500 projects that will never be finished.
The Team has chosen to go the non cookie-cutter route. No Miata, no Mustang, no E30 here. We have picked up a georgeous 19++ ++++++++++ +++++++ from a craigslist ad in San Antonio Texas. We were originally told the vehicle was $400, but after some hard negotiations, and the owners realization that since the vehicle was not marketed to the right target market (ballers), that the normal craigslist buyer just wouldn't appreciate the vehicle, and that he should indeed sell it to us for a grand price of $50.
We decided that a custom fabrication route would be a swell Idea, and we found a 1983 Mazda Rx7 for $100, and with a genuinely free stripped-down/wrecked/totalled/Russell-Walker-drove-thru-a-fence-at-gulf-greyhound-park modification to steal a couple parts off of we have our gameplan.
We will slowly update the progress, we're hoping to have our +++++++ rolling around by the end of the weekend, so now we're going to put down our Twix Bars, quit watching F1 videos, and quit buying products from firemeetsdesire.com
and get back to work.
If you would like to send us money, free candy, cool t-shirts or other items, or if you'd like to show America that your product is indeed the hottest stuffz evar, and you want the iconic males putting this vehicle together to endorse your product, please feel free to contact us.
To the other teams, Good luck, you're going to need at least one mustache to keep up with us, and probably some sort of foot propulsion, but keep in mind, all we are is Rust in the Wind.
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