Topic: Lemons Book
Last year Corey and I started a small booklet for the museum exhibit that got canceled, and this year we are reviving it and have decided that something more comprehensive would be in order. As it was, only west coast teams would have been in it and that didn't seem right. So, how about a book with the provisional title:
Your Hooptie Guide to the 24 Hours of Lemons
Teams, Tales, and Other Stuff
where everybody can be in it.
With the interest there is in a yearbook I thought maybe teams would want to get together on something like this. The basic idea is for every team interested, send in some photos and text, enough to fill up to four pages. I'll insert them in the manuscript and will send back a copy of your entry for you to review. Your chapter would tell the story of your team in whatever manner and style you choose. Team formation, first race, technological innovations, each car in your stable, highs and lows, lover's quarrels, the arrive-and-drive you took out back and shot, that sort of thing.
Mostly Corey and I will be handling this. Maybe Lemons will want a hand in it at some point. I'll have to figure out something about getting fresh eyes to look it over before it goes to print.
Printing will be done by one of the online print-on-demand companies (Blurb, Lulu, MagCloud) and can be purchased online or at the museum, if they'll allow it in the door. Proceeds will go to the Speedway Children's Fund and the California Automobile Museum, 50/50.
At this time the "book" has four sections:
Fair Warning - about Lemons in general
Teams - articles written by the teams
Tales - collected stories, previously written or new, if you have one you want to tell.
Other Stuff - a glossary, acknowledgements, that sort of stuff
If we hustle on this it could be ready in time for Christmas. At the very latest I hope it can be finished by Feb 1.
Mike
P.S. Now would be a good time to tell me I am crazy for doing this.
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