NJ 2016 race Youtube link

mz, your car was shown couple of times. congrats.
He did not walk to much around before making the video.
He should have stayed a bit into the saturday party. he would have learned a heck lot more.

Some great footage of the Chevette!

My biggest advice is to run whatever you have stock.  The more you screw with things, your reliability goes in the tank.  But the judges are more entertained when you try to be creative.

Yes, I agree, OnkelUno,bshorey...their comments about cars being worth more than $500 got a bit old and annoying, tiresome...but I liked the video, especially since my car was in them!...and I am very proud of my jalopy...for someone who has minimal racing and wrenching skills...and so far, >50% race finishing rate (barely), and some finished in the top 50%!
But take into account that they have a nooby perspective....and don't understand that for most of the cars, if you were to cut out the cage, remove the seat and harness, slap some old steelies on them with worn tires, and advertise on CL "rusted 20 year old car with no seats, not street legal, and a engine, tranny, and suspension that can break any time"....would not sell for $500.  And I thus I think they don't realize how difficult it is to race such old, run down cars but in the correct hands could run a 14.5 hour race at such speeds, without blowing up...it is amazing to me....I just thought it was an interesting perspective from someone who does not really understand or experienced Lemons racing

Maybe best watched with the sound off....

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Obligatory Wawa stop. Haha.

I'll give him a pass on the $500 comments, even if he doesn't sound not all that familiar with how nuts aircooled prices are now. :'( (You can still get $500 Beetles, though. Just gotta look. Hard.) "I kannat beliebe dat is $500!!!1!1" is like, most of the internet. And of course, the boring Bimmers don't make it in the recap videos. Lemons doesn't care about those cars unless they do something unexpectedly awesome/dumb/exceptional/whatever. (I'd also argue that it's a fan-friggin'-tastic thing that there aren't many Miatas at that race for just that reason.)

Either way, "Butt Turrible"-ing the Penna. Turnpike gets this man bonus points. He rambles about allegedly-non-$500-cars, but really? You can't take this caca too seriously, or you'll go nuts, or worse: start to sound like the Real Racer(TM) forums.

I checked out his YouTube channel, and they are tearing into a wornout Impreza.  Hopefully they can get a cage in it in time for NH.
https://youtu.be/DXH-Mq-Hw4Y
They are a PA team, so hopefully a fellow Lemon team can help "guide" them into entering this great racing series.
Their video has an email address.
Yes the "I can't believe that's $500" did get old, but they will learn.
I wish them the best of luck in getting on track and turning laps.

"A lot of cars out here are super prepared, tons of fabrication..."

Oh man, this chap will learn just how minimal preparation a lot of teams actually do to get on track.

Hopefully they stick with it. Subaru 2.2 is a tough way to go for a first-time team, but it seems to be what a lot of teams north and east of the Mason-Dixon line are familiar with. As long as they bring spare motors and transmissions they'll at least have something to do when their first motor spins a bearing 2 hours in and/or the glass Subaru synchronizers shred themselves. Here's hoping they'll make in on track before too long and come over to SFPR for a beer or a board meeting.