Lemons Book (Page 2 of 9)

Not that anybody cares, but I'm tossing together something for our Milano.  Our Milano is in the rarified company of the K car as having run many races on both coasts.

Whatever you do, any proper Lemons book must include the Schumaker Taxi MR2/cheater motor acquisition story, you can find it in this thread:

http://forums.24hoursoflemons.com/viewt … p?id=21392

One of the funniest damn stories I've read!

bs

No idea.  They do post on this forum.  On their web site, you could try following the link to their forum, or to their Facebook page.

bs

Everybody is in. This is Lemons after all. Unlike Lemons, however, if the writing is terrible, we'll work together to fix it. (It won't be terrible, but some will be better than others, like Lemons.)

Team profiles should be easy enough to write since you know all the facts and creativity is optional. Just stick some pretty pictures in to cover for any mistakes.

I'm getting the feeling that lots of Lemons teams write about their adventures.

Someone woke me up?

Feel free to contact me via email from the forum.

I'll be sure to get something written up for our page Mike, love the idea and would love to contribute.

-M

Well... we may have a problem.

Last night I emailed Jay and Phil about this, to make sure the both knew what was going on with this and to get any input or suggestions or whatever regarding infringing on the Lemons brand, pitfalls they may see per their years in publishing, and maybe they'd even want to join the fun at some point.

Phil's reply was to check with him on the use of any Über Gallery photos because he didn't take all of them. Good to know.

Jay's reply was -- flattered, impressed, but no go. He doesn't see how this could be seen as an independent effort (Not an official (inside) Lemons thing) and that they were planning to do a compendium in the future.

Obviously I disagree with the first point, the second point sounds very interesting, and I can't help but wonder how much this has to do with the second point. I always felt they had to have a book project or three in mind and whatever these would turn out to be they would certainly be more colorful, coherent, and comprehensive that this project, and I would grab a couple copies of each as soon as they became available. But that's another story.  I won't go into this more here but will try to work this out with Jay.

There is a hell of a lot of story in Lemons. There's the big story of the culture Jay has created, something that probably merits a sociology text book dedicated to such things. And of course there are the stories of the individual races, and of individual teams. Lives have been changed! Story stuff! Hübner was so taken by his experience that he self-published his team's story. I've been considering doing something along those lines myself. I am sure a number of you have as well.

The more I worked on this project the more I was convinced it should be done. It was pure Lemons in spirit. Show up, write something, and you are in. Butt turrible writing or rollered Rustoleum writing, doesn't matter.  Just bring a decent theme and throw in a couple of pictures and you are good to go.

For the mean time, please keep sending stuff in. I'll paste it in and will make it look nice. If we never do get the book out, well, at least you'll get an attractive book-like reprint of your article to share with family and friends.

Mike

All right, I'll get to work on the Official Lemons Book.

This is still happening, but might be going a bit slow to make a Christmas deadline with enough material to feel this had enough in it to seem complete.

It wasn't that hard to strip out all LeMons-specific stuff, such as the race calendar going back to the beginning, the proposed article on penalties, and the Supreme court, stuff like that. What that leaves is what I think is most interesting, teams telling us who they are and why they do this, along with their own stories, in their own words, from the track, or garage, or divorce court.

Anyway, three submissions arrived today and I turned them around right away so the authors could review and revise as they see fit. Word count is now at 28,600, page count at 72, but many of those pages are place holders for teams I hope will send something in.

I haven't contacted Chump yet. I don't actually know anything about them except what I've read hear and from one Chump car guy I met at Bonneville who told me that if he ever sees a car like the Tinyvette at one of their races he is going to go out of his way to hit it. He probably didn't mean it, but he'd probably do it anyway. So even with that I'm still thinking of contacting Chump. I assume folks over there can read and will occasionally write.

Mike

Not sure why you'd want to get that other series involved, unless you're truly trying to ensure Jay and company will never bless the effort..

Mine is written, just need an hour at home to dig up a few pictures.

bs

Yeah but Jay and company know who the players are and know the crazy stories.  He has just as much ability to reach out to those teams that have a good story to tell and get that information.

While it may make more sense to be online, there is something special about having it as a physical book.

my teams Photographer made a book out of the pictures of the first to races.  While all of the pictures are available online plus a bunch more pictures the book just seems nicer, and people seem more impressed by the whole thing when you can give them a book to flip through then show them pictures on a website.

That being said, I'd still plunk down a few coins for a coffee table style book.