Topic: Our Crappy, One-Car, Lemons Rally - Lansing to Seattle
With Bad-Decision-Mode fully engaged, We Four Idiots from the Northwest (Team WeFIN for now) are less than 2 weeks from taking delivery of our new-to-us Lemons racer. Being extremely SMART, we listened to all you jokers and bought a car that's previously passed Lemons Tech TWICE!! Plus, it even finished it's first Lemons event, like a boss! Then it DID NOT finish it's second race. But hey, the seller already rebuilt the engine, so what could go wrong.
Even though we were so SMART, we also felt, let's say, unchallenged. And cheap. To ensure properly initiating levels of aggravation and suffering required of any new team, we've opted to drive the car from Michigan to Seattle. We may, perhaps, also have no appreciation for the value of time.
Said car will be loaded with 2 drivers, personal gear, a spare engine, tranny, diff, other miscellaneous engine bits, two unused tires, and all front end bodywork (hood, fenders, bumper surround assembly. As our new steed is topless with a massively tall roll cage, we anticipate looking like a cross between a Chinese junk and Jed Clampett as we cross the northern prairies. We anticipate a 100% chance of being questioned by local authorities in at least 5 of the 9 states we will explore on our great adventure.
Special thanks in advance to LeMonation members Michael Krezner, Scott Booth and Marc Furhman. Comprising our LBDSN (Lemons Bad Decision Support Network), they'll likely ignore the strange call from a 206 number while we travel west through Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota. After that....we're F'd anywhere west of Fargo. Lucky for me, that'll be when we've handed the car off to idiots 3 & 4, who are young AND professional mechanics, and thus ideally suited for this leg of the journey.
Having procured a gaggle of GoPros, we endeavor to record, as a cautionary tale, our exploits. We may decide to also go all TWEEN on everyone and do Instagram or some other nonsense.
Watch this space for updates.
