1st lemon advice (Page 1 of 2)

If it's light enough (under 4200lbs at the factory), or you can get it waivered (contact link up top), DO IT.

... And I hope you're a hell of a mechanic and fabricator. I'd also recommend buying a Miata or E30 or something equally lame, stupid and reliable to run a few races in the meantime, so you can concentrate on building that thing properly and get your teammates addicted so they don't bail when that project goes full on nuclear crazy.

YES yes YES

I like it!

Don't paint it or theme it.
The car itself is theme enough.

Exactly what I was thinking.  I mean, just look at it!  I don't think it can be improved upon.

Did a little research, and I found that the car only weighed 3300 lbs - ish.  The weight shouldnt be much of an issue.  The handling the suspension, hmmm...  That will be quite suspect.  The steering should be crappy, & the brakes worse. 

As long as the floors prove to be solid enough,  I'm tempted to run it as is, and spend my remaining budget on motor & gearbox.  Wheelbase seems to be in pick-up truck range(121 in.).  I could mount the body to a Silverado frame & enjoy all of the handling benefits gained there...   It would be added weight(maybe too much) but sadly, might be an improvement. 

I don't think I want to butcher the car too much unless the floors & chassis are shot, in which case, it's anything goes.  Gonna go look at the car in person this weekend!

Wow!!  That is the very one!  Or should I say 2?  Just need the one, but if he won't part them, I could sell off one to offset the price.  Not sure if there is a huge market for those cars though.  I guess I could build 2 Lemons!

Lolololol

Is that what you think of us? Hell bent on self-abuse?

Or are we more MacGyvers of the motorway: Making it work with what we got

Sure, but it's those fully-covered wheel wells that make it so remarkable. You really wouldn't want to change that. Plus just think of the aero gains that you get from it

Uncovering those wheels is the last thing I want to do to this beauty.  In fact the more I think about it, the less I want to molest this thing.  Yeah, it's gonna have a bastard of a drivetrain, but when it rolls out to the track, I think it should look pretty much as it does in the picture. 

People are starting to question my sanity, but I must have this car!! (s)  My team thus far consists of 1 guy who isn't a mechanic, 2 guys that are half assed with a wrench, and one guy who can weld.(and has a welder) 

maybe it seems far-fetched, but I've heard, where there's a wheel, there's a way.  And with 2 cars, that makes 8 wheels!  That's a lot of ways!

I have a feeling this is going to be one of the worst planned hair brained ideas I've ever had.

Oh yeah, and thanks a lot for encouraging me, guys...

Let's see our team consisted of a computer programmer, an unemployed corporate trainer, an insurance adjuster and a college activities director.  And we built the damned Wartburg.

Buy it, make it so.  Dropping it on a truck/crown vic/caprice chassis is just plain simple.

Our car was neither beat into the ground nor wrecked.  Most Lemons competitors give respect to the oddballs along with a wide berth.  Ours now lives on to begin her transformation into a street cruiser which shall prowl NJ in search of unsuspecting teens in their hondas.

Here here!

I often hear that something is "too good to LeMonize," but how many of these cars were really going to be picked up by collectors, restored and then set to concourse.  I'll give you a hint, the answer is somewhere between 0 and 1.  Lemons projects a. get finished, b. get driven and c. receive more status and acclaim that almost any "restored" vehicle. 

Build it, race it, break it, fix it, race it again.