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Caught this one over the weekend:  "We'll use better duct tape tomorrow."

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RobL wrote:

Caught this one over the weekend:  "We'll use better duct tape tomorrow."

I think I have used the phrase, "Randy, can you grab some of the REALLY good duct tape"...as if there were more than 3 grades...oh, wait..never mind.

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Overheard a female staff member in Lemons HQ at Sonoma this weekend. When asked if the air fresheners in the "free crap" bin smelled OK, her reply was, "No, they smell like date rape".

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Conversation over possible Lemons Car, Acura TL, as the oil dipstick is removed bone dry.

Buyer: "Hey, you know this engine doesn't have any oil in it"

Seller: "That's an easy fix."

Buyer: "You are right, put some in before the next person looks at this car."

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Judge Mary this weekend to a driver; Get out of the car because you apparently have run out of talent.

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In the middle of an engine swap at MSR:

"Hey, wanna hear something funny?"

"Ha-ha funny or oh-no funny?"

"...Mopar funny."

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SpaceFrank wrote:

In the middle of an engine swap at MSR:

"Hey, wanna hear something funny?"

"Ha-ha funny or oh-no funny?"

"...Mopar funny."

...and this makes perfect sense to some of us.

"He attacked everything in life with a mixture of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which."   -Adams, Douglas.   The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

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As I put on a picture caption:

Driver: It's twitchy, and has no grip. (this after one double-yellow warm-up lap)
Me: Great! It's working perfectly then!

Judge Mary, after I (got) spun later in the day: Sooo... It's Twitchy, and has no grip?

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This thread is gold and needs reviving. Surely after 2 years, there's been enough idiotic banter to fill a few more pages. I will commence. After a smoke-billowing wheel lock up leading into turn 13 (the Ridge Complex) that resulted in a tooth chattering vibration every time I (and anyone after me) drove down the front straight, I said to car owner and head Stooge Jay St. Claire, "I think I developed a small flatspot"

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OK...in pursuit of our first IoE in the Dustbuster our Chief Mechanic and at that time a driver coined the phrase, "Just going to Walmart" when we had to take the pace down due to running Autozone gold pads on Sunday.

Not sure which drive thought it up first but when we decided to turn down the wick a bit on the 1948 Plymouth on Sunday to ensure the IoE again by finishing black flag and mechanical issue free, someone called out over the radio "Just going to the Five-and-dime".

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I've been collecting a few on the side, for the next edition, if it happens.

Here they are: (My favorite is the second quote.)

Arizona event. 2000 miles in the bread truck. To quote Aaron: "It's like running a lawnmower flat out in your living room while cooking a pot of diesel fuel on the stove."

Mark Audacity Romberg: "Four off shouldn't be a flag if it was only for a little while."

Bernhard 17:15 - "Preparedness is next to Godliness" (Jonathan Lepore? )

Bryan Heselbach: I seem to recall that a spinning car always has the right of way.

Rachel Jane Moulton Forster: Spoiler = race car. Two spoilers = Lemons race car.

Julian Cordle - Lemons Racing Problems: "I can't see the point-by from the driver in that Vanagon because the seat-mounted dreadlocks are all over the place and in the way."

Christopher Blizzard - At work. Lemons weekend hangover is totally a thing, people.

yukadas (at an old-time hardware store) - Me: Do you know what feels really good on these nuts? Teammate (without looking up): Don't ever say that to me again.

Jay Lamm -  Not showing up was just another way of losing.

Space Frank - Why just kill when you can overkill?

The Engineer - For the record, old coolant is delicious.

Rich Chesavage? - There will be a day when myself and an engineer who designs serpentine belt routing schemes meets in an alley. One of us will be found strangled by a cord wrapped in the least intuitive manner.

Eric Meservey? - An Air Force truism I just read, that I think also applies to Crapcan racing: 'The only time when you have too much fuel is when you're on fire.'

Weston Malott - Do you ever finish a Lemons race and say to yourself "damn that was fun, but I have too much money left over?"

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Overheard at Sonoma Season Ender 2016

"Oh, so that's what we did. We put the brake fluid in the starter and the starting fluid on the brakes."

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James - "Hey you know it's overheating?"
Me - "yeah, it's been doing that all day"

I learned something about how to tell if a motor's about to go that day

(sorry Mike)

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"Is there fuel in this thing?"

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When I went 4 wheels off at Gingerman 2 years ago...Judge Phil asked me what happened.

"I was trying to pass the Imperial and  I ran out of talent!" 

Not only was that true...but it also made him laugh.

At Road America on another team one of our guys spun off the track, when asked about why he was on the grass he said "Well TECHNICALLY I was still on the tarmac!!"   because he had spun off the track but managed to slide into one of the old skip barber sections...and thus had not actually gone on the grass...the judges were not amused.

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Tiptoe the rat wrote:

When I went 4 wheels off at Gingerman 2 years ago...Judge Phil asked me what happened.
"At Road America on another team one of our guys spun off the track, when asked about why he was on the grass he said "Well TECHNICALLY I was still on the tarmac!!"   because he had spun off the track but managed to slide into one of the old skip barber sections...and thus had not actually gone on the grass...the judges were not amused.

I think I was there for that one, atleast if it was Russian who was the one penalized.  It wasn't that he spun, he actually turned onto that road for some odd reason.  The odd part was that everyone who was up by the penalty box that had been out on the track seemed to have no idea where that was since it didn't really feel part of the flow of the track, plus it hadn't been used in years so it had a bunch of weeds growing in the cracks of the tarmac.

Since that race they have repaved and started using it as a way to make 2 shorter course options though.

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MechiMike - I recently pointed out to a team mate that our LTD is on its 4th engine, 2nd transmission, and 3rd set of rear gears.  He replied, "and, somehow, only it's 2nd set of tires".

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m610 wrote:

MechiMike - I recently pointed out to a team mate that our LTD is on its 4th engine, 2nd transmission, and 3rd set of rear gears.  He replied, "and, somehow, only it's 2nd set of tires".

Thanks, I was actually going to repost that here.  :-)

When working on the car a few months ago, the team was bantering on about children and married life.  I was under the car, doing something on the rear axle trailing arm, and I said "After our son is born [my wife was pregnant with our second child at that point], I don't think we're going to have any more kids."  This was followed immediately by a statement related tot he task I was performing at the moment, "I need another nut."

We were all doubled over laughing for about 5 minutes.

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Pete Peterson - You have to slather it in duck-tape. Judges can't see through duck-tape. (It's like kryptonite.)

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"I am used to power door mirrors" which led to "does the cruise control work?"
and I replied, "I use it all the time, set it at 85 and hold on."

Then later when it came back nor running he tells me, "you didn't say what temp it should run at."
"What temp was it showing?"
"Oh 240 maybe a little more."
I just walked away.

"And you didn't tell me it bucks violently at 7 or 8 thousand."

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We had a thing with the Duff car for a while where if you braked hard, then turned hard left, the engine would burp motor oil out the dipstick tube onto the exhaust manifold and briefly envelop the car in a thick cloud of smoke.

My teammate Ricky was standing with the Brad, the event organizer, at a non-LeMons track day at CMP, watching me compete in a time trial. At T1 and T11 the radio would light up with comments that the Duff car was on fire, but by the the next turn it would be fine so they wouldn't flag me in. Brad asked Ricky if the car continually catching fire was a problem and if they should bring me in. Ricky said "No, it does that", end of conversation.

"It does that" has since become a team motto.

Everybody grab your brooms, it's shenanigans!

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rmcdaniels wrote:

We had a thing with the Duff car for a while where if you braked hard, then turned hard left, the engine would burp motor oil out the dipstick tube onto the exhaust manifold and briefly envelop the car in a thick cloud of smoke.

My teammate Ricky was standing with the Brad, the event organizer, at a non-LeMons track day at CMP, watching me compete in a time trial. At T1 and T11 the radio would light up with comments that the Duff car was on fire, but by the the next turn it would be fine so they wouldn't flag me in. Brad asked Ricky if the car continually catching fire was a problem and if they should bring me in. Ricky said "No, it does that", end of conversation.

"It does that" has since become a team motto.

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So this isn't a Lemons racing quote, it's from the high school team I am working with for a vintage car Rally event:

Quote from conversation with dad this morning:
Kid: *quotes something about wheels falling off a car at a race*
Dad: I hope that doesn't happen to you
Kid: That was from a race for crapcans from the bottom tier of Craigslist.
Dad: Yes, but y'all are racing a crap car from the middle of Craigslist

Racing cars is for rookies. Racing crapcans takes balls.

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I have not read all the quotes, but the ones I did read remind me of watching a movie trailer where all the funniest lines from the movie are in the trailer.  Only in this movie the rest of movie just has a lot of, "Oh shits."

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In NJ this year I heard a guy who I assume was the car owner (something German IIRC) say something I thought I would never hear in Lemons: "...if the check engine light comes back on just bring it back in..." or something like that.  I am sure that on most of these cars that is the first thing to get cut out if it is not already burnt out to begin with smile