Re: Themes you'd like to see done
Paging lazy-ass, theme-less Miata teams who complain when they're handed penalty laps...
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It'd be better on a 914, X1/9, MR2, or Fiero. Otherwise the engine is just in the wrong end.
Is it too early for a two shots one splash cocktail theme?
It'd be better on a 914, X1/9, MR2, or Fiero. Otherwise the engine is just in the wrong end.
Put an air-cooled lawnmower engine back there in a fake engine bay to show at tech!
Parkwod60 wrote:It'd be better on a 914, X1/9, MR2, or Fiero. Otherwise the engine is just in the wrong end.
Put an air-cooled lawnmower engine back there in a fake engine bay to show at tech!
You could probably find a broken VW flat 4 pretty easily and stick that in the trunk.
How about a Red Fang-themed station wagon?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo8NFrmQ_S0
[Best music video ever, BTW.]
Ugh.
Six years ago my friend had 5 pallets of milk he needed to get rid of at his warehouse. I wanted to find a car to drive through it, but it never happened.
For all the themeless miata's
Since it was an English cartoon it means it would be Theme appropriate to have a giant white mouse on the right side of the car holding a steering wheel like he is driving.
Since I've lost faith that a real one will be found...
This...
...made from this.
When is the first backwards boat w/ angler-themed, outboard engine-powered Lemons car going to happen?
http://www.forumpictureprocessor.com/pi … 001_21.jpg
http://chicago.craigslist.org/nwi/boa/2240860909.html
I had a dream of an outboard powered transaxle car like a 944 or GTV-6. All you have to do is make an adapter for the driveshaft to fit on the crank splines and rig up the cooling system. Then you have 250hp of two stroke goodness that probably weighs less than 300lbs. Then I discovered that a complete power head that has any chance of running will run in excess of $1500. Killed my dream an outboard Alpha real quick. I also was thinking a rotary airplane engine, but again very expensive and that brings on other engineering issues. When is someone going to build a Lemons gem that has a bizarre powerplant? And I'm not talking a 2-stroke Saab engine for bizarre. Think outside of the box, like a Lemons racer powered by fish tank pumps. No engines that were originally designed for a car/motorcycle. Boat, plane, helicopter, locomotive, forklift, generator, golf cart, jet ski, tractor, power wheels, chainsaw, whatever really just not from a car or motorcycle. Like a minivan with 15 chainsaw engines in the back
Crab Spirits wrote:When is the first backwards boat w/ angler-themed, outboard engine-powered Lemons car going to happen?
http://www.forumpictureprocessor.com/pi … 001_21.jpg
http://chicago.craigslist.org/nwi/boa/2240860909.htmlI had a dream of an outboard powered transaxle car like a 944 or GTV-6. All you have to do is make an adapter for the driveshaft to fit on the crank splines and rig up the cooling system. Then you have 250hp of two stroke goodness that probably weighs less than 300lbs. Then I discovered that a complete power head that has any chance of running will run in excess of $1500. Killed my dream an outboard Alpha real quick. I also was thinking a rotary airplane engine, but again very expensive and that brings on other engineering issues. When is someone going to build a Lemons gem that has a bizarre powerplant? And I'm not talking a 2-stroke Saab engine for bizarre. Think outside of the box, like a Lemons racer powered by fish tank pumps. No engines that were originally designed for a car/motorcycle. Boat, plane, helicopter, locomotive, forklift, generator, golf cart, jet ski, tractor, power wheels, chainsaw, whatever really just not from a car or motorcycle. Like a minivan with 15 chainsaw engines in the back
I fully endorse your chainsaw-powered minivan.
Having said that, you shoud look at this:
http://www.murileemartin.com/UG/LMIS11/ … -0078.html
And then read this thread:
http://forums.24hoursoflemons.com/viewtopic.php?id=4861
I believe there's a forklift-powered LeMon in the works also:
http://forums.24hoursoflemons.com/viewt … 20&p=1
S-10's are all the rage these days, and that rules.
So make this....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTQCOFrxz-k&t=0m58s
http://cmsimg.desmoinesregister.com/app … p;Border=0
Somebody had better be bringing this theme to the Shine Country Classic!
They did. :-)
edit...yeah, I know the date on my camera is waaay off. It was new.
They did. :-)
The best part is that they spent Saturday night removing all evidence! On Sunday they denied ever having it as a theme. "End of the world? I think that was some E30 team. I don't know where they went."
Faux Packard: Make it out of cardboard and motorcycle headlights and it'll look just as good as this $15k pack off dogsh
I had the honor of watching Cone Heads last night.
The best part is its for a "persision driving school"
http://www.imcdb.org/i019209.jpg
The Aristrocrats.
-=Tom
Paging lazy-ass, theme-less Miata teams who complain when they're handed penalty laps...
Think Lemons. Needs more Zombie James Dean.
There need to be more ridiculous/absurd band-themed cars:
Milo Goes to Lemons?
Judge Phil may enjoy a well-done Butthole Surfers theme, I've heard.
And, of course...
And I'm not talking a 2-stroke Saab engine for bizarre.
Who said that was bizarre? Perfectly run-of-the-mill mill, if you ask me.
Crab Spirits wrote:Paging lazy-ass, theme-less Miata teams who complain when they're handed penalty laps...
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3063/307 … 40f3_z.jpgThink Lemons. Needs more Zombie James Dean.
This would be quite easy to do with any roadster. Paint it to match, then take sledgehammers to the body until only the well-replicated RF corner of the car is recognizable as a 550 Spyder.
It's not poor taste if it happened a long time ago.....right?
Also, WHY no Thomas the Train yet?!!
I have plastic and steel oil drums, plywood, various junk that would build him. FREE in the Chicagoland area to whoever wants to make a frightened locomotive on a race course a reality.
Has there been a Big Lebowski themed Torino yet? and if not why? Though it seems most of the surviving examples are ridiculously priced, here's one in Arizona for $900
http://phoenix.craigslist.org/evl/cto/2454162804.html
Has anyone outfitted their car like a Roomba? Because that would be really funny. Especially when spinning out.
The Raspberries' Rollswagen
Skytrooper wrote:A-Team van ?
If it's an actual van, sure. We've seen at least three A-Team themes on cars by now, so if you're thinking of getting a Mr. T costume and GMC logos on your RX-7, don't.
We did this a few years ago for the cannonball crawl (a shitty $750 car offroad drive from LA to Vegas). One of our teammates kept it was his surf van which is kind of approrpriate considering he bought it off some bum living at the beach (I felt like we were taking the shell from a hermit crab).
If we can get the transmission fixed, this will be our Lemons support vehicle.
-g
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