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In this Mercedes Episode 457; Mental Shreds time, Chrissy rocks the pink hair, Chris blows a head gasket, Tim bends a wheel, does sketchy stuff and gets a hammer to the head. Then we spend half the show on the real topic: every piece of questionable planning and every sketchy repair we've ever done, watched a teammate do, or seen in the paddock next door. Thirty-five minutes of hard-won, expensive, occasionally bloody lessons. If you're about to do your first endurance race, or your fortieth, put this on while you pack the trailer. New here? Hit SUBSCRIBE. We do this every week for the world of low-dollar racing and oddball car culture, and we're chasing 1,000 subscribers. THINGS WE LEARNED THE HARD WAY Tape a printed checklist to the front of the car on Friday and Saturday night. Don't announce it, don't make rules about drinking. People do the jobs they can do and initial them. It's usually finished by 11:00, before anyone gets stupid.Do it now. A 99-cent plastic GM clutch linkage part snapped two minutes before the green flag at Summit Point because we rushed a starter in overnight and never tested it. The eventual fix: the closed end cut off a wrench, welded to a socket, zip-tied in place. It worked for years.If your car does the same thing for every driver, it's the car. A sway bar set full hard on one side and full soft on the other, STI rear brakes with stock fronts, a brake bias adjuster labeled backwards — we've seen all of it. ALSO IN THIS ONE Mental fed a Tag Heuer into an industrial shredderChrysler's answer to "we need a tank engine": five straight sixes bolted in a circle. 30 cylinders, five carburetors, one mile per gallon, and somehow the second most reliable engine in the Sherman fleet. SHOW ME YOUR JUNK — AND IT'S ACTUALLY OURSWe don't just joyscroll Racing Junk, we use it. The Sorry For Party Racing 1973 El Camino SS is for sale. $6,000. LS-swapped, turbo 400, six-piston front calipers, QA1 coilovers, Hotchkiss arms, 24 gallon fuel cell, spare wheels with new tires. Built by IOE legend Cory Dickman. California registered and insured, so you can drive it to the track and tow your broken daily behind it. It's won IOE and class C and has a real shot at B. Needs belts and a fire bottle. TIMESTAMPS0:00 Why this is episode 4573:44 The Range Rover blew a head gasket9:35 STORY TIME WITH TIM19:06 The hammer to the head24:43 "We can't balance the tires. Both rear wheels are bent."30:58 Temu small block Chevy heads34:36 Thirty cylinders, five blocks, five carbs38:13 SHOW ME YOUR JUNK: our El Camino47:23 Mental shreds time54:07 MAIN TOPIC: sketchy repairs and questionable planning1:00:47 The checklist that fixed everything1:02:17 The 99-cent part that ended a class C lead1:13:38 Radios, properly1:19:37 Nobody shares a driver's suit1:24:37 Check your alignment. Then check it again.1:29:24 Make a well-informed bad decision LINKSTemu small block Chevy heads — Stephen Edelstein, The Drive: https://www.thedrive.com/news/buying-temu-small-block-chevy-heads-is-an-even-worse-idea-than-you-thoughtA fix for the Hemi tick after 17 years — Caleb Jacobs, The Drive: https://www.thedrive.com/news/modern-hemi-v8s-make-a-horrible-ticking-sound-this-guy-mightve-found-the-fix-after-17-yearsChrysler's 30-cylinder star — Mercedes Streeter, The Autopian: https://www.theautopian.com/one-of-chryslers-most-complicated-engines-had-30-cylinders-5-blocks-5-carburetors-and-was-shaped-like-a-starThe El Camino on Racing Junk: https://www.racingjunk.com/24-hours-of-lemons-cars-and-equipment-for-sale/184840107/1973-el-camino-ss-with-ls-swap.html Everyone Racers is a weekly amateur endurance racing podcast for people who build cheap race cars and drive them hard. Lemons, ChampCar, LuckyDog, SCCA, NASA. We don't discriminate. Email: [email protected] / Facebook: @everyoneracers What's the sketchiest repair you've ever done at a track? 👇 #24HoursOfLemons #EnduranceRacing #RaceCarRepair

Mustang on Mustang ViolenceIn this Ferrari 456 Episode: Mental explains that adulting is playing in the sand with RC power equipment, Chris does baseball signals while people talk, Eric magically makes balloons appear, Jeff violently eats sandwiches out of Randy's hand, and Chrissy dies laughing from all of the balloon effects.We weren't at Summit Point, so we did the next best thing and got the two people who were. Eric Kritzler and Jeff Wakeman join us for the full hangover recap of the 24 Hours of Lemons at Summit Point, the race where this entire show was formed sixteen years ago.New here? Hit SUBSCRIBE. We do this every week for the world of low-dollar racing and oddball car culture, and we're chasing 1,000 subscribers.WHAT HAPPENED AT SUMMIT POINTMustangs. So many Mustangs. Seven of them in the top 20, and a troubling amount of Mustang-on-Mustang contact. We have proposed an awareness ribbon in the color of a tire mark left on a show-and-shine.Jeff spent the weekend dressed head to toe as a seagull, in a Firebird painted as one, and took a ham sandwich out of judge Randy Bush's hand with his mouth from a twenty foot run-up. Then did it three more times because Nick Pond missed the shot.Garage Heroes ran a full Monty Python theme: seven-plus skits, the Bruces' song, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life sung at a team sitting out three black flags, the Hells Grannies working the potluck and stealing food into their purses, and a cheese board with signs for every cheese and nothing but meat on it.Tom Lomino led commandingly and lost it to a CV joint with a six lap lead.The overall win went to a borrowed Fox body Mustang whose track bar broke off the third member an hour earlier.PLUSA Baja trailer engineered around the parts inventory of a counter in a town you expect to break down near.Twenty-one Previas, three quarters of a million miles, one mountain pass, zero popped hoods.TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Why this is episode 456 3:34 Adulting is a sand pit and RC construction equipment 16:50 A trailer built around a parts counter in Baja 20:13 Twenty-one Previas go to Oktoberfest 30:49 SUMMIT POINT 31:29 Mustang. Mustang. Mustang. 33:12 Mustang on Mustang violence 36:44 The Monty Python theme 38:38 Tom Webb invents "bring out your dead" 40:19 The Shitbird: a Firebird painted as a seagull 44:19 This show was formed here, sixteen years ago 47:09 The ham sandwich incident 50:00 Send us your "return your transponder" song 53:38 Eric's first contact ever, adjudicated live 57:34 The Shitbird gets hit on the straight 1:03:00 Eric accidentally summons balloons 1:06:06 Sunday: nine laps in and the top ten is in penalty 1:10:12 A six lap lead, undone by a CV joint 1:13:10 The awards 1:19:31 I Got Screwed: the Escort that got rebuilt twice 1:24:34 "Bad news, people are listening"LINKS The best trailer — Caleb Jacobs, The Drive: https://www.thedrive.com/news/totally-overbuilt-race-car-trailer-made-to-withstand-baja-can-be-fixed-with-chevy-truck-parts A truck that runs errands without you — Joel Feder, The Drive: https://www.thedrive.com/news/gm-wants-your-truck-to-run-errands-without-you Twenty-one Previas to Oktoberfest — Annie Keller, The Autopian: https://www.theautopian.com/you-meet-the-nicest-people-at-the-worlds-largest-previa-cruise/ Show Me Your Junk — 1990 Nissan 300ZX with tons of spares: https://www.racingjunk.com/24-hours-of-lemons-cars-and-equipment-for-sale/184836720/1990-nissan-300zx-lemons-car-with-tons-of-spares-.htmlEveryone Racers is a weekly amateur endurance racing podcast for people who build cheap race cars and drive them hard. Lemons, ChampCar, LuckyDog, SCCA, NASA. We don't discriminate.Email: [email protected] Instagram / Facebook: @everyoneracersSend us your "return your transponder" song. Country, blues, death metal — we don't care 👇#24HoursOfLemons #SummitPoint #EnduranceRacing

An El Camino Through the Corkscrew At Laguna Seca In this Olds 455 Episode: Mental can't drive a CRX Chris raw dogs the notes, Chrissy takes a stroll by the ocean And Tim learns how to use a trailer hitch. Episode 455 is the hangover show from the 24 Hours of Lemons 20th Anniversary race at Laguna Seca; invitation only, one day, and the reason you didn't get an episode last week. We took an El Camino through the Corkscrew. Theme was business up front, party in the back. Nine drivers, 40 minute shifts we somehow actually stuck to, 164 laps, 9th overall and 2nd in class, and it ran out of gas roughly five feet after the race, so we finished with a dance party on the roof of it. New here? Hit SUBSCRIBE. We do this every week for the world of low-dollar racing and oddball car culture, and we're chasing 1,000 subscribers. WHAT HAPPENED AT LAGUNA A 280,000-mile C5 got the blue flag shown to a brand new GT3 RS with paper plates Tim's Sunday student bought a 2015 911 with 1,600 miles on it five months ago, had never been on a track, and gathered up a full slide at the Andretti hairpin on command The paddock didn't open to Lemons until 6pm, there are no race motors after 5 at Laguna, so the kill switch test just... happened on raceday Our BS sheet got so soaked in beer the judge couldn't write on it with a Sharpie Italian Job came from Philadelphia and served 300 pounds of cheesesteaks If we missed you, we're sorry. We were drunk. AND BEFORE ALL THAT The Solstice transmission went in after a fight, and then had to come straight back out A wheel bearing race against a UPS truck, lost at noon and won at 12:15 Nine miles per gallon, four days, a dog, and allegedly 24 cases of wine Cracked sidewalls at 40,000 miles — and what the dealer quietly admitted about the compound they put on new trucks LINKS Diecast endurance racing on a belt sander — Peter Vieira, The Autopian: https://www.theautopian.com/this-guy-is-endurance-racing-164-diecast-cars-on-a-belt-sander-and-the-cars-have-been-running-29-days-nonstop-watch-live/  Live timing: https://www.diecastendurance.com/  Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bchFl18XY0o  Denver's robotaxis can't get tickets, but are getting egged — Elizabeth Pond, The Denver Gazette: https://www.denvergazette.com/2026/10/18/denver-waymos-are-being-egged/  Finnish tractor pull — Stephen Edelstein, The Drive: https://www.thedrive.com/news/finnish-farmers-make-tractor-pulls-more-exciting-by-adding-a-big-hill  Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnwxVnR422M  "Death Wish" on Racing Junk: https://www.racingjunk.com/golf-carts/184831980/custom-quadricycle.html?category_id=1525&np_offset=2 Everyone Racers is a weekly amateur endurance racing podcast for people who build cheap race cars and drive them hard. Lemons, ChampCar, LuckyDog, SCCA, NASA. We don't discriminate. Email: [email protected] Instagram / Facebook: @everyoneracers Have you driven Laguna Seca? Tell us about your first Corkscrew 👇 #LagunaSeca #24HoursOfLemons #EnduranceRacing

106 Cars. Two Judges. One Car Shaped Like a Foot. In the ‘Murica 454 Episode; Mental finds a large piece of pipe 4 ft down in concrete, Tim is sticky and doesn't know why, Chrissy’s car should yell at deer in the road meanwhile  Chris is trying to figure out why the rear caliper is leaking while nothing is happening. Really Mental and Tim tell us everything that happened at the Buttonwillow race two weeks ago. Here’s a hint- it was face of the sun hot!  A team of rookies showed up at Buttonwillow with an Acura Integra that they had turned into a giant human foot. Veins painted on it. An ankle. Somebody may or may not have drawn a Camel cigarette logo on one of the toenails. We put it in C class and we did not care what was under it. Episode 454 is the Buttonwillow hangover: our full 24 Hours of Lemons recap from The Butt, two weeks on, now that everyone can form sentences again. 106 cars, 105 degrees, and a judging staff that started as four people and ended up as what Mental generously called a judge and a half. The driving was bad. Really bad. Bad enough that they ran out of punishments by Saturday afternoon and started recycling them. Bad enough that Tom Webb called a mandatory Sunday morning driver's meeting, and made everyone meet at the one place on the property they'd been failing to use correctly all weekend.  It didn't help. The people, though, were tremendous. They always are. New here? Hit SUBSCRIBE. We do this every week for the world of low-dollar racing and oddball car culture, and we're chasing 1,000 subscribers. WHAT HAPPENED AT THE BUTT Wrong-hole-itis: teams entering and exiting the track through whatever gap they liked Four separate teams, many of them engineers, defeated by one children's jigsaw puzzle A rookie team raising money for a dog rescue who spent a 100-degree weekend in full black ninja costumes selling fresh fruit cups. Sorry for Party felt, well, sorry and eventually gave them an EZ-up out of pity. Tim's cool shirt failed three different ways in one stint: iced with no water, then a fitting that blew off and hosed him down, then a box nobody strapped in The LA firefighters put on full turnout gear in 105 degrees to do a demo, then cut a car apart with the jaws of life Sunday morning: a car shaped like a foot parked next to a car shaped like a wiener, as a visual aid AWARDS Dual Heroic Fix: a rookie Mini team who discovered the previous owner installed the clutch backwards, fixed it off YouTube overnight — and 30 college kids who blew up their Accord and got it back on the track Sunday to cheers I Got Screwed: a cone kicked up by another car shattered a windshield in the driver's line of sight while they were leading C Organizer's Choice: the foot. The judging notes read, in full, "it's a foot." IOE: a bone stock Iron Duke S10 that had a transmission driven in from Los Angeles overnight Everyone Racers is a weekly amateur endurance racing podcast for people who build cheap race cars and drive them hard. Lemons, ChampCar, LuckyDog, SCCA, NASA. We don't discriminate. RX-7 and ½ at the 2003 GRM Challenge (David S. Wallens @ Grassroots Motorsports) https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/news/mazda-rx-7-and-trailer/ Mazda’s E-SUV That Hurls Obscenities (Jason Torchinsky @ The Autopian) https://www.theautopian.com/mazda-will-now-sell-you-a-car-that-enhances-your-ability-to-scream-profanitities-at-people/  Researchers Test AI’s  Driving Ability. Grok sucks (Adam Ismail, @ The Drive) https://www.thedrive.com/news/uh-oh-chatgpt-can-drive-a-car-and-grok-crashed-immediately Email: [email protected] Instagram / Facebook: @everyoneracers What's the worst driving you've ever seen at a race weekend? 👇 #24HoursOfLemons #Buttonwillow #EnduranceRacing

We Held a Séance With Our Range Rover It Didn't Help. On the second night of the Colorado Lemons Rally, we put a lit candelabra on the hood of a Range Rover & held a séance to ask the ghosts of the founders of the Rover Group why it was leaking coolant. They were unhelpful. The wax is still on the hood. In this BMW M1 episode 453, Mental has a dusty butt, Eric makes cat/supercharger noises, Chrissy types feverishly & Chris didn’t go to public school  Really, we talk all about our experience on the 2026 Lemons Rally Colorado Breakdown with our 2008 Range Rover & 1993 Volvo 945 turbo.   Episode 453 is the full 24 Hours of Lemons Colorado Rally recap. Three days, eighteen cars, Denver to Craig to Grand Junction & back, with Eric Kritzler — DJ 914 — sitting in for Tim, who was busy getting sunburned at Buttonwillow. Our theme was The Coastal Elite: popped collars, boat shoes, a top hat, enormous diamond earrings, a sweater draped over the shoulders, a pocket full of fake hundred dollar bills, & three days of calling each other "my good man." Two cars, both bought on a whim: an 18-year-old Range Rover on its fifth owner, & a 1993 Volvo 940 Turbo wagon that Eric won at auction from 1,200 miles away. The seller left the keys under the mat & wasn't there. Eric drove it 700 miles to Colorado with no working radio, in total silence, & called it cathartic. New here? Hit SUBSCRIBE. We do this every week for the world of low-dollar racing & oddball car culture, & we're chasing 1,000 subscribers. WHAT HAPPENED OUT THERE At the Stanley Hotel the challenge was to recreate a scene from The Shining. Nobody planned for Chrissy to be the star. Chrissy became the star. "Here's Chrissy." We left a note on the Range Rover's dash: the car is not broken, we'll be right back Lunch beside a river on actual china, with a tablecloth & a candelabra, eating grocery store shrimp A man walked up to our car in the middle of a nice town & simply got in. We took him to our Airbnb. Handing out fake $100 bills, including to a gas station clerk who told her entire staff she'd gotten a hundred dollar tip The awards, including a 1957 International race truck with a Volvo five-cylinder, Crown Vic suspension, no windows, & a full Austin Powers costume in the heat ALSO IN THIS EPISODE Lemons is racing Laguna Seca, & the 45-car field was picked by writing team names on 10mm sockets & fishing them out of a pan of used oil by hand A Stellantis patent for an EV that ejects its own burning battery pack & drives away from it The Batman Returns Batmobile heads to auction at $5-7 million. It's two Impala chassis welded together under hand-laid fiberglass. That's a Lemons build. Everyone Racers is a weekly amateur endurance racing podcast for people who build cheap race cars & drive them hard. Lemons, ChampCar, LuckyDog, SCCA, NASA. We don't discriminate. Email: [email protected] Instagram / Facebook: @everyoneracers Ever done a rally? What's the dumbest checkpoint you've been sent to? 👇 #LemonsRally #24HoursOfLemons #RoadTrip GRM Covers Twenty Ridiculous Years of Lemons (Colin Wood @ Grassroots Motorsports)  https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/news/for-the-first-time-24-hours-of-lemons-races-at-laguna-seca/    Your Future EV Might Eject It's battery Pack & Drive Away from It  (Peter Vieira @ The Autopian)  https://www.theautopian.com/your-future-ev-might-use-its-12-volt-battery-and-exploding-bolts-to-drive-away-from-its-flaming-main-battery-patent/  Micheal Keaton’s Batmobile Heads to Auction (Jerry Perez @ The Drive)  https://www.thedrive.com/news/the-batmobile-that-michael-keaton-hustled-in-batman-returns-could-fetch-7m  🔍 KEYWORDS (Feedin that algorithm yo) #24HoursOfLemons #EnduranceRacing #HighPlainsRaceway

Eighty percent of the incidents at Buttonwillow happen at one corner. It's a slight rise, the curve keeps going as you climb it, and there's a flag station at the top holding all the information about whatever tragedy is waiting on the other side. It's called Phil Hill. Don't be a statistic on it. Episode 452 is a big one: our full 24 Hours of Lemons Buttonwillow preview, yes, The Butt, plus the results from NCM and everything you need for the Colorado Lemons Rally. In this old Russian Van Episode 452; Chris double twangs ratchet straps Chrissy requires you to bring something other than grapes to the rally dinner Tim aka, Ol’ asbestos balls, is at it again while Accu-Mental warns you of the weather at Buttonwillow raceway, AKA The Butt. 106 cars are entered at Buttonwillow this weekend. Tim is racing it, Mental is judging it, and we walk all 13 turns of the clockwise layout; Sunrise, Off Ramp, Cotton Corners, Grapevine, Club Corner, Bus Stop, Truck Stop, Riverside, Phil Hill, Sweeper, Star Mazda, the Esses and Sunset. Also with the schedule, the gate fee nobody expects, and the Accu-Mental Forecast. Short version on the weather: 99 on Thursday, and no, you do not want that rain you're wishing for. It turns the place into peanut butter and adds thirty pounds to your car. Meanwhile Chris and Chrissy are hosting AND running the Colorado Lemons Rally, which launches from their driveway. There is a five-foot hole in the yard. There is caution tape. We are all a little worried. New here? Hit SUBSCRIBE, weekly, free, for the world of low-dollar racing and oddball car culture. We're chasing 1,000. FROM NCM (BOWLING GREEN, KY) Team Non Sequitur took the overall lead with under 15 minutes left Mom's Friendly Racing Company was 8th overall with 15 minutes to go, blew up, and finished the race on jack stands leaking into a drip pan. We made them push it to the awards ceremony and keep leaking in front of everybody. Heroic Fix: a dad drove 600 miles home to Alabama for a charge pipe. He left his son at the track. A team climbed a barbed-wire fence at 5:30 in the morning to retrieve another team's forgotten tires IOE: drag racers who'd never turned left or right showed up with a fist-sized hole in the bell housing patched with wire mesh and JB Weld. They ran 230+ laps. 97 degrees and humid, the most fueling issues anyone could remember at a Lemons race ALSO IN THIS EPISODE A 50th-annual figure-8 championship that ended in two felony counts. A Waymo that spent ten minutes afraid of a puddle, and another that drove through a farmers market. A Jeep that lost its axle brackets in Moab and got ratchet-strap fixed to drive 150 miles home Tim's clutch disintegrated into itchy fuzz, and the internet had thoughts Remembering Lemons staffer Rob Anders Everyone Racers is a weekly amateur endurance racing podcast for people who build cheap race cars and drive them hard. Lemons, ChampCar, LuckyDog, SCCA, NASA. We don't discriminate. Email: [email protected] Instagram / Facebook: @everyoneracers Racing The Butt this weekend? Which corner gets you? 👇 #24HoursOfLemons #Buttonwillow #EnduranceRacing Figure 8 Championship results in 2 Felony Charges (Adam Ismail @ The Drive) https://www.thedrive.com/news/figure-8-race-devolves-into-chaos-and-a-driver-felony-charge     Waymo Scared of the Water (Lousi Casiano @ Fox Business)   https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/video-shows-waymo-driverless-vehicle-stuck-ai-loop-flooded-phoenix-street  Waymo Drives through a Denver Farmers Market https://www.denver7.com/news/local-news/waymo-caught-on-video-driving-through-south-pearl-farmers-market-during-setup     Triangulated Ratchet Straps get 4 wheeler 150 home (David Tracy @ The Autopian)  https://www.theautopian.com/how-an-off-roader-replaced-his-jeeps-broken-suspension-with-ratchet-straps-then-drove-150-miles-home/   2002 SS Camaro for $6k in Ephrata PA on Racing Junk https://www.racingjunk.com/24-hours-of-lemons-cars-and-equipment-for-sale/184797033/

Your Light Bar Will Fail. Here's What Actually Passes Tech In this episode Mercedes Rally SLC 450; Chrissy has never raced at night, Chris did not fix the boat, but Mental did fix the 912 and Tim is paking up to drive across country….again. And if you show up at High Plains Raceway with a light bar on your roof, you are going to fail light tech. If you tape over the top of it, you are still going to fail. There is a light meter, there are measuring boards, and there is a hard 40-inch cutoff. Episode 450 is our full 24 Hours of Lemons High Plains Raceway preview — and this one is a true 24-hour race. Green flag at noon Saturday, checkers at noon Sunday, running straight through the night on a completely unlit track thirty minutes from the nearest anything. Ninety cars are entered. Chris, Chrissy and Tim are racing it. Mental is one of the four judges who will be holding the light meter. We cover the race car lighting rules in detail, the complete weekend schedule from Thursday gates to Sunday awards, the weather for Deer Trail, Colorado, night-driving technique for your first race in the dark, and our patented E1R Virtual Track Walk — every corner at High Plains, from three people who've raced it. New here? Hit SUBSCRIBE. We do this every week for the world of low-dollar racing and oddball car culture, and we're chasing 1,000 subscribers. WHAT'S IN THIS EPISODE The lighting rules that will actually get you black flagged, explained by the guy checking them Why your stock headlights are the best answer, and why lights and wiring don't count against your $500 All numbers self-illuminated — door plus hood and/or roof. No, you can't shine a magnetic light at them. Full schedule: Thursday night test session, Friday's two test sessions, assigned tech times, mandatory light tech Friday 8:00–9:30 Weather: gusts to 33 Thursday night. Secure your EZ-ups or watch them leave. Night driving: tinted visors, dazzle, letting your eyes adjust, and why you keep your eyes moving in the dark Turn by turn at High Plains — including the High Plains Drifter, the corner Chrissy openly hates How to read the LED flag boards at night, and why a flashing "green" is never green Grassroots Motorsports Ultimate Track Car: an F-18 pilot who listed his cat as a sponsor The Austin robotaxi with no brake fluid, no master cylinder, and no brake lines anywhere in it Everyone Racers is a weekly amateur endurance racing podcast for people who build cheap race cars and drive them hard. Lemons, ChampCar, LuckyDog, SCCA, NASA. We don't discriminate. Email: [email protected] Instagram / Facebook: @everyoneracers Racing High Plains this weekend? Tell us how you lit your numbers 👇 Navy Pilot’s Ultimate Track Car Sponsored by his cat..’Beans” (Colin Wood @ GRM) https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/news/utcc-confirmed-impreza-wrx-sti-sponsored-by-a-cat-named-beans/  Tesla Decides with DOT rules apply to it's Cyber taxis (Andrew Collins @ The Drive)  https://www.thedrive.com/news/tesla-cybercab-isnt-just-missing-a-steering-wheel-it-doesnt-even-have-brake-lines   A Drive by wire remote control tractor….from the 80’s Caleb Jacobs @ The Drive) https://www.thedrive.com/news/kubotas-remote-control-tractor-was-an-80s-flop-this-guy-just-found-a-survivor  ‘Almost’ Lemons Race Ready MR2 on Racing Junk! https://www.racingjunk.com/24-hours-of-lemons-cars-and-equipment-for-sale/184796683/almost-ready-for-lemons.html  Get Panda Planner! Seriously, it's $30 bucks man. https://www.panda-planner.com/ Panda Planner How To YouTube; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G7zntrrMpM Join our F1 Fantasy League https://fantasygp.com/leagues/  Use code 74259541 to join in the fun 3 Pedal Mafia Lemons World - https://youtu.be/wGfAxGX3vHk?si=YInVSrCTFgkXdCVF  Those cool light number panels from Amazon https://a.co/d/9wDuvek  🔍 KEYWORDS (Feedin that algorithm yo) #24HoursOfLemons #EnduranceRacing #IndexOfEffluency

This 4,300 lb Chrysler Won Racing's Best Trophy In this Ford big block stroker episode 449; Chrissy wrecks a riding mower (not on a race track though), Chris was chief judge and makes a bluping exhaust noise, Mental talks about Yoga, I mean Yugo, Tim tried to body build by moving a cast iron stove, and we have Julian on to talk about how the Pacific Raceway.  Fifty cars took the green at Pacific Raceways. Fewer than twenty were still running at the checker. And in two full days of racing, Chris — who was chief judge for the weekend — handed out exactly one severe penalty. That never happens. Episode 449 is our full 24 Hours of Lemons Pacific Raceways race recap from both sides of the fence: Chris was judging it, and our guest was racing it. Sometimes-Lemons-judge Julian Cordle brought his family, a 2005 Chrysler 300C, an inflatable polar bear, and fifty pounds of Alaskan reindeer sausage to Kent, Washington — and drove home with the Index of Effluency, the most coveted award in low-buck endurance racing. It's given to the team that has no business finishing and finishes anyway. His car weighs 4,300 pounds empty, runs all-wheel drive, and rides on three-year-old $83 tires. New here? We do this every week for the world of low-dollar racing and oddball car culture. Hit SUBSCRIBE — we're chasing 1,000 and you clicking that button genuinely matters. WHAT'S IN THIS EPISODE Why episode 449 is a Ford FE big block — the engine that beat Ferrari at Le Mans, now available as a 449ci stroker Bonneville got nine inches of rain the day the land speed car was ready. Nine. Moving a 450-pound cast iron wood stove with winches, a 6x6, and one badly regretted lower back A Tesla robotaxi in Austin quoted a 2.3-mile trip at 66 minutes — and another one ended its shift and put a four-time Tesla owner out three miles from home A 1990 Yugo with 25 miles on it sold for $27,257, and the Petersen Automotive Museum was the underbidder Arizona lawnmower racing: 80 mph, tethered kill switches, no blades, "How the West Was Mowed" Heroic Fix: their Fiero blew a clutch, so they bought an entire Mustang that had been sitting in a field for seven years, chased live mice out of it, and raced it Judge's Choice: a rookie dad, three kids, a 70hp Civic, a blown head gasket in cylinder three, and a YouTube video Everyone Racers is a weekly amateur endurance racing podcast for people who build cheap race cars and drive them hard. Lemons, ChampCar, LuckyDog, SCCA, NASA. We don't discriminate. Email: [email protected] Instagram / Facebook: @everyoneracers What's the best Index of Effluency car you've ever seen? Comments 👇 #24HoursOfLemons #EnduranceRacing #IndexOfEffluency Get Panda Planner! Seriously, it's $30 bucks man. https://www.panda-planner.com/ Panda Planner How To YouTube; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G7zntrrMpM Join our F1 Fantasy League https://fantasygp.com/leagues/  Use code 74259541 to join in the fun 3 Pedal Mafia Lemons World - https://youtu.be/wGfAxGX3vHk?si=YInVSrCTFgkXdCVF  Those cool light number panels from Amazon https://a.co/d/9wDuvek  🔍 KEYWORDS (Feedin that algorithm yo) #24HoursOfLemons #EnduranceRacing #IndexOfEffluency

Don't Race Pacific Raceways Until You Watch This Track WalkIn this Ferrari 500 Episode 448 (gotta listen to find out why episode 448 is named after the 550 Barchetta Pininfarina, which is 485hp of V12 with a canvas tent in the trunk )... Chris has fuel in his air, Chrissy gives a ladder 101 lesson, Tim waits 3 days for wine while Mental breaks a 1 of 1 valve cover.Fifty cars, nine turns, one blind corner with a concrete wall at the apex — and a crowd sitting right behind it. This is the Everyone Racers Pacific Raceways track walk you want in your head before the green flag drops in Kent, Washington this weekend.Episode 448 is our full 24 Hours of Lemons Pacific Raceways preview: the weekend schedule, the weather, the entry list, and our patented E1R Virtual Track Walk, a turn-by-turn Pacific Raceways track guide from people who have judged it, raced it, and gotten it wrong in front of witnesses.If you're a first-time Pacific Raceways racer, or you're an armchair endurance racer who just likes hearing how a 2.25-mile road course bolted onto a drag strip actually drives, hit SUBSCRIBE. We do this every single week, for free, for the world of low-dollar racing and oddball car culture.WHAT'S IN THIS EPISODEWHAT CHA WORKING ON?? - A cracked, discontinued VW valve cover that nearly killed a Bonneville land speed run - A direct-injection outboard troubleshooting saga in real timeNEWS & NOTES: New York fire departments drag racing ladder trucks (yes, the crew jumps off while it's moving), Colombia's semi-truck autocross with the trailers still attached, and DoorDash now delivering OEM dealer parts same daySHOW ME YOUR JUNK: a 1989 TVR Tuscan Challenge — 400hp Rover V8, 2,000 lbs, $27,500The 50-car Lemons entry list, including a 1963 Studebaker Avanti and a '74 Datsun 620 pickupFull weekend schedule: gates, testing day, BS tech, driver's meeting, awards ceremony, Kent WA race weekend weather forecast, and yes, there's rain in it. Quiet hours, no fluid disposal, no power, and why the fuel pumps are a very long walkEveryone Racers is a weekly amateur endurance racing podcast for people who build cheap race cars and drive them hard — Lemons, ChampCar, LuckyDog, SCCA, NASA. We don't discriminate.Got a question or a show topic? Drop it in the comments — we answer them on the air. Email: [email protected] Instagram / Facebook: @everyoneracersSUBSCRIBE for a new episode every week. We're chasing 1,000 subscribers — you clicking that button genuinely moves the needle.#24HoursOfLemons #PacificRaceways #EnduranceRacing🏁 Subscribe to Everyone Racers and help us hit 1,000 subscribers.Sign up for the Potluck, don’t be lame!https://forums.24hoursoflemons.com/viewtopic.php?id=43191 Get Panda Planner! Seriously, it's $30 bucks man.https://www.panda-planner.com/Panda Planner How To YouTube;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G7zntrrMpMJoin our F1 Fantasy League https://fantasygp.com/leagues/ Use code 74259541 to join in the fun3 Pedal Mafia Lemons World - https://youtu.be/wGfAxGX3vHk?si=YInVSrCTFgkXdCVF Those cool light number panels from Amazonhttps://a.co/d/9wDuvek 🔍 KEYWORDS (Feedin that algorithm yo) Pacific Raceways 24 Hours of Lemons track walk"pacific raceways turn by turn track guide""how to drive pacific raceways road course""24 hours of lemons pacific raceways schedule""first time racing pacific raceways tips""pacific raceways turn 9 concrete wall"

Real Monterey Car Week In this Mercedes People carrier Episode 447, Chrissy’s dislocated pinky is Citroen better, Chris drives on some rocks, Mental is drowning in ACVW parts and Tim gets real itchy. Actually we bring on Neal Losey on to talk about Concourse d’Lemons, and why you should go check it out!Forget million-dollar hypercars. The best part of Monterey Car Week might be the cars nobody else would let onto the lawn.Five-time National Effing Champion Neal Losey joins Everyone Racers to take us inside the 2026 Concours d’Lemons, the gloriously disreputable counterpoint to the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance—and possibly the purest celebration of weird car culture anywhere.While Pebble Beach is polishing priceless classics, Concours d’Lemons fills the Seaside City Hall lawn with forgotten marques, questionable engineering, tiny cars, enormous drivers, former demolition-derby survivors and automotive decisions that seemed like a good idea at the time.In other words: our people.Neal tells us what it’s actually like inside Concours d’Lemons during Monterey Car Week, including the packed crowds, bizarre awards, Lemons racers, rally cars, kids painting race cars, Buttercup the horse-car becoming a slide, and the Red Fang Chevy wagon arriving the most Lemons way possible: being pushed across the grass because it stopped running.That wagon has an even better ending. After winning an Index of Effluency, becoming a Red Fang tribute car and appearing at Concours, it was sold to a group of excited 22-year-old dairy farmers from Visalia preparing to become brand-new Lemons racers.That right there is why we love this community.But this is Everyone Racers, so before we reach Monterey, things get appropriately weird.We recap the Hell on Wheels Lemons Rally, including a Mitsubishi camper, a 1959 Edsel, an International Harvester, a V8-swapped RX-7, a purple Smart car and two rescue puppies. Chris and Chrissy take an old Range Rover through Colorado, where Chrissy dislocates a pinky mountain biking, Chris performs a field-expedient repair, and they continue hiking because apparently pain is merely advisory.Tim talks Pebble Beach, PGA HOPE, moving to Maine, his ’59 El Camino and the rapidly expanding definition of “garage project.” Mental works on the land-speed VW and Porsche 912. Neal shares the incredible story of his mother’s 1966 Mustang, bought new with six-tenths of a mile and later V8-swapped by her personally.We also hit automotive news, cheap race cars, Honda selling pieces of racing history, a spectacularly expensive Ferrari, terrible car names and the latest opportunity to make financially irresponsible racing decisions.Above all, this episode is about what Neal calls the world around Lemons: weird cars, rallies, racing, ridiculous ideas and people genuinely excited about the things they love.If you’re into 24 Hours of Lemons, amateur endurance racing, low-budget motorsports, DIY race cars, classic cars, Monterey Car Week, weird automotive history or garage-built insanity, you’ve found your people.Because expensive cars are nice.But pure dumb joy is better.Check out Neal’s Radio Shows, Morning Cup & Night Train on Demand here;https://www.kcbx.org/programs-ondemandUber Rich Guy pays too much for a stupid Ferrari (Matt Hardigee @ the Autopian)https://www.theautopian.com/someone-just-spent-40000000-on-the-first-ferrari-luce-ev-because-the-world-makes-no-sense/ Honda Will Sell And Restore Its Iconic Race Cars Through New Heritage Racing Program (Andy Kalmowitz @ Jalopnik)https://www.jalopnik.com/2235518/honda-restore-iconic-race-cars/Naming a New Vehicle Is Way Harder Than You Think (Dan Roth @ The Drive) https://www.thedrive.com/news/naming-a-new-vehicle-is-way-harder-than-you-think-and-experts-still-arent-sure-ford-got-it-rightPGA Reach Foundationhttps://www.pgareach.org/Any VW Rabbit in Stillwater MN for $3k on Racing Junk https://www.racingjunk.com/volkswagen/184812654

Triumph! General Wakemen Problems Couldn't Stop The Charge! The regular Everyone Racers crew missed the 24 Hours of Lemons race at Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park—but Uncle Dave was there, and Jeff makes his triumphant return to explain exactly how much trouble two experienced amateur racers can find in one weekend. In this EVAP episode 446; Mental eats Lamb Chops at an AC/DC concert, Tim drunk finishes 2nd in a golf tourney, but #1 in fun, Chrissy consoles Jeff for a blend line violation and Chris helps Hack Factory win B.  Really we welcome back Uncle Dave and Jeff to discuss the Thompson Race last weekend! BTW, if Jeff had listened last week about the blend line, they would have won.  Yep, episode 446 is the complete Thompson Lemons race recap: test day, tech inspection, race strategy, fast pit stops, questionable traffic, award-winning themes, broken race cars and the relentless phenomenon known as “General Wakeman Problems.” Dave arrives with his 1986 Toyota Cressida freshly repaired after New Jersey: transmission, clutch, driveshaft, center support bearing, universal joint and a questionable hub. The Cressida develops a vicious one-wheel peel during Friday testing, so Dave adjusts the cross weight until the car finally hooks up, then spends the rest of the day fighting a generator that works perfectly until the sun comes out. Naturally, Thompson still delivers a torrential downpour. With only Dave and Jeff driving Saturday’s nine-hour race, the Cressida climbs from roughly 31st to sixth overall. Their reward is a broken cool-shirt system, an accidental fire-extinguisher discharge during a pit stop, Dave taking extinguisher powder directly to the face and a dehydrated Jeff discovering that his drink tube now tastes like fire-suppression chemicals. Sunday somehow gets better. An exceptional pit stop puts Jeff back on track during a full-course yellow, where he immediately accepts a friendly wave into traffic and earns a blend-line violation black flag. He recovers, drives the Cressida into the top five and puts the team within reach of a podium. Then, with approximately 40 minutes remaining, a another car locks its brakes and hits the Cressida’s right-front wheel. Jeff limps the damaged car back with a binding brake, ending their charge toward third place. But General Wakeman Problems do not respect the checkered flag. While packing, Jeff crushes his phone in the hatch of his Veloster N, discovers its battery is dead after the hatch stayed open all weekend and drives home unable to restart the car at fuel or meal stops. We also cover the Thompson award winners and themes, cage-tech lessons, tow-strap rules, aggressive traffic, race results and why a well-built 180-horsepower Toyota can embarrass much faster machinery through consistency and strong pit work. Elsewhere in Episode 446: • P0446 EVAP-code misery • Mental’s work on the Project 213 land-speed Ghia • AC/DC with luxury-box lamb chops • Lotus wiring removal and DIY camping batteries • Garage insulation and kitchen remodeling • Competitive yoga at Red Rocks • New Jersey police disguised as shrubbery • Subaru’s attempt to make its cars more fun Cops in NJ Wearing Gilly Suits (Stephen Edelstein @ The Drive) https://www.thedrive.com/news/cops-imitating-plants-catch-74-drivers-on-their-phones-in-six-hours Subaru launches SVPO for fun! (Fred Smith @ Road & Track) https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a73257286/subaru-is-dedicating-a-team-to-making-its-cars-more-fun/ 04 BMW 325 Autocross Track Weapon on Racing Junk  https://www.racingjunk.com/other/184815764/2004-bmw-325ci-autocross-car.html Get Panda Planner! Seriously, it's $30 bucks man. https://www.panda-planner.com/ 3 Pedal Mafia Lemons World - https://youtu.be/wGfAxGX3vHk?si=YInVSrCTFgkXdCVF  Those cool light number panels from Amazon https://a.co/d/9wDuvek  🔍 KEYWORDS (Feedin that algorithm yo) #24HoursOfLemons #ThompsonSpeedway #EnduranceRacing #GrassrootsMotorsports #EveryoneRacers

Heartbroken, We're Missing Thompson! In this Wildcat 445 Episode, Mental points at the wrong part, Tim can’t identify smoke, Chrissy gushes about ice cream and tells you when to shower while Chris enjoys a tepid tub.  Really, we’re a little heartbroken. Because for the first time in Everyone Racers history, none of us will be at the 24 Hours of Lemons race at Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park, and naturally, the weather forecast looks fantastic.  You’re welcome. Before the green flag drops in Thompson, Connecticut, we deliver the full race-weekend survival guide: arrival times, test day, BS and tech, the Saturday potluck, strict quiet hours, Sunday’s late start, crowded paddock logistics, trailer drop, fueling, pit vehicles, showers, and why you should leave before the golf course starts launching balls toward the paddock. Then comes the famous Everyone Racers Virtual Track Walk. We break down Thompson’s strange combination of road course, oval and changing pavement, including pit out, visual references, passing zones, flag stations, elevation, camber, bumps, surface transitions, traffic management and the corners most likely to punish overconfidence. Whether you’re a Thompson rookie or have already collected trophies and broken parts there, this is the Thompson Speedway track guide to watch before the race. More importantly, we provide critical navigation to Bogey’s Ice Cream and Snack Shop: leave the track through the parking lot, continue through the country club parking lot and go around to the back. Bring a bike, scooter or patient teammate, expect a line and respect the enormous portions. Also, ask the rest of your team whether they want ice cream before returning alone and eating yours in front of them. That is how broken race cars become broken friendships, just ask Chrissy. Elsewhere in Episode 445: • Mental prepares a land-speed car with wheel smoothies, Lexan and a drag parachute he may eventually have to deploy himself. • Tim hauls 2,100 pounds of drywall, prices $4,000 worth of insulation and welcomes his 1941 Lincoln Continental project. • Chris rewires the Lotus, climbs Colorado fourteeners without enough water and returns to sailboat racing. • We discuss Flock license-plate-reader failures, Waymo crash data and a Zoox robotaxi that drove into an active fire scene. • “Show Us Your Junk” brings a BMW 6 Series race-car project, a sorted Saab 9-3 Lemons racer benefiting Ranger Road and charity seats in Paul Dolan’s 1941 Ford for Lemons of Love. • Listener feedback proves this community can inspire rookie race teams—and turns four podcasters into spaghetti eaters using AI… err…”AL” If you race 24 Hours of Lemons, ChampCar, Lucky Dog, SCCA, NASA or any other form of budget endurance racing, subscribe to Everyone Racers. We’re closing in on 450 subscribers and chasing 1,000 by the end of the year. Help us get there—and send us your Thompson victories, failures, track-walk corrections, ice-cream photos and broken dreams in the comments. Flock Cameras Still Suck (Joel felder @ The Drive)  https://www.thedrive.com/news/inside-the-flock-dragnet-how-systemic-errors-led-to-police-ambushing-me-for-no-reason?utm_source=beehiiv&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-drive-newsletter&_bhlid=5847afc866a665f623bf7156cfb450bd51bb6527 Waymo Still Sucks, but Apparently You Suck Worse (Stephen Edelstein @ The Drive)  https://www.thedrive.com/news/waymos-self-driving-cars-crash-less-often-than-human-drivers-study  Zoox Suck So Bad They’re recalled (Sean O’Kane @ Tech Crunch) https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/17/zoox-issues-software-recall-after-a-robotaxi-got-confused-by-heavy-smoke/    BMW 6-Series Race Car - $4,800, Venice CA, with 16 pictures on Racing Junk https://www.racingjunk.com/24-hours-of-lemons-cars-and-equipment-for-sale/184810123/6-series-race-car.html?category_id=4520&np_offset=1#10  🔍 KEYWORDS (Feedin that algorithm yo) #24HoursOfLemons #ThompsonSpeedway #AmateurRacing #EnduranceRacing #EveryoneRacers

Before You Strip, Watch This… Think ripping out your race car's wiring harness will make your build simpler? Think again. In this Volvo PV444 episode, Mental encourages you to buy two race cars, Tim is excited by lobster napkin holders and makes a great trade, Chrissy is an advertiser for an exclusive F1 experience and Chris schools us on wiring harnesses and how to work through someone else’s mess.  This week on Everyone Racers, Chris shares years of hard-earned experience simplifying race car wiring harnesses without creating the electrical nightmares that strand teams in the paddock. Whether you're building a 24 Hours of Lemons, ChampCar, Lucky Dog Racing, SCCA, NASA, or any grassroots endurance race car, this episode is packed with practical wiring advice that could save your next race weekend. We cover why keeping more of the factory wiring harness is often the smartest approach, how to identify circuits you can safely remove, why factory wiring diagrams matter, depinning connectors, organizing wiring projects, proper grounding techniques, CAN Bus considerations, and the common electrical mistakes that plague amateur race car builds. But that's only the beginning. We also dive into the latest progress on Chris' Lotus race car project, Tim's unbelievable 1941 Lincoln project car that started with a boat trade, turbo Miata ownership adventures, NHRA Sonoma experiences from inside the pits, Formula 1's outrageous traveling luxury dining experience, the hilarious QR code parking scam that took an unexpected turn, RacingJunk treasures, and the latest grassroots endurance racing news from around the country. If you love race car builds, automotive projects, grassroots motorsports, endurance racing, project cars, garage engineering, and automotive comedy, you've found your people. In this episode: 🏁 How to simplify a race car wiring harness the right way 🏁 OEM wiring vs. custom wiring harnesses 🏁 Depinning automotive connectors and reading factory wiring diagrams 🏁 Race car electrical troubleshooting tips 🏁 Lotus race car build updates 🏁 Tim's 1941 Lincoln project plans 🏁 Turbo Miata ownership stories 🏁 NHRA Sonoma behind-the-scenes 🏁 Formula 1 luxury dining truck discussion 🏁 RacingJunk automotive finds 🏁 Lucky Dog, ChampCar, and grassroots racing news Whether you're preparing for your first endurance race or have spent years wrenching in the paddock, this episode is full of practical race-prep knowledge, laughs, and the stories that make amateur racing the greatest form of motorsport. 👍 If you enjoyed this episode, please Like, Subscribe, and hit the notification bell. Every subscription helps us bring more stories, race coverage, technical discussions, and automotive nonsense to racers everywhere. Pay Lots of Money to Dine in a Truck Driving Around F1 Track (Jerry Perez @ The Drive) https://www.thedrive.com/news/f1-is-selling-its-richest-fans-a-fancy-dinner-on-a-flat-bed-as-it-drives-around-a-track  Canadian QR Parking Codes Leads to Porn Site. (Jason Torchinkski @ Autpoian) https://www.theautopian.com/a-parking-system-in-a-cute-canadian-town-was-sending-people-to-a-porn-site/  2 Hondas, 18 foot trailer 34 pics on Racing Junk $17k https://www.racingjunk.com/24-hours-of-lemons-cars-and-equipment-for-sale/184809714/two-car-honda-crx-civic-team.html?category_id=4520&np_offset=2  Get Panda Planner! Seriously, it's $30 bucks man. https://www.panda-planner.com/ Panda Planner How To YouTube; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G7zntrrMpM Join our F1 Fantasy League https://fantasygp.com/leagues/ Use code 74259541 to join in the fun 3 Pedal Mafia Lemons World - https://youtu.be/wGfAxGX3vHk?si=YInVSrCTFgkXdCVF Those cool light number panels from Amazon https://a.co/d/9wDuvek 🔍 KEYWORDS (Feedin that algorithm yo) #RaceCar #WiringHarness #GrassrootsMotorsports #EnduranceRacing #24HoursOfLemons #ChampCar #LuckyDogRacing #Miata #Lotus #RaceCarBuild #AutomotivePodcast #ProjectCars

In this C&C-less Packard 443 Episode, Tim drops a turd… off so our buddy Matt can start his next project while Mental hides from the Vegas sun.  Really we talk to our buddy Paul, the creator of the Distilled Racing 41 Ford. What happens when a retired contractor decides that "good enough" isn't nearly crazy enough? Well, He Built the Ultimate LS-Swapped '41 Ford, and it became one of the most talked-about cars in the 24 Hours of Lemons paddock. ... Now he's selling time in the driver's seat, and donating the money.  This week on Everyone Racers, we're joined by Paul Dolan, builder of the legendary 1941 Ford Sedan that's become an icon of grassroots endurance racing. Powered by an LS V8 mounted an incredible 22.5 inches behind the front axle, this handcrafted machine has stunned racers, judges, and spectators everywhere it goes. But this episode isn't just about horsepower. Paul shares the incredible story of discovering endurance racing after retirement, designing and building this award-winning car from the ground up, learning the hard lessons of making an endurance racer survive, and finding the community that changed his life. Even better... For the 24 Hours of Lemons 20th Anniversary race at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, Paul is doing something almost unheard of. Instead of keeping the driver's seat for himself, he's offering seat time in the car to raise money for Lemons of Love, helping families affected by cancer. Every lap supports a cause far bigger than racing. Wanna be a part of it? Reach out to us, we’ll put you in touch.  Along the way we also dive into: 🏁 Building one of the wildest LS-swapped endurance race cars in America 🏁 Why moving an engine behind the front axle completely changes a race car 🏁 Suspension, cooling, transmission and reliability lessons learned after thousands of race miles 🏁 Why the Lemons community keeps bringing racers back 🏁 Private equity buying automotive aftermarket companies 🏁 Waymo's Fourth of July robotaxi traffic disaster 🏁 Racing Junk finds 🏁 Upcoming Lucky Dog and 24 Hours of Lemons races 🏁 Why endurance racing is more about people than lap times Whether you're into 24 Hours of Lemons, Lucky Dog Racing, ChampCar, NASA HPDE, SCCA, track days, LS swaps, hot rods, grassroots motorsports, race car fabrication, or simply love incredible automotive stories, this episode is for you. If you've ever dreamed about building your own race car—or wondered why thousands of people willingly spend weekends fixing broken cars with their best friends—you've found your people. 👍 Like the video if you love grassroots racing. 💬 Tell us in the comments: What's the coolest race car you've ever seen built in someone's garage? 🔔 Subscribe to Everyone Racers for weekly episodes covering amateur endurance racing, race prep, tech tips, hilarious paddock stories, automotive news, and the amazing people who make grassroots motorsports unlike anything else. Thanks for riding along—we'll see you in the paddock. Private Equity Might Ruin the Car Hobby (Andrew P Collins @ The Drive) https://www.thedrive.com/news/private-equity-is-eating-the-car-modding-industry?utm_source=beehiiv&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-drive-newsletter&_bhlid=696456619279c92cc21b4c5cde89db3854ffc7c6 Waymo’s Jam up San Fran after 4th of July https://abc7news.com/post/waymo-fleet-clogs-presidio-july-4-fireworks-leaving-vehicles-stranded-towed/19455862/  Lemonsworld on Paul’s Ford https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVn4d6pCDu0 Paul’s Channel on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/@buildanotherracecar8150 Get Panda Planner! Seriously, it's $30 bucks man. https://www.panda-planner.com/ Join our F1 Fantasy League https://fantasygp.com/leagues/ Use code 74259541 to join in the fun 3 Pedal Mafia Lemons World - https://youtu.be/wGfAxGX3vHk?si=YInVSrCTFgkXdCVF

For 20 years, the 24 Hours of Lemons has proven that cheap race cars, questionable engineering, brilliant themes, and terrible decisions make for some of the greatest motorsports in America. This week we're joined by Nick Pon, Associate Perpetrator of the 24 Hours of Lemons, for one of our favorite interviews ever. Nick takes us behind the curtain of the 20th Anniversary Laguna Seca race, revealing how nearly 360 teams were narrowed to just 45 invitations, why some legendary cars made the cut while others didn't, how the infamous oil-pan lottery actually worked, and what it really took to convince Laguna Seca to host the biggest celebration in Lemons history. We also dive into: 🏁 The true origin story of the 24 Hours of Lemons 🏁 The evolution from a joke race into America's premier grassroots endurance racing series 🏁 Why the average Laguna entry dates to 1979 (and why that's perfect) 🏁 Team history vs. outrageous car themes in the selection process 🏁 The legendary cars returning for the anniversary race 🏁 What spectators can expect at Laguna—including FREE admission 🏁 Sound restrictions, technical challenges, and why 90 dB matters 🏁 The possibility of winning Halloween Meets Gasoline...without even racing 🏁 Behind-the-scenes stories you've never heard about organizing a once-in-a-generation endurance race We also cover this week's automotive news and oddball car culture, including: 🔧 Private equity buying Jiffy Lube—and why that's probably bad news for anyone who doesn't wrench on their own cars. 🔧 Research suggesting driving a manual transmission may actually help keep your brain sharp. 🔧 A bizarre Tesla crash that reminds us why drivers—not technology—are still responsible. 🔧 A genuine IMSA/SCCA Dodge Shelby Charger race car that deserves a second life. Whether you're a 24 Hours of Lemons racer, Lucky Dog Racing, ChampCar, NASA, SCCA, WRL, AER, or just someone who loves cheap race cars, hilarious paddock stories, grassroots motorsports, and automotive comedy, this episode is packed with history, insider information, and plenty of laughs. If you've ever wondered: • How Lemons chooses special-event entries • Why some cars become legends • What makes an unforgettable race theme • What it takes to race at Laguna Seca • How the 24 Hours of Lemons became the phenomenon it is today ...this is the episode you've been waiting for. 👍 If you enjoy grassroots motorsports, endurance racing, race car builds, garage projects, and automotive comedy, hit Subscribe and join the Everyone Racers community. We're working toward 1,000 subscribers, and every subscription helps us bring more racers, builders, judges, and insiders onto the show. Jiffy Lube bought by private equity (Adam Ismail @ The Drive) https://www.thedrive.com/news/jiffy-lube-has-been-sold-to-private-equity Manual Transmissions Fight Dementia (Jason Torchinsky @ The Autopian) https://www.theautopian.com/that-guy-from-those-nintendo-brain-age-games-says-driving-stick-can-help-prevent-dementia/ Driver drives Tesla into a home, blames autopilot, which it doesn't have. (Amber Disalva @ Jalopnik) https://www.jalopnik.com/2199665/tesla-driver-blames-crash-software-car-doesnt-have/ 1984 Dodge Charger Turbo IMSA - S on Racing Junk for only $6,500 https://www.racingjunk.com/vintage/184800952/1984-dodge-charger-turbo-imsa-s.html?category_id=4438&np_offset=11 Get Panda Planner! Seriously, it's $30 bucks man. https://www.panda-planner.com/ Join our F1 Fantasy League https://fantasygp.com/leagues/ Use code 74259541 to join in the fun 3 Pedal Mafia Lemons World - https://youtu.be/wGfAxGX3vHk?si=YInVSrCTFgkXdCVF 2026 Lemons Rally Schedule https://24hoursoflemons.com/lemons-rally/ 🔍 KEYWORDS (Feedin that algorithm yo) #24HoursofLemons #LagunaSeca #GrassrootsMotorsports #EnduranceRacing #AmateurRacing #RaceCar #BudgetRacing #LemonsRacing #Motorsports #CarCulture #DIYMechanic #SCCA #NASA #ChampCar #LuckyDogRacing #RaceCarBuild #AutomotivePodcast #EveryoneRacers