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The race for your $500 car!
Do you know the real reason behind the end of the Cash for Clunkers program? According to the folks at the 24 Hours of LeMons, they had something to do with it. For those that have never heard of it, the 24 Hours of LeMons is a nationwide racing series where the vehicles used in competition may cost no more than $500. From their release:
Landmark Decision in 24 Hours of LeMons v. United States San Francisco CA
The $500-car race 24 Hours of LeMons' restraint-of-trade suit against the federal government, which had demanded an immediate end to Washington's Cash for Clunkers program, has been successful.
After conferring with counsel this morning, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced Cash for Clunkers would end next Monday at 8pm EST.
In court papers filed last Wednesday, LeMons creator Jay Lamm asserted that by buying and crushing a half-million unsafe, fuel-swilling, smog-belching crapheaps, the government had created "...a federal subsidy not to participate in the 24 Hours of LeMons." America's horrible-$h*tbox-racing industry could therefore be decimated, the lawsuit contended, causing job losses deep into single digits.
"Every '92 Sunbird destroyed by this government death panel," an emotional Lamm told a rally outside the Federal Ninth Circuit Court building, "is a '92 Sunbird that can't be destroyed by bad racedriving." Supporters held signs emblazoned with the president's image above the word "HOOPtie," and a Renault Fuego Turbo set itself on fire in a last grisly act of solidarity.
Amicus briefs to the suit had been filed by veteran Alfa Romeo dealer Martin Swig, the Yugo Owners Anti-Defamation League of America, and Carlo Petroli, founder of Europe's so-called Slow Car Movement. Slow Car adherents reject modern industrial carmaking in favor of earlier methods, such as Britain's reliance on malevolent trolls.
Seriously now, the 24 Hours of LeMons is a real race series that uses some of the lamest cars on the planet to compete. The goal is to give the rest of us the opportunity to race, without having to invest multiple thousands only to have the equipment wrecked or engines blown on the first outing. With only $500 invested, you just go get another car and try again. In fact, you don't want to do too well, at least not at first. At the 12 hour mark during each 24 hour race, the race is stopped and the contestants get to vote one car the "People's Curse" and it sent then and there to the crusher.
The 24 Hours of LeMons website has full information on how you to can become a race car driver and compete on the same level (or should I say down to the same level) as hundreds of others across the nation. The site also contains photos and videos from recent competitions. www.24hoursoflemons.com
The next 24 Hours of LeMons race is September 12-13, 2009 at Carolina Motorsports Part in Kershaw SC. Check out the website for tickets and entry info.
So let the clunkers have their revenge!
Link to the LeMons Facebook page HERE
And LeMons YouTube videos HERE
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