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You may remember Pandamonium Racing as the team that brought us the 24 Hours Of LeMons Jackass Reel last year. This is also the team that donated number 43 to the Über Birds. At the moment, Pandamonium leads the race!

Of course, they've got quite a few cars looming in the rear-view mirror, and plenty of racing remains. Will they be the lap leader to start the race tomorrow? We'll see!

Many, many readers were all in a tizzy after they saw the LeMons Team Shirt-stravaganza last weekend, because they needed to obtain a Team JDL BMW team T-shirt. Well, now you can- just in time for Hanukkah shopping!

Yes, your loved ones will look like the Chaim Witz of endurance racing when they honor the team that came in 75th (out of 123 entries) at the Yeehaw It's Texas 24 Hours Of LeMons, ju...

We knew it on these shores as the 200SX Turbo, while the Japanese and Europeans called it the Silvia ZX Turbo. Either way, it served as an excellent herpes vector!

We see an exquisitely mid-80s British couple having a Silvia-style rendezvous, he with the silver manual-trans car and she in the slushbox red one. Sure, they'd both have looked a lot cooler in TVR 280is, but he'd probably have ended up...

150 cars, more or less, have hit the track at Thunderhill. The casualties started building up yesterday, with a Porsche 944 and a Neon losing their engines during practice, and we expect to see more cars a-blowin' up now.

Will one of the motorcycle-engined machines dominate? Will the Über Bird use its superior aerodynamics to outrun the field? Will the Cressida and Maxima whip out some serious Jap...

After I got tipped about this truck from three different sources, I decided I'd better head down to the self-service boneyard a few miles from my house.

Would anyone buy a truck of any sort with just 60 horsepower today? Nissan was proud of that power level back in 1965! This truck is remarkably complete and includes some no-doubt-impossible-to-find bits, such as a nice steering wheel and all the...

Racing will be getting underway in a few hours, so what better way to prepare than by watching a timelapse video of all the cars that came into the LeMons Supreme Court's clutches yesterday? Here we go!

I decided to mount the camera (a CHDK-hacked Canon A460) up on one of the metal pillars that supports the roof over the BS Inspection area, but I had no camera-mount bracket... until I stopped by ...

Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. Many East Bay Amazons have been getting crushed, but this one is safe on the Island.

I'm having a tough time figuring out the year of this 122S; the early-series yellow-on-black license plates mean it's no newer than '63 or '64, and the grille also suggests ...

We've seen the LeMons depreciation record shattered, with the '89 BMW 750iL that reigned supreme in that category since its (brief) appearance at the The Lamest Day knocked off its pedestal!

That's right, it really is possible to obtain a great big Benz with a V12 engine, dent-free body, and cherry interior for 500 bucks. Now, some of you may be asking yourselves, "How in the hell could a car tha...

Those of you who followed the saga of Mad_Science's LeMons 6 Series know that some difficulties held them back at the Buttonwillow Histrionics over the summer. They've made a few changes since then.

Yes, we've long wanted to see a big German car get turned into a Plymouth Super Bird, and now our dream has come true! A little sheet metal, a lot of Bondo, and the number 43 is all you need.

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Whew! The largest number of entries we've ever had roll past the LeMons Supreme Court. The rain fell, the wind blew, and the penalty-lap hammer came down on many a racer's skull.

We gave one cheaty Integra team a choice: take five laps or flip a coin, with heads giving them zero laps and tails resulting in a massive 1,200-lap penalty. They took the coin toss... and got tails! We saw our first-ever...

You've seen the Angry Hamster Racing V65 Magna-powered Honda Z600 under construction, and of course you're familiar with the LeMons-winning CBR900-powered Geo Metro-Gnome… but the engineering behind these two machines pushes the LeMons Insane-O-Meter™ into the red numbers.

I could go on and on about the 200-proof, clear-quill engineering geekery that went into the Angry Hamster Z600- which, by th...

Today, Hyundai showed off its latest engine, the Theta II, a 2.4-liter, direct-injection four-cylinder with variable valve timing destined for the 2011 Hyundai Sonata and 2010 Hyundai Tucson. Impressively, they also showed us the guts of a beat-to-hell test unit.

The Theta II 2.4 GDI is, unsurprisingly a 2.4-liter, gasoline direct-injection four-cylinder which makes 200 HP at 6,300 RPM and 186 lb-...

The Hyundai Genesis Tau V8 is getting massaged for 2011 with a bump of ten ponies, bringing it up to 385 HP. How? More valve lift, intake manifold tweaks, low-friction coating on the pistons, and iridium spark plugs. Nifty.

Erik Buell is quitting Harley-Davidson to start his own motorcycle racing company. [HellForLeather]

At one point in my past, I designed and proved-out the production line that built the Ford GT's giant throttle body. I still have two copies, so I'm something of a fan-boy. Thus, I agree with this guy's sentiment.

(Hat tip to Dustin!)

One of the world's foremost musical instrument manufacturers helped design the Lexus LFA's cabin. Why? Because Toyota wanted its supercar to crawl inside your ears and invade your soul. Turn it up loud, kids — this is a good one.

Things we did not know about the Lexus LFA:

1. When accelerating at an engine speed of about 3,000 rpm, the driver hears a powerful harmonic sound structure centered aro...

Wired has assembled footage of six of the most costly and catastrophic failures in spacecraft history. This is what it's like to watch billions of dollars burn.

Warning: Most of this is entertaining stuff — few things are better than seeing government-grade explosives do what they do best — but some of it is not. The article includes footage of both the Challenger and Columbia disasters, and t...

What is it with superstar atheletes that won't stay retired? When word leaked out today that Michael Schumacher was in talks with Mercedes-Benz regarding his return to Formula 1, our hearts sank. Where sports are concerned, we've always found ourselves drawn to those who knew when to quit, those who accepted defeat graciously, those who didn't engage in lame-ass stunts in order to get ahead. Schum...

Wade F.B. Thompson, the man credited with saving Airstream, has died at the age of 69. The New Zealand native took the company from losing $12 million a year to producing 100,000 trailers in 2006. [NYTimes]

What was once an area for unique engineering solutions and cool design twists has, like most facets of modern automobiles, become depressingly conformist. Thankfully, we've found, with reader help, five exceptions to the rule. Here's our five favorite pedal sets.

We limited ourselves to current production vehicles and to pedals that come stock on those cars. Thankfully, there's still quite a bit o...

Channeling JJ Abrams' Fringe for visual inspiration, this new ad for the Mitsubishi Evo out of Australia promises physics-defying performance.

Cold hearted killer and David Hasselhoff enthusiast Michael Schumacher is reportedly in talks with Mercedes about coming back to F1. Guess all that talk of replacing Felipe Massa made him pine for his glory days. [PlanetF1]

President Obama asked South Korea yesterday to renegotiate auto trade clauses in the South Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement due to vast differences in scale of auto exports between the two countries.

However, some critics are charging that U.S. calls for renegotiation are an attempt to artificially adjust its market share. U.S. Trade Representatives responded by saying "Yes." [hani.co.kr, The Kore...

Jalopnik fan-site Hooniverse eschews the present for ten crazy engines y'all can't buy. [Hooniverse]

Artist Timothy Raines focuses much of his talent on automobile logos in his series "Brand As Art." He makes the Cavillino in these works Rampante and spreads Bentley's wings with a triptych. Glorious and gorgeous!

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