When 24 Hours of Lemons Chief Perp Jay Lamm dreamed up his beater-racing series back in 2006, he generally expected an outpouring of terrible cars brought as-is. However, it took just a few races to figure out that when the only real constraint on building a car is a $500 budget (excluding the series’ always-improving requisite safety gear, of course), people bring incredible creativity to the game. While the majority of a given field today is still filled with run-of-the-mill BMWs and Civics, the creativity-fostering environment has given way to some incredible race car builds. Compiling any list of “Greatest Lemons Cars” is bound to exclude more incredible hoopties than there are spirochetes in a custom van’s shag carpeting, but here is a relatively whittled-down roster of some of the best crapcans we’ve seen in the 24 Hours of Lemons… read more >
