24 Hours of LeMons in a Fiat? YES!!!!

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Post by Gunsmith »

Man I wish I could be there too. That sounds like so much fun. I am thinking of another road trip event for many. Can you imagine a team of Fiats at the race? We could be our own little gang! :twisted:
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Are you doing the $500.00 car race or something different?
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Hey guys! We have worked long and hard on this car, but any racecar, even a $500 one, takes a lot of prep work. I don't think any of us knew exactly what we were getting into when we had this crazy idea, but we've gotter done now and we're ready to roll! We will have a few obstacles others may not have, such as trying to fit people from 5' tall all the way to 6'4"....damn Englishman are big suckers... :roll:
It may not have been so bad, but we ran into a lot of bad luck along the way from having a faulty oil pump out of the box causing the motor to bind and through the aux shaft out of time to losing 2nd gear in the tranny to losing 80 lbs of sheet metal due to over indulging in the vacuum cleaner. Right now, Ron is fighting his generator on the big trailer, trying to get it to work, but that won't stop us because I have a nice new generator from my trailer just raring to go. We'll try to keep everyone posted, but I don't know how the internet connection will be in the middle of the race track, where we plan on blowing up our mattresses, throwing up tents and spending the entire weeekend camping out. Hope all these men don't snore, for God's sake! :shock:
1972 124 Spider (Don)
1971 124 Spider (Juan)
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Ron send me a pm so i have your reply address. i crew chiefed for kevin belmont, andys little brother, the cars we had were from joe gibbs. pontiacs as well, ive done my fair share of short track racing,as a driver, gas series, weekly at lanier, southern all stars. to mention a few. but my fiat highlights are the best 52 feature wins in a 124 coupe!
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Hey Beek. Ron doesn't even like Fiats so you won't find him here. We used to race against Andy but didn't know he had a younger brother. Our Pontiac was Rusty Wallace's Madonna.
1972 124 Spider (Don)
1971 124 Spider (Juan)
1986 Bertone X19 (Blue)
1978 124 Spider Lemons racer
1974 X19 SCCA racer (Paul)
2012 500 Prima Edizione #19 (Mini Rossa)
Ever changing count of parts cars....It's a disease!
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Congratulations on all your hard work guys. Good luck out there.
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The suspense is killing me! :shock:
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Settle down,Bernie. :D The recap has been posted!!
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