My pal Jonee Eisen is the proud owner of a 1960 Mazda R360 and a 1960 Fuldamobile. In addition to those two micro cars, Jonee used to own a Subaru 360, a Subaru R2, a DAF 66, a BMW Isetta, a Renault Le Car and a string of AMC Pacers. Like us, he's pleasantly mental. I accompanied Jonee to pick up the shift linkage for that Fuldamobile. Interestingly, the Fuldamobile is about … [Read more...]
Concours d’LeMons
Yup, there goes the neighborhood by-the-sea. The guys that organize Billetproof and the band of hooligans that have been fouling up the nation's road courses via the 24 Hours of LeMons have joined forces. They're now they're out to destroy, or at least tarnish, Monterey Weekend. For the three or four of you that don't know, Monterey Weekend combines the pre-war … [Read more...]
LeMon of the Week IV
It's only been three weeks, but we're changing up the format of this here LeMon of the Week thang. Finding a beaten, rust-laden nightmare for sale on the internets is all fine and good, but what we want to do is give you some insight into how the LeMons brain trust works. In other words, these are cars we want to see resurrected and battling it out around a race track. This … [Read more...]
LeMon of the Week III
Back to France in just two short weeks? Is Nicolas Sarkozy's wife double-barrel smoking hot? And why you ask? Because this week our LeMon is a rusty 1973 Citroen SM. According to some of those car cognesceti types (hi mom!), the Citroen SM is one of the very greatest cars ever made. If not the greatest. To more rational, reasonable and logic-based types, the Sport Maserati by … [Read more...]
LeMon of the Week
Last week we explored the infinite joy inherent to all French LeMons race cars. Today we hop the Chunnel and head to the land of boiled monkfish, Joe Lucas, and the birthplace of this 1969 Triumph GT6 MkII - jolly old England. Known to hopeless, bloody knuckled types the world round as the "poor man's E-type," the MkII was able to cough up a stunning 104 hp for the 12 days … [Read more...]