The good old days

Back in the good old days, sex was safe and racing could kill you. In this modern age of dual-stage airbags, excessive litigation, and "point-to-pass" driving events, we all secretly yearn for that forbidden element of fear and danger behind the wheel. After a night of heavy drinking, a group of racing geeks took it apon themselves to throwback to these golden days and do something about it. While we couldn't do much about the sex part, we did have the option of entering The 24 Hours of LeMons.

It was important for us to enter a car that best captured that era of American history, the era where we reached the peak of stupidity in automotive engineering and were on the cusp of realizing that condoms were actually not a bad idea. With this in mind, and after much deliberation (along with a massive hangover), we decided on the Mustang II. This Pinto-derived beauty is the pinnacle of '70s automotive engineering and refinement, and helped lay the groundwork for the AIDs epidemic of the early '80s.

Over the coming months, we'll chronicle our run-ins with tetanus, heinous acts of automotive disfigurement, and games of rock/paper/scissors to see who has to drive this deathtrap first.

More to come...