LeMons: Speedycop upside-downs the ante

Eric Rood

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As a follow-up to the roadracing Cessna 310 and the self-propelled pop-up camper, inimitable 24 Hours of LeMons builder and racer Jeff Bloch, known in the crapcan world as Speedycop, will run an upside-down Chevy Camaro at this weekend’s LeMons race at New Jersey Motorsports Park. The build had previously been kept a secret, but it will join the extremely long list of Bloch’s crazy builds. I don’t have many other details, but I do know that it will surely rank with the backwards Ford F-150 (on a Ford Crown Victoria frame) that scared drivers witless at a few previous LeMons races.

[Sources: 24 Hours of LeMons forum]

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22 responses to “LeMons: Speedycop upside-downs the ante”

  1. $kaycog Avatar
    $kaycog

    ˙ǝɯosǝʍɐ sı ʇɐɥʇ

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    1. Dean Bigglesworth Avatar
      Dean Bigglesworth

      ¡ƃuılıǝɔ ǝɥʇ uo ƃuılǝǝɥʍ ʇnoqɐ ƃuıɥʇǝɯoS

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      1. $kaycog Avatar
        $kaycog

        ˙suǝddɐɥ ʇɐɥʇ uǝɥʍ ʇı ǝʇɐɥ ı

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  2. FuzzyPlushroom Avatar
    FuzzyPlushroom

    We've had backwards and upside-down… what's next, a Chevy Van/Ford Econoline/Dodge Tradesman on its side?

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    1. Dean Bigglesworth Avatar
      Dean Bigglesworth

      We've yet to see this.
      <img src="http://theletter.co.uk/images/lc/vw_fox_inside_out_car.jpg&quot; </img>

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      1. jeepjeff Avatar
        jeepjeff

        Alright. Slap a roll cage on it.

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        1. Peter Tanshanomi Avatar
          Peter Tanshanomi

          But where?

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          1. jeepjeff Avatar
            jeepjeff

            Intentionally left as an exercise for the reader.

  3. BlackIce_GTS Avatar
    BlackIce_GTS

    I hear Speedycop owes more on this car than it's worth.
    There's a phrase for that, I can't remember it.

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  4. Van_Sarockin Avatar
    Van_Sarockin

    The trick wasn't to flip the car over, but to get it to keep going. Seems like he got that right.

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    1. Scandinavian Flick ★ Avatar
      Scandinavian Flick ★

      He's not the first one to get that right.
      <img src="http://i.imgur.com/IVNVVzL.jpg&quot; width="550">

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      1. Van_Sarockin Avatar
        Van_Sarockin

        Yeah, but they flipped it back, which is almost like cheating.

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  5. Peter Tanshanomi Avatar
    Peter Tanshanomi

    Cool, but LeMons is now something very different than "cheapest racing possible."

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    1. Tim Odell Avatar
      Tim Odell

      By the hour, it's still the cheapest wheel-to-wheel racing there is. One could pick nits and suggest Chumpcar, but it comes down to details of what you race and how you build it.

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    2. mdharrell Avatar
      mdharrell

      That depends upon where one is sitting.
      <img src="http://www.murileemartin.com/UG/LWA13/372-UG-Pacific_Northworst_24_Hours_of_LeMons.jpg&quot; width="500">

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    3. LTDScott Avatar
      LTDScott

      It still is. Builds like this are the exception to the rule.

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    4. Eric Rood Avatar
      Eric Rood

      I'd argue that LeMons has always encouraged innovative solutions to non-existent engineering problems in addition to being cheap racing. For most, it provides an inexpensive avenue to wheel-to-wheel racing.
      For a crazy few, it's provides the route for them to chase down the cascading stream of automotive "What ifs." Speedycop is really at the top of that clapped-out pyramid.

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  6. dukeisduke Avatar
    dukeisduke

    There's at least a couple of pics on Car and Driver's blog:
    http://www.caranddriver.com/photo-gallery/lemons-…
    According to the story, his clutch let go yesterday.

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  7. OA5599 Avatar
    OA5599

    6.3: Why Am I Upside-Down? Rule: You're upside-down because you have no business being out on a racetrack. Any driver who puts a car on its roof is out for 12 months.
    Speedycop was clever in removing the roof.

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  8. LTDScott Avatar
    LTDScott

    I'm only sad that this took away some of the attention from the Rolls Royce that debuted as well.

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  9. failboat Avatar
    failboat

    ok. so i have been wondering this all weekend. were the side pipes functional?

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  10. HTWHLS Avatar
    HTWHLS

    Is it me or does anyone else want to do a LeMons race??

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