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I recently got the opportunity to work with the USAR Pro Cup racing series on a promotional video and thought I would share it here, too. If you aren’t aware of the Pro Cup series, it’s great short-track racing, and I’ve never left the track disappointed. If you ever get the chance to check out a Pro Cup race yourself, I highly recommend it.
The 24 Hours of LeMons (pronounced lemons) is a great event that’s all about maximizing racing fun for minimum expense. The basic premise is to find the cheapest clunker you can get your hands on and spend no more than $500 to purchase and upgrade it for racing. Then outifit it with a rollcage, five-point harness and any other safety equipment you choose and go racing for a dozen hours or more over a weekend. The purse for winning is $1,500 worth of nickels just to reinforce the fact that you shouldn’t take this event too seriously. We raced the LeMons South event at Carolina Motorsports Park in Kershaw, SC, and had the time of our lives.
This video is mostly just for fun. This is a 283 out of a ‘57 Chevy, and I think it would make a great little motor for a roadster. We’ll build it with an old-school vibe, and maybe even keep the rams-horn exhaust manifolds. But first I needed to tear it down. The car had been sitting in a field for nearly 20 years, so I knew it would be in rough shape, but the squirrel’s nest in the lifter valley was a bit of a surprise–don’t blink or you’ll miss it. If you are interested in 283s in general, make sure to check out the “Take A Closer Look” link below the video for some interesting notes about this engine.
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