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Content 24 Hours of LeMons
Kim Jong, AlfaMan and The Probe: A LeMons Race
by
Yasmin Sanie-Hay
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF ARTS
(SPECIALIZED JOURNALISM)
August 2023
Copyright 2023 Yasmin Sanie-Hay
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank my three committee members - Professors Daniel Birman,
Robert Hernandez and Bill Yahraus - for their invaluable time and instruction during
my time at USC. Likewise, I would like to thank all the 24 Hours of LeMons teams
who shared their time and passion with me. Thank you to Bill Bartlett, Karl Deardorff,
Luke Bower, Aaron Murano, Geoff Straw, Bettina Swigger, Elias Rodriguez, Coby
Hartman, Jim Cestarollo, Stuart Beavis, Dante Cestarollo, Mark Dragonette, Chris Friel,
Justin Smith, Sean Windrum, Robert Lipp and Ryan Doherty for warmly welcoming
me into their homes, garages and the paddocks to learn about their stories. Last but
not least, I’d like to thank the organizers and extended staff at 24 Hours of LeMons -
Jay Lamm, Nick Pon, Jonathan Griffin, Marty Wendt and Murilee Martin, in particular -
for sharing their incredible stories and archival footage about the history of the race.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements……………………………………………….…………………………….ii
Abstract…………………………………………………………………..…………………..….iv
I. Chapter 1. Reflection…………………………………………………………….…………..1
II. Chapter 2. Documentary Script…………………. …………………………………..……8
References……………….……………………………………………………………………..42
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Abstract
“Kim Jong, Alfaman and The Probe: A LeMons Race” is a documentary that
follows three teams in the “24 Hours of LeMons,” an endurance race for $500 cars. The
documentary traces these teams’ journeys from finding their $500 cars to preparing
them and racing them on track.
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Chapter 1. Reflection
In a world where racing often brings out human hyper-competitiveness and a
drive towards domination and hierarchy, 24 Hours of LeMons turns these concepts
flatly on their heads. Instead, the race prizes collaboration and creativity over being
the fastest. The resulting atmosphere is one of camaraderie and fun - teams
collaborate in rebuilding engines, transforming cars into pieces of artwork, and
helping each other perform well throughout the weekend.
The race emerged in 2006 as what was originally intended to be a one-off spoof
of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, held annually in France. Much to the organizers’ surprise,
the event quickly gained popularity and is now held at professional race tracks all over
the US. Before each race, teams are placed in one of three classes, A, B or C,
depending on how LeMons judges grade a car’s chances of surviving throughout the
weekend race. Class A cars have “A Prayer of Winning,” Class B cars have “No Prayer of
Winning,” and Class C cars have “No Prayer of Finishing.”
While teams that complete the most laps in their given Class do receive prizes,
a greater emphasis is placed on rewarding teams that decorate their cars in the most
outlandish fashion, or those who perform the most heroic fixes to get their cars
running again. The teams completing the most laps receive less in prize money than
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the winners of the Index of Effluency Award, given to the overall worst car deemed to
have performed the best.
As someone with a keen interest in cars and rally driving, the 24 Hours of
LeMons immediately caught my attention not only because of its unusual take on
sportsmanship, but also because of how it embodies an important facet of the society
we live in: the freedom to parody and satire. I chose to follow teams’ journeys through
a documentary rather than another format because of the highly visual nature of the
race and the cars that take part in it. Writing about a car completely covered in fuchsia
carpeting simply isn’t the same as showing it on screen.
In order to illustrate teams’ experiences in the 24 Hours of LeMons, I enlisted
the help of three teams - the Kim Jong Elantra, Alfaman & The Black Widow, and The
Anal Probe Returns to Earth. Due to the nature of preparations for the race, not all
teams can rebuild their cars into an appropriate condition in time to take part in each
and every race. As such, I found it important to follow three teams, rather than one, to
ensure at least one would be present during the actual races I covered.
To meet and find the right variety of teams to work with, I attended an initial
exploratory race during which I talked to many other teams as well. I found these
three teams to all embody the spirit of the race, while each exemplifying a different
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approach. The Anal Probe Returns to Earth is made up of two core members, works in
a modest outdoor home garage set-up, and has previously won the Most Heroic Fix
trophy. The Alfaman team is led by a professional Alfa Romeo, Fiat and Ferrari car
mechanic who periodically welcomes several first-time racers to drive the car on race
day. The Kim Jong Elantra team is made up of 15-20 individuals each racing season,
and they have worked their way from building the car in a small 2-car garage to a more
professional home garage with a lift. They have also won Class C in the past,
completing the most laps in their Class at a 2018 Sonoma race.
Once I had formed working relationships with these three teams, I scheduled
times to follow all three at 24 Hours of LeMons races as well as during their workdays
at their home or professional garages. Ultimately, all three teams made it to at least one
of the multiple races I covered, if not more. As a result, I obtained footage of all three
teams both in their home working environments and at race days, in addition to sit-
down interviews.
The logistics of covering all three teams required several road trips from Los
Angeles to Buttonwillow, Sonoma, Thuderhill, San Francisco and San Luis Obispo for
periods of only a few hours or a night, on several occasions. I drove over 3,000 miles
back and forth to Los Angeles to attend races and complete interviews. Each team had
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their own schedule to work on their car, and at times, this also changed at the last
minute. I learned the importance of being flexible and making the time to drive several
hours to meet teams with only a few days’ - or hours’ - notice at times. This was crucial
to obtaining all the footage I needed.
While shooting at each location, I planned different types of shots that would
later help me construct the visual sequences needed to tell the story. To accomplish
this, I made sure to capture establishing, wide, medium and close-up shots of team
members in action, as well as their surrounding environments. When possible, I tried
my best to capture at least 10 seconds of each shot, to make the future task of editing
smoother. Additionally, I aimed to shoot visuals of the team members and locations
from multiple angles. These different types of shots later served in building more
traditional visual sequences as well as montage sequences.
One of my primary concerns in documenting such a colorful event with so
many different teams and moving parts was having enough variety of footage. As a
result of this concern, however, I ended up with over 45 hours of footage. As someone
who had only produced a 7-8 minute documentary prior to this experience, this made
the task of editing all the more challenging. A great deal of my time was spent simply
logging and properly organizing all of the footage I had obtained.
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Once this task was completed, I learned through experience that I would have
to let go of many good sub-stories on the cutting room floor. My first rough edit was
closer to 45 minutes, and one of the most valuable parts of this experience was
learning how to trim the story down further to about 27 minutes. I had interviewed 15
people for the documentary, and this also added to the challenge of incorporating
elements of all their stories into a coherent, flowing whole under 30 minutes.
Rather than organizing the story into three separate team stories, I wove the
teams’ stories into larger themes pertaining to the race. I found the overall story to
have more stamina when different voices spoke about these different themes, as
though moving from one thought to another in conversation. Sticking to this method
forced me to select only the most impactful individual sound bites that would fit into
this broader conversation. It also made the teams feel more connected throughout the
story, as opposed to having three distinct sections in the documentary that only
covered one team at a time.
Additionally, I contacted the founder of the race, Jay Lamm, to include an
organizer’s perspective in the documentary. He spoke with me in detail about the
creation, history, rules and ethos of the race. His voice served as a counterbalance to
the teams’ voices throughout the story and he served as a quasi-narrator, connecting
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the different sections. Overall, I was pleasantly surprised and most appreciative of
everyone’s willingness and warmth in sharing their stories with me.
Diving into sound design was also a relatively new experience for me.
Ultimately, I found that sound could also serve as an important connecting element
between ideas, similar to the manner in which visuals are edited together to connect
ideas. I applied this principle in my use of natural sound in several instances where I
used audio match cuts as transitions. On a slightly different note, selecting the right
music was also a critical element in properly channeling the spirit of the race. As such,
much of the music selection was inspired by the types of music heard during the
parade of cars held before each race.
All in all, I was happy with the results I achieved in telling the stories of these
three teams through the documentary. The story traces the origins of the race and
then follows the three teams as they find their $500 cars, the challenges they face in
rebuilding them and transforming them into works of art and ultimately, racing them.
Selecting the documentary format proved to be an important choice in telling this
story, as so much of it is conveyed visually - from the action, the characters in costume,
to the otherworldly cars.
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However, if I were to shoot this documentary again, I would have tested out
shooting the racing scenes at a faster shutter speed, with the goal of capturing the
action more sharply and with less motion blur. As this was my first experience making
a solo documentary, I’ve also learned that I’d like to improve my camera moves, as I felt
my hand held camera movement was not always the smoothest. Additionally, I would
have worked with the racetracks to obtain permission to shoot directly on the race
track, when possible, rather than adjacent to it. Another key takeaway from this
experience is that I could have shot less footage in certain thematic areas. Last but not
least, if I had the opportunity to explore this story further, I would have liked to
produce a longer documentary with even more teams included.
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Chapter 2. Documentary Script
Nat Sound

Fade in music

Intro title card 1 with custom yellow and
black graphics: KIM JONG
Nat Sound

Music

CU shot of driver checking his mirror
Nat Sound

Music

Intro title card 2 with custom yellow and
black graphics: ALFAMAN
Nat Sound

Music

CU shot: Driver shifting into first gear
Nat Sound

Music

Intro title card 3 with custom yellow and
black graphics: THE PROBE
Nat Sound

Music

CU shot: Race car tire moving as car
drives off
Nat Sound

Music

Intro title card 4 with yellow and black
graphics: 24 HOURS OF LEMONS
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SOT Jimmy Cestarollo (Driver, Team
AlfaMan)
Music

Shot 1: Interior shot driving on
racetrack from driver’s point of view

Shot 2: Medium shot of 2 old/beat-up
BMW’s coming down a turn on the
racetrack, followed by a VW with
Curious George riding a bicycle on the
roof
LeMons is just a different environment
of racing. It's like Burning Man for
automobiles.
SOT Robert Lipp (Driver, Curious
George Rides a Rocket)
Music
1. Medium shot: Elmo car
2. Medium shot: Ferdinand the
Dinosaur Bug
3. Medium shot: SteamBoat Car
4. Medium shot: car completely
covered in fuchsia carpeting
This is LeMons, so anything is possible.
SOT Bill Bartlett (Driver, Kim Jong
Elantra)
Music
1. Medium shot: KIm Jong Elantra
driving onto track
2. Closeup of back of car where it says
“Kim Jong Elantra”
Another Fine Mess is our team name
and we race the Kim Jong Elantra.
SOT Jimmy Cestarollo (Driver, AlfaMan)
Music
1. Medium shot: Alfa driving onto track
2. CU of back of car where it says
“Powered by AlfaMan”
We've done maybe 30 races in LeMons
and we run an Alfa Romeo. Because I'm
an AlfaMan.
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SOT Elias Rodriguez (Driver, The Probe
Returns To Earth)
Music fades out
1. Medium shot: Probe driving onto
track
2. CU of aliens on car
3. CU of “Area 51 Escape” decoration
on car
4. CU of controls in car: “Fans”,
“Probe”, “Fire”, and kill switch
5. CU of back of car (alien bumper
sticker says “Back Off …Or, I’ll Probe
You!”)
Fade to Black
We have a Ford Probe. We asked one of
the judges here, “What theme should we
do?” He said, “Well, you guys can dress
up like space aliens and come down
from outer space to probe the human
race.”
Nat sound

Shot of The Probe driving onto the race
track
Nat sound

Fade in heartbeat

Car pulling up and stopping on the race
track
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Nat sound
Heartbeat
1. Shot 1: CU shot of Bill Bartlett in
racing helmet
2. Shot 2: red lights on race track
3. Shot 3: cars waiting for green on the
race track
4. Shot 4: LeMons staff walking to head
of the race track for start
5. Shot 5: Wide shot of all cars and
LeMons staff walking to head of the
race track for start
6. Shot 6: Red lights - zoom in this
time
Nat sound
Heartbeat rate increases
1. Shot 1: CU Bill Bartlett putting
down the glass visor on his helmet
2. Shot 2: Shot zooming out from
corner staff in the race tower on
track
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Nat sound

Heartbeat rate increases further

Shot 1: CU of racer’s hand turning on
the probe switch

Shot 2: Red lights - zoom in again this
time

Shot 3: CU of Bill Bartlett in helmet

Shot 4: CU of racer with hand ready to
shift into gear

Shot 5: CU of dials on cars

Shot 6: Zoom in shot of red lights (even
closer this time)

Shot 7: Even CU shot of Bill Bartlett in
helmet

Shot 8: Black screen for a beat

Shot 9: CU of timer

Shot 10: Red lights going off for start of
race

Shot 11: racer’s feet slamming the
pedals

Shot 12: CU exhaust pipe going off and
screen enveloped in white smoke
SOT: Elias Rodriguez (Driver, The Anal
Probe Returns to Earth)
Shot: Elias Rodriguez interview
Lower third text: “Elias Rodriguez,
Driver, The Anal Probe Returns to
Earth”
The first time getting behind the wheel
and racing… I mean, I was sort of in
shock at how fast all these cars were
going.
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Nat sound

Shot 1: cars racing on track under green
flag at Sonoma

Shot 2: cars racing on track under green
flag at Sonoma and entering the first
turn up the hill

Shot 3: “Indecent Exposure” race car
going up to the first turn on track at
Sonoma
SOT Karl Deardorff (Driver, Kim Jong
Elantra)
Shot: Karl Deardorff interview

Lower third text: “Karl Deardorff, Driver,
Kim Jong Elantra”
There were 150 cars and a little over two
miles of racetrack. So it’s pure mayhem.
Nat sound

Shot: Ferdinand the Bug on track at
Sonoma
SOT Jimmy Cestarollo

Shot: Jimmy Cestarollo interview

Lower third text: “Jimmy Cestarollo,
Driver, AlfaMan”
I'd never really been out on track. My
guys were like, “Just go, Just go. Just go
out there and do it.”
SOT Jimmy Cestarollo

Shot 1: San Frandisco team driving on
track

Shot 2: Multiple teams driving down
turn on hill at Sonoma

Shot 3: Alfaman team and other cars
racing towards the straightaway at
Sonoma

Shot 4: Overhead shot of teams racing
on track at Sonoma
And I remember I thought, “Oh my
God, this is crazy” because I've watched
it, but I never experienced it. Once
you’re out there, I thought, “Man, these
people are really racing and they're
going fast and they want to cut me off!
And that first day I was just hooked. It
was like, “Oh my God - I've never had so
much fun.”
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Nat Sound of car continues

Music fade in

Title Card with custom yellow and black
graphics: “BIRTH OF A LEMON”
Nat Sound of car continues to a halt +
rest of Nat Sound continues

Music fades out

Shot: Archival footage 24 Hours of
LeMons

SOT Jay Lamm (Founder, 24 Hours of
LeMons)
Shot: Archival footage 24 Hours of
LeMons

24 Hours of LeMons started as a
complete accident. We were all sitting
around in a Chinese restaurant and I
had this idea. I said,
SOT Jay Lamm
Shot: Jay Lamm interview

Lower third text: “Jay Lamm, ‘Chief
Perpetrator’ (24 Hours of LeMons
Founder)
Wouldn't it be hilarious if we took these
$500 cars that we're already out on the
road playing with and
SOT Jay Lamm
Consecutive still shots of the first 24
Hours of LeMons races at Altamont
Raceway in 2006 and 2007
Each still shot gets zoomed into slightly
before the next one appears
Still shots provided by 24 Hours of
LeMons archives
made it even harder and we'll rent a
racetrack and you got to race them for
24 hours? Every around the table said,
"Well, that's the stupidest idea I've ever
heard. We're never going to do that.”
And I just, on the wing, kind of said,
“Well, what if we called it 24 Hours of
LeMons?” And they all said, “Okay…
well, now you have to do it.”
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SOT Jay Lamm
Consecutive still shots of the first 24
Hours of LeMons races at Altamont
Raceway in 2006 and 2007

Each still shot gets zoomed into slightly
before the next one appears

Last shot: Archival footage from LeMons

Voice fadeout at end and transition to
black

Music fades in at end
So the first one we did, we had about 30
cars. I was working in car magazines -
that was my business at the time - and
all my friends just happened to be car
magazine guys. So they all came out and
amazingly, all the cars did not blow up
10 minutes into the thing. A lot of them
made it all the way to the end of the
weekend. They all went away and they
did what car magazine people do. They
wrote car magazine articles about it. And
all of a sudden, I got phone calls and I
got emails and all these other people
wanted to do it. So the next year we did
one, and then we did a couple more, and
within about three years we were doing
12 around the country, and a year later
we were doing 24 around the country.
And it just took over the business.
Car sound

Music

Title Card (on black screen with custom
yellow and black graphics): “BATTING
$500”
SOT Jay Lamm
Music fades out

Establishing Shot: Junkyard find cars
outside workshop/garage

Shots 1: CU yellow duck inside car

Shot 2: Medium shot green car with
yellow duck inside it
So we came up with this idea: you
couldn't spend more than $500 on the
car itself, just as a way to level the
playing field.
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SOT Jimmy Cestarollo

Music fades out

Shot 1: Medium wide shot of green car

Shot 2: Shot zooming into interior of
green car
So you got a crappy car that you gotta
build nicely with a limited budget. That
makes it hard
SOT Jimmy Cestarollo

Shot: Jimmy Cestarollo interview
To make it go the distance, the
endurance.
SOT Jimmy Cestarollo

Shot 1: Green car at start of Sonoma
race

Shot 2: Green car going towards first
turn at Sonoma

Shot 3: Time lapse of cars racing at
Sonoma

End: fade to black
A lot of the racing they do now is 7, 8
laps. Most every car finishes 7 or 8 laps.
And you’re doing hundreds of laps…
with an inferior car.
SOT Coby Hartman (Team member, The
Anal Probe Returns to Earth)

Shot: Coby Hartman interview

Lower third text: “Coby Hartman, Driver,
The Probe Returns to Earth”
Anything that's safety related is outside
the $500 nominal limit.
SOT Coby Hartman

Visual sequence: The Safety Gear

Different shots of racer with safety gear
The brakes, the roll cage, the harness, or
anything else that keeps the driver safe
is outside of the limit.
SOT Karl Deardorff

Shot: Karl Deardorff interview

Lower third text: “Karl Deardorff, Team
member, Kim Jong Elantra”
They don’t really care what you do,
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SOT Karl Deardorff

Shot 1: old 1940’s car

Shot 2: Team Kraptonite

Shot 3: Silver pickup with a custom
back built onto it

Shot 4: LeMons Cement Mixer Mercedes
As long as you don’t spend too much
money on it. And even if you do spend
money on it, if there’s a commensurate
amount of misery involved, they’re
pretty OK and pretty good at
overlooking the amount of money you’ve
spent.
SOT Jay Lamm

Shot 1: Porsche 911 in paddock

Shot 2: Porsche 911 driving onto track at
Sonoma
So we had a guy show up at a race
recently with a 15-year-old Porsche 911,
and we’re like, we’re gonna have to
penalize this guy a million laps. Well, he
had a late 60’2 VW Beetle air-cooled 32-
horsepower motor in it. Ok, fine - we’re
not gonna bust that guy’s chops. He has
no prayer of winning.

So we know who's going to be
competitive.
SOT Jay Lamm

Shot: Jay Lamm interview
Those top 10% of cars we really keep
paying attention to. And we really want
to understand that they're not using a
checkbook to win a race. The other 90%
of guys,
SOT Jay Lamm

Shot: CU shot of car with bicycle
attached to its wheel.

Music fade in at end

Fade to black at end
they don’t have a prayer of winning
anyway, so why beat them up about it?
So the $500 limit, we interpret it fairly
liberally.
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Music

Title Card (on black screen with yellow
graphics): “WILL TRADE: GUNS OR
ELECTRIC GUITAR”
Fade out music

Nat sound

Establishing shot: Home garage area
(The Probe Returns to Earth), Redwood
City, California
SOT Elias Rodriguez

Shot: Elias Rodriguez interview

Lower third text: “Elias Rodriguez,
Driver, The Probe Returns to Earth”
The way we found the car was a friend
and I from college just went on
Craigslist and put in the filters “cars that
were $500 or less,”
SOT Elias Rodriguez

Sequence showing their home garage
area (Redwood City, California)
and it was the first car that showed up.
That was basically the only reason why
we got that car and it was the Ford
Probe. We quickly found out it needed a
new motor. So we rebuilt that motor
before the race.
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Nat sound

Shot: medium shot to closeups and
ending with a medium shot

Elias Rodriguez (Driver, The Probe
Returns to Earth) finding his printout of
the old Craigslist listing and showing it
to us, followed by him going through/
showing us closeups of the old, poorly
written bills of sale they found stashed
in the car
This is the actual picture of the car
when we found it at the dude's place.
“No title, no keys. Sold as is. Willing to
trade for guns or electric guitar.” Then
we found these these really poorly
written bills of sale in the car.

“I sell my 1994 Ford Probe to Chris for
the amount of $200. - Juan”

$200?! We paid 500!!

“August, 2013” and then this one,
another one which is “August 31st.”
Wait, this one is “August 25th,” and this
one is just six days later.

“I sell my Ford Probe to Mike Holsten
for the sum of $200, as is.” Again. Okay,
so Juan sold it to Chris. Chris sold it to
Mike. And then I guess Mike sold it to
us… for 500!!

So we got to the losing end of the stick
there…
Fade to black

Fade in Asian Hip Hop music
Fade out music

Nat sound

Zoom out shot from closeup of Kim
Jong Il’s photo pasted on the back of the
car, slowly revealing where it has the
“Elantra” auto manufacturer lettering
and the team’s own “Kim Jong” lettering
pasted right above it
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SOT Karl Deardorff

Sequence of shots introducing the
Elantra
The car is a 2005 Hyundai Elantra and
that's really what the chassis is. We got
the car for $200 and at our very first
race, it was a sub $500 car. It came with
a two liter motor and a totally blown
head gasket. The first thing Jay said
when he saw it was “That is a terrible
car."And from how he said it, I don't
think it was a compliment, in the sense
that it was a good lemon.
SOT Karl Deardorff

Shot: Karl Deardorff interview

Lower third text: “Karl Deardorff, Driver,
Kim Jong Elantra”
I thought he was thinking, this is going
to be a dangerous car and a liability in
the series, and I'd like to think we've
proven him wrong over the years.
Fade to black

Fade in music
SOT Jimmy Cestarollo
Music
Nat sound

Sequence of shots introducing the Alfa
and moving into sequence of shots of
their team working on the car in their
professional Alfa Romeo workshop
(Novato, CA)
We got a 78 Alfa Spider. I actually traded
a guy some Alfa tools for the car, so So I
actually didn't do a cash transaction.

It was perfect for what we needed. We
got a rolling chassis with all the parts.

And through the years, the car’s evolved.
We’ve been able to know what fails on
the car and we've been able to repair it.
SOT Jimmy Cestarollo
Shot: Jimmy Cestarollo interview
It was perfect for what we needed. We
needed a rolling chassis with all the
parts.
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SOT Jimmy Cestarollo
Nat Sound
Sequence continues with shots in the
workshop
We stripped it out and put in a fresh
motor, transmission, did some
suspension work and it's run maybe 30
races in that thing and it's still alive and
still going.

SOT Jimmy Cestarollo
Nat sound

Music fades in

Sequence continues

End: fade to black

End: Music fades out
Some of it is a lot of work… getting
things ready, especially after you do an
engine rebuild. But it's just a good
camaraderie of people getting together.
Fade in music

Title Card (on black screen with yellow
graphics): “OPERATION ENGINE
TRANSPLANT”
SOT Luke Bower (Driver, Kim Jong
Elantra)
Fade out music

Nat sound at paddock

Shot 1: Archival footage John Lennon’s
Rolls Royce

Rest of sequence: Wolseley Hornet
modeled after John Lennon’s Rolls
Royce

End: fade to black
Part of the LeMons spirit is working
with what you have and making work…
what wasn't meant to work, I guess you
could really say. There's a lot of
MacGyver-ing or conglomeration of
parts that goes into some of these cars to
make them work. And it's interesting to
see the ingenuity that people come up
with.
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SOT Aaron Murano (Driver, Kim Jong
Elantra)
Nat sound at paddock

Sequence: Ferdinand The Bug

End: fade to black
You know, there's no rule that says you
can’t design an active aerodynamics
system for your car or find weird
combinations of other Hyundai parts
and swap them all around and make this
thing that's inexpensive but surprisingly
fast. As long as it is cheap, that's really
the only cap. But I think that's really fun
and challenging and it's a cool open-
ended problem that just lets you sort of
not worry about things too much and
put your own mark on the car.
Nat sound

Shot: Kim Jong Elantra by trailer
outside
SOT Bill Bartlett (Team member, Kim
Jong Elantra)

Shot: Bill Bartlett interview

Lower third text: “Bill Bartlett, Driver,
Kim Jong Elantra)
When we built the Kim Jong Elantra, we
built a stock car.
SOT Bill Bartlett
Nat sounding workshop

Sequence: Kim Jong Elantra team
working on cars in the home amateur
workshop they’ve built
We found some springs that we were
able to modify and put on the car. So it
handled pretty well, but it was
underpowered.
SOT Bill Bartlett
Shot: Bill Bartlett interview
We later did an engine swap. We took a
2.7 liter
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SOT Bill Bartlett
Nat sound in workshop

Sequence: Kim Jong Elantra team
working on cars

End: fade to black
Hyundai Tiburon engine and put it into
the Kim Jong Elantra. That gave us a lot
more power, but it also could have given
us a lot of reliability problems. It was
essentially a junkyard engine. We didn't
know what we were were putting in.
SOT Coby Hartman

Shot: Coby Hartman interview

Lower third text: “Coby Hartman, Driver,
The Probe Returns to Earth)
So you basically get one of these parts
cars and you just, like,
SOT Coby Hartman

Nat sound in garage area

Sequence: Probe team working on car -
they have fewer tools and no workshop -
they just work in Elias’ yard.
use everything and that'll be scrap.
SOT Elias Rodriguez
Nat sound in garage area

Sequence: Probe team working on car -
they have fewer tools and no workshop -
they just work in Elias’ yard.
We should have just brought the cage
from the Probe and
SOT Elias Rodriguez
Shot: Elias Rodriguez interview
put it in the parts car and called it a day.
But instead
SOT Elias Rodriguez
Nat sound in garage area

Sequence: Probe team working on car -
they have fewer tools and no workshop -
they just work in Elias’ yard.
we've been spending, you know, like
what, almost at least a year now, slowly
just bringing all the parts over into the
into the lemon.
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SOT Coby Hartman
Nat sound in garage area

Sequence: Probe team working on car -
they have fewer tools and no workshop -
they just work in Elias’ yard.
So Elias, he’s super good at finding
these things, you know. So he found
out ,with the power of the Internet, that
the Ford Fusion brakes work. And he's
like, “I'm going to go to a junkyard.” And
he found two Ford Fusions. And then
just completely scavenged all the brakes
off of them.
Nat sound

Elias and Coby replacing their Ford
Probe brakes with junkyard find Ford
Fusion brakes

End: fade to black
For the viewers at home - We're
replacing these crusty old brakes with
these crusty old brakes…
Fade in music

Title Card (on black screen with yellow
graphics): “HALLOWEEN MEETS
GASOLINE”
Music

Nat sound

Montage sequence of some of the most
imaginative and exciting cars and
costumes
Music fades out

Nat sound

Shot: LeMons Supreme Court Judges in
hippie costumes

End: fade to black
“Mellow out, or you will pay. Mellow out,
or you will pay. Mellow out, or you will
pay…”
SOT Jay Lamm
Shot: Jay Lamm interview (Founder, 24
Hours of LeMons)
If anything makes you understand this
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SOT Jay Lamm

Sequence about the “bed car”
is not super serious bully racing, it’s
showing up and racing around in a four
poster bed.
SOT Coby Hartman

Sequence continues about the “bed car”
And then it hits you for the first time.
You see these cars decorated like this.
SOT Coby Hartman

Shot: Coby Hartman interview
The very first race I went to at
ButtonWillow in 2016,
SOT Coby Hartman

Nat sound at race track

Clip from 24 Hours of LeMons: the
simulated OJ chase scene at
Buttonwillow in 2016
they’re doing the pace lap and
somebody had decorated a little Morris
Mini Moke, which looks a little Jeep.
They made it look like OJ’s white
Bronco, and then a bunch of other
teams had made their cars look like
police cars. So you’ve got the 5 mph LA
interstate OJ chase simulated. You just
don’t see that anywhere else.
SOT Coby Hartman

Shot: Coby Hartman interview

End: fade to black
It’s completely over the top.
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SOT Elias Rodriguez
Nat sound of cars in paddocks

Sequence about The Probe in their alien
costumes in the parade of cars
We asked one of the judges there, Judge
Phil, “Hey, Phil, we have this car. What
theme should we do?” And he said
“Well, what car do you have?” We have a
Ford Probe. He's like, "Well, no one's
done The Anal Probe before. You guys
can dress up like space aliens and come
down from outer space to probe the
human race.” And he's like, if you guys
do The Anal Probe, we will guarantee
your entry. So we said, “Oh, it'll
guarantee our entry?! Of course we'll do
it!” So we made a probe out of some
exhaust parts and a disco ball and
welded it onto the roof and dressed up
in these green alien onesies. And that
was the beginning of The Anal Probe.

A few races ago, we put it on some desk
drawers
SOT Elias Rodriguez
Shot: Elias Rodriguez interview
and then put a windshield wiper motor
on it.
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Nat sound

Archival clip from The Probe team
(moment when they completed building
the Probe and the first time they turned
it on). Elias Rodriguez talks.
Alright, here goes.

Oh my god, that’s just intimidating.

It’s powerful!

I’m holding on hard right.

It’s coming out straight out at you!

I never thought I'd make something like
that in my life.
Nat sound

Shot: Probe reciprocating on the roof of
the car
The car seems to be a fan favorite.
Nat sound

Shot: Elias Rodriguez interview
A lot of people like the the reciprocating
action of The Probe.
Nat sound

Shot: car driving to race track with blow
up cow on top

End: fade to black
SOT Karl Deardorff
Shot: Karl Deardorff interview
We had a bunch of names for the car
SOT Karl Deardorff
Sequence: The Kim Jong Elantra theme
that we were kind of testing out. And
then as we brought them up, every time
we said “Kim Jong Elantra” to people,
they said,
SOT Karl Deardorff
Shot: Karl Deardorff interview
“Oh, yes, that has to be the name.”
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SOT Karl Deardorff

Sequence showing all the detailed
decorations of the Kim Jong Elantra
The type of car and the name of the car
are total pandering to Judge Phil, the
head of the LeMons Supreme Court.
Judge Phil had written some articles on
wanting to see more Hyundais and we
also know that he really likes third-
world dictator cars.
SOT Karl Deardorff

Shot: Karl Deardorff interview
So really getting a Hyundai Elantra was
the perfect choice.
SOT Karl Deardorff

Nat sound paddocks, cars, etc

Sequence showing all the detailed
decorations of the Kim Jong Elantra

Music at end
We knew we were going to get accepted
to the races.
Nat sound

Music

Sequence showing all the detailed
decorations of the Kim Jong Elantra
SOT Bettina Swigger (‘Art Director’,
Kim Jong Elantra)

Nat sound in paddocks

Music fades out

Sequence showing all the detailed
decorations of the Kim Jong Elantra
All of the artwork on the car is
specifically related to actual North
Korean propaganda that has come out.
There's a whole timeline of stories
SOT Bettina Swigger
Shot: Bettina Swigger interview

Lower thirds: Bettina Swigger, Art
Director, Kim Jong Elantra
that are depicted in little gold, framed
portrait motifs around the car
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SOT Bettina Swigger
Nat sound in paddocks etc

Sequence showing all the detailed
decorations of the Kim Jong Elantra

End: fade to black
So, for example, did you know that when
he was born, a double rainbow appeared
and two birds came out to celebrate the
arrival of his wonderful earthliness
descending onto this plane?
SOT Karl Deardorff
Nat sound in paddocks etc

Sequence showing all the detailed
decorations of the Kim Jong Elantra
The car is number 38 because of the
38th parallel, still codified today as the
demilitarized zone, and the first time
Judge Phil saw the car, he said, “Don't
start World War Three.” And the other
thing he said is, “Well, this is a South
Korean car.
SOT Karl Deardorff
Shot: Karl Deardorff interview
This isn’t a North Korean car.” And I
said, “Well, if
SOT Karl Deardorff
Nat sound in paddocks etc

Sequence showing all the detailed
decorations of the Kim Jong Elantra

End: fade to black
you went and asked the North Koreans,
they would say there's only one Korea.”
And he said “Touché.”
Music

Title Card (on black screen with yellow
graphics): “B.S. LAPS AND BRIBES”
SOT Jay Lamm
Music fades out mid way

Nat sound in paddocks etc

Sequence: tech and B.S. judging of cars
in the tech shed before the race
So we have two kinds of judging in
LeMons. We have safety judging, which
is dead serious. And then you go to B.S.
judging, which is where you have to
convince us that you didn't just use the
checkbook to solve all of your problems.
SOT Jay Lamm
Shot: Jay Lamm interview
For every $10 over the $500 limit that
we think you've spent,
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SOT Jay Lamm
Nat sound in paddocks etc

Sequence: tech and B.S. judging of cars
in the tech shed before the race

End: fade to black
we dock you a lap. So there have been
some cars that have shown up and we’ve
given them a billion laps.
SOT Jimmy Cestarollo
Shot: Jimmy Cestarollo interview
And years ago, the really
SOT Jimmy Cestarollo
Nat sound of cars etc

Sequence of car being crushed during
People’s Curse
competitive cars that they knew were
cheating all out, they would actually
crush the car.

They did it to a couple of cars, then they
stopped doing it. They would give you 30
minutes to take out anything super
expensive or important to you and then
they would crush your car with a tractor.
SOT Jay Lamm
Shot: Jay Lamm interview
So the judging is fun, and we put people
into three classes. We have what we call
“Prayer of winning,” “No prayer of
winning,” and “No prayer of finishing,”
or A, B and C, and we just kind of look
at them and decide “Oh, well, that's a
terrible car. You're here. That's a better
car. You're here."
SOT Jay Lamm
Nat sound of cars etc

Sequence about putting cars in classes
and we put people into three classes. We
have what we call “Prayer of winning,”
“No prayer of winning,” and “No prayer
of finishing,” or A, B and C,
Nat sound

Shot: Team Anal Probe being placed in
Class C at Sonoma race. Elias Rodriguez
talks.
We got, we got Class C, 0 laps…which is
what everyone strives for, I think,
Basically means our car is really crappy
and we’re clearly not cheating.
30
SOT Elias Rodriguez
Nat sound of cars etc

Sequence: The Probe and other teams
going through inspection, getting placed
in a class, and giving bribes to the
judges
The last couple races they put us in
Class C because it doesn't really matter
what Class you put us in, we're going to
end up at the back of the pack. So in
LeMons, you can bribe the judges
during the B.S. inspection. T ypically,
teams just give them alcohol, but we
found that to get old.
SOT Elias Rodriguez
Shot: Elias Rodriguez interview
So as you get to know the judges, you
can sort of figure out what what they
might appreciate as a good bribe.
Nat sound

Music

Sequence about the Tojan and their
cocaine bribe to the judges
SOT: LeMons Judge

Nat sound in paddocks

Music fades out after record scratch
sound effect

Shot: Kim Jong Elantra book bribe
This is a lovely gift.
SOT Karl Deardorff
Shot: Karl Deardorff interview
So we had been trying to win Class C
for a while
SOT Karl Deardorff
Nat sound in paddocks, cars, etc

Shot: Kim Jong Elantra piñata bribe
and we were really hopeful for a
Sonoma race that we would be able to
win. And we brought the judges a bribe,
which was a piñata, and we put Kim
Jong Il's face on the piñata.
SOT Karl Deardorff
Shot: Karl Deardorff interview

End: fade to black
And that was our bribe to the judges,
figuring that they could give the piñata
or use it at the party on Saturday night.
As it turned out, a race broke out in
Class C and they said, we're going to
give the piñata to whoever wins Class
C…
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Music

Title Card (on black screen with yellow
graphics): “START YOUR ENGINES”
Fade out music

Nat sound

Shot 1: Bill Bartlett driving the Kim
Jong Elantra to the race track

Shot 2: Cars at start line on track

Shot 3: Red light turning to start the
race

Shot 4: Cars taking off for first lap of the
race
SOT Karl Deardorff
Shot: Karl Deardorff interview
15 minutes after the start of my very first
race,
Nat sound

Racing sequence continued
SOT Karl Deardorff
Shot: Karl Deardorff interview
and I swear, my life is flashing before my
eyes and I'm thinking,
Nat sound

Racing sequence continued
SOT Karl Deardorff
Shot: Karl Deardorff interview
“I don't know if I'm cut out for this.”
Nat sound

Racing sequence continued
SOT Elias Rodriguez
Sequence: Racing

After a few laps, mid braking zone,
Nat sound

Racing sequence continued
32
SOT Elias Rodriguez
Sequence: Racing

we just lose all brakes.
Nat sound

Racing sequence continued
SOT Elias Rodriguez
Sequence: Racing
It is a scary moment on track when you
realize the brakes are gone.
Nat sound

Racing sequence continued
SOT Jimmy Cestarollo
Shot: Jimmy Cestarollo interview
The first 2 hours, the track is
SOT Jimmy Cestarollo
Nat sound on track

Racing sequence continued
under yellow probably 50% of the time,
if not more, because guys just got in
their cars and haven't really tested them.
SOT Jimmy Cestarollo
Shot: Jimmy Cestarollo interview
because guys just got on there in their
car
SOT Jimmy Cestarollo
Nat sound on track
Racing sequence continued
and haven't really tested it. But, the first
2 hours will drop probably 30, 40 cars, it
seems like.
SOT Elias Rodriguez
Shot: Elias Rodriguez interview
About 2 hours in,
Nat sound

Sequence: Racing (The Probe blows up
on track)
33
SOT Elias Rodriguez
Sequence: Racing

the motor blew. We found out the rod
bearings had spun inside the motor. We
tried calling all the parts stores around
the area and a lot of machine shops. And
we couldn't find these anywhere, until
we found one engine builder that knew
the engine very well and said that those
rod bearings only come from two
warehouses in all of California and
they're closed on the weekend and
there's no way we're getting these
things.
SOT Elias Rodriguez
Shot: Elias Rodriguez interview
the motor blew.
SOT Elias Rodriguez
Nat sound cars etc

Sequence: Racing
We found out the rod bearings had spun
inside the motor. Those rod bearings
only come from two warehouses in all of
California and they're closed on the
weekend.
SOT Elias Rodriguez
Shot: Elias Rodriguez interview
So the team pitted next to us said,
SOT Elias Rodriguez
Nat sound cars etc

Sequence: Racing
“Hey, your intake tube looks like it's the
same
SOT Elias Rodriguez
Shot: Elias Rodriguez interview
diameter and thickness as those rod
bearings.
34
SOT Elias Rodriguez
Nat sound cars etc

Sequence: Racing
Just cut up your intake tube and make
your own rod bearings. “And we
thought, “these are precisely machined
parts, there's no way we're going to get
even close. But it's the best shot we have
of getting back on the track.”
SOT Elias Rodriguez
Nat sound cars etc

Sequence: Racing

So we had a portable band saw and
started cutting up some rod bearings.
We made half a dozen of these things
and put them in the car. And we finally
turned the car on and it wasn't
knocking. And yeah, it was like huge
cheering in the paddock. And then we
raced
SOT Elias Rodriguez
Shot: Elias Rodriguez interview
all of Sunday like that with the
homemade rod bearings.
Nat sound

Probe racing on track
SOT Elias Rodriguez
Nat sound cars etc
Shot: Elias Rodriguez interview
We ended up taking the checkered flag
and got the Most Heroic Fix trophy out
of it.
Nat sound

Shot: Most Heroic Fix T rophy awarded
to The Probe

End: fade to black
SOT Karl Deardorff
Nat sound on track

Shot: the Kim Jong Elantra on track
Within about three or 4 hours,
SOT Karl Deardorff
Shot: Karl Deardorff interview
The car died.
35
SOT Karl Deardorff
Nat sound on track etc

Sequence: the Kim Jong Elantra trouble
shooting during their first race
So our engine swap started at 4 p.m.,
ended right about 1 a.m. And that was at
SOT Karl Deardorff
Shot: Karl Deardorff interview
our very first day and our very first race.
SOT Karl Deardorff
Nat sound on track etc

Shot: Kim Jong Elantra racing on track
And we ran that motor for about ten
races and it ended up winning us Class C
at Sonoma…
SOT Karl Deardorff
Shot: Karl Deardorff interview
So there’s our Class C trophy
SOT Karl Deardorff
Nat sound on track etc

Shot: Kim Jong Elantra piñata destroyed
on ground

End: fade to black
And so the piñata was gifted to us. And
we promptly smashed it to bits and gave
all the candy to waiting racers and kids.
Music

Title Card (on black screen with yellow
graphics): “A ROYAL WEDDING”
Fade out music

SOT Jay Lamm
Shot: Jay Lamm interview
Racing is a really chaotic business and it
can be incredibly dangerous. And no
matter what you do, it's always going to
be kind of dangerous. We're really
motivated by that to try to tamp that
down as much as possible, so we have
penalties.
36
SOT Bill Bartlett

Nat sound at paddocks

Sequence: Penalties —> sequence
related to Kim Jong Elantra’s penalty
and spinning the “Wheel of Shame” and
landing on “The Royal Wedding”
One day, we were having a particularly
bad day at LeMons at Thunderhill. By
the time I got in the car, we'd already
had two black flags and then I managed
to amass two more. I don't know why
they let me off after three, but after four
they said, “That's it.” So they had a
Wheel Of Shame in the tech shed and
they said, okay, you've got to spin the
Wheel Of Shame.
SOT Bill Bartlett

Shot: Bill Bartlett interview
So I spun the Wheel Of Shame
SOT Bill Bartlett

Nat sound at paddocks

Sequence: Penalties —> sequence
related to Kim Jong Elantra’s penalty
and spinning the “Wheel of Shame” and
landing on “The Royal Wedding”
and it landed on “Royal Wedding.” The
race happened to be the weekend of
Meghan Markle's marriage to Prince
Harry, so you had to stage a royal
wedding as part of your punishment at
LeMons. So another team had already
fouled out and they had decided to be
the groom.

SOT Bill Bartlett

Shot: Bill Bartlett interview
I had to be the bride.

So what are you going to do but
embrace this? So Alex's Lemonade
Stand was there. They had a tablecloth. I
borrowed the tablecloth and made a veil
of it.
37
SOT Bill Bartlett

Nat sound at paddocks

Sequence: Penalties —> sequence
related to Kim Jong Elantra’s penalty
and spinning the “Wheel of Shame” and
landing on “The Royal Wedding”
The guys on the team had attached cans
to my ankles, so I had to walk all the way
down the paddock in this bridal outfit.
So I was trailing cans…Karl assembled a
bouquet of North Korean flags and
walked me down the aisle. The woman
who was the Alex's Lemonade stand
volunteer was my matron of honor. So I
stood there and handed her my bouquet
and took the vows. They read the vows
out of a Chilton's Repair Manual, you
know, “Do you promise to
SOT Bill Bartlett

Shot: Bill Bartlett interview

End: fade to black
torque your husband's lug nuts for the
rest of your life until death do you part?”
38
Nat sound

Clip of the wedding penalty (archival
footage provided by 24 Hours of
LeMons)
LeMons Announcer:

“We are gathered here today to join
these two teams in their unending
failures. BlackHole Racing, do you take
this Hyundai as your partner in
crapiness?

BlackHole Racer:

“I do.”

LeMons Announcer:

Kim Jong Elantra, do you take this
cheaty BMW as your partner in
crapiness?

Bill Bartlett: “I do.”

LeMons Announcer: I now pronounce
you the worst two teams in LeMons.

You may now put the ring on his finger.
SOT: Bill Bartlett

Shot: Bill Bartlett interview

End: fade to black
So these are the kinds of things they
think up in LeMons that in the end help
keep you accountable, but also help kind
of separate the wheat from the chaff in
LeMons. If somebody says, “I'm not
going to do that,” they're not going back
out on the racetrack.
Music

Title Card (on black screen with yellow
graphics): “ONE BIG GOOFY FAMILY”
Fade out music

Nat sound

Shot: Kim Jong Elantra being
announced as winners of Class C
LeMons Announcer:

“Your Class C, winners, Another Fine
Mess, The Kim Jong Elantraaaa!!!”
39
SOT: Bill Bartlett

Shot: Bill Bartlett interview
Probably the most exciting moment is to
bring the
SOT: Bill Bartlett

Nat sound at track

Sequence showing Kim Jong Elantra
team winning Class C at Sonoma race
car home at the end of the race having
won the Class and coming into the
paddock and seeing my teammates.
That’s the best part. The other side of
the coin really is we're all doing this and
when all is said and done, I'm happy for
other people’s successes.
SOT Jimmy Cestarollo
Shot: Jimmy Cestarollo interview
So just finishing the race for us every
time,
SOT Jimmy Cestarollo
Nat sound at track

Sequence continues, showing AlfaMan’s
car and team ending the race
with minimal problems, is a win. We've
come in fourth place before. We've never
won, but we've always finished in our
Class, usually in our top 10 to 15.

And if somebody’s never done it, put
that on their bucket list, you know,
because it's a lot of fun.
SOT Jay Lamm
Shot: Jay Lamm interview
LeMons is a competitive event for
noncompetitive people.
SOT Jay Lamm
Nat sound in paddocks, on track, etc

Sequence continues with cars ending
the race
A lot of teams are drawn to it because
they wanted to go and work with people,
not fight with people. Unlike every other
racing series in the world, everybody
wants everybody to do well, and that's
really gratifying.
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Nat sound

Shot: Jay Lamm presenting the
Organizers’ Choice Award at the end of
the Sonoma race

Jay Lamm speaks.
“The Organizers’ Choice, the
Organizers’ Choice, goes to a team.. they
have deserved this for a really long time.
They have been working their theme
hard for multiple races. They are always
in costume. They have a great looking
car. They have mechanical aides on top
of the car… The Anal Probe is your
Organizers’ Choice!
No, I don’t think you need a new theme.
I think this has a lot of legs on it.
Nicely done guys.
Yaaaa! Wooooo…..”
SOT Bill Bartlett

Nat sound in paddocks etc
Sequence continues showing the Anal
Probe with their award, with transition
into last shot, which shows a space ship
and the writing “There are no
passengers are spaceship Earth. We are
all crew.”
It’s over quoted and it’s overused, but
LeMons is …this big goofy family… you
wish you always had…
Fade to black
End credits
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References
Swan, T. (2010) The Junkyard Doge: How the 24 Hours of LeMons Became a Sensation.
Car and Driver Magazine
24 Hours of LeMons (2023) The Index of Effluency: How to Win 24 Hours of LeMons’
Top Prize
Martin, M. (2008) Innovations in the 24 Hours of LeMons Penal System: The Chemical
Ali! Jalopnik.
Martin, M. (2014) The History of the 24 Hours of LeMons’ People’s Curse. Car and
Driver Magazine
24 Hours of LeMons (2023) How Judicial Bribes Work at 24 Hours of LeMons
Inspections
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Abstract (if available)

Abstract "Kim Jong, Alfaman and The Probe: A LeMons Race" is a documentary that follows three teams in the "24 Hours of LeMons," an endurance race for $500 cars. The documentary traces these teams' journeys from finding their $500 cars to preparing them, decorating them and racing them on track.

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