Lemons at Palm Beach

Bernie Baake · **Posted:** Fri Dec 31, 2010 11:35 am

Has anyone heard from our guys at the race in Palm Beach? I saw on facebook the crew Dave O'Malley is running with is in eighth place. But no word on the THSCC crew.

clinehall · **Posted:** Fri Dec 31, 2010 11:59 am

I called Steve just now no answer

Michael Westerfield · **Posted:** Fri Dec 31, 2010 12:19 pm

Magnum was running in 4th before the car had a clutch failure. They did a clutch swap in 3 hours and got back out there only to encounter a power steering leak. That has now been fixed as well and they are back out there, however they are now in 50th.

No definite word on Grim Reaper, but I think things were going well for them. I think Stephen thought they were somewhere in the top 15.

Kevin Harvey · **Posted:** Fri Dec 31, 2010 2:47 pm

Wow, sounds like a typical junk car race (race, work, race, work, give up and drink beer).

Keep us updated! And pass along our good luck wishes.

Sean O'Connell · **Posted:** Fri Dec 31, 2010 10:43 pm

Michael Westerfield wrote:

Magnum was running in 4th before the car had a clutch failure. They did a clutch swap in 3 hours and got back out there only to encounter a power steering leak. .

its always the shit you dont expect that bites you in the ass. hope your luck changes guys.

Michael Westerfield · **Posted:** Sat Jan 01, 2011 12:45 am

Yeah, the disc had been replaced recently too. Just talked to Judi and the car is still running. They have made there way back to ~30th.

Todd Breakey · **Posted:** Sat Jan 01, 2011 1:43 am

Dave O'Maley posted this on Facebook a while ago. Looks like the Grim Reaper team was doing pretty well and I think O'Maley is part of the Clueless Racing team in second.

Of course this information is ancient history by now.

Todd Breakey · **Posted:** Sat Jan 01, 2011 1:59 am

I found this on the Lemons forum. Any idea what happened to the Clueless Civic?

ronman on the Lemons forum wrote:

Ok, I'm back, and Jay, Phil, Johnny and everyone else are pigging out on my beer butter-injected fried turkey and spicy garlic potatoes.

Update as of 11pm is as follows:
#69 Probe remains in the lead, by a margin of 31 laps (720). #38 MX3 is second (689), #998 Paseo is third (679), Eyesore is fourth (679), #999 Paseo fifth (677), #311 '92 318i is sixth (676), #61 Clueless Civic is seventh (651), #66 '91 3000GT "GT30" is eighth (647), #12 Fastish and Furriest '91 Volvo 240 is ninth (643), and #19 Team Megalodon '95 Infiniti J30 is tenth (641).

The third-place Paseo is the class B leader, and the #43 Super Beetle remains class C leader.
The #304 Town Car and #371 Achieva are in 37 and 38th places, respectively.

Checker is dropping soon, so I'm signing off for now.

Todd Breakey · **Posted:** Sat Jan 01, 2011 2:42 am

Ok, so O'Maley's team did pretty good. He just posted this...

Still waiting to hear how Magnum and the Grim Reaper did.

Ryan Holton · **Posted:** Sat Jan 01, 2011 8:12 am

Sean O'Connell wrote:

Michael Westerfield wrote:

Magnum was running in 4th before the car had a clutch failure. They did a clutch swap in 3 hours and got back out there only to encounter a power steering leak. .

its always the shit you dont expect that bites you in the ass. hope your luck changes guys.

Yeah, from what I am told the clutch friction material was gone from only 1 side of the face. Strange indeed

Bernie Baake · **Posted:** Sat Jan 01, 2011 8:55 am

O'Malley's team was #38, Hong-Nor, I think they came in second

Todd Breakey · **Posted:** Sat Jan 01, 2011 9:53 am

It looks like they won Class A (I don't speak Lemons so I don't know exactly what that is.) That picture above is what he posted on FB with the caption of...

Dave O'Maley wrote:

Sweet, sweet victory. That's was one of the coolest things I've ever been involved in. Many thanks to the rest of the team and crew. Our effort, team work and drive was unmatched.

I still haven't seen how Magnum or the Reaper did.

Ryan Holton · **Posted:** Sat Jan 01, 2011 10:38 am

Todd Breakey wrote:

It looks like they won Class A (I don't speak Lemons so I don't know exactly what that is.) That picture above is what he posted on FB with the caption of...

Dave O'Maley wrote:

Sweet, sweet victory. That's was one of the coolest things I've ever been involved in. Many thanks to the rest of the team and crew. Our effort, team work and drive was unmatched.

I still haven't seen how Magnum or the Reaper did.

3 Classes

Good
Bad
Ugly

Totally subjective classing by Jay and Co. based upon how crappy he thinks they are.

We won Bad back in the spring, it dosent pay

Vincent Keene · **Posted:** Sat Jan 01, 2011 12:35 pm

Unofficially Magnum, PU finished 32nd and congrats to the Grim Reaper guys who raced their way into the 10th spot.

In the "woulda, coulda, shoulda" camp we could have finished as high as 3rd or 4th had the clutch not failed.

Still, another good showing for the THSCC crowd.

Ryan Holton · **Posted:** Sat Jan 01, 2011 12:52 pm

Congrats to the Grim Reaper guys! You guys were certainly due for some good luck

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