{"id":1068,"date":"2011-03-07T01:23:07","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T07:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2011-07-05T21:48:17","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T03:48:17","slug":"the-corvair-fan-belt-toss-and-more-welcome-to-the-lemons-penalty-box-carnival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/?p=1068","title":{"rendered":"The Corvair Fan Belt Toss and More: Welcome To The LeMons Penalty Box Carnival!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/lemons_carnival-09.jpg\" alt=\"lemons_carnival-09\" title=\"lemons_carnival-09\" width=\"600\" height=\"549\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1077\" srcset=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/lemons_carnival-09.jpg 600w, https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/lemons_carnival-09-300x274.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nJudge Mike <a href=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/?p=1057\">had a hit with the 1990s Detroit Car Metric-SAE Fastener Mix-N-Match penalty<\/a>, but that wasn&#8217;t his only contribution to LeMons Penalty Box innovation.&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<!--more--><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/lemons_carnival-03.jpg\" alt=\"lemons_carnival-03\" title=\"lemons_carnival-03\" width=\"600\" height=\"451\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1071\" srcset=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/lemons_carnival-03.jpg 600w, https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/lemons_carnival-03-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nAs a Corvair owner, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tunachuckers.com\/blog\/index.php\">Judge Mike<\/a> knows all about tossing fan belts. Inspired by the Corvair&#8217;s tendency to lose its extremely long, around-many-corners fan belt, he brought an orange cone and an assortment of crusty belts to the Penalty Box.&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/lemons_carnival-01.jpg\" alt=\"lemons_carnival-01\" title=\"lemons_carnival-01\" width=\"600\" height=\"532\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1069\" srcset=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/lemons_carnival-01.jpg 600w, https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/lemons_carnival-01-300x266.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a trick, but it would ruin the fun to share it with the world.<br \/>\nThe miscreant and his or her team take the stack of belts, stand back 15 feet from the cone, and commence tossing belts. Once all the belts\u2014 I believe we had 13 total\u2014 are on the cone, the team is free to go race.&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/lemons_carnival-07.jpg\" alt=\"lemons_carnival-07\" title=\"lemons_carnival-07\" width=\"600\" height=\"571\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1075\" srcset=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/lemons_carnival-07.jpg 600w, https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/lemons_carnival-07-300x285.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nNext time, keep the car on the racing surface!&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/lemons_carnival-04.jpg\" alt=\"lemons_carnival-04\" title=\"lemons_carnival-04\" width=\"600\" height=\"750\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1072\" srcset=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/lemons_carnival-04.jpg 600w, https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/lemons_carnival-04-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nAnother game that will no doubt catch on with sunburned, meth-dealing carnies the world over, the Mopar Small-Block Pushrod Drop was even more <del>maddeningly difficult <\/del>fun than the Corvair Fan Belt Toss.&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/lemons_carnival-05.jpg\" alt=\"lemons_carnival-05\" title=\"lemons_carnival-05\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1073\" srcset=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/lemons_carnival-05.jpg 600w, https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/lemons_carnival-05-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nThe rules are simple: Take eight pushrods and drop each one down the neck of a 2-liter plastic bottle. Keep trying!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/lemons_carnival-06.jpg\" alt=\"lemons_carnival-06\" title=\"lemons_carnival-06\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1074\" srcset=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/lemons_carnival-06.jpg 600w, https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/lemons_carnival-06-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge Mike had a hit with the 1990s Detroit Car Metric-SAE Fastener Mix-N-Match penalty, but that wasn&#8217;t his only contribution to LeMons Penalty Box innovation.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,20],"tags":[441,449,78,131,77,23,325,326],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1486,"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions\/1486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}