{"id":1855,"date":"2012-07-08T13:18:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-08T19:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/?p=1855"},"modified":"2012-07-08T13:34:21","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T19:34:21","slug":"regional-lemons-bribed-stencils-of-2012-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/?p=1855","title":{"rendered":"Regional LeMons Bribed Stencils of 2012, So Far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/2102-bribes-7.jpg\" alt=\"2102-bribes-7\" title=\"2102-bribes-7\" width=\"600\" height=\"492\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1862\" srcset=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/2102-bribes-7.jpg 600w, https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/2102-bribes-7-300x246.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nThe LeMons Supreme Court <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/24-hours-of-lemons-the-history-of-the-lemons-supreme-courts-bribed-stencil\/\">has been through many versions of the BRIBED stencil<\/a> (applied to the cars of teams that grease the wheels of justice with a gift for the LCS) during the last five LeMons seasons. Lately, we&#8217;ve been trying to make each stencil more of a commemorative-edition souvenir for each event. Collect them all!<!--more--> Above, we see the &#8220;Live Free or Bribe&#8221; stencil that adorned vehicles at the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/tags\/24-hours-of-lemons-new-england\/\">Loudon Annoying race<\/a> in May.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/2102-bribes-4.jpg\" alt=\"2102-bribes-4\" title=\"2102-bribes-4\" width=\"600\" height=\"506\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1859\" srcset=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/2102-bribes-4.jpg 600w, https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/2102-bribes-4-300x253.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nFor the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.murileemartin.com\/UG\/LTXF11\/LTXF11.html\">2011 Yeehaw It&#8217;s Texas race<\/a>, I made this stencil showing the track&#8217;s location on a map of Texas.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/2102-bribes-6.jpg\" alt=\"2102-bribes-6\" title=\"2102-bribes-6\" width=\"600\" height=\"517\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1861\" srcset=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/2102-bribes-6.jpg 600w, https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/2102-bribes-6-300x258.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nThat seemed like such a good idea that this stencil showing the location of the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/tags\/24-hours-of-lemons-detroit\/\">Campaign To Prevent Gingervitis<\/a> on the map of Michigan was broken out at the April Gingerman race (yes, I know the UP is missing, but <em>you<\/em> try cutting that shape out of a 12-pack box with a razor blade). Since I didn&#8217;t get around to making this stencil until Saturday night, only a few cars got sprayed with it. One of the rarest BRIBED stencils in LeMons history!<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/2102-bribes-2.jpg\" alt=\"2102-bribes-2\" title=\"2102-bribes-2\" width=\"600\" height=\"461\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1857\" srcset=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/2102-bribes-2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/2102-bribes-2-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nThe location of the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/tags\/24-hours-of-lemons-capitol-offense\/\">Capitol Offense race<\/a> was on a part of the West Virginia map that made a star showing the location very hard to cut with a box-cutter knife. We used an arrow instead.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/2102-bribes-5.jpg\" alt=\"2102-bribes-5\" title=\"2102-bribes-5\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1860\" srcset=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/2102-bribes-5.jpg 600w, https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/2102-bribes-5-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nSince we race at several Texas tracks, I thought that a Texas flag stencil would be useful at more than one race. So far, however, this BRIBED stencil has been used only at the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/tags\/24-hours-of-lemons-yeehaw\/\">Yeehaw It&#8217;s Texas 2012 event<\/a>, held at Texas World Speedway in February.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/2102-bribes-1.jpg\" alt=\"2102-bribes-1\" title=\"2102-bribes-1\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1856\" srcset=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/2102-bribes-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/2102-bribes-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nFor the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/tags\/24-hours-of-lemons-chicago\/\">Showroom-Schlock Shootout<\/a> near Chicago, the face of Al Capone seemed appropriate for the BRIBED stencil.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/2102-bribes-3.jpg\" alt=\"2102-bribes-3\" title=\"2102-bribes-3\" width=\"600\" height=\"504\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1858\" srcset=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/2102-bribes-3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/2102-bribes-3-300x252.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nI wanted to go with the face of Merle Haggard for the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/tags\/24-hours-of-lemons-arse-sweat-a-palooza\/\">Arse Sweat-a-Palooza race<\/a>, but Merle&#8217;s face isn&#8217;t as distinctive as Al Capone&#8217;s. Instead, I went with the sign for nearby Interstate 5.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/2102-bribes-8.jpg\" alt=\"2102-bribes-8\" title=\"2102-bribes-8\" width=\"600\" height=\"485\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1863\" srcset=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/2102-bribes-8.jpg 600w, https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/2102-bribes-8-300x242.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nThe aptly named <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/tags\/24-hours-of-lemons-colorado\/\">B.F.E. GP race<\/a> requires hours of driving from anything approaching civilization, so I used the &#8220;treasure map&#8221; design from the event patch for the BRIBED stencil.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/2102-bribes-9.jpg\" alt=\"2102-bribes-9\" title=\"2102-bribes-9\" width=\"600\" height=\"465\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/2102-bribes-9.jpg 600w, https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/2102-bribes-9-300x232.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nSometimes racers bribe us with BRIBED stencils, in sort of a meta-bribe. This &#8220;Rocky Mountain BRIIIIIIBED&#8221; stencil came courtesy of the IOE-winning Pacer team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LeMons Supreme Court has been through many versions of the BRIBED stencil (applied to the cars of teams that grease the wheels of justice with a gift for the LCS) during the last five LeMons seasons. Lately, we&#8217;ve been trying to make each stencil more of a commemorative-edition souvenir for each event. Collect them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[441,310,130,311],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1855"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1869,"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions\/1869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}