{"id":2441,"date":"2018-01-17T12:54:05","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T18:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/?p=2441"},"modified":"2018-01-17T13:14:27","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T19:14:27","slug":"the-bribed-stencils-of-the-2017-24-hours-of-lemons-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/?p=2441","title":{"rendered":"The BRIBED Stencils of the 2017 24 Hours of Lemons Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nStarting in 2012, the judges of the Lemons Supreme Court began making a unique stencil for each race, applied to the cars of teams showing the proper obeisance to race officials via generous gifts (before that, we’d use the same stencils<\/a> until they got lost or wore out). Here are the stencils of the 2017 24 Hours of Lemons season.<\/p>\n


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\nThe Napoleon’s Retreat From Moscow Lemons Rally<\/a> began in Moscow, Pennslyvania, meandered around for 2,017 freezing, sleety miles<\/a>, then ended at the ‘Shine Country Classic 24 Hours of Lemons race<\/a> in Birmingham, Alabama. One of the worst (i.e., best) Lemons Rally cars was Speedycop’s three-wheeled Reliant Regal<\/a>, so I made this Field Expedient Bribed Stencil depicting the Reliant<\/a> logo, using a dull box-cutter and a Natty Light 12-pack box. Sure, it’s crude, but so is the Reliant Regal.<\/p>\n

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\nFor the BRIBED stencil deployed at the Sears Pointless race<\/a>, I used a stencil that I made during the late 1980s: a “Death Mickey” image inspired by my then-home of Orange County, California<\/a>.
\n\"death-mickey-honda-civic\"I had loaned this stencil to a friend in the early 1990s, so that he could apply it to his extraordinarily hooptie Honda Civic. Somehow, he saved it for a quarter-century, and gave it back to me just before the Sears Pointless race. Naturally, I had<\/em> to add the BRIBED text and use it at the race.<\/p>\n

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\nHere I am at a performance-art gig in San Diego in 1991, just after Nirvana had that big hit song<\/a>, wearing a T-shirt made using the Death Mickey stencil.<\/p>\n

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For our trip to Inde Motorsports Ranch<\/a>, in the southeastern corner of Arizona, I made this stencil showing the location of the track on a map of the state. I have done the same thing for races in New Hampshire<\/a>, Texas<\/a>, Michigan<\/a>, and West Virginia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nJudge Eric Rood<\/a>, who shares a fascination with Juggalo culture<\/a> with the rest of the Lemons officials, created this ICP<\/a>-themed stencil for the first of two 2017 races<\/a> at GingerMan Raceway in Michigan.<\/p>\n

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\nCarolina Motorsports Park, in South Carolina, is known for its swamp full of poisonous snakes (racers are advised to avoid it if possible), so I made this snake-themed stencil for the Southern Discomfort race<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nWhataburger is a Texas thing, like Dr. Pepper and Armadillo Racing<\/a>, and Judge Steve McDaniel<\/a> honored Whataburger with this stencil at the Texas Tippin’ race<\/a> at MSR Houston. The racers were too knocked out on Purple Drank<\/a> to feel inspired to go get Whataburgers, unfortunately.<\/p>\n

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\nJudge Steve also made the stencil for the Real Hoopties of New Jersey race<\/a>. Thomas Edison invented his light bulb in New Jersey, and this feat was commemorated with a genuine Lemons BRIBED stencil.<\/p>\n

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\nNorthern California, home of Thunderhill Raceway, was a hotbed of ska music<\/a> from the 1970s through the 1990s. For this reason, I made a 2-Tone<\/a>-themed stencil based on a Specials<\/a> album cover for the Vodden the Hell Are We Doing race<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nColorado was the first state to get legalized recreational cannabis, and this stencil for the B.F.E. GP race<\/a> depicts two cannabis entrepreneurs who sell their own lines<\/a> of cannabis products<\/a> in the state.<\/p>\n

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\nThe National Corvette Museum has its own race track, which is where we held the Kentucky Demo Derby race<\/a>. Judge Eric made this Corvette-centric stencil for the occasion.<\/p>\n

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\nBo Diddley<\/a> was born in Mississippi, but became a star in Chicago. When Lemons came to Illinois for the Doin’ Time In Joliet race<\/a>, Judge Steve had this Bo-Ribed stencil ready to go.<\/p>\n

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\nWe were expecting high temperatures as the aptly-named Arse Sweat-a-Palooza race<\/a> at Thunderhill, and nature did not disappoint<\/a>. That’s a good thing, because I made a stencil based on the original “sweaty ballz” (it’s supposed to be a sweaty arse<\/em>, but nobody believed it) event patch from the first-ever Arse Sweat-a-Palooza in 2010<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nWhen the President of the United States threatened “fire and fury”<\/a> upon the inhabitants of North Korea after that country’s crime boss prank-called him, Judge Rich von Sneidern<\/a> cut out this stencil for use at the Connecticut race<\/a>. The image was inspired by the August 5th cover of The Economist<\/em><\/a>, while the badges from the Renault Fuego<\/a> (fuego<\/em> is the Spanish word for fire) and Plymouth Fury<\/a> went below.<\/p>\n

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\nTo understand Judge Eric’s stencil for the Pacific Northworst race in Washington<\/a>, you need to watch the following video:<\/p>\n