{"id":342,"date":"2010-10-20T05:22:38","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T05:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/?p=342"},"modified":"2010-10-20T05:22:38","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T05:22:38","slug":"elder-statesmen-of-automotive-journalism-feel-lash-of-lemons-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/?p=342","title":{"rendered":"Elder Statesmen of Automotive Journalism Feel Lash of LeMons Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nLeMons Chief Perp Jay Lamm has signed a pledge never to write about cars again; he’s got it framed and hanging up in his office. He also tends to be extremely harsh on LeMons drivers who happen to be his friends. That means that he’s extra cruel<\/em> to former auto-journo colleagues Csaba Csere<\/a>, Tony Swan<\/a>, Tony Quiroga<\/a>, and Rich Ceppos<\/a>.
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\nTony Swan: “So, you’re a race promoter<\/em> now?”
\nJay Lamm: “That’s right, sucka! So how was the free shrimp cocktail at the Cobalt Brougham Landau launch in East Peoria?”
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\nTeam Goodbye Kitty Racing showed up with the same semi-terrible ’88 Prelude they took to the Detroit Irony race<\/a> in the spring. The drivers are pretty good, thanks to all that free track time they’ve enjoyed courtesy of the automobile industry… but not good enough to stay completely clean in a LeMons race!
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\nCeppos was the first to screw up. LeMons Chief Justice Lamm decreed that he would have to write a 500-word review of the 1988 Honda Prelude. In Sharpie, on the body of the car. Since each of the four veteran writers had reviewed the ’88 Prelude back in the day, we figured this should be an easy<\/em> one.
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\nWell, no. Turns out that computer keyboards\u2014 or maybe, for these guys, IBM Selectrics\u2014 make writers soft!<\/em> Jay hovered over Ceppos and did the Angry Editor routine all the while, pounding on the roof with his fist and screaming: “We’re GOING TO PRESS IN FIVE MINUTES! Come on! Write faster!”
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\nSadly, Csere managed to avoid penalties during his stints. That’s too bad, because we were pretty sure we’d be able to find his original ’88 Prelude review online and compare the two.
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\nThen we caught Quiroga, whose beautiful Lancia<\/a> had us all drooling (the other members of the team showed up in freebie press cars, of course). This time, we ordered him to write a blog response to Ceppos’ review.
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\nJay was skeptical, but eventually allowed the Prelude to head back onto the track.
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\nThe members of Goodbye Kitty Racing became obsessed with cracking the Top 10, or at least beating the Mike Austin-captained former IOE-winning VW Quantum Syncro<\/a>. They might have reached both goals, too, if a red-misted Swan hadn’t blasted through the paddock at about triple the speed limit… on a flat tire. As it was, the Prelude came in 12th and the Quantum 13th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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