Spirit of LeMons: How a 1956 Cessna Airplane Became a Road-Racing LeMons Car

[aggie57]

http://blog.caranddriver.com/spirit-of-lemons-how-a-1956-cessna-airplane-became-a-road-racing-lemons-car-w-build-photosvideo/

[Evan Bottcher]

 

[AikenDrum105]

The man behind the radial engined MR2 was always destined for greatness...

[Craig Sinclair]

Gold! And with an Alfa theme: http://blog.caranddriver.com/lemons-alfa-romeo-throws-a-rod-into-orbit-heres-a-photo-of-it-in-mid-air/

[AikenDrum105]

Love the thrown rod pic,

this was interesting in the comments about the LeMons races... 

>Bait83

>Bringing an Alfa to an edurance race is like bringing a hooker to church.

--> Parkwood60

--> They do surprisingly well. When Murilee compiled a spreadsheet they were one of the most reliable cars. The top 3 were Saturn, Volvo and Alfa, but I don't remember the exact order.
--> That was all the races up to January 2010. They are still in the top ten of all time.