RideLust

There is no question that the car you drive says a lot about who you are as a person. It gives the public a little insight into everything from your lifestyle, to your economic background, to the light in which you’d like to be perceived. Sometimes though it’s better to stay in the shadows as your ride can sometimes give away a little more information than you’d like it to. Take these ten rides for example. Not only do these automobiles cover the majority of the automotive spectrum but they also give you a little glimpse into the lives of the people who buy them.

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The most significant automotive news of this century seems to have slipped under the radar. A ratty, busted-to-hell Citroën completed the 24 Hours of LeMons this weekend. Complex hydraulic system and all. As the venerable Murilee Martin said, “It is impossible to overstate the magnitude of this achievement.”

Team Air Prance Schitroën essentially dug the ’72 ID out of the trash. It had been sitting for 20 years and wasn’t running until the Friday before the race. They literally revived it hours before they hit the track. And it finished without exploding into a cloud of unobtainable French parts or spraying the track with Citroën hydraulic fluid. The feat is on par with firing up the Large Hadron Collider. Somebody should make this day a holiday.

For those of you who don’t know, the 24 Hours of LeMon’s Racing Series is a no-holds-barrded showdown between cars purchased for no more than $500. I ran one event last season at Stafford Speedway in CT. in a 1963 Chevrolet Corvair and to say it was chaos would be very kind indeed. To give you an example of the mayhem that sometimes takes place check out the following video. What you’re seeing is a late model Ford Escort coming in contact with a 1972 Gremlin. The Escort catches a wheel and gets launched into the stratosphere so quickly that the poor bastard behind the wheel never saw it coming. This is grassroots racing at its finest.