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How Does a Hairy Sweaty Dude End Up With a Name Like Murilee, Anyway?
After doing so much work updating the MurileeMartin.com homepage so that it includes links to my writing, there’s another bit of housekeeping that needs doing: it’s about time I explained how and why...
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Tech-Industry Workplace, Murilee Martin Style
I’ve been going through my novel to make a “de-pornified,” semi-safe-for-work version for use in the long-postponed Part 20 of the Impala Hell Project series (yes, there’s a connection between the...
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Final Episode In 1965 Impala Hell Project Now Live
It took me six weeks to get around to writing, but Part 20 of the Impala Hell Project saga is done. If you haven’t read Parts 1 through 19, go here.
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Now, Even More Silly LeMons Coverage!
I’ve been writing about the 24 Hours of LeMons for more than four years now, for more publications than I can recall right now. The latest victim: Car and Driver, which is now inexplicably sponsoring...
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It Only Looks Like I’ve Forgotten This Website!
What with all my LeMons coverage for Car and Driver, plus my globe-trotting antics, I haven’t had much chance to keep up with the Home of the Murilee Martin Lifestyle Brand™ lately. So, today I went...
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Regional LeMons Bribed Stencils of 2012, So Far
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...
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A Treasury of Puzzling Murilee Martin Videos
I’ve been going through the videos on the Murilee Martin Lifestyle Brand™ YouTube account and thought it might be nice to share some of my favorites in one convenient location. So, here ya go! The...
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“Well, I’m Not a Crook!”
For the American Irony 24 Hours of LeMons last weekend, Team Resignation finally paid heed to my requests that they convert the Richard Nixon likeness on the roof of their Ford Escort into an...
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All the 24 Hours of LeMons Wrapup Videos (so far) In One Place
Chief Perp Lamm and Assistant Perp Pon at LeMons HQ have been producing race-wrapup videos for every race in the 2012 season, but it’s sort of a pain to search for each one on YouTube. Here they are,...
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All the LeMons BS Inspection Posts, Together At Last
I’ve been covering the 24 Hours of LeMons as a journalist since 2007, and I started doing a BS Inspection roundup post for each race in early 2009. The BS Inspection, which takes place on Friday...
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Parting Out a 1992 Lexus SC400
I wrote a four-part series for Popular Mechanics about parting out a Lexus suspension donor for my ‘41 Plymouth project, and it’s a little difficult to navigate the PM site to read all four parts in...
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The Team Shirts of the 24 Hours of LeMons
I’ve been gathering 24 Hours of LeMons team T-shirts since 2007, and I’ve finally photographed the entire collection. The complete gallery, with all 380 shirt designs, may be viewed here. The Car and...
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Project Car Hell Car #1 Back On the Market!
When I moved to Colorado from California in 2010, I left my Toyota 20R-powered 1967 Austin-Healey Sprite at Evil Genius Racing in Sacramento, with the idea that I’d come get it someday. Instead, other...
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The BRIBED Stencils of the 2013 24 Hours of LeMons Season
One of the benefits of being a Justice of the 24 Hours of LeMons Supreme Court is the very generous gifts given to the Court by racers who hope to keep it fair (a wise move, considering that the...
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The BRIBED Stencils of the 2014 LeMons Season
The 24 Hours of LeMons Supreme Court has been stenciling the cars of teams that grease our palms with justice-ensuring gifts since the early days of the series, but it took until the 2012 season for...
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The BRIBED Stencils of the 2015 LeMons Season
Spray-painting a stenciled image on the car of a team whose members give generously to the 24 Hours of LeMons Supreme Court has been a tradition since the first South Carolina LeMons race in 2008. The...
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The BRIBED Stencils of the 2016 24 Hours of LeMons Season
When a team gives a generous tribute to the all-wise and scrupulously fair justices of the 24 Hours of LeMons Supreme Court, they receive a hand-made commemorative stencil sprayed onto their race car....
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The Manhole Covers of Tokyo
During my recent trip to Tokyo, I noticed that the manhole covers and other pavement-mounted access panels were interesting objects. Here are some photographs.
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The BRIBED Stencils of the 2017 24 Hours of Lemons Season
Starting 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...
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The BRIBED Stencils of the 2018 24 Hours of Lemons Season
The BRIBED stencil has been a Lemons Supreme Court tradition since the first South Carolina event in 2008. Since 2012, every race has had a unique stencil, which has resulted in seven years of...
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