{"id":368474,"date":"2009-05-01T08:00:32","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T12:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/?p=5104"},"modified":"2024-01-21T07:14:23","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T07:14:23","slug":"crummy-cars-and-lousy-design-to-be-honored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/crummy-cars-and-lousy-design-to-be-honored\/","title":{"rendered":"Crummy Cars and Lousy Design to be Honored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/concours-lemons-pacer.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-799702\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/concours-lemons-pacer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/concours-lemons-pacer.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/concours-lemons-pacer-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/concours-lemons-pacer-100x67.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/concours-lemons-pacer-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/concours-lemons-pacer-370x247.jpg 370w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/concours-lemons-pacer-293x196.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Monterey Weekend has long been considered the finest, most sophisticated, most respected event on the car-hobby calendar. On Saturday, August 15th, 2009, Concours d&#8217;LeMons will change that.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by the same miscreants behind the 24 Hours of LeMons and Billetproof, Concours d&#8217;LeMons brings exclusive and passionate creations such as Pinto, Gremlin, Honey Bee, Edsel, and Trabant to the hitherto-scenic Peninsula, along with the Weekend&#8217;s greatest collection of oil leaks.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrating the Oddball, Mundane, and truly Awful of the automotive world, Concours d&#8217;LeMons &#8217;09 honors aesthetic and technological underachievement through traditional categories such as Lowest-Quality American Car, Leakiest Brit Pile, and Crappiest Car from a Communist Country. Special Classes include VW Bug Special Coachwork; Carrozzeria Iacocca (for K-Cars and K-Car derivatives); and Wretched Rejects (for vehicles with hostile rejection letters from other concours).<\/p>\n<p>To guarantee a lifestyle experience worthy of Concours d&#8217;LeMons&#8217; participants, the Toro Park show venue \u2013 lovingly crafted by the Monterey County Parks &amp; Rec Department \u2013 offers oak-shaded display fields with sweeping, majestic views of the parking lot, plus a world-class selection of Porta-Potties. Showgoers will also encounter LeMons-worthy artisanal foods, most of them deep-fried on sticks.<\/p>\n<p>Due to space limitations, the organizers regret that over-restored trailer queens, endless rows of identical red 308s, and splotchy watercolors of prewar GP scenes can not be seen at this event.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.concoursdlemons.com\">www.concoursdlemons.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[Source: Concours d&#8217;LeMons]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monterey Weekend has long been considered the finest, most sophisticated, most respected event on the car-hobby calendar. On Saturday, August 15th, 2009, Concours d&#8217;LeMons will change that. Hosted by the same miscreants behind the 24 Hours of LeMons and Billetproof, Concours d&#8217;LeMons brings exclusive and passionate creations such as Pinto, Gremlin, Honey Bee, Edsel, and Trabant to the hitherto-scenic Peninsula, along with the Weekend&#8217;s greatest collection of oil leaks. Celebrating the Oddball, Mundane, and truly Awful of the automotive world, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":799476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260,16932],"tags":[432,16936],"class_list":["post-368474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car-events","category-festivals-shows","tag-events","tag-festivals-shows"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Crummy Cars and Lousy Design to be Honored<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"On Saturday, August 15th, 2009, Concours d&#039;LeMons will change that.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/crummy-cars-and-lousy-design-to-be-honored\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Crummy Cars and Lousy Design to be Honored\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On Saturday, August 15th, 2009, Concours d&#039;LeMons will change that.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/crummy-cars-and-lousy-design-to-be-honored\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Supercars.net\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Supercars.net\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-05-01T12:00:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-01-21T07:14:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/concours-lemons-pacer-300x201-2.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"300\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"201\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sports Car Digest\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@supercars_net\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@supercars_net\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sports Car Digest\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/crummy-cars-and-lousy-design-to-be-honored\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/crummy-cars-and-lousy-design-to-be-honored\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Sports Car Digest\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/188bd99a52d1e69543c54566c30e906b\"},\"headline\":\"Crummy Cars and Lousy Design to be Honored\",\"datePublished\":\"2009-05-01T12:00:32+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-01-21T07:14:23+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/crummy-cars-and-lousy-design-to-be-honored\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":240,\"commentCount\":6,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/crummy-cars-and-lousy-design-to-be-honored\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2009\\\/05\\\/concours-lemons-pacer-300x201-2.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Event (Car Events &amp; 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