DIY Racers, Disco Beavers & Flaming Neons

Update: 2025-11-13

Description

Welcome back to Everyone Racers, the podcast that celebrates the weird, wonderful, and downright ridiculous world of low-dollar endurance racing. In this Bristol Episode 411; Tim takes a seaplane visit to a Rum distillery, he loves you guys and wishes he was there. But is attending to his sunburn and whiskey drink. Chris spends his weekend with construction, mowing and house work because his mic is broken. Chrissy plasters on a smile while working 14 hour hot days, deals with a few angry people, but mostly happy ones. Mental breaks the Skinny Koyote Race truck and goes karting. Tom’s resting judge face hammers all the miscreant Texas racers into submission. While Jan, as it turns out, knows lots of stuff about racing and not dying, despite being female. So maybe listen…

Really this week, Mental, Chrissy and Chris welcome special guests Tom and Jan Webb, award-winning LeMons racers and garage legends who share their insane stories from the field — including:

🏆 The Harbor Freight Racing Team that trolled everyone at the paddock with their “Insider Trading Club” theme

🔥 A family team’s Neon that literally burst into flames (and how they still walked away smiling)

🐺 The Beaver Fever Miata that came back from a blown motor with disco lights and a Subaru heart

🚗 A Corvette with an AMC inline-six swap that somehow outlasted faster cars

🧰 Why good tools, bad ideas, and the right beer make every endurance race better

This Lemons racing podcast is perfect for anyone who loves budget endurance racing, grassroots motorsports, or DIY garage builds. From ChampCar to Lucky Dog Racing, SCCA to NASA, if you’ve ever spent a weekend under a car covered in grease and laughter, Everyone Racers is your tribe.

Along the way, we dive into:

The legendary Bristol 411, the eternal struggle of keeping old cars alive, rebuilding Porsche transmissions, and turning barns into race prep centers

The pure comedy that happens when dedicated amateurs refuse to quit — even if it means crossing the line backward at 27 mph (Caleb Jacobs @ The Drive) https://www.thedrive.com/news/off-road-racer-drives-7-miles-to-finish-line-in-reverse-after-his-transmission-blew-up

Abandoned Chinese Hotel Graveyard For Rolls Royces (BL Johnson @ Jalopnik), https://www.jalopnik.com/2019378/abandoned-chinese-hotel-graveyard-for-rolls-royce-phantoms/

On the Tube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExKSdRJ40aM

1995 BMW 325i track car $14,500 on Racing Junk

https://www.racingjunk.com/24-hours-of-lemons-cars-and-equipment-for-sale/184754974/1995-bmw-325i-endurance-race-car.html?category_id=4520&np_offset=1

Vote Dustin Besch & Michael Coleman for Champcar’s Board of Directors

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