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We recently admired the great team costumes and car themes of West Coast LeMons powerhouse Eyesore Racing, but the Eyesores are far from the only ones in our series who combine going fast with giving serious creativity a big kick in the pants. You saw the best 2011 LeMons team costumes a year ago, and now it's time for a look back at 2012.
LeMons teams save their best presentations for the pre-race BS Inspection; that's when you'll see sights like the White Trash Barbie Crown Victoria team and their chola-fied outfits.
At the South Carolina Fall race, the War Between the States—which started in South Carolina—inspired several teams to don appropriate attire. Did you know that Robert E. Lee drove a Miata?
Pittsburgh-based Morrow's Auto decorated their Buick Reatta and Saturn SL2 with a sort of Civil-War-meets-Charlie-Brown theme. Here we see Generals Grant and Jackson, or maybe it's Linus and Woodstock, parading through downtown Camden. 
Clueless Racing kills a lot of Honda B engines, but every so often they pilot their CRX to a Midwest Region win on laps. For 2012, they converted their Honda into a a fairly credible Yellow Submarine replica, and managed to find some Sergeant Pepper band uniforms to match. 
Everybody loves Ronald McDisreputable!
Inspired by the classic Scorsese film Casino, Pit Crew Revenge brought a genuine Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz and matching Ace Rothstein costumes to the Arse Freeze-a-Palooza race.
Earlier in the year, at the Arse Sweat-a-Palooza race, the mastermind of the Ace Rothstein team had put together this excellent Repo Man theme, complete with a frighteningly accurate J. Frank Parnell outfit. In fact, the writer and director of the film, Alex Cox, saw photos of this team and was very impressed.
While we're on the subject of movie-inspired LeMons themes, one of the best of the '12 season was done by Tchotchkie's Racing at the Pacific Northworst race in Washington. For this race, they not only dressed like the characters from Office Space, they towed a complete veal-fattening-pen office cubicle behind their race car for the inspections.
This guy's got a case of the Mondays!
Later, a South Carolina team chose an Office Space theme as well, and they reenacted the printer-smashing sequence from the film in the middle of Camden's main drag.
We had Futurama in Colorado.
Murderers in New Hampshire.
More murderers in Washington.
Van Halen in Texas.
KISS in West Virginia.
And, of course, The Boat at the Real Hoopties of New Jersey.
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