{"id":685604,"date":"2010-03-08T17:35:57","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T22:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/?p=39804"},"modified":"2010-03-08T17:35:57","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T22:35:57","slug":"citroen-wins-every-24-hours-of-lemons-past-present-and-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/685604","title":{"rendered":"Citro\u00ebn Wins Every 24 Hours of LeMons, Past, Present, and Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-39805\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/citroen-wins-every-24-hours-of-lemons-past-present-and-future\/500x_lt10-ioewinner2-500px\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-39805\" title=\"500x_lt10-ioewinner2-500px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ridelust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/500x_lt10-ioewinner2-500px.jpg?resize=500%2C364\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"364\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The most significant automotive news of this century seems to have slipped under the radar. A ratty, busted-to-hell Citro\u00ebn completed the 24 Hours of LeMons this weekend. Complex hydraulic system and all. As the venerable Murilee Martin said, &#8220;It is impossible to overstate the magnitude of this achievement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Team Air Prance Schitro\u00ebn\u00a0essentially dug the &#8216;72 ID out of the trash. It had been sitting for 20 years and wasn&#8217;t running until the Friday <em>before the race<\/em>. 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 Citro\u00ebn hydraulic fluid. The feat is on par with firing up the Large Hadron Collider. Somebody should make this day a holiday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/GbYOuTcnCTCisYANhS3KM0NUGuQ\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/GbYOuTcnCTCisYANhS3KM0NUGuQ\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/GbYOuTcnCTCisYANhS3KM0NUGuQ\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/GbYOuTcnCTCisYANhS3KM0NUGuQ\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most significant automotive news of this century seems to have slipped under the radar. A ratty, busted-to-hell Citro\u00ebn completed the 24 Hours of LeMons this weekend. Complex hydraulic system and all. As the venerable Murilee Martin said, &#8220;It is impossible to overstate the magnitude of this achievement.&#8221; Team Air Prance Schitro\u00ebn\u00a0essentially dug the &#8216;72 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2436,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Sm8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}