There’s no telling just what you’ll find at a 24 Hours of LeMons event. From Geo Metros to old-school Civics, pretty much anything goes as long as it didn’t cost the team more than $500 to purchase.

This year at the “Cure for Gingervitis” 24 Hours of LeMons event at Michigan’s Gingerman Raceway, it wasn’t your typical beat-up import that took the C Class winning title, according to GM Authority. In fact, it was a Michigan-born 1992 Chevy S-10 piloted and crewed by young GM engineers under the team name “Loose Lugs Racing.”

Named after the famed endurance race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, 24 Hours of LeMons pins some of the most decrepit vehicles out there and their teams against one another in a 24-hour endurance race.

Of course, with vehicles not being able to be worth more than about $500, this can make for some epic racing!

This year, 24 Hours of LeMons events are happening all across the country, like at Gingerman Raceway in Michigan. Taking place this last weekend, the epically named “Cure for Gingervitis” event had about 70 participating teams, all with the hopes of being the team to prove that you don’t need a fancy new race car to go out there and have some endurance race fun.

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Loose Lugs Racing competed in the 24 Hours of LeMons last year in Michigan with the same truck and placed 28th. Images: GM Authority

Competing in the C Class (the slowest of three classes) was one lone 2.8L V-6 powered Chevy S-10 commissioned by a group of young GM engineers. Apparently the team raced in the 24 Hours of LeMons event last year with the same truck, just with different alcohol branding on the sides.

Though there were only three competitors in the C Class, the S-10 and its team struggled on Saturday, coming in second behind the Flux Decapacitators II team with their Ford Tempo. But on Sunday, things turned around and it was the little Chevy truck that came in first at the 24 hour mark, having completed just one more lap than the Decapacitators for a total of 404 rounds around the track.

Of the nearly 70 teams that entered, the Chevy pickup finished 10th overall with a Honda Civic taking first place overall with 450 laps completed. The 1992 S-10 was the only GM vehicle to make it in the top 10 finishers.

Congratulations goes out to Loose Lugs Racing for their epic 24 Hours of LeMons win behind the wheel of an unexpected American-made race entry!