Remember we mentioned the 24 Hour Race Of LeMons a few weeks back? Not the French one with very cool million dollar cars. You know, the one where mad people with big hearts and heavily modified $500 rust-buckets rocket around a race track in order to raise money for charity?

Well, it’s a wrap and we’re happy to report that the brave souls behind the Catalyst Exhibits machine managed to place a very respectable 15th out of 60 starters. That’s us in the red 308 with the unfeasibly large spoiler with the traffic cones on top. It was a blast!

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Don’t let the headline fool you. This is not the glitzy, 24-hour, multi-million dollar  supercar showdown at Le Mans, France. This is the 24 Hour Race of LeMons (i.e. the fruit) which is a lot more fun, cheap as hell and wears its heart on its sleeve because many of the cars are out there trying to raise money for charity. That’s us in No. 308 last year – when we weren’t repairing it.

Check out a cool video about the race after the jump and see some of the kids that we are trying to help out.

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Dana Underwood is a bit of an inspiration to us all here at Area 3. When she’s not here at home singing to raise money for charity causes in the tsunami hit areas of Thailand, she’s in Thailand spending that money and her time to help others get back on their feet.

Dana has been in and out of Thailand since 2005 since a massive Christmas tsunami in December 2004 claimed more than 5,400 lives. Since then she’s been clearing rubbish, building houses, saving families and even pulling teeth. Really.

Her last project was to rebuild a house for a family she met there and we’re happy to say that with some help from us and others, and her charity gigging, she managed to raise funds and that house was completed. She recently went back to meet the family after a long time away and was delighted with the results, although it seems not all was rosy. On that visit she found her next project.

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