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Team Redundancy Team

24 Hours of Le Mons Stafford Springs 2009

Team Redundancy Team traces its origins to the voyage of Ute (the Scandinavian goddess an old Bristol 32 sloop) and her transit of the Panama Canal in 2007 populated by entirely too many inexperienced sailors and, even earlier, to Bachelor Demolition in 2003 where Michael Carey’s Olds Custom Cruiser was sacrificed to the Gods of Bachelor Parties and irresponsible male depravity at Beech Ridge Speedway.

Allene Seymour Carey (Rick’s mother, Allen’s Michael’s and Carey's grandma) initiated this foolishness by dragging little Ricky to Bridgehampton in 1950 to watch something called “sports cars”. Not surprisingly, at the beginning of her ninetieth decade Allene bought a be-winged, spoilered and skirted Pontiac Bonneville. It later became “Moby Rick”, the Great White Whale of automobiles which will embarrass Team Redundancy Team at Stafford Springs and demonstrate the innate but unfortunate correctness of the Feds’ decision to terminate Pontiac.

The ability of “Moby Rick” to transcend generations mirrors that of Buckaroo Banzai’s Jet Car to transcend solid matter, highlighting the concept of Team Redundancy Team’s underachievers:

Capable of More; Willing to Accept Less.

The same can be said for Moby Rick’s origin in the factories of the soon-to-be-redundant Pontiac Motor Division, famed for the Le Mans GTO ringer which lapped The Bridge faster than a Ferrari and for the Firebird Trans Am which rocketed Sally Field and Burt Reynolds to immortality in Smokey and the Bandit, both monuments to the power of illusion and pretense.

When The Bandit considered The Frog’s question, “What do you do best?” he replied, “Show off, I guess.”

Team Redundancy Team can aspire to no more lofty goal and will augment its response with the earnest, pseudo-science of Buckaroo Banzai’s Hong Kong Cavaliers, a complete mishmash of metaphors, messages and images but providing the Redundants with abundant opportunities to wear odd costumes, make peculiar Black Lectroid hand gestures, utter obscure lines like, “Laugh-a while you can, Monkey Boy,” and “So What? Big Deal,” and write really long, involved one-sentence paragraphs.

In addition to the Careys per et fils the Redundants include Jonathan Jeffrey, veterinary medico and mascot critter caretaker, Danny Dillon, theatre effects creator, rock’n’roll bodyguard and jack (of all trades) and Peter Newberry, practicing psychiatrist – who has his work cut out for him.

Danny has recently had to withdraw to attend to his business of igniting gallons of LPG during a performance event in San Francisco [great practice for Le Mons, we think.] We've added Ray Shockey (my brother-in-law) and his son Carey. Ray calls it a graduation present for Carey, freshly blest with a new UMass Boston bachelor's degree. Carey might not agree.

Allene Carey's Bonneville.

The mung on the hood, roof, deck and sides is mung. She can be polished with a scotchbrite pad, but why bother?

This is the team captain, always a leader, captured by Donald Osborne waiting for the doors to open at the Poulain auction in Paris in 2007.

Thank you, Donald. Jet lag? What jet lag?