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It’s exactly like the 24 Hours of LeMans, excepts the race is only three hours long, the cars must cost $300 and the track is a dirt field somewhere in Alberta.

This is the Three Hours of LeMelons, Alberta’s annual tribute to the resilience of vehicles that cost less than an iPhone.

The 2017 race involved 13 competitors, all of them highly decorated.

A VW rabbit was painted like the General Lee from the Dukes of Hazzard. A Brexit-themed Subaru was decorated like a double-decker bus. And a Ford Taurus wagon, driven by the race’s only all-female team, was done up like a game piece from the board game The Game of Life.

Ultimately, however, only half of the competitors would sustain the whole three hours without breaking down.

Little is known about the LeMelons race. The identities of racers are not disclosed, the exact date is not known and the race is invite-only and not advertised to the public.

However, the race’s slickly edited videos (which are released anonymously under the name “Casual Swede”) have become an online favourite in automotive circles.

The race takes place every spring at an undisclosed farm field in what appears to be Southern Alberta.