Los Angeles

May 15, starting in San Fran

The West Coast follow-up to 08's mad-successful NY-to-Montreal caper, this 36hr competitive road trip'll see up to 100 crazy-costumed teams (e.g., 2008's black undie-clad German Autobuns, the whored-up Spitzer's Girls) vie for $2000 cash and a golden gas pump. Originally slated to run from SF to Tijuana, the organizers recently moved the finish to an undisclosed town just north of the Mexican border for safety -- a redundant gesture, as kidnappers who happen upon the Autobuns will assume they have but a roll of dimes to their name.

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