The Not-So-Amazing Race: Texas to Vegas in a $2,000 Clunker

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The Not-So-Amazing Race: Texas to Vegas in a $2,000 Clunker
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Drivers in the Fool's Roll road race from Austin to Las Vegas embrace a clunker vehicle, a wacky costume and a willingness to part with their dignity. “We cheat like hell.”

Team ‘Los Borrachos Bastardos,’ or Drunk Bastards, drives to the Fool’s Roll finish line at the Wynn hotel and casino in Las Vegas on March 31.LAS VEGAS—The midday Muzak at the stately porte cochere of the Wynn casino was disrupted first by the wheezing of a dying car engine, then the whirl of a siren, then two doors clanking open as a pair of men in retro police costumes stepped out of a 2007 Dodge Charger.

Willis Skinner and his driving companion had neither eaten nor bathed nor practically spoken to another soul for 14 hours, 14 minutes and 11 seconds, since setting off at sunset from Austin, Texas, in a race to Sin City. Their mode of transport was a former prop car they were told was used on the set of “The Walking Dead.”

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