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Last Call- Stick The Landing Edition
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Let’s see that smarmy Smart car park this close to the curb! Read all about it: DeStandNijkerk.nl Image source: [Hans Hubers via Flickr]
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Hooniverse Asks- If You Could Run Any Car Company, Which One Would It Be, And What Would You Change?
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Let’s say you’re walking done the beach, and you come across an old oil lamp. Picking it up, you rub the side to clear away the grime and seaweed and out puts a genie who awards you for freeing him from the lamp with one wish (it used to be three, but times are tough),…
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LT1-Powered Ferrari 250 – What's Your Take?
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A few days ago on the ever-awesome Bring A Trailer, they covered the sale of a Ferrari 250GTE (that’s a relatively unloved 2+2 iteration of the 250 model) for a “mere” $38,000. The catch? Gone is the 3.0L v12 and manual transmission, replaced by an LT-1 and 700R4 slushbox.
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What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Lion-Drawn Cart (and other Alternate Energy Vehicles)
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You know what the problem with Power Wheels and Go Karts is? Too predictable. How are we to raise our hoonlets properly when their vehicles run reliably (or reasonably reliably in the case of a kart) and go right where they point them? No. Far, far too easy. What they need are carts drawn by…
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Hooniverse Goes to…Goodguys Orange County
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If you’ve been reading the ol’ ‘Verse for anything more than a week or two, you know that hot rod shows filled with surf music piped over the P.A. system and gaggles of graying, rounding Boomers shuffling around proclaiming, “I used to have one just like that” to their friends/hot daughters kids/spouses/etc. aren’t really our…
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El Camino Royal Knight Edition: Hot Vinyl Gryphon Action
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There was a brief but luminous period when huge faux-heraldic appliques were the ne plus ultra of Detroit chic. Remember the “poulet criard” that graced the hood of the Trans Am? Then there was the Royal Knight …
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Hooniverse Asks- Have You Ever Bought a Car that You Later Regretted Buying?
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Yesterday we discussed – amid many tears – cars that we let slip and now of which we wish were still in possession. Today we’re looking at the flip side – one that’s much more egregious- Have you ever suffered buyers’ remorse on a car?
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Hooniverse Asks- What's Your Favorite Truck?
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Nothing’s more American than the pickup truck. Whether hauling bales of hay or a tradesman’s tools, these workhorses exemplify the strong work ethic and sense of personal achievement that is the embodiment of our nation’s ethos. All three of the remaining American manufacturers build trucks today, as do many of the foreign makers- trying to…
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Streetwalker- Tride OK C10
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This past weekend my favorite curb-side used car lot brought forth a cornucopia of interesting iron. Not only did we come across the time capsule Mercedes 240D, but half a block down sat its polar opposite- a Chevy C10 pickup truck.
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Classic Cars International, Antique Auto Museum of Utah: Through the eyes of a 3 year old
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While Jeff and Mad_Science were swilling expensive champagne and drooling over beautiful french ladies, the Schmo’s were wandering around a dusty museum warehouse full of awesome old cars. I was originally going to run this as part 2 of my museum tour but excitement got the better of me.
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Craigslister Fail – Don't Bother With the Pictures, Doofus.
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Is there some Craiglist keyword spam tool that I don’t know about? If not, it’s obvious why this goober neglected to mention the most important piece of information regarding his car – the make and model – because it must have taken him a week to compile the spam list. Based on the 393, I’m…
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Are you smarter than a fifth-grader: KSL Classifieds Edition
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If you don’t know by now, I live in Utah (save the Mormon jokes, heard them all, invented a few of my own) and I LOVE to surf the classified section on KSL (one of our local news outlets). It’s kind of like a local craigslist but heavier on the bandwidth and script errors. And…
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Happy 87th Birthday Carroll Shelby
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Carroll Shelby turns 87 today. There may be varying opinions out there about the man, but there is no question about the man’s ability to drive cars for other companies or to produce them for his own company. Here at Hooniverse we wanted to take second to wish you, Carroll Shelby, a happy 87th birthday.…
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Hooniverse Asks- What Car Were You Totally Jonesing For Before You Could Drive?
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I became a car nut at age 11. It was at that age that I traded dinosaurs for Dinos, GI Joe for Jags and got my first subscription to Road & Track, which I have received continuously ever since. Back then, other than sitting in my brother’s 1971 Audi 100ls coupe, marveling at the sisal…
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Found on Craigslist- The $20K Lotus Elise?
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So, do you think that he’s really willing to take $20,000 for it, or that he was trying to say it has 20,000 miles on it? I can say that, a 20K Elise for $20K sounds like a screaming good deal as long as it’s not full of ebola-laced amphibian poo. San Diego Craigslist.
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Hemipanter Might Give the Basement Lambo a Run for its Money
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When we first stumbled across the Hemipanter via Spinelli’s Save the Enzos, we thought “sweet, a hemi-powered Pantera”. How mistaken we were. First off, that Hemi’s been bumped out to (this is not a typo) 526c.i.. Secondly…crap. Every time I go to look over this guy’s website, I get sucked in for another five minutes…