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Last Call- Steve McQueen Was Even Cooler Than the Cold War Edition
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That’s Steve McQueen and his stuntman pal, Bud Ekins during the 1964 International Six Day Trial motorcycle race, held in communist East Germany. Both Ekins and McQueen rode Triumph 650s, but the race ended badly for the actor when a spectator rode into his path causing a crash and wrecking the bike. An excellent account…
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Name that engine: the results show
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In todays Name that engine I gave you nothing but a visual to work with and ended up with a lot of great answers. If you said it belongs to a Lancia Delta S4 then you are a true Hoon of Genius. Congrats to engineerd for correctly guessing it. For your efforts, you win the internetz*…
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Showdown: Lesser of Two Evils Edition
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In our last showdown, the wankeled 510 walked (or hmmmmm-ed) away with the win. Two words: chin spoiler. But enough of that wannabe dorifto/auto-X nonsense. It’s winter, so lets try to find some vehicles that’d be nice in the snow, or will be great to take to the beach once the weather breaks in February…
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SOVREN Immunity: Lotus 26R Spins 360, Doesn't Miss a Beat
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz4P6e_Yv3c[/youtube] For those of you who don’t know, the Society of Vintage Racing Enthusiasts is a racing club based in the Pacific Northwest, and home to a whole lot of sweet vintage iron (no later than 1969 for most classes). SOVREN is renowned for the kind of all-out racing that’ll force you to DNF unless…
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2010 Mazda Mazda5
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Life has a funny way of sneaking up on you. The night I took this picture, I became an uncle and my brother became a father. Meanwhile, my own first progeny is (hopefully) a few weeks away. An unplanned ten pounds of diaper ruination doesn’t have the Missus and me scrambling to shop for family…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: Last Call; WEEEEEEEEE!
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We receive a lot of image submissions here at Hooniverse HQ, but this one caught us off guard. This was submitted by Josh in New York (Thanks, Man). This is what he has to say: I got off work in midtown and was walking to the subway and saw a sweet Ferrari California — I…
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Last Call- The Atomic Wedgie of Choppers Edition
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Spotted on a local street a week or so ago. The front forks are so wildly exaggerated that they give the bike the appearance of something Big Daddy Roth would have Rat Fink riding.
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The Power of Dreams…and Smoke Machines: Third Gen Accord Limos
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Have you ever been traveling in a limo, be it for prom, a wedding, or a totally XX-rated bachelor party trip to the airport and concluded that your stretched automobile riding experience would be much, much more pleasurable if the vehicle was smaller, less flashy, less luxurious, comically underpowered and Japanese? Well, apparently Jules Kaplan…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: Wait, Another Prius Modification?
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Yes, what the hell, why not continue showing off these “enhanced” cars, loaded with smug. This one comes from the “There, I Fixed It” blog, and if you want to see the rest, then make the jump….
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: The Pruck…
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We received this gem at Hooniverse HQ from Leo (Thanks Man!) and what a mash-up it is. This is a combination of a second generation Prius, and a Subaru Baja Pickup Truck. Read more after the jump…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: Monterey California Weekend Review
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Yes it was quite a weekend on the Monterey Peninsula last weekend, with the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, The Mecum at Monterey Classic Car Auction, The Monterey Historic Races (since renamed), the Concorso Italiano, and of course the Concours d’LeMons. Unfortunately, I wasn’t anywhere near California to cover the events, but there were other sites…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: Bonneville Speed Week Review via BangShift
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It seems that this point in August that Automotive Gods converge, as there are a number of events that are not only historic, but must attend events if you are an automobile enthusiast. Last week we saw all the doings at Monterrey, California including: The Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, the Concorso Italiano, the Rolex Monterey…
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Last Call – Nobody Messes With The Corvair Edition
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In my haste in recapping my weekend of LeMons Corvair racing, I forgot to post quite possibly the most important picture of the event: the all-encompassing group photo!
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About That Mystery Car
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Unbelievable, that took all of, what, 10 minutes? Despite my attempt at an inscrutable angle, on a less than widely covered part of a yet to be released road car, Sivart_R1 got all Rain Man on me and correctly divined that today’s Mystery Car was nothing less than the amazing new McLaren MP4-12C. Excellent work,…
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Start Your Friday Right With Some Vroom-Vroom Sounds
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Remember those days in 4th grade when you would run around the halls pretending to drive a Corvette, making vroom-vroom noises with your mouth, clipping hallway apexes, and scaring the middle-school girls? No? Well, maybe it was just me.
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Mecum at Monterey 2010: Gallery Time!
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It’s Friday, so enough talkie-talkie…how about some lookie-lookie. Hop the jump for a Mecum Mega-Gallery.