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NSU Spider Wankel Formerly Known as Prinz Makes a Rare eBay Appearance
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Purple rain, pur-ple rain. . . oops, sorry. Before Mazda let us know that while others went boing-boing-boing, they went hmmmmmm, NSU brought to market the world’s first production car powered by a Wankel engine. And now eBay has an NSU Spider with a starting bid of $15,000. Does that make you go hmmmmm?
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Team Trailing Throttle Oversteer is looking for Members; Are you crazy enough to join?
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It’s that time of year, and I have to start looking for team members for the upcoming LeMons New England race. Want to come aboard?
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Heading to ChumpCar Next Weekend? Try Your Hand At Some Beer Pong
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I was just sent an email from friend of Hooniverse Rob Krider about something fun they have planned for the upcoming ChumpCar race, next weekend at Infineon Raceway. If you enjoy competition AND drinking, then you are in store for a treat. I present the: Krider Racing Beer Pong Tournament at ChumpCar .. er, yeah…
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Only in Japan…
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…would a Nissan Juke, quite possibly the ugliest affront to the Hellenistic concept of beauty in the classical Greco-Roman tradition since Nu Descendant un Escalier, rock neon-green wheels, yellow headlight covers, and be slammed to within an inch of its life. Luckily, this isn’t real; merely the fevered imaginings of errant pixels spat from an…
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Last Call- Zen and the Art of. . . Edition
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The upside of wearing monk’s robes and nothing else while riding a sport bike? Testicular cooling. The bad side? Sacred beetles to the crotch at 80 miles per hour. Image source: [go.funpic.hu]
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Corre! Viene El Diablo! 350-Powered 914 Will Eat Your Soul
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The 914 is widely regarded as the best handling sports car no one loved. As always, Ate Up With Motor has a great writeup, for those interested. Getting back to something more Hooniverse flavored, this car (“El Diablo”) throws all that handling balance and subtlety out the window in favor of more cubes. Specifically 350…
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License Plate Badassity- Web Meme Edition
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The plate on this Volvo – parked in the Griffith Observatory parking lot – proves two things; that its owner probably has like a million followers on Twitter; and that the DMV employee who approved his vanity plate doesn’t even know what Twitter is. ROTFL! Image source: [Reddit]
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Nothing You've Accomplished is as Cool as This: Crawler Town
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Ahem: Crawler town roams the barren wastes of a post steam-punk world after cataclysmic climate change do to excessive coal use. Several such cities exist but Crawler town is the most popular due to the Aero 500 hydrogen fuel cell Air races that are held. Many people travel the wastes to Crawler town for vacation…
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Well Shoot My Brake and Call Me Ransom: A Two-Door Vista Cruiser!
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When it comes to GM’s postwar two-door wagons, we all know about the 1955-’57 Chevy Nomad. And a lot of us probably know about the ’55-’57 Pontiac Safari, which used the Nomad body shell. Hell, there’s probably a few of us hoons who are familiar with the ’64-’65 Chevelle 300 two-door wagon. But how many…
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2010 Acura ZDX
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Vincent Van Gogh was born March 30th, 1853. He was a Dutch painter whose work is admired by many today. During his 37 years on this planet however, he was a tormented soul whose work was not appreciated or even looked at. After his death by a self-inflicted gunshot wound, his fame slowly grew and…
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Encyclopedia Hoonatica: Retractable Headlights
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They’ve gone out of fashion since aero headlights became legal in the U.S. in 1983, but retractable headlights used to be all the business for trendy, image-conscious cars. How many winky, blinky cars can you name? After a couple of more mind-bending entries in our Encyclopedia, this one should be almost too easy. So I’m…
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Hooniverse Parting Shot: The Decline of the Domestic Minivan…….
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With crossovers dominating the market, are the minivan’s days numbered on the eve of its 30th anniversary?
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Someone buy this bike…and take it far, far away from me.
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The Aprilia SXV was designed expressly for hooligans of the highest order — mega-hoons: young men with lightning-quick reflexes, nerves of steel, too many points on their license and a belief that they can’t die. It’s a street-legal, 13,000-RPM, V-twin dirt bike with way too much braking and fat, nearly slick roadracing tires. The seat is…
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Streetwalker: Separated at Birth Edition
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It’s easy to loathe badge engineering and derivative styling, but the indisputable fact is such endeavors provide an interesting study into how simple tweaks change the appearance of otherwise identical cars, and seek to satisfy individual whims. On the bad end of badge engineering lives the infamous GM J-car with a Cadillac suit woefully inadequate…
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V.I.S.I.T – The Peugeot 'Not Found'
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Early last Sunday morning, while driving home from the bar grocery store, I spotted a Pug, and I don’t mean one of those dogs with the eyes that makes it look like the Greek Navy is in town. No, it was a Peugeot 404, in a natty shade of key lime pie, and making better…
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Your Mattracks Are Toys
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The Tucker Terra Medicat is not only more capable than your Mattracks-equipped Hummer, its is imbued with a level of no-nonsense industrialistic awesomosity that makes your bling-festooned, consumer-grade vehicle whimper. And while you’re cruising the lodge parking lot trolling for snow bunnies, the Medicat is saving lives. You’re not worthy, worm. The Tucker Medicat was…