Articles
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Hooniverse Asks- What's Your Favorite Art Car?
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Many would argue that automobiles in themselves represent an art form. In fact, in 1951, New York’s Museum of Modern Art held an exhibit of landmark automotive designs, highlighted by a Figoni & Falaschi-bodied Talbot–Lago T23 goutte d’eau coupe. But others see the automobile as but a blank canvas, which they are free to imbue with…
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The Acura ZDX
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I am going to take some heat for this one…but Jimmy crack corn, I don’t care. The Acura ZDX is a new vehicle to the Japanese automakers stable of well-built yet currently controversially styled cars. The ZDX blurs the line between sports sedan and wagon. That sounds like a recipe for convoluted and overwrought styling…
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The California DMV or: How I Learned to Stop Time and Hate People
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Recently, I received a notice in the mail from the California Department of Motor Vehicles. This piece of paper informed me that my driver’s license was near its expiration point. This signifies two things…One, that I am about to turn thirty and have thus outlived many ancient Eqyptian kings and queens; Two, that I have…
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SUV Showdown: Infiniti FX50S Vs Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8
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When life gives you lemons, you’re supposed to make lemonade. When your press car suppliers give you two 400ish horsepower SUVs, you make hoonade. The recipe? Take equal parts Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 and Infiniti FX50s, stir vigorously on a pre-dawn canyon drive, whip mercilessly on the semi-abandoned roads of California City, and let simmer…
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Last Call- You Bastard Edition
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Somebody better hurry up and grab this, something tells me it’ll be gone by tomorrow. Tippecanoe Craigslist and mad props to Dr Danger.
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Missed It: You Could've Been King with this 1961 Dodge Coronet
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Our campaign to Hooniversize the world is well underway, as evidenced by the actions of our own Mr Schmo. Alas, sometimes we come upon a great potential hoonmobile too late. If nothing else, we can used these Ones That Got Away as examples of what you could’ve bought for the price of a used Camry.…
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Question of the Weekend: What would you run at the 24 Hours of LeMons?
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It has probably been asked, but with all the coverage of the New England edition of the 24 Hours of LeMons, I thought it was appropriate. This was the race that I thought had the most unique and varying makes in one race. We had Alfa Milanos, a Fiat 131, a Two Stroke Saab, a…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: Want a Truly Unique Vehicle to Run the 24 hours of Lemons?
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After last weekend in which I ran the 24 Hours of Lemons at Stafford Springs, and hearing all the kibitzing about the fact that there are no really unique vehicles available to convert into an IOE contender (and maintain a reasonable build budget) I decided to do a little Craigslist scouting on a Sunday Morning.…
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Last Call- You Bastard Edition
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Somebody better hurry up and grab this, something tells me it’ll be gone by tomorrow. Tippecanoe Craigslist and mad props to Dr Danger.
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: The 2003 Mercury Messenger Concept offered at RM Auctions Monterey
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As Mercury rolls to a halt this summer, could this concept have saved Mercury from its fate joining Pontiac, Saturn, Hummer, Oldsmobile, AMC,… and so many other automotive marques? Automotive Traveler’s Rich Truesdell ponders this question while RM Auctions offers this and many other Ford Concepts at their auction set to take place in Monterey…
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V.I.S.I.T. – Fates, McDonaldland, and Soda Edition
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Let us consider the Fates: they, which grant you a survivable misfortune of spotting a questionable vehicle in traffic by its incredulous mobility in the other direction, for which you’re thankful. Until you realize it was only a temporary reprieve, for They will give you visual apoplexy when you stumble upon it in a parking…
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V.I.S.I.T. – Beer, Brats and Seaweed Edition
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My friend Shawn was cruising the old stomping grounds this past weekend and came upon something pretty cool – an Amphicar.
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What's Your Eleanor? – Edición Tomsk
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I’ve had many four-wheeled crushes over the course of my quarter-century-plus on this giant nugget of cosmic dust, but I guess the one that has endured the longest (even though it hasn’t always been right on the top of my head) is GMC’s resident two-pedal-NSX-slayer, the Typhoon.
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Streetwalking: Volkswagen Vanagon Syncro
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If you started telling most car guys about the tech specs on these little vans, they’d start salivating — provided, of course, you didn’t tell them what vehicle the specs belonged to. For obvious reasons, these little trucks don’t have the best reputation. But let’s take a closer look.
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Last Call- St Patrick's Day Edition
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The Beebe & Mulligan Fighting Irish dragster team was one of the most potent of the late 1960s. John “The Zookeeper” Mulligan’s untimely death of heart failure following a fiery 171-mph crash in September 1969, ended his 7-year partnership with fellow Garden Grove resident Time Beebe, and left the So Cal drag community stunned. You…
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Which One's The Dummy? HOV Scofflaw Gets Picayune Penalty
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A New York driver faces a $135 fine for driving solo in the HOV lane. She thought she could skirt the law by placing a be-scarfed mannequin in the passenger seat. What foiled her nefarious plans? It turns out that the cops thought it was too cloudy a day for the passenger to be wearing…