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Streetwalker: Charger With A Landau Roof
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Here’s a helpful hint for anyone trying to sell a car. We all know that providing plenty of information to a potential buyer is helpful, but perhaps writing all of that information on a giant poster that gets displayed in the window is not the best idea.
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Ford Offers a Five Way Fantasy Party for '78
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One could make a case that right around 1980, say ’78-82, represented an intermission of sorts for the Malaise Era. Power was down while gas prices and interest rates soared, but creativity was in the air. Rather than just cranking down the compression ratios and cranking up the rearend gearing, automakers were looking for solutions.…
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Ain't nothing gonna break my stride! Nobody gonna slow me down, Oh No!
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While driving on I-84 in Hartford Connecticut Redditor, throwerofpoo came across a car with its hazard lights flashing and when he got up to pass, this is what he saw. It seems granny had been traveling like this for some time, however all good things must come to an end and she was summarily pulled…
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'79 BMW 635CSI, for You, We Would Jump Through a Thousand, Million Hoops
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California’s Smog control policies get a mostly undue bad rap. First off, everything ’75 and earlier is a free for all. Post-’75, you have to pass a visual inspection and the sniffer test. It’s also pretty easy to do engine swaps, provided the new engine is from the same model year or later and still…
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The Land Rover Experience Driving School
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I’m in the southern part of Vermont. The temperature displayed on the crisp LCD screen in front of me reads 34 degrees Fahrenheit. I sit inside a 2010 Land Rover Range Rover and my body is warmed by the heated seats, the dark leather and wood trim, my Helly-Hansen snowboard pants (which I haven’t worn…
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Hooniverse Asks- What Neighbor's Car Do You Secretly Covet?
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Unless your life is a prime time soup opera, your neighbor’s wives and daughters should be considered off limits, lest you get a 12 gauge to the bait and tackle. That’s not to say that you can’t lust after their wheels, and if you stay away from their women folk, perhaps they’ll entrust you with…
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What is the Best Military Vehicle of All Time?
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I am opening up this Memorial Day Edition of Hooniverse asks to all vehicles, be they on land, in the air, or out to sea. My vote is biased today…my father served in the Navy for 16 years. He spent time on five different ships during that time but one still stands out quite clearly…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: A Series of Questionable Ebay Listings
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I thought about running each of these listings as a separate posting, but in all reality, that only takes up valuable bandwidth. Presenting some of the questionable Ebay Listings for this weekend….
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V.I.S.I.T.: Pacer!
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I captured this unassuming little Pacer in a Tim Horton’s drive-through lineup yesterday, and the owner was awesome enough to stay still long enough for me to get photos of both sides, allowing you to evaluate the cosmetic merits, or lack thereof, of the unequal-sized doors.
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The 2011 World Rally Championship Lineup May Get a Whole Lot … Smaller?
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Famed team Prodrive is talking with famed driver Per-Gunner Andersson about driving for them as they put together their campaign for 2011. Prodrive is famous for running those amazing Subaru cars for many successful years. What will they bring to take on the world next year? Who out there guessed a MINI Crossover? No you…
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Showdown: Speedy Commuter Threesome Edition
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In our last Showdown, the FJ80 crawled all over the mega-overpriced Wagoneer, but I’ll readily admit it wasn’t much of a fair matchup. Oh well. In today’s showdown, we’re taking a look a trio of cars that a less ridiculous version of myself would be using for my 24,000 mile per year day-job commute. All…
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Last Call- Oh No You Can't Edition
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Well, they certainly opened a can of whoop-ass on that overpass. Image source: [Imgur.com]
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Loverman's Movin' on Up
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In many ways, Hooniverse wouldn’t exist had it not been for Jonny Lieberman. His writing and presence at Jalopnik 1.0 opened my eyes to a world of car enthusiasm that went beyond Dana 60 swaps on 4x4s and forums with little happy face guys waving rainbow flags. In essence, he is the thinking automotive omnivore’s…
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Norwood P4-575 Makes Your 360 Modena Feel Inadequate
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Let me get one thing out of the way: as you might have noticed by how many of our “OMG drool” posts are based on Fantasy Junction offerings, the Emeryville shop is like some adult Wonka factory filled with licentious delights you can’t afford and might be bad for your health. Thankfully, unlike any respectable…
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For the Love of God, Someone Please Buy this Dart
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…because I’m sick of looking at it. No, it’s not the staid mid-60s lines mixed with “banana is my favorite color” paint. In fact, it’s quite handsome, in its own purposeful way. With a built 440c.i. running through a built 727 hooked up to a 4.30:1 rearend it’s very purposeful. The real problem with this…
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Hooniverse Asks- What's The Best Car to Sleep in?
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Earthquakes, hurricanes, in-laws, there’s lots of reasons you might become displaced from your home sweet home and become forced to bed down in your car, but with bucket seats and all that hard plastic they make interiors out of these days, who knows if you’ll get some decent shut eye. Of course you could plan…