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Ready, Aim, FIRE! In this Order, Please*
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From the outside, most American V8s look about the same. Things get interesting once you start messing with ignition or camshafts. As you can see here, there’s more to be figured out. Aside from distributor and spark plug wire installations, these differences contribute to the specific sound and feel that each engine has. Print it…
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Cars & Coffee Montrose Mega Gallery
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Okay, I’m a day late and a dollar short with this collection, but I think you’ll find the gallery worth the wait. On Monday’s Last Call we had a shot of a passing mirror, teasing a car that showed up last Saturday to the weekly Cars & Coffee impromptu meeting of classic cars in Montrose…
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Another Cars & Coffee
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You’ve seen lots of posts from the Cars & Coffee event that occurs every Saturday morning in the former Ford PAG parking lot in Irvine. Lesser known, but with just as fantastic an attendance is the Montrose CA C&C. I talked my Father in Law (all you car nuts should be so lucky as to…
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If You Can Read This, That Means Jeff Was Victorious
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…and we’ll be back in action shortly.
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I love all you M/Fs!
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In yesterday’s Hooniverse Asks question about our favorite French cars, several folks mentioned the Renault 5 (Le Car in the States), along with Citroën’s SM and Traction Avant. All three are examples of the fairly rare breed of car that combines a longitudinally mounted front engine with a driven set of front wheels positioned fully…
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Hooniverse Asks- What Country Makes The Best Supercars?
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Of the major auto-producing nations, each country has had at least one. In addition, some come from countries not known for their automotive production or engineering acumen, but still they come. Supercars, those amazing, frustrating, uncompromising machines which may typically be found one the pages of buff books; in the garages of Saudi princes, and…
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Team Trailing Throttle Oversteer: A Truer Name Couldn't Be More Apt!
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I was going to open this post with something witty, but I really can’t top this video. It was located on the 24 Hours of LeMons Forums, and it shows you what can happen when you lose your cool and let your emotions take over.
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Why Vacuum-Assist Makes Power Brakes Work So Well
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Engine vacuum – that free bit of force that powers our brakes, keeps the headlights down on our Lotus Elans, and provides the myriad of hoses under our hoods – oh what would we do without you?
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Right-Hand Drive Saturn is Only 97.3% as Dull as Left-Hand Drive One!
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Planning a trip to the British Isles, or perhaps Japan soon? Want to freak out the neighbors, but don’t want to spend a lot doing it? Maybe you do a lot of mailbox drop offs and hate the fact that you can never seem to find a curb-side box that isn’t on the right of…
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Last Call- Apartheid is Turning Edition
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Sold alongside the Blimey, you don’t smell of old lady at all, your majesty Queen of England, and Hey Bill, is that Axe you’re wearing? President Clinton fragrances. Image source: [explainthisimage.com]
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A Faded Patina of Intrigue
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Few tragedies are as poignant as those of storied lives meeting undignified ends. Such appears to be the case with this poor panzer veteran serving time with younger relatives on an ignoble car lot in Allentown, PA. You may recall this location as the site of our FC-150. Like that monument to four-wheeled awesome, this…
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Dieselfumes: Scania, The Truck Brand Unknown in North America
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Scania Trucks has a long an distinguished lineage in the European Truck Market, and for a brief time, they were available here in North America. Well, not any more. And just to add insult to injury, Scania just introduced the most powerful truck engine EVER!
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Last Call-Valentino Rossi Eat Your Heart Out Edition
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Yellow slippers, plastic handlebar basket, Pall Mall dangling from his lips, there’s nothing un-epic about this picture. Image source: [imgur.com]
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On St. Patrick's Day, Celebrate Excess!
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In the fine tradition of St. Patrick’s Day, we here at Hooniverse acknowledge that most people will use it as the traditional excuse to pretend to be Irish and drink themselves into a stupor. Being one of the millions whose family history is actually Irish, I find the whole tradition quite amusing. I have heard…
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Realignment: How a Hoon Got His Mojo Back
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Drop into the corner, toe the brakes. Stab the throttle, clutch, slip hand off wheel to grab third, stab throttle again. 3500 RPM, clutch out, intake snarls and exhaust bleats. Apex, tires bite harder and set, more throttle, and the straight. Grab fourth, head whips around at deer on shoulder, no danger. Eyes forward, 5500…
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Nothing to see here, just a 1000-hp armored RV.
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Because let’s face it, you’ll never be Batman. Don’t let the inspired ad copy fool you: you can sit in the Corvette-chassis’d 1990s Tim Burton Batmobile all you want, making vroom-vroom noises and generally embarrassing yourself in front of your wife and kids (“it’s ok Sally, Daddy’s having one of his ‘moments’”), but you’ll never…