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Jeeps- Trail Rated and Techno Too!
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFybwg4wadI&feature=player_embedded#[/youtube] Proving that you can always break it down, even if you’re broken down.
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
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[Our beloved Ambersand submitted this some time ago, and due to my own incompetence I somehow missed it, or forgot about it, or lost it. We tried to get it all polished up and ready to run yesterday, but we weren’t quick enough. As such, we’re running it today. Got an article you think we’d…
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Autorama 2010
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Saturday was a productive day at casa de Schmo. I spent the better part of the morning tinkering with Eleanor. Heck, I still have grease under my fingernails. The latter part of the day I braved 50 degree temperatures and huge crowds to drag my two Hoons-in-training around the Sandy Expo Center for Utah Autorama.
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: The Crazy World of Ebay Other Makes
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Yes I have been dumpster diving again into the world of “Other Makes” on the Ebay Motors Site. This is where all the unclassified vehicles end up including Hudson, Kaiser, Beaumont, International, Essex, and others. I have nine juicy morsels for you to feast upon. You may find them repulsive, or maybe you have the…
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Italy Week: Super Facebook Mega-Gallery Madness!
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So the kids these days are all on this “face book” thing, which (if you’re to believe the local news) must be a hotbed of “sexting” and that foul hip-hop music. It’s also a good place to look at some cars. Here is the Facebook mega-gallery to all the interesting cars and motorcycles that slipped…
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Stereotypes Ahoy! 1970s Holden Ad Explains Australians
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4Ic3RqPIJo[/youtube] Ah, the 1970s. An era of unrepressed malaise, in which the atmosphere of boundless optimism was, itself, optimistic at best. This video, featuring completely irrelevant close-up shots of mammaries in small bikinis, seems to attempt to bring out the patriotism of Australians in spite of the general mediocrity of automobilia available to them, either…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: What happened to Two-Tone Paint Schemes?
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In keeping with my quest for a more colorful automotive landscape, I have always wondered why two-tone paint schemes have never returned. This would be a rather inexpensive way for the Automotive Manufactures to spruce up aging models, as well as produce something eye catching.
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V.I.S.I.T. – Eponymous Edition
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Avert your eyes from my pollen-encrusted hood and behold! The mother of all personalized plates: It says what it is. It is what it says. By default it becomes anything and everything you need or want it to be. (And the car it’s attached too ain’t all bad, either. In fact it’s downright appropriate). I…
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Dude, it's Called a Side-Walk
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When I was a kid, grownups would ask me why don’t you go play in the street, as a way to get rid of me, annoying as I was. Well, for this pedestrian, caught on a security camera, that might be the safer place to be.
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Mitsubishi Benz Impostero Isn't Fooling Anybody
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What’s wrong with this picture? Thanks to LTDScott for the tip!
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Hooniverse Asks- What Are Your Car's Audio Choices?
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I have a buddy – he goes by the name of DamnElantra about these parts – and his car lacks any audio or video accouterments, preferring to pair his driving adventures with the dulcet tones emanating from his Hyundai’s exhaust, rather than from something bought at Crutchfield. Do you share his aversion to mobile electronic…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: Was there anytime in your life that you wanted a Conversion Van?
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Growing up, my automotive taste has always been a bit left of center, from wanting a 1969 Chevrolet Kingswood Estate Wagon in High School, to wanting a custom or conversion van when attending college. I actually owned neither, as I settled for a 1966 Corvair Monza Convertible, and then a 1966 Rambler American with a…
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A country boy can survive
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We make our own whiskey and our own smoke too Ain’t too many things these old boys can’t do We grow good ole tomatoes and homemade wine And a country boy can survive country folks can survive Because you can’t starve us out and you can’t make us run Cause we’se them ole boys raised…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: The Mack Granite, and how to market an image.
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Have you ever noticed that the car companies have lost the will to experiment in the marketing of their vehicles? Kia seems to be the only one who is willing to stand out with a distinctive message when it comes to peddling their wares, from the weird life-sized toys for the Sorrento SUV, to the…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: A Once Great Museum set to close this month.
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I wrote about the Golden Age of Trucking Museum both on Hooniverse, and Automotive Traveler. It is with great sadness that I have to tell you that it is set to close this month.
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: Two Trucks offered on Craigslist… similarities end there.
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What is it with Craigslist that makes everyone here at Hooniverse so damn crazy? Is it because there is just so much awesomeness contained on one site, or is it because we are drawn to the myriad of unwanted cars and trucks that makes us want to adopt each and every one. Here are two…