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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…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: A Website dedicated to the World Of Goliath, Borgward, & Lloyd
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Here at Hooniverse Central we received this tip from DamnElantra (Thanks Man!) about a website created for the sole purpose of providing information about these three German makes that rarely made it across the Atlantic. You will have to make the jump to see more.
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: The Mercedes-Benz of Hondas
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Starting off on another Hooniverse Weekend, I thought I would open with a reader submission from Texan_Idiot (Thanks Man!). It is a tragedy that someone would take a perfectly good 1994 Honda Prelude and perform this type of cosmetic surgery.
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Rocket Rails
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That’s an old photo of the Lakehurst NJ Navel base sled tracks, right around the corner from where the oh the huge manatee took place . This is one of five nearly 2-mile long tracks at the facility, and the 4 J57 jet engines on that sled are claimed to produce a combined 47,000 pounds of…
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California Wagon Dreamin' – LeMons Part Hauler Edition
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How’d your Saturday go? This week we decided to skip Cars and Coffee this week in favor of More Sleep and Coffee. We needed the extra energy to spend a day reveling in bottom-end Automobilia. You see, for nearly a year I’ve been sitting on a pile of BMW 6-series trim and interior bits. Basically…
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Trouble in Paradise: How to Not Kill Yourself and Your Priceless Race Car
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Racing is highly unpredictable even in this modern world of telemetric monitoring and onboard diagnostics. When your priceless Bugatti Type 59 has a problem, are you just going to crack on and risk a catastrophe?
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The 2010 Chevrolet Camaro SS – A Young Hoon's Review (Part 1 of 2)
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[Ed. Note: Friend of Hooniverse Nick Gregson recently rented a Camaro SS and hit the California roads for a weekend adventure. Here is part one of his story] It all started on an overcast Friday morning, not unlike any other June-Gloom overcast morning in coastal southern California when I showed up at the Long Beach…
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The Super Bowl MVP gets to drive…
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Cadillac has supplied the Super Bowls most valuable player with their choice of a free ride for the last eight years. The most recent recipient, Santonio Holmes, went with a Platinum edition Hybrid Escalade. A safe, comfortable, and relatively PC choice, the Escalade Hybrid is also my choice for vehicle I secretly love even though…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: Last Call – Metal Heart by Keith Loutit
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Sydney photographer and filmmaker Keith Loutit created a series of short films using the tilt-shift / time-lapse technique, making everyday scenes look like miniatures. Boats bob like toys in a bathtub, cars race like slot-cars, and crowds march as toy armies. This short film, titled Metal Heart, was released over a year ago, but seems…