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Hooniverse Asks- What's Your Favorite Race Motor?
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Tracks need cars to run on them, and drivers need cars to run on those tracks, and all those cars need motors to make them more than just stationary art objects. Out of all of those motivators, which one really gets your motor running?
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Hooniverse Asks- Have You Ever Wanted to Build a Kit-Car?
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One of the benefits of the VW Beetle’s ubiquity and easily un-boltable body has been the plethora of fiberglas kits that can make the car a personal expression of your own indomitable personality. Whether faux Ferrari, covert classic or futuristic freak-mobile, the VW platform was like the stage at a free-form jazz festival. That has…
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Hooniverse at the Detroit Auto Show – Well, Not Really, Kinda, Sorta…..
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The North American International Auto Show opens next week (January 11th) and it will be covered by two illustrious Hooniverians, except that they will be covering the event for (Redacted). Want to know who will be there, and better yet, take an unvarnished look at what they look like? All will be revealed after the…
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Are you the police? No ma'am, we're musicians.
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The Blues Brothers’ European tour seems to be going well. Image source: [Hewreck.com]
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Weekend Road Trip: Stuff I saw in Central Utah Edition
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Let me preface this by saying I had an OUTSTANDING weekend. I rented a car and drove to central Utah for a funeral. I know what you are thinkin “but Schmo, how can a funeral lead to a great weekend?” Well the service was a wonderful tribute to a wonderful lady who spent her 90+…
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Last Call- Something's Fishy Edition
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My favorite is the one that says ‘DX.’ Image source: [Imgur.com]
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Last Call- It's Winter, So These Must Be The Nationals Edition
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This weekend, Pomona Raceway hosts the 2010 NHRA Winternationals. In honor of that event, here’s CSX2248 – one of five dragonsnakes built for drag racing – and the winner of the 1964 AHRA Winternationals in Daytona. There’s a 4-page article on this car in the February 2010 issue of Muscle Car Review, in case you…
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Meet the Ghazal-1: a Real-Life Canyonero, with No Sense of Irony
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Ghazal-1! Ghazal-1! Looking like something from the background of a mid-90s cartoon, the Ghazal 1 is Saudi Arabia’s first and most earnest attempt to break into this “automobile manufacturing” fad. Saudi Arabia, as we all know, has far too much oil sitting beneath their windswept sand dunes, and dagnabbit, they just can’t give it away!…
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Hooniverse Asks- What's Your Favorite Race Motor?
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Tracks need cars to run on them, and drivers need cars to run on those tracks, and all those cars need motors to make them more than just stationary art objects. Out of all of those motivators, which one really gets your motor running?
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Pardon Our Grease
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In case you hadn’t noticed, things have been a bit wonky over the last 36 hours. This is your fault. All of you for showing up so often and reading a bunch of posts, resulting in us getting a bit of a reprimand from our hosting providers at Inmotion Hosting. East Coast David is helping…
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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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2010 Lexus IS250 AWD
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An entry-level luxury sedan should accomplish a few things. It should be fun to drive, provide a taste of what’s in store if you explore deeper into the model lineup, and show the world that you are climbing your respective career ladder. You may wish this were not the case but we live in a materialistic…
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Last Call- Big Bird Edition
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Why yes, my VW Hebmuller has Ostrich upholstery, doesn’t yours?
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Meet the Newest Hoon on the Block
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This week saw the addition of Zach Bowman and Ms Amber to the Hooniverse writing crew, but there’s a third late addition we’d like to introduce. Meet Henry Marshall Odell, aka Mad_Science_Jr. All 8lbs, 6oz of him and his ridiculous hair arrived Friday morning. Mom, baby and dad are doing well. Also, we can see…
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Hurst Performance Series 5 Camaro
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The return of the Chevrolet Camaro was a long awaited and joyous occasion for mullets and non-mullets alike. Another true Pony car had returned to the graze the American fields of highways, byways, and your local streets. In SS trim, the modern Camaro has a 6.2L naturally-aspirated V8 engine which produces 426 hp and 420 ft-lbs…
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Hooniverse Asks- What's the Best Automotive Prank You've Ever Been Party To?
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You don’t have to be Ashton Kutcher to enjoy seeing someone get Punk’d. In fact, I’d kind of like to give Demi’s boy toy a good punch to the neck just for being a douchebag. But still, everybody admires a well-thought out prank, and I’m sure many of you have either been the perpetrators or…