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No Wheel Thursday: Standup Jet Skis Going Extinct In 18 Months
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Okay, so personal watercraft aren’t cars, and they don’t go on roads. But they’re still hoontastic, internal combustion fun. Unfortunately, “standups,” the smallest, purest and most demanding type of personal watercraft are hearing voices telling them to walk toward the light. There are a number of riflemen standing before them in their firing squad: “Couches”…
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Hooniverse Asks- What Cheap Fun Car From the Past Would you Like to See Resurrected?
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Pocket rockets, GT packages, Euro trim. There used to be a lot of fun little cars out there, and they didn’t cost an arm and a leg to buy and own. Today, Honda still gives us the Civic Si, and Nissan’s Sentra SE-R won’t cost you a kidney to buy, but that’s pretty much it.…
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2010 Audi S4
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We all know Audi’s illustrious sporting history which ranges from Group B monsters to Pikes Peak killers. The current history features an exotic trio of R8s for the street and the mighty diesels that tackle the endurance racing world. It’s not just the Audi super vehicles which charm us with their sports car bravado and…
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Last Call – Life Imitates Art Edition
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They say art – even drug-induced, stylistically interpreted or simply great art – is an imitation of life. But every once in a while you find art that’s no more deliberate than the whims of everyday happenstance. Such as this early ’50’s Studebaker Starlite: the same today as it was when this picture was taken last fall,…
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Found on Craigslist: one-owner 510
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A unique 1972 blue DATSUN 510 4-dr Automatic sedan, one of only four or five known showroom-stock 510s remaining anywhere While I cannot verify the accuracy of the sellers statement, I gotta say that this particular 510 would be considered extraordinarily rare.
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’65 Fleetwood Brougham Drops Anchor on Route 66, Needs a New Home
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Remember when Cadillac built a vehicle that was taken just as seriously by this continent’s rich and famous as its foreign competition but wasn’t called Escalade? Me neither. However, Tomsk the Elder and I spotted this three-owner, large-and-in-charge barge Thursday while walking along the town’s northerly east-west artery (less than a mile west of the…
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Name That Part – fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu Edition
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In our last Name That Part, BeerRover managed to get it right as a Jag XK120 battery cover. Well done. The “fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu” meme, aka “ragefu” or “rage guy” has been around since about 2008, spawned in the primordial ooze of the 4chan swamps and currently thriving on reddit. The meme revolves around something unexpected and…
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Last Call- The Club Edition
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The good news is the Club® worked as advertised! The bad news is. . . Image source: [Imgur.com]
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: One Lap of America with Mr. Angry…
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You guys may remember that there was a battle for the Editor in Chief position for Ride Lust a few months ago in which I competed with what turned out to be my LeMons partner, Mike Musto. Yes, he was hired over there, and I wished him the best of luck when we met up…
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Florida's Best: the Extra Terrestrial Vehicle
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No, that’s not a 15′ long replica of a Microsoft optical mouse. Nor is it an acid-induced photochop. The Extra-Terrestrial Vehicle is the brainchild of Mike Vetter (a noted Florida builder of custom “supercars” and, strangely enough, a Gemballa-modified Carrera GT), and its for sale now on eBay in a delightfully gut-churning shade of red.
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Leningrad Cowboys Go Mexico!
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This one may well peg the WTF meter, but it’s got a personal connection in the _Science household. Sometime in the roaring ’90s Master_Science (I think that’s what you people call my dad) went to the video rental store (remember those?) with the goal of picking something completely random. He came home with Leningrad Cowboys…
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Showdown – Heavy Hitters Edition
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Our last showdown pitted two traditionally overrated 4x4s against one another. As of right now, the Scout Travelall’s beating out the early Bronco by 6%. Being 1/3 the price will do that for ya. We’re keeping it 4×4 for right now, if only because we just couldn’t pass these up. You better pray to Petrolius,…
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Showdown: Awesome Oddball Yank-tank Wagons
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In our last Showdown, the “Strip Teaser” Fleetmaster managed to collect the lions share of your $1 bills votes, proving you’d all rather get down and dirty old-school style than classy like Bel Air. Today we’re featuring two wagons loaded with far-out technology for their day. Prior to the universal recognition of disk brakes as…
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Volkswagen and Apple – A Match Made in Hipster Heaven?
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I like Volkswagen. They have been making good cars for years, be they interesting, fun, or occasionally sporty (R32 Mk IV, please be mine). I like Apple. They have been making shiny, well built products for a few years now. I own a first generation iPhone (though it has been relegated to iPod duty for…
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Bonjour étranger edition
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Reader Wasabi was cruising up I95 in Connecticut the other day when he saw this car retreating quickly past him. It is a Peugeot 308 wearing New Jersey manufacturer plates. It’s cool to see it here stateside…but what is it doing over here? Maybe the rumors from 2007 are finally coming true and Peugeot is thinking about a return…
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Hooniverse Asks- What's The Best Car Joke You've Ever Heard?
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A guy was driving down the road and a met a car coming the other way. Although there was room to pass easily, the driver forced the oncoming car to slow down and wound down his window and shouted ‘Pig’ . The other driver looked in his rear view mirror and swore at the receding…