Articles
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Be Just Like MFP's Jim Goose, Except Without Horribly Disfiguring Burns
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While many people regard Mad Max and its ilk as the best Australian post-apocalyptic police car movies ever made, sometimes its easy to forget the role that two-wheeled contraptions played in the mayhem. Take Jim Goose’s Z1000, lovingly recreated by Japan’s Whitehouse motorcycle shop.
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Chevy Enthusiast via Hooniverse: 1969 – 1972 Chevy K5 Blazer Buyers Guide
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Although Chevy was late to the 4X4 SUV Party, the first-generation, full size, two-door K5 Blazer established a template that was quickly followed by both Jeep with the Cherokee, and Ford with its second-generation Bronco.
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: More Content & Interesting Posts – So Why Aren't You Here?
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If you haven’t noticed, Hooniverse now has weekend content, filled with fresh postings, interesting perspectives, and stuff you need to know. Ok, the last point is a bit of a stretch, bit not by much. If you haven’t been around Hooniverse last weekend, make the jump to see what you missed.
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Hooniverse Parting Shot: The Honda S2000 – Hondas Purest Sports Car
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Honda could arguably be called one of the world’s most successful, if not the most successful automobile and motorcycle producer. This is a company so admired around the globe that it rarely makes what could be called a bad product. From light power generators to aircraft jet engines, the products always seem to work better…
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Last Call- Cha-Cha-Cha-Changes Edition
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Transformation we can believe in. Image source: [Imgur.com]
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Subie-Doo Craigslist Ad Is Like an Ode to Douche-dom
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If Billy Mays taught us anything, it was that overweight hucksters with bad hearts should lay off the coke. He also taught us that the key to the sale is to hook ’em early, and to make a personal connection with your audience. That learning is in evidence in this Baltimore CL ad, unfortunately the…
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Mecum Clears $41 MILLION in Sales at their Spring Classic
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The Annual Mecum Spring Classic vehicle auction recently wrapped up and total gross sales exceeded 41 million dollars. The auction lasted 5 days and the Mecum team is reporting a final sell-through rate of 66%. The Corvette pictured above was owned by Harley J. Earl and crossed the block after someone decided $925,000 was the…
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Submission Thursday: Dime Edition
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This is a tale of love and loss, twists and turns and even a surprise or two. No it’s not an M.Night Shyamalan script, this is a story from one of our beloved readers, Mr_Biggles, about a man and his Datsun.
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Whatever You Were Doing in 1969 and 1970, It Wasn't as Cool as This
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Were you racing your Ferrari 250 against your buddies’ Ferrari 250s at Willow Springs and on Mulholland Dr.? No? We didn’t think so. Jump for a collection of amateur film narrated by Stephen Mitchell about his antics at the age of 19 involving one of the Best Cars of All Time.
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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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Icelandic Glacier Truck is Built Fjord Tough
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The story goes that Greenland and Iceland got their names, despite antithetical topographies, because the residents of Iceland wanted to keep out the riff-raff. Although not truly covered with ice, the North Atlantic nation does still possess a number of remnants of the last ice age, including a large number of glaciers. Unlike in Alaska…
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Last Call- Navigators Can Leave Skid Marks Too Edition
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The inspiration for the Ford Edge. Image source: [Photo Finish via Tumblr]
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A Falcon for Films
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Australian friend of Hooniverse (AFOH) Mark Goddard continues to send excellent stuff from the land that brought you Midnight Oil. Side note, the lead singer of that band who was fairly frightening in the “Beds Are Burning” video is now a quite well-respected member of Parliament. He is the Minister for Environment Protection, Heritage, and the…
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Plenty of Room to Haul Spare Apex Seals: '75 Mazda RX3 Wagon
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Some day in the not-too-distant future, early-to-mid ’70s rear wheel drive Japanese cars may well be worth more than their domestic contemporaries. This may come about as the slightly younger Japanese nostalgia crowd reaches the prime purchasing power years (otherwise known as mid-life) and Baby Boomers move on to retirement homes. The low sales numbers…
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Hooniverse Asks- What's the Best Q-ship Color?
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For those unfamiliar with the term, a Q-ship is a merchant vessel that possesses hidden armaments in order to lure subs to the surface and then to sink them. That nomenclature has been adopted by the car culture as the description of a car that is stealthily able to travel quickly without drawing attention to…
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That's One Big NACA Duct
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Over at Wired’s This Day in Tech they are celebrating the March 27th 1931 opening of the world’s first full-size wind tunnel at Langley Field in Virginia. Designed to test the real-world properties of aircraft, the tunnel is 60 feet wide and 30 feet tall, and features a gaping mouth that looks like Mick Jagger…