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Hooniverse Asks- What's the Weirdest Thing You've Ever Watched Race?
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Bar stools, bathtug regattas, Formula 5000, it seems like, if you can strap a motor on it, somebody will race it. Have you has the pleasure of experiencing some odd oval action?
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Lock Up Your Children! Suspiciousvans.com Cruises Neighborhood
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Sometimes you wish certain things were creatively photoshopped joke images. Unfortunately (or fortunately, and regardless, hilariously) suspicousvans.com wants to creep up behind you, stuff you inside, and make you laugh.
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NSU Spider Wankel Formerly Known as Prinz Makes a Rare eBay Appearance
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Purple rain, pur-ple rain. . . oops, sorry. Before Mazda let us know that while others went boing-boing-boing, they went hmmmmmm, NSU brought to market the world’s first production car powered by a Wankel engine. And now eBay has an NSU Spider with a starting bid of $15,000. Does that make you go hmmmmm?
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Hooniverse Asks- Now That Hummer is Dead, is it a Good Time to Buy a Hummer?
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General Motors pulled the plug on Hummer yesterday, after failing to come to terms with Chinese investors who finally realized that the “hummers” they were buying didn’t involve women in fishnets and hotpants. Now that they aren’t buying Hummer, do you think you should buy one? Originally built by AM General, and intended as a…
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Showdown: $35k Racers – War of 1812 Redux
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Our last Showdown was a knife fight between two American-engined bruisers, with the LS1-swapped E30 giving the GT500 the coup de grâce. Today’s Showdown is a transatlantic battle between two completely different ways of thinking – a bantamweight Englishman versus a classic American heavyweight. Will the redcoats metaphorically burn Washington, or will the ‘Mericans whip…
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Last Call- You Bastard Edition
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Somebody better hurry up and grab this, something tells me it’ll be gone by tomorrow. Tippecanoe Craigslist and mad props to Dr Danger.
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Hooniverse Editorial: The Standard of the World and How to Reinvent Cadillac – Part 3
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This is an ongoing series in which I examine Cadillac, and try and think about how Cadillac can successfully go upmarket. We looked at one of the most opulent Cadillacs ever, the V-16. Now let’s take a look at a truly outlandish Cadillac, offered between 1957 and 1960, the Cadillac Eldorado Brougham.
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I Don't Think This is an April Fool's Joke
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The Chrysler/Maserati TC has gone down in history as one of the more horrible offspring of two parents who may have imbibed too much chianti on the night of conception. That combination of Chrysler chassis and Maserati-modded motor lived up to neither the sporting pretensions of the Italians, nor the luxury pedigree of previous Chryslers.…
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Last Call- Git Yer Programs Here! Edition
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From the first Daytona 500 in 1959- programs cost a buck, the race was a “sweepstakes” and Lee Petty wasn’t declared the winner of the photo-finish race until three days after it was over. The controversy surrounding the finish helped make Daytona’s debut legendary, and the track, to this day, rivals Indy as the most…
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Right Hand Drive AMCs Blow Minds (and Fuel Budgets) Across the Pond
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Our own FTGDHoonEdition was out and about in Essex and stumbled across what have got to be some ridiculously rare AMCs. Hit the jump for his description.
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SUV Showdown: Infiniti FX50 Vs Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8, Part 2
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After hammering the canyons and making short work of the Antelope Valley, we rolled into California City ready for some mischief. For those unfamiliar, California City is a community master-planned back in the late 50s. If you look it up on Google Maps, you’ll see a grid of roads that suggests miles of suburban sprawl.…
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Hooniverse Asks- What's Your Favorite Race Car?
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Okay, we’ve done motors, drivers and tracks. But one thing has been missing- that single element that brings all those parts together to create an exciting motorsport event, and not just a bunch of guys (and the occasional girl) trying to drag an engine around. Race cars get our blood going. They are the ultimate…
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Does Being an A-hole Qualify?
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See Dick drive. Drive Dick, drive. See Dick park. See Dick park in a handicapped walkway. No Dick, no! See Jane see Dick park. See Jane become morally outraged at Dick’s arrogance. See Jane let the air out of Dick’s tires. What’s that you say? No, I didn’t see Jane do that either. Flat Dick,…
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How Do You Say Blown Intake Manifold Welds in German? Turbo 2002
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Luckily, there are no welds on this intake manifold. It’s cast aluminum from the factory. That’s right: factory. In case you didn’t know, in ’73 and ’74, BMW sold a turbocharged 2002. Packing 170hp in a fly-weight package sounds like quite the recipe for success. This one claims the double-edged sword of low mileage: only…
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V.I.S.I.T. – Orange Swedish Door Stopper Edition
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It’s a gorgeous spring day in Seattle, despite our intentional propaganda to the contrary designed to keep pesky tourists away. That didn’t stop this Swedish emigre from settling down in Ballard, home to many old Swedes and their cars. Full gallery below.
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Last Call- World's Fastest Bias-Ply Tires Edition
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This morning’s Hooniverse Asks led with a cutaway drawing of Porsche’s insane flat 12 racing motor. I just thought you all might like to see the first iteration of the car that carried it, the 917. From the Flickr page: When the brochure went out for the 1969 Geneva Auto Show it featured an announcement…