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Found on Ebay – Sprechen Sie AWESOME Edition
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Upon seeing this ad on ebay.de, I could only think of one thing. Deartháir stomping up and down, gnashing his teeth and screaming, “But daddy, I want it, NOW!”
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Copy Mr. Mad_Science and Get a Falcon of Your Own
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After an extended garage stay involving a clutch, shocks, front disc brakes, and shifter rebuild, the Mad_Science Falcon is back on the road in full commute (and car show!) mode. After a few weeks back in action, I can say it’s very nearly a perfect answer to today’s Hooniverse Asks. There has been one minor…
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Car cakes make your kid's birthday party a little more tolerable
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As an adult, the concept of a birthday party for a child is slightly less fun than it was before. You could avoid a house full of screaming, Nerf-shooting human larvae with a fistful of scotch, or you could bake those snot-nosed punks these cakes and introduce them to the joys of motoring at an…
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Missed It: You Could've Been King with this 1961 Dodge Coronet
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Our campaign to Hooniversize the world is well underway, as evidenced by the actions of our own Mr Schmo. Alas, sometimes we come upon a great potential hoonmobile too late. If nothing else, we can used these Ones That Got Away as examples of what you could’ve bought for the price of a used Camry.…
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Last Call- How's Your Commute? Edition
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We’ve seen jet-powered cars, and rocket-powered jetpacks, however neither of those was very good at multi-tasking. But now, for only $86,000 and a permanent butt-pucker, you can sail over traffic jams in a V4 piston-powered turbofan jetpack. The Martin Jetpack has a 280-lb load capacity (sorry tubbos) and a 31-mile range at an FAA-regulated 63…
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Aston Martin Rapide- For the Discriminating Hoon
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The idea of a saloon car holds great appeal, especially if that saloon car is as sexy as the Aston Martin Rapide.
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Last Call- The Falcon is the Showman
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Come on, you know you want to.
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Streetwalker: Charger With A Landau Roof
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Here’s a helpful hint for anyone trying to sell a car. We all know that providing plenty of information to a potential buyer is helpful, but perhaps writing all of that information on a giant poster that gets displayed in the window is not the best idea.
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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…
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A special edition of the Autoblog Podcast
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Why is this latest edition of the Autoblog podcast special? Because Tim and I are the guests… Head over to Blogo de Coches and hear our annoying voices! http://www.autoblog.com/2010/03/16/autoblog-podcast-170-the-hooniverse-visits/
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Hooniverse Asks- What's the Greatest Celebrity-Related Car, Truck or Bike?
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James Dean called his Porsche 550 Spider Lil’ Bastard, and That concevably could have been the last words to escape his lips as his silver sportscar plowed into Donald Turnupseed’s Ford Tudor on a lonely stretch of desert highway. That accident cut short Dean’s career, and sealed the fate of the little Porsche in the…
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So, This is What This olelongrooffan…
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…was watching on the old SpeedVision during the late 80’s and early 90’s. BMW E30 M3’s, Ford Cosworths (Merkur here in the States) although you, my fellow Hoons, knew that, Audi 5000’s, Volvo 240’s, an occasional Alfa Romero, a rare Fox body Mustang and tons of Mercedes 190 Evolutions…
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What to do With a Ferrari 250GTE Roller?
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Typically when we see a ride this rough, it’s an $800 Falcon and we scheme about swaps of revvy 289s or stealing a new 5.0L and showing the Nova guys what’s what. But what to do with a classy GT like this? The GTE (that’s a 2+2, by the way) is sort of the red…
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What is it About an Orange Chevy?
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Looking at my current choices in classics, you’d have me pegged as a Ford Guy. Untrue, it’s just that the window of opportunity (in the form of a driveway space) for bow-tie ownership has yet to arrive. When it does, a mid-60s Chevelle is at the top of the purchase list. While it’s widely known…
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What's Your Eleanor: Waiting For the Third Time
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In this installment of our on-when-we-feel-like-it-and-you-guys-send-us-something-good Submission Thursday, friend of Hooniverse and all-around cool Czech guy Bobash gives us an Eastern European take on his Eleanor, one that he’s let get away too many times. If you ask me about my dream car for three succesive weeks, you’ll probably get at least five different answers.…
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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.