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Last Call- Why Your Bicycle Seat Color Matters Edition
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If your hooning extends to two-wheel vehicles with pedals, choosing a contrasting seat color can mean the difference between an enjoyable ride, and getting stopped by the cops for cruising past that elementary school. Image source: [reddit]
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Streetwalker- Mr. Bond, Your Benz is Ready
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Once again the curb-side car lot is rife with three pointed stars. Normally, I wouldn’t give a ’91 500SL much of a glance, unless there was something special about it, and that’s the case with this Benz with a gun-shy seller. You see, in addition to the sporty styling, smooth V8 power, and cosseting luxury…
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Spyker Saab: Saab Spyker: Spyker Saab Spyker: Nope, I'll never get used to it.
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Well it looks like GM held a surprise Press Conference this morning at 11:30 Eastern Standard Time. The internet was buzzing with anticipation that there will be an announcement that a savior has rescued Saab, in the form of a quirky Dutch Supercar Builder named Spyker. Is this really in the best interest of Saab?
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Huge 747 lands on Van; Driver Soils Himself; News at 11:00
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A Cargolux Boeing 747-400 freighter on a flight from Barcelona to Luxembourg was cleared to land on Luxembourg’s runway 24 in low visibility due to fog, when one of the tires from the large jumbo jetliner impacted the roof of a van parked on the runway at 12:53 local time. The airplane landed safely, the…
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Speed Read – Merchants of Speed
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If you’ve never taken the time to listen to stories of what members of The Greatest Generation did with their free time in the 30s, 40s and 50s, you ought to. Seriously, just call up your parents or grandparents and let ’em talk. Rest assured, there will be rambling incoherence, and the stories may be…
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Not a Misprint: '81 Ford Durango, For All Your Fox-Body Pickup Needs
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The Ford fanatics among us might be aware of this very special Fox-body Fairmont variant, but it’s a rare bird nonetheless. And it’s for sale!
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Are you smarter than a fifth-grader: KSL Classifieds Edition
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If you don’t know by now, I live in Utah (save the Mormon jokes, heard them all, invented a few of my own) and I LOVE to surf the classified section on KSL (one of our local news outlets). It’s kind of like a local craigslist but heavier on the bandwidth and script errors. And…
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The Bird is in The Nest
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For those of you also suffering from a mix of severe packratism, too many projects and not enough space, you know how much of a victory this is.
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Chevy Enthusiast via Hooniverse: The 1975 – 76 Chevy Cosworth Vega
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One Vega for the price of two!
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Disco Stu Has a Pinto for You
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It’s hard to say which is more egregious- putting eleventy million mirror squares on your Pinto, or driving it in traffic on a sunny day. Image source: [motortrend]
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Last Call- Do The Evolution Edition
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In Russia, car changes YOU! Image source: [Imgur.com]
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Showdown: 3-Way 70s Forced Induction Import Battle
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In our last Showdown, the Country Sedan stomped all over the Chevy Panel Wagon. Some accused me of stacking the deck in favor of a Ford like my own, but I don’t set the prices. I just picked two examples in the same price range. Anyway, onward… We’re mixing things up today with a trio…
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Prince of Peugeot
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Next up, Datsun Kong! Image source: [Imgur.com]
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Last Call- Why Your Bicycle Seat Color Matters Edition
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If your hooning extends to two-wheel vehicles with pedals, choosing a contrasting seat color can mean the difference between an enjoyable ride, and getting stopped by the cops for cruising past that elementary school. Image source: [reddit]
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Hooniverse Asks- What Automotive Accessory Do You Wish Was Still Around?
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Brodie knobs (or necker’s knobs to you lotharios), those little sandbag ashtrays, nodding-head chihuahua dogs for the parcel shelf – like the conestoga wagon, these, and many more automotive accruements seem no longer in fashion, or obsolete. But that doesn’t mean we can’t pine for them.
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ROLL CALL! Did everyone make it safely into the new decade?
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9765TUiJKls[/youtube] Another year (and decade) has managed to slip through my fingers rather uneventfully. And by uneventfully I mean I didn’t end up dead or worried about dropping the soap. I came. I saw. I fell asleep on the couch on New Year’s Eve and woke up some 3 hours later in a new decade. Personally,…