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Car Bros Tries Out the "One Take" Thing
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Here at the Hooniverse, we love Matt Farah. We also love Car Bros, so this video of them attempting a Farah-style One Take is relevant to our interests. In what might be their best work yet, they take what’s totally a real Challenger SRT Demon on a quick road test around some nice and straight suburban…
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The False Neutral Episode #66: Don’t Worry It Will Be Fine
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This week Garrett and his friend Joe (he owns the Aprilia Tuono that Garrett has borrowed) talk about one of Burt Monro’s relatives goes to Bonneville to set a record, also talk about the trip they took with their friends Dylan and Dan around the Washington Peninsula and the “adventures” it contained. We’d also like to…
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The False Neutral Episode #66: Don't Worry It Will Be Fine
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This week Garrett and his friend Joe (he owns the Aprilia Tuono that Garrett has borrowed) talk about one of Burt Monro’s relatives goes to Bonneville to set a record, also talk about the trip they took with their friends Dylan and Dan around the Washington Peninsula and the “adventures” it contained. We’d also like to…
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Quick Spin: 2017 Chrysler Ypsilon. Y not?
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Five doors, two cylinders, and a wildly inappropriate bonnet badge. What’s not to like? The Lancia Ypsilon was / is a fascinating footnote in FCA history. Still available new in Italy only, it has long beaten a retreat from other markets, and never made it to the USA despite wearing Chrysler badges in many territories,…
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Project Bike SOTU 2017: Honda CL125S
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IT LIVES! Having just come back from a cruise through my neighborhood, I can report with some excitement that my ’74 Honda CL125S is officially back on the road. Regular readers will recall from past Project Car SOTU articles that I bought this bike in April of 2014 in an attempt to recapture the sensations…
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Project Bike SOTU: Bultakenstein
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“Bultakenstein”, for the uninitiated, is my ongoing attempt to learn all the skills required to build a custom motorcycle by actually doing all the steps myself, from scratch. And I do mean from scratch. When I started, I had a frame, wheels, a swingarm and a fuel tank, all salvage parts not just from different…
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Project Car SOTU: Motor City Muscle
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How do you know it’s time to move on from a project car? When it sits in your garage, and while you think about driving it, it doesn’t bother you at all that you don’t. That is where I am with my 95 Mustang GT, hence, it’s time to sell it and move on.
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Project Car SOTU: Toyota MR2 "Someday" Race Car
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It’s a situation that us car lovers fantasize over: a car somehow falls into your lap and you feel not only morally obligated, but genuinely excited, to accept it as your own. You welcome it with open arms, tell your friends of the new addition to your fleet, spend hours on the internet researching the…
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Evaluating old cars for insurance purposes is tricky business
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Benjamin Hunting is a Canadian automotive journalist whose work you might read at places like Roadkill or SlashGear. He’s a friend of the site, and I’m personally a fan of the cars that Ben owns. His daily driver is a first-generation Cadillac CTS-V, but it’s his track machine that I find most appealing. Ben has…
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Project Car SOTU: Subaru WRX
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I’ve been posting a lot test-drive reviews lately, and not without weight to them. It’s probably been easy to pick up on, but it’s time to spell it out: I’m shopping for a possible replacement for my WRX. Not yet entirely sold on getting rid of it, I’m simply driving cars that are on my…
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Project Car SOTU: The Ranchero 2.0
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Hey folks. It’s been a while. Might as well get back in the swing of things with a project car update. When you last saw, we’d done a little work on the rearend of the New Ranchero (Ranchero Nuevo? Two-chero? New-chero?) and were getting ready to do the cage. To fast forward through it all:…
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Hooniverse Asks: What's a good replacement for an FJ Cruiser?
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When Toyota introduced the 2007 FJ Cruiser it immediately created a cult following. It looked different, a retro design pulled off well. It was built on a fourth generation 4Runner frame, known for its capability and strength. Add to it the element of Toyota reliability and it’s no wonder that Toyota sold a ton of…
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The Carchive: 1966 Vauxhall Viva
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The last few weeks have been a little Americentric, so I figured I’d stick a little closer to home today. We’re staying with 1966, but visiting Luton, Bedfordshire to take a look at the upgraded Vauxhall Viva range. Keep the last fortnight’s AMC Rambler and Marlin, and the Buick Riviera before that, in mind and…
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Shift Happens: Building a McLaren 720S …LEGO car
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Awhile back, the good folks at McLaren sent me a LEGO kit. It’s part of the LEGO Speed Champions series, and this one features the new McLaren 720S. It also has a designer. He’s got his drafting table, a model car, a cup of coffee, and a lamp. He’s also got a helmet, because he…
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The Cammed & Tubbed Podcast: Episode 215 – Return Of The Hack W/ Rob Siegel
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Welcome back to the glorious world of Cammed & Tubbed. Cam and I are ecstatic to welcome back hack author and tremendous mechanic (scratch that, reverse it) to our humble little show. For those who don’t know, Rob has written a few books lately that merit discussion. I have read and reviewed two of his…
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The Cammed & Tubbed Podcast: Episode 215 – Return Of The Hack W/ Rob Siegel
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Welcome back to the glorious world of Cammed & Tubbed. Cam and I are ecstatic to welcome back hack author and tremendous mechanic (scratch that, reverse it) to our humble little show. For those who don’t know, Rob has written a few books lately that merit discussion. I have read and reviewed two of his…