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Last Call: Pick-A-Part Pickup Edition
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Okay, I just want to know: which one of you magnificent bastards showed up at Pick-A-Part in a 3-Camino? Image: ©2017 Hooniverse/Robert Emslie, All Rights Reserved
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Here's a custom lowrider Corvair
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I love lowriders. If I had the money and space for more cars, there would be an old Impala in the garage. The style and love put into those cars is genuine, and a well built lowrider is beautiful machine to see rolling down the road. One you’re likely not to have seen before is…
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The Rallyist samples a proper Focus Rally Car
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Ryan Symancek has been building up his My Life as a Rallyist series over the course of a number of episodes, and along the way he’s driven more and more thrilling machines. This latest episode sees Ryan sampling something properly wonderful. It started life as a standard Ford Focus but the crew at Mainiax Rally…
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Craigslist Crapshoot
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Welcome to Craigslist Crapshoot, our weekly search for the most bizarre, awesome, and/or terrible vehicles that the online classifieds has to offer. Last week we took a walk on the wild side while looking for cars and trucks with a reputation for being dangerous. That led to a bunch of results that probably should each…
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Quick Shift 3: Here's my Clarion Audio system in the HoonTruck
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Finally the HoonTruck gets some Quick Shift love. Today we’re going to look at the upgraded audio system I’ve had installed in my 1965 Ford F100. It’s been supplied by the good folks at Clarion, and it was installed by Beach Auto in Huntington Beach. We’re working with the Clarion NZ503 head unit, a pair…
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Hooniverse Asks: What’s Your Most Meaningful Automotive Performance Metric?
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The Shelby 427 Cobra legendarily could do 0-100-0 in under 14 seconds. That’s a stat worthy of bragging rights, but holds little real world, or racing, worth. Envisioned as a track car without compromise, perhaps a better benchmark might have been acceleration out of a corner, or maybe just straight line speed. And yes, I…
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Last Call: Back Seat Driver Edition
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“I said, stop accelerating so hard, you’re knocking my teeth out!” Last Call indicates the end of Hooniverse’s broadcast day. It’s meant to be an open forum for anyone and anything. Thread jacking is not only accepted, it’s encouraged. Image: Imgur
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This was a good spot to stand at the end of the Indy 500
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With five laps remaining in the Indy 500, I found myself on the space directly behind the pits. I turned away from the front straight in order to catch the action on the large screen behind me. People started losing their minds, because Takuma Sato had now taken the lead and he was about to…
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A Writer's Quandary …fixed with help from a BMW motorcycle
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Sometimes, desperation gives clarity Simple dirt. It’s made of gravel, pebbles, flakes of once great ancient trees, rotted plants, mud and sand swept up, down, back and forth from millions of years of erosion. Maybe it’s not so simple? Lately, my dream job in the automotive industry has become abhorrent to my creative mind. What…
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First Drive: 2017 Honda Civic Si
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A new Honda Civic means we have a new Honda Civic Si. This is the all-new 2017 Honda Civic Si, and it’s a relatively affordable performer available in both coupe and sedan body styles. Honda invited us out to its recently renovated proving grounds in the Mojave desert to see how the latest Si stacks…
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Track Tuesday: Name That Track
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Welcome to Track Tuesday where you are asked to identify a (maybe) famous race or test track from just one closely-cropped aerial image. This week, it’s a windy bastard. Good luck! Image: ©2017 Hooniverse/Robert Emslie, All Rights Reserved
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The False Neutral Episode 59: Pete Heads Out
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This week the gang is back together, but that ends up being a story unto its self! As maybe you can gather by the title, work, life, the universe and everything has taken all of Pete’s time and in an attempt to balance it all, he is going to be stepping away from the show.…
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Hooniverse Asks: Do You Have a Bug-Out Bag in Your Car?
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Here in earthquake country, we’re all instructed from an early age to be prepared for unexpected homelessness. That compels many of us to keep certain necessities—extra shoes, water, blankets, cocktail shakers, etc—in our cars. I just so happen to be acquainted with a few individuals who keep a bag in their trunk, not in case…
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Overdue reappraisal: The Mitsubishi 3000 GT
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“The 3000GT offers a rather detached driving experience and is simply too big and bulky to feel as truly agile and involving as a sportscar should” The words of Autocar there, in its August ’92 review of Mitsubishi’s heavyweight high-powered projectile. These are words that I first read as an eleven-year old, and came to…
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Last Call: The Softer Side of Germany Edition
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As you all head off into the weekend, which will be a long one for many of you, I’d like to leave you with this amazing image of cherry trees blossoming along the aptly named Cherry Blossom Avenue in Bonn Germany. Being able to see sights like this are why the automobile became so popular in the…