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The News for May 26th, 2017
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Welcome to the Hooniverse News! As always, this is a weekly recap of some of the biggest stories in the automotive industry without the fluff or bull. There’s also just a little opinion of mine because I can. This week: BMW gives a preview of the upcoming 8 Series Coupe Jaguar SVO announces new 592-HP Project 8…
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Mystery Car
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School’s out and that means lighter traffic all summer long! What are you going to do with all of that new-found free time now that you won’t be stuck out on the road? I suggest this week’s Mystery Car. Make and model, you lollygaggers. Image: ©2017 Hooniverse/Robert Emslie, All Rights Reserved
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The Cammed & Tubbed Podcast: Episode 196 – Making Popcorn
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Okay, so here’s the deal. Brad’s been on this massive road trip for the last three weeks. We’ve had some difficulty getting our new episodes up on Hooniverse. He’s back now, and we’ll have three episodes for you this week. We’ll only have one episode for you next week, though, because we’re going to record…
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The Cammed & Tubbed Podcast: Episode 196 – Making Popcorn
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Okay, so here’s the deal. Brad’s been on this massive road trip for the last three weeks. We’ve had some difficulty getting our new episodes up on Hooniverse. He’s back now, and we’ll have three episodes for you this week. We’ll only have one episode for you next week, though, because we’re going to record…
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Hooniverse Asks: What Are Your Weekend Plans?
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Here in the U.S. we’re about to kick off summer proper with a three-day weekend and a 500-mile race at a place they call the brickyard. The Memorial Day Weekend has been our nation’s official start of summer for decades, but it began as “Decorations Day” shortly after the Civil War as an opportunity for…
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Last Call: Field Trip Edition
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Must be a school of fish. 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: AcidCow
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Hagerty will now offer insurance for your upcoming track day
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As Regular Car Review fans might say “…track day! Track day, bro! Track day!” That excitement is legit though, because a proper track day is a wonderful day. The only thing that makes it potential not so wonderful is if you smash up your machine. If said machine is a track-only toy, it’s not the end…
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Ride along at Goodwood in a 1977 BMW 530i
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Nick Padmore knows how to drive in anger. He holds the unofficial record for the fastest lap ever recorded at Goodwood. We have to say unofficial, because most consider the last official fastest lap to have taken place back in 1965. Modern lap times that are set are called Revival Records. The original fastest lap…
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Cozy up to the 25th Anniversary Lamborghini Countach
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In 1974, Lamborghini decided it wanted to transcend the world of exotic sports cars and start building futuristic space ships for alien rockstars. That naturally led to the creation of the Lamborghini Countach. It’s a vehicle that packs a V12 and turns the idea of the shape of a door stop into something beautiful in…
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The DFL Show: Episode 53 – North Carolina State Bird
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We open the show by asking special guest Jeff Glucker what he knows about the Indy 500. Sadly we have to discuss the death of another legendary motorsport personality. Goodbye Hayden. We then jump into some cool things Brad saw on his road trip, we have a game, there’s a few race recaps (hopefully you…
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Thursday Trivia
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Welcome to Thursday Trivia where we offer up a historical automotive trivia question and you try and solve it before seeing the answer after the jump. It’s like a history test, with cars! This week’s question: In the 1966 movie Grand Prix why did Yves Montand’s helmet design change half-way through the film? If you think you know the…
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Police Down Under swap their Aussie muscle for the US-made stuff
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With the demise of the locally built Holden Commodore and Ford Falcon in Australia, the various Police forces around the country are currently looking for replacements. The NSW Police Highway Patrol has recently taken possession of a Chrysler 300 SRT, which will be used for promotional duties as various Events across the state. It will…
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Hooniverse Asks: If Car Models Were People, Which Ones Would You Want to Hang Around With?
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You may very well remember James May’s excellent short series Cars of the People which delved into what made many plebeian cars so popular. I don’t think we actually needed May to tell us that it was a cheeky and engaging personality that endeared and elevated many of these cheap wheels to greatness. Still, who doesn’t like…
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Last Call: Extreme Trying Edition
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As it turns out, in the middle of the forest was where Sven was supposed to deliver his truckload of caffeinated energy beverages and Cliff Bars so it all worked 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…
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Heart Attack Level: Over 9,000
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Nothing gets your heart racing like coming out in the morning to find you’ve narrowly avoided disaster. This is the sight a friend and roommate of Hooniverse walked up to yesterday morning after some storms rolled though overnight. Frighteningly close to the tip of that downed tree is my roommate’s Trans Am and motorcycle – both of his…
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Vanderhall Venice – Three wheels for the weekend warrior
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For some reason, we decided to let Editor of Young Person Things Josh Ostrander have some camera time. Again. He decided to use that time to drive a Vanderhall Venice, which is a three-wheeled car-bike that uses a powerplant acquired from GM. Josh likes it and he’s going to tell us why. Is he right?…