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What's better than a manual transmission? Two manual transmissions!
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(Photo likely stolen from MurileeMartin.com) Some of you may remember the FX32, a twin-engine Corolla/MR2 mashup that the insane crew of Stick Figure/Volatile RAM racing put together back in 2013. Well, it still runs, and it’s still racing – now with MOAR manual transmissions! The original design was sort of a “soft-coupling” system where the…
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Hooniverse Asks: What's Your Favorite Chill in Traffic Song?
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So, I am currently obsessed over this smokey psalm by Niia that’s been making my drive home a little bit less soul-sucking for the past week or so. Honestly, it’s reduced my blood pressure by like 20 PSI. A current meme is to “Netflix and Chill” which is in fact a provocation to bump uglies,…
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Last Call: Simple Pleasure Edition
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Kids today may have their smart phones and their vapes, but they’ll never know the joy of cutting and pulling the fenders on a war wagon Fiat 126 late at night in a bartered garage space. Pity them if you care. Last Call indicates the end of Hooniverse’s broadcast day. It’s meant to be an…
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24 Hours of Lemons: Buick is the Rainmaster, Wins Judge's Choice!
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Rain. The forecast called for lots of it. A major storm, they called it. It rained the night before and it was suppose to rain all day Saturday. Certainly not great for racing. My hopes of anything exciting happening on Saturday were slim. I was wrong. Very wrong. The race started under a long full-course yellow. Then,…
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Podcast: Episode 203 – Meeting of the Triumvarite
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Chris, Zack, and myself are all in the studio for the first time in what feels like a long time… even though it’s only been a few weeks. We talk about Zack getting to check out Jay Leno’s Garage and his trip to Icon for a Casino Charity evening. I talk about my recent fuel…
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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 got ready for our closeup with cars that looked like those featured prominently in the movies. We’ll stand up the stand ins in just a sec, but first this week’s…
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McLaren 570GT – The everyday supercar
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McLaren makes an entry-level car, and it goes by the name 570GT. Now, entry level to McLaren means you’ll still need to remove over $200,000 from your bank account to come and play… but in these insane times, that actually makes it relatively affordable compared to the competition. What you get for all of that…
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Hooniverse Asks: What Automotive Brand Has The Most Cult-Like Following?
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Yesterday we talked about which motorcycle really should have been more popular. Today we want to know what car brand is perhaps a little too popular. Fan comes from fanatic and what we’re interested in is your opinion as to what maker or marque has the most devoted—or maybe cult like—fan base. Image: VW Vortex
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Last Call: Whoa-Oh, Domino Edition
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Gesundheit. 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: surfingbird
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Rally Notes… deciphered, thanks to the Team O'neil Rally School
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Rally notes are confusing. Lots of numbers, letters, descriptions, and more that all are fed from your co-drivers mouth into your brain. A brain, mind you, that is currently quite busy with the task of making sure you don’t launch a rally car off a cliff, into a tree, or through a snow bank. Still,…
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This quad-turbo Silvia is delightfully insane
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Are you ready for insanity? It arrives today in the form of this Nissan Silvia. Under the hood is a 2JZ motor, which is not insane. What is insane is the quadruple turbocharger setup. Also the hand operated secondary throttle body. Oh, and the jet-engine on the rear of the car for forced downforce, but that bit…
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Quick Shift 2: Fixing the fuel lines on the Benz
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My 1974 Mercedes-Benz 280 sedan is leaking fuel. So I’m going to try to fix it, and I go for a swim in fuel along the way. Two t-shirts gave their lives during the making of this episode of Quick Shift.
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Two-Wheel Tuesday – 19,000 RPM: All Day, Every Day
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Thanks to their tiny pistons and rods, production 250cc four-cylinder street bikes could safely access engine speeds that would turn larger engines into jackhammers—and before too long, molten metal. At one time, all the Big Four Japanese motorcycle manufacturers built 250cc fours. But the cost of a high performance four doesn’t change too much based…
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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 the whole schlemiel. Good luck! Image: ©2017 Hooniverse/Robert Emslie, All Rights Reserved
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False Neutral #58: Steve Ledsham of JAL Restorations
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This week’s episode features England’s Steve Ledsham, the man behind JAL Restorations. We wanted to have Steve on based on the stunning catalog bikes he has built and restored. Unfortunately, this episode was fraught with production issues. First, Garrett on the west coast had to wake up at 5 AM to address the transatlantic time…
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Hooniverse Asks: What's The Most Under-Appreciated Motorcycle?
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There are certain motorcycles, like the Vincent Black Shadow and Suzuki Hayabusa that have earned veneration over time. Others seem to have never found a fan base despite obvious attractive features or performance. Honda’s ’90s Pacific Coast is a bike that it seems never found its audience. Can you think of some other perhaps even…