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Hooniverse Asks: What Was The Most Urgent Alert You've Ever Had To Give Another Driver?
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When I’m out on the road I like to look at other cars. I don’t mean check out the cool ones, I mean I like to see which ones are running expired tags and who hasn’t checked the air pressure in their tires all that recently. The former issue I let slide. I mean, what…
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Last Call: Mixed Signals Edition
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Apparently, it’s not Hammer Time. 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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24 Hours of LeMons: 'Real Hoopties of New Jersey' at New Jersey Motorsports Park
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Hey ho, it’s one of those 24 Hours of LeMons previews I write from time to time. This one’s for the upcoming race at New Jersey Motorsports Park called “The Real Hoopties of New Jersey.” This is the eighth LeMons race in New Jersey, a place renowned for its beauty and its total void of state…
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A Hoon's Guide to Understanding BMW
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Of all the car manufacturers in business today, few have a lineup as large and confusing as BMW. There was a time when the assortment of numbers and letters they used to identify their models followed sound logic and everything was easy to understand, but those days, for the most part, are long gone now.…
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Night School: Episode 5 – It all comes together
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That was a long weekend. This is the final episode in this chapter of our Valvoline Night School saga. It all comes together here, as the work Tim and I have put in on my 1965 Ford F100 is complete. The #HoonTruck has a fresh exhaust system, a new cam and valve seals, and an…
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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: what was the first car to run the Indianapolis 500 nonstop? If you think you know the answer, make the jump (or…
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Quick Shift: New eyes for the old Benz
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So I’m eager to make our YouTube channel a bit more well rounded. The full-on reviews are nice, but occasionally we need to slow down and take a look at what’s really going on in the garage. This new series, which I’ve tentatively titled Quick Shift (and I already don’t love the title, but I…
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Hooniverse Asks: What Piece of Infamous Automobilia Are You Dying to Have?
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I’m sure that somewhere out there exists the Amilcar in which dancer Isadora Duncan lost her life when her hand-painted Roman Chatov scarf got caught in the spokes of one of the car’s rear wheels. How cool would that be to have? Infamous memorabilia like James Dean’s car—above—is a macabre form of collectible, but there’s a…
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Last Call: Let's Do The Time Warp Again Edition
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Whether your tastes and budget leaned towards Comet or Continental, O’Connor appears to have been the place to go. They wouldn’t even look askance if you wanted to wear your hat while driving off in your new car. Last Call indicates the end of Hooniverse’s broadcast day. It’s meant to be an open forum for anyone…
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The Land Yacht: Teaching my kids to forget about their devices with the help of a Toyota Land Cruiser
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If you’re of a certain age, you remember Looney Tunes. Most of us do. Something new had to happen in those cartoons every 7 minutes to keep kids’ attention. Whether it was the anvil falling on the coyote or the rifle exploding in the nimrod’s face, something had to change. I taught middle school for…
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Review: 2017 Toyota Land Cruiser
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The Land Cruiser has been sold in North America for over sixty years. It and the Toyopet Crown were the automaker’s first two models here. Despite the fact that Toyota sold only one of its Land Cruisers in its first year in America, it was soon the only model offered here until 1965. Toyota Motor…
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Podcast: Episode 202 – Questionable Accents
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Zack joins me in the studio and we run through some fresh updates on our vehicles. Additionally, I just got back from driving a minivan in Hawaii yet I still found a way to make the tires spin. We get to your questions and we’ve decided that we’ll answer the Patreon questions by way of…
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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 gave the real wheels a rest and went looking for the coolest slot car racers and model cars money could buy. They needed to be used, and preferably sold by…
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Dear automakers: bring back the sports trucks!
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SVT Lightning. Syclone. 454SS. Ram SRT-10. X-Runner. Xtreme. The street-oriented “sports truck,” a factory-modified pickup that could simultaneously pull off practicality and pleasure, is a sorely missed niche vehicle that would be a fun territory for automakers to explore today. Sports trucks were the antithesis to the supercar: they could put a big ‘ol smile…
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Hooniverse Ask: What Was History’s Most Beautiful Full Car Line—Sedan, Wagon, Coupe, Convertible…?
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Today, when you go to buy a model of car your choices are typically pretty limited. With the advent of the age of Crossovers and SUVs in fact, your only option is likely to be a four-door hatchback tall wagon with black plastic wheel arches. That hasn’t always been the case, however. Back in the…
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Last Call: Limo Edition Edition
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Honey, your date’s here for the prom, and he brought a limo! 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