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Fighting Obscelescence as a Grumpy Old Man
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This coming weekend I will become 36 years old, distressingly sweeping me into the ‘late’ thirties bracket – an age that I remember my parents being just five minutes or so ago. While I know that many of you have a good few years on me, and that I still fall into the ‘what does…
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Video: Honda del Sol and Its TransTop Power Roof
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The little Honda del Sol has always been overshadowed by its predecessor, the CR-X. Perhaps rightfully so, too. The del Sol gained as much as 300 pounds or so over the CR-X without a meaningful increase in power until later on it life when it was offered with the DOHC B16 engine. The del Sol…
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Found on Ebay: Fiat 131 – A pretty little liar?
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Fiats are known for breaking, rusting, and generally not being very durable. So this very nicely preserved 1978 model is a remarkable find for someone who likes Italian tin. I personally have a thing for ’70s Fiats thanks to my 8th grade math teacher, who drove a dark red (rust red?) 128 four-door. But this…
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Podcast: Episode 199 – Cheap Car Challenge with Tavarish & B is for Build
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Chris from B is for Build and Freddy Tavarish Hernandez stop by to talk about cheap cars, YouTube, and anything else we can think of… which is usually inane and random, when you leave it up to us. Chris is entering the challenge with his Mad Maxian Infiniti G35 that he picked up cheap from…
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Podcast: Episode 199 – Cheap Car Challenge with Tavarish & B is for Build
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Chris from B is for Build and Freddy Tavarish Hernandez stop by to talk about cheap cars, YouTube, and anything else we can think of… which is usually inane and random, when you leave it up to us. Chris is entering the challenge with his Mad Maxian Infiniti G35 that he picked up cheap from…
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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 went looking for old examples of yet another of the SUV/Crossover dominion’s victims, the Large 2-door Coupe, and we set an arbitrary limit of $5,000 for the spend. We’ll see…
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Spy Shots! 2019 Chevy Silverado 1500 and/or GMC Sierra 1500, we think
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Our friend, owner of some amazing vehicles, and apparently an amateur automotive spy photographer sent us these pictures from Colorado. This is the disguised all-new 2019 Chevy Silverado and/or GMC Sierra 1500 pickup. Pictures of these test mules, poorly disguised as a Ford pickup, have been seen around the web in other places around the…
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Hooniverse Asks: What’s The Worst Thing Ferrari Has Ever Produced?
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Ferrari is one of the world’s most venerated auto makers, so much so that its mystique is almost greater than the machines that helped create it. The company has a rich history, and many of its offerings, both those for the track and the street enter legend almost upon their inception. That doesn’t mean the company hasn’t…
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Last Call: Lock… and Load Edition
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Last weekend the police arrested a 36-year old man at the Coachella Music Festival after revelers, using the Find My iPhone app, pinpointed him as the culprit in more than 300 phone thefts at the event. Way to go meddling teens! In shocking contrast to those music-loving impromptu private eyes, the owner of this scooter…
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XP1K4 – This UTV adventure just got flippin' sweet
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The RJ Anderson led UTVUndergound series XP1K has been amazing. Now we have a new installment with XP1K4, and it’s equally ridiculous. Why? Because Anderson does a god damned backflip to end the video. He also smashes an $8,000 drone in the process, but that drone died so this insanely awesome footage can live. Watch…
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Genesis G90 is very nearly the real deal luxury machine it hopes to be
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Hyundai dipped its toes into the luxury space when it launched the Genesis sedan back in 2009. It was… alright. A nice step above the Sonata, it was also certainly no Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Audi, or Lexus. Those brands were safe but probably wise to at least keep an eye and ear on what the Koreans…
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Car Saviors looks to be an actually enjoyable automotive build show
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The average automotive show on your TV screen is mediocre at best. There are some good ones out there but the majority of content that exists on the Internet is often far more digestible and interesting than the forced drama found on your flat screen. It seems there’s a new show here though, and it…
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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 an amoeba. Good luck! Image: ©2017 Hooniverse/Robert Emslie, All Rights Reserved
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False Neutral #55: Gettin’ Horizontal
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Garrett’s still AWOL this week, so Eric and Pete keep this episode a bit briefer than usual. Our topic is a bit obscure: horizontal-cylinder engines. We start with Guzzi’s Falcone and Nuovo Falcone. Then, we fawn all over the Ducati Supermono, explain how reciprocating counterweights work, and school Ducati on what the Scrambler Sixty2 should have…
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False Neutral #55: Gettin' Horizontal
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Garrett’s still AWOL this week, so Eric and Pete keep this episode a bit briefer than usual. Our topic is a bit obscure: horizontal-cylinder engines. We start with Guzzi’s Falcone and Nuovo Falcone. Then, we fawn all over the Ducati Supermono, explain how reciprocating counterweights work, and school Ducati on what the Scrambler Sixty2 should have…
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Hooniverse Asks: If You Were Going to Get an Auto-Related Tattoo, What Would it Be?
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Getting ink, it’s something we’ve all thought about doing. Some of us may have even actually gone under the needle. The most amazing thing about tattoo artistry is its permanence. I mean they found skin art on that mummified hunter they dug up way up in the Alps. Yeah, you can get tattoos “lasered” off but…