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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 is generally considered to be the first production car model to offer a fully-enclosed passenger compartment? If you think you know…
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Motorsports Weekend Guide: May 1 to May 3
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It must be time for the latest edition of the Motorsports Weekend Guide, wherein Hooniverse gives you a look at who’s racing what and where in the coming days. This weekend finds an entirely paved schedule with no off-road racing on our list, though there’s likely some to be found outside of our list. What you…
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Hooniverse Asks: What Car Would You Absolutely Buy if it Fell Into Your Price Range?
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I’d always wanted to have a Volvo, but never could swing the price on a decent one, nor could I justify buying one as a fun car because of similar funds issues. That all changed this year – more about this in the next couple of weeks – when I bought an older longroof that was…
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Last Call: The Life of Riley Edition
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A long time ago I read a poem called The Life of Riley. The gist of it was that Riley led a most envious life and the poem ended with a humorous twist – Oh to live the life of Riley, if only for a day. Oh to live the life of Riley… while Riley is…
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Essex White: Ford Escort MkIII Cabriolet
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Some of the most common convertible cars you see around in the summertime are various Ford Escort cabrios. The round, ’90s ones are the cheapest kind of droptops on the market, ranging from two grand to three grand usually. They’re not too clean, but the roof goes down. Slightly below them and maybe above the…
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Cologne Street Sightings: 1966-1968 Neckar 1100 Millecento
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The randomness you can see on a side street in Germany remains baffling. I received these shots of a late-’60s Neckar 1100 Millecento from my Cologne friend Joe, and the little car really is a treat to the eye. Funnily enough, there’s a pretty good beer market just close by. The PBR plates on this…
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Podcast: Episode 102 – Commence Shortness
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We’re 102 episodes old now, which means we’re tired. Hence the short episode… Blake tells us about life at the Petersen, I tell you about life with my truck, and Chris has no voice. Hooniverse – Commence Shortness Please go to iTunes to rate and review us.
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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. An Infinity Pool is one were it looks like the far edge floats in mid-air. It’s insane! Also edgy and a little bit insane were Nissan’s original Infiniti models, which were offered in…
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The Ultima Tow Vehicle
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Here is a trailer being hitched up to one of the fastest vehicles in the world. Your reasoning for purchasing a diesel F-350 and an enclosed trailer to haul your rusted E30 to the track is invalid.
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Hooniverse Asks: What Car has had the Most Unfortunate Factory Color Option?
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It’s probably too far in the past for many to remember, but at one point in time, back in the 1970s, British Leyland painted an unfortunate number of their cars a dull, dusky brown. I don’t know if they got some sort of bulk discount on the top coat, but it’s become the color that…
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Last Call: Original Prankster Edition
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As we all know, Ur in German means initial or original. That possibly makes the owner of this Ferrari a fool of the first order. 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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Wheel Choices: 1980 Porsche 924
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The Porsche 924 is a dainty little thing, especially when you compare it to more modern street hardware. That’s a good reason to be quite conservative when you consider wheels for it, in case one wants to upgrade from the original 14- or 15-inch wheels. In this case, one of the Porsche’s owners has boldly…
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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 dirt. Good luck! Image: ©2015 Hooniverse/Robert Emslie, All Rights Reserved
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Outsider’s Perspective: So about the Chinese electric supercar
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I was going to make the title of this article a pun with the name of this, China’s first electric supercar. It’s called the Qiantu K50 Event!, and you will forgive me if I excersize a lot of caution on its claims. But you see, I had a Chinese knockoff iPod once.
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Please Don't Make this Turbo Corvair into a Trike
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Alternate title: How Would You Roll the Dice with a Motor from a Corvair that’s been Sitting Since Before Touch-Tone Phones. Encased amidst that vaguely-Corvair-shaped cloud of ferrous oxide is a 150 hp turbocharged flat six mated to a four speed manual transmission. The seller admits he hasn’t tried to crank it, so we don’t…
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Hooniverse Asks: Who is History's Greatest Part-Time Racer?
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Yesterday we saw a trailer for an upcoming movie about a race driver who also happened to be a movie star. That’s a lot more common than you might think, and began long before Paul Newman started either of his two careers. In fact, you can go all the way back to a 1933 race between…