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The Cammed & Tubbed Podcast: Episode 49 – Emotional Eleanor
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Cam and Tub and Jason get together again for another episode of your new favorite car podcast. We’re just a trio of car guys that like talking about car stuff. Come along on the journey with us. This episode’s topics include: Drinks, “What’s on your desk”, Jason’s Eleanor Issues, Brad rants about racing, Cameron went…
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The Cammed & Tubbed Podcast: Episode 49 – Emotional Eleanor
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Cam and Tub and Jason get together again for another episode of your new favorite car podcast. We’re just a trio of car guys that like talking about car stuff. Come along on the journey with us. This episode’s topics include: Drinks, “What’s on your desk”, Jason’s Eleanor Issues, Brad rants about racing, Cameron went…
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Hooniverse Asks: What Country Has Most Lost its Auto-making Mojo?
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America once was the preeminent force to be reckoned with in the automotive world. Then it was Japan, and then it was… well, I don’t know. The thing of it is, it seems like every auto producing nation has once had its day in the sun only to eventually be snuffed out like a loose-lipped…
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Last Call: Dream Big, Pump Hard Edition
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He’s lucky that it’s only flat on one side. 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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The Perfect European Sports Car: Ford Mustang V6 Convertible
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[The intrepid backpacker, Frankiess recently paid a visit to Florida. Here’s his two cents of his (non-Ecoboost, duh) rental vehicle of choice. -Antti] You’ve heard it all before. Europeans make the only true sports cars. Europe has the best small twisty roads and the best chassis engineers on the planet. And the Nürburgring! Every decent…
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V.I.S.I.T. – 1954 Ford Tudor
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Despite the bumper sticker on the back of the Town Cow, I made a rare exception to my “no cell phone while driving” rule, thanks to the State of Kansas’s failure to include snapping cellphone pics in their distracted driving statute, and the fact that I was sitting at a stoplight with my foot on…
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Why the Scion iA was the most important vehicle released in New York this year.
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The New York International Auto Show passed by me so I won’t be able to do my usual article on it. However, what I can do is pinpoint the most important vehicle to take its first bow on the show. And it’s this: The Scion iA. …would you put out that torch!? This is a…
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Someone in Poland drives a Lamborghini LM002 daily
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You know those series I do about the various cars in Poland? Yes, that one. And that one. And many others. Well, I do them because each time I see something that just blows my mind, and today is no exception. Someone sent me a link to Polish blog that posted the images of this…
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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: How many cars did Volkswagen sell in the U.S. in 1949, its first year in the market? If you think you know…
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Motorsports Weekend Guide: April 24 to April 26
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If last weekend was a hectic mish-mash of top-tier racing, this upcoming weekend’s races are a grab bag of eclectic tastes. Sure, the usual suspects like IndyCar, NASCAR, and the NHRA are in action, but you can also find some unique racing in the U.S. in both the professional and especially in the amateur realms.…
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Hooniverse Asks: Would Anybody in the U.S. Buy a New Subaru Brat?
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Whether you call it a Ranchero, El Camino, or, if your Spanish isn’t all that great, a Brat, the car-based pickup is a genre that is beloved by enthusiasts, but apparently not so much so that it’s a viable sales category. The Brat is a special story seeing as it’s the only car-based trucklet to…
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Last Call: Remembering HoJo's Edition
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For millions of travelers in American back in the ’60s and ’70s, there was perhaps no more reassuring sight than the cupola-topped orange roof that signified a road-side staple, the Howard Johnson’s. Once the largest restaurant chain in America, with more than 1,000 locations coast to coast, HoJo’s also offered weary sojourners overnight accommodations at many…
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Outsider’s Perspective: Will the new 7-Series crack under pressure?
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There are three groups of people that are excited about the all-new BMW 7-Series. Journalists who will get to flog them around tracks and will get unbelievably excited when Alpina works its magic of them. Captains of industry that consider the Mercedes S-Class too formal and the Maserati Quattroporte too unhinged and, of course, the…
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The Carchive Special Edition: Ferrari 456M
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While I usually mine The Carchive for the old, the unusual or the downright inexcusable, because today is my birthday I’m going for a completely self-indulgent choice, just like I did this time last year with the Maserati Quattroporte Evoluzione. The Ferrari 456 is miles off the Hooniverse radar, really. In terms of significance to…
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Hooniverse Garage: 1969 Jeep Wagoneer Interior Fix Prep
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[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWqmznkkaSc[/youtube] Let me introduce you to the concept of California Rust. Out here, we don’t kill our vehicles via road salt (because 98% of the state gets no snow), but we have our own version: the sun cooks weatherstripping and rain leaks in all winter and spring, sitting stagnant under the carpet. Repeat for a…
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Podcast: Episode 101 – That Old Car Life
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Zack Klapman from the Smoking Tire and AJ Gordon from The Petersen Museum join myself and producer Chris Hayes in the podcast studio. In this episode we learn what it’s like to drive an old truck in a city filled with new cars. Also, Zack tells us about some of the stuff DRIVE has been…