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The News for April 10th, 2015
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Welcome to the Hooniverse News! As always, this is a weekly recap of some of the biggest stories in the automotive industry without the fluff or bull. I just throw in a little opinion of mine because I can. This week: Ultima unleashes the Evolution Hennessey prepares a 1,000 hp twin-turbo kit for new CTS-V Audi will…
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Mystery Car
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Have you done your taxes yet? If you live in there here United States, you’ve got just five days to whip them in shape. If you’ve already finished with that annual Uncle Sam reaching into your pocket, then you’ll probably want something to take your mind off how much that hurt. For you, we have…
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The Cammed & Tubbed Podcast: Episode 47 – Grown Men Crying
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I want to begin by thanking everyone who gave our little podcast a chance and listened last week. I really hope you stick around, as we’ve got some fun stuff to talk about every single week. We’re just a few car guys from all around the country that like to hang out together and record it…
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The Cammed & Tubbed Podcast: Episode 47 – Grown Men Crying
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I want to begin by thanking everyone who gave our little podcast a chance and listened last week. I really hope you stick around, as we’ve got some fun stuff to talk about every single week. We’re just a few car guys from all around the country that like to hang out together and record it…
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Ariel Atom Drag Races Snowmobile on Ice Runway
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TV shows and magazines just love to race super fast cars versus military airplanes. That’s great and all, but seriously, it’s a game at best. Comparing two land vehicles is more of an apple-to-apple thing. Here, our friends at ACE Performance, the Northeast dealer of the Ariel Atom, took their own Ariel Atom Spec racer, put it on winter…
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Hooniverse Asks: What are the Best Fake Alloy Wheel Hubcaps?
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I think my first exposure to fake plastic wheel covers that posed as alloys was reading a road test of the Chevy Monza 2+2 in Road & Track. They had undertaken braking tests in the car and the excessive heat generated by the repeated stopping attempts had softened the plastic wheel covers to the point…
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Last Call: That's Your Doggone Problem Edition
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A good friend might keep you company while you’re working on your car, while your BEST friend will roll up their sleeves and help. Well, actually I think this best friend doesn’t actually have sleeves, but you know what I mean. Last Call indicates the end of Hooniverse’s broadcast day. It’s meant to be an…
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Helsinki Street Sightings: 1984 Mazda 323 DX
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On some grey, overcast days you never see anything that really turns your head. Well, as a car guy, you care a little about everything. Just a little. And then there are sunny days that really bring out the red on some small, boxy econo-hatches such as this 1984 Mazda 323. Look at it! Over…
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The Carchive: The '82 Skoda Range
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Today we sit at the cutting edge of motoring, but getting here has been an arduous journey. There have been many diversions, pitfalls and breakdowns on the way, and quite a few wrong turns. There were stretches of the trip which will be fondly remembered, and periods which will be spoken of only in hushed…
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Mercedes-Benz ML63 AMG gets hooned in the snow
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The world is suddenly full of high performance SUVs. What sounds like a horrible idea on paper is actually quite fun on roads in upper class suburban neighborhoods. But in the end, these are vehicles which should have some off-road capability, and by off-road I mean snow covered roads, of course. Our friends from Manhattan’s Classic Car…
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Submission Thursday: A Whole Bunch of Unimogs!
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Hollis writes: Hey, I figured you guys might be interested in seeing these pics. I was driving through La Junta, Colorado (generally a less than remarkable town on the plains of eastern Colorado) yesterday, and I passed a dozen or so Unimogs in one place. Naturally I had to stop. Turns out the guy who…
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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: Who was the engineer that developed both Ferrari’s 250 GTO and Lamborghini’s original V12, and what is the name given to…
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Someone Rescue this SAAB 96 from an Oakland Tow Yard
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Who among you failed this quirky brown machine? I’d argue there can’t be more than three degrees of separation between myself and the person who owned this ’68 96, allowed it to be towed, and then failed to claim it. Quirky and ambitious Oakland resident, I AM DISAPPOINT. Anyway, let someone else’s screw up be your gain:…
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Hooniverse Asks: Getting into an Old Car, What's the Common Modern Convenience You Miss Most?
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So I recently bought an older car and I must say, the automatic climate control in it is pretty rudimentary. I mean, instead of just selecting the temperature you want and letting it do the rest, you actually have to set two dials to AUT and then pick your desired temp from a third. It’s…
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Last Call: General Leaking Edition
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I’m not quite sure what’s going on with this Dodge, but perhaps someone took umbrage with the fact that the General Lee was in fact a Charger and not a Challenger. 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…
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Helsinki Street Sightings: 1993 Skoda Forman
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Following the Eastern European street furniture in an earlier post by our Kamil, here’s a newly Czech car doing daily service in Finland. Czechoslovakia was peacefully split into two countries on January 1st, 1993, and this car was first registered late in the year, so the odds are that the Skoda Forman here was built…