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Mystery Car
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Did you know that AMC introduced the Gremlin to the world on April Fools Day? Yep, April 1, 1970 saw the debut of American Motors’ import fighter, no joke! Hopefully no one pulled any pranks on you this past April Fools day, but if so, you can take solace in this week’s Mystery Car contest,…
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The Cammed & Tubbed Podcast: Episode 46 – New Podcast Smell
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We’re trying something new. Please give a warm welcome to the second podcast to join the Hooniverse Podcast Network. The “other one” is working well for us, so why stop when we’re ahead. Let it ride! For just over two years (and almost 100 episodes), you’ve been hearing the dulcet tones of Mr. Jeff Glucker, Blake Z.…
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The Cammed & Tubbed Podcast: Episode 46 – New Podcast Smell
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We’re trying something new. Please give a warm welcome to the second podcast to join the Hooniverse Podcast Network. The “other one” is working well for us, so why stop when we’re ahead. Let it ride! For just over two years (and almost 100 episodes), you’ve been hearing the dulcet tones of Mr. Jeff Glucker, Blake Z.…
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Hooniverse Asks: What’s the Most Unworthy Car You’ve Ever Seen Restored?
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For April Fools this week I had a Chrysler LeBaron on Nice Price or Crack Pipe over on Jalopnik. It was an early K-car edition, that had been lovingly restored – and more. Clean new paint, a seemingly spotless color-matched top, and a Continental kit gave evidence that the present owner really, really liked K-car LeBarons.…
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Last Call: Nixonian Edition
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No, that’s not a VW Microbus, but a Subaru Sambar of indeterminate age with a VW front clip, as the Japanese are wont to do. That alone recalls the hippie days of peace, love, and under-powered, but its the hippie-dippy mirrors that bring the final touch. Last Call indicates the end of Hooniverse’s broadcast day. It’s…
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Submission Thursday: A Classic, Classic Quandary
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[Ed. note: This thoughtful piece is submitted by Matt Harvey, a fellow petrolhead I usually meet near and at the Nürburgring. He drives a turbodiesel BMW E46 and an MX-5 Phoenix, even if he does that on the wrong side of the road from where I’m looking. Also, pay notice to that licence plate up…
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The Carchive: The '98 Buick Riviera
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Once every week we put on our HazMat clothing and venture through the airlock into history’s desolate wasteland. Here lie scattered the decaying remains of cars gone by, recorded for posterity by printed media issued by the dealerships of the day. Welcome back to The Carchive. Last week was far more whimsical than this because…
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Ft. Lauderdale Auctions America 2015: The Truck Thursday Edition
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So there this olelongrooffan was, wandering around the Ft. Lauderdale Auctions America 2015 checking out some of the cool carp those classic car owners had brought out to dump on some unsuspecting sell to some educated buyers so those same owners could pick up something shiny and new to them to take home and enjoy…
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The Hooniversal Opinion: 2015 New York Auto Show
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The New York Auto Show is on this week and it’s given some of the world’s top marquees the chance to reveal some awesome new metal that’s coming our way. As always, I’ll bring you a mostly factual recap of the auto show’s biggest reveals in the Hooniverse News this Friday; but today, we’re not too…
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RXSpeed.com wants to write a better prescription for parts shopping
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Car enthusiasts buy car parts. That’s likely the most obvious statement ever made on Hooniverse, but as we discovered just a couple months ago here (before IntenseDebate ate the site’s comments section), enthusiasts buy their parts from a myriad of places for a similar myriad of reasons. Not least among those reasons is that there’s…
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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 be added to New York’s Museum of Modern Art as a permanent display? If you…
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1962 Ranchero Makes a Predictable Entrance to the Hooniverse Fleet
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Please welcome my new 1962 Ford Ranchero to the fleet! The image you see above marks the fourth vehicle that’s been towed to my driveway in the last four years. This fine example of the Falcon platform’s versatility sports a 170ci straight six, a three-on-the-tree and…not much else. Power nothing, non-functional window rollers, rusted-out floors…
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Hooniverse Asks: Will the Mustang II Ever be a Classic?
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Fifty one years ago this month, the Ford Motor Company introduced the Mustang and created a new genre of automobiles. That original pony car became an overnight success. Every year following Ford gave the ‘Stang a little more this and a little more that, until nearly a decade later it became bloated and hardly recognizable as…
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Last Call: Krash King Edition
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Print may be dead, but as proven by the action-packed cover of this vintage Hot Rod King comic, it didn’t go out without a fight. I can’t stop marveling at all that’s going on in this image – the flying helmet, the shredding tire, the expression on the face of the Betty Boop’s driver –…
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Motorsports Weekend Guide: April 3 to April 5
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Welcome to a holiday edition of the Motorsports Weekend Guide. For the most part, there’s little racing in the U.S. because this weekend is the holiday of Easter, where a bunny comes back from a three-day chocolate binge and has to hand out its remaining candy to get over the bump. It’s something like that,…
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Podcast: Episode 98 – Two away from 100
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On this episode, we dive right into talk about Blake’s Miata. He’s about 300 miles into the 500-mile break-in period of the new engine. From there it’s some talk of my truck and Chris’ Fiesta before we move on to the world of New Cars. Hooniverse – Two away from 100 Please go to iTunes…