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Event Preview: Viva Las Vegas 2015
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The 18th annual Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekender is about to kick off at the Orleans Casino/Resort in fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada. Rockabilly is the name of the game at this event. From the cars to the fashion to the music, it’s all rockabilly, all the time. This oddly specific event features a car show…
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BMW: We Have Ways Of Making You Giggle
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I look forward to it every year. On April 1st it’s time for BMW’s marketing department to unlock their imagination and prey on the unsuspecting, who will more than likely read their way through until the very last printed word before the penny drops. This year wasn’t particularly vintage as far as Bayerische April…
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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. Nothing says old school like wearing a tee-shirt that says “Injection is Nice but I’d Rather be Blown.” These days – as so eloquently phrased by the taco ad girl – why not…
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American racer Mike Skeen is the "Ginger Stig"
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Professional racecar driver and red-haired human being Mike Skeen has launched a new personal website, www.gingerstig.com, on the heels of a podium performance at Pirelli World Challenge’s round in St. Petersburg in, fittingly, a bright-orange Audi R8 LMS GT3. Skeen, an exciting-to-watch racer, is well known for his ability to come up to speed quickly…
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Hooniverse Asks: Should a New Engine Use Oil?
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You may on occasion ask yourself just exactly how much wood can a woodchuck chuck, and every once in a while I bet you question who it was that put the bomp in the bomp-shu-bomp, shu-bomp, but when was the last time you asked yourself just how much oil should my brand new engine use? In…
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Alex Roy drives from NYC to L.A. in 26 hours and 28 minutes
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In 2006, he and co-driver David Maher shattered the old transcontinental record in 31 hours and 4 minutes in an E39 M5. Now he did it again, in a GT-R-powered Infiniti Q50 with two steering wheels(!!!). Read all about it on The Truth About Cars. [Editor’s Note: Oh hey… what day is tomorrow? -JG]
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Last Call: Bonham Behind the Wheel Edition
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Despite the one song mashing up an appreciation for cars and women, Trampled Under Foot, Led Zeppelin was never what you might call a “Car Band.” That’s part of what makes this vintage shot of John Bonham, the band’s legendary drummer, behind the wheel of a T-truck hot rod so incongruous. It’s still wicked cool…
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Slo-Motion: Alfa Romeo Spider in Slovenia
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If you remember the post with the green, somewhat modified Trabant in Hungary, I can report the nomad photographer of that car has now arrived in Slovenia, via Italy. Friend of Hooniverse, Frankiess was quick to take these couple shots of a red Alfa Romeo Spider almost immediately upon his arrival in Maribor. The Alfa…
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Unexplained: Dark Mysteries of Auto Behaviour
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So, I use my key-fob and remote open my car, start it up and begin driving. The CD will start up halfway through whichever track was pounding through those eight awesome Phillips speakers when the engine was cut, unless I had changed to a radio station some time yesterday. Whatever, the routine doesn’t really change,…
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VIDEO: Moran Cayman Driver Lacks a Brian
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I have no idea what this guy was trying to do but I think he may have a career as a rally driver. Go. Never lift. Just keep going. And he did. Sort of. Kind of. I don’t know what else to say about this video other than the fact that it is amusing. For…
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Track Tuesday
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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 cross-traffic! Good luck! Image: ©2015 Hooniverse/Robert Emslie, All Rights Reserved
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2015 New York Auto Show – Why bother going?
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It’s early Tuesday morning as I am writing this. The press days of the New York Auto Show will start tomorrow morning. I won’t get to New York City until about 11:00pm tonight. And here I am asking myself if I should I even bother going? It All the so-called big premieres and debuts have…
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Who Needs an Early Celica for Cheap-as-Free?
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Not long after Ford (or, arguably, Plymouth) pioneered the “sporty car on a mundane sedan chassis” pony car formula, even Toyota got in on that action with the 1970 Celica. They based the Celica on the Carina chassis, but with bigger engines and cooler styling. I’ve no hands-on experience with 70s Celicas, but I see…
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Hooniverse Asks: Is the Average Modern Car Too Plasticky?
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I will readily admit that I am old enough to remember when cars made the inexorable switch from metal dashboards to plastic. You can even point to the models that effected this change – Ford’s Maverick/Fairmont switchover for example. It wasn’t just dashes, at the same time cars made a wholesale switch – grilles, hubcaps,…
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Last Call: Getting Good Reception Edition
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Inaugurated on May 16, 1956, the General Motors Technical Center in Warren Michigan was described by the company as the place where “Tomorrow Meets Today.” The building, which is the center of GM’s engineering efforts, is an eclectic Mid-Century design by noted modernist Eero Saarinen. It’s home to more than 19,000 employees, and, as this 1956 promotional…
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Ft. Lauderdale Auctions America 2015: The American Classics Edition
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So my buddy TheKenMan set this olelongrooffan up with a free pass to the Auctions America gig over in Fort Lauderdale this past weekend. As the Convention Center is located in the Port of the Everglades about a 90 minute drive across Alligator Alley, I decided to head over there on Saturday to seen what…