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Diecast Delights: '98 Porsche 911 GT1 in 1:18 scale
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What is the point of the weekly Diecast Delights slot? Well, all over The Internet there are dozens, hundreds, several forums all discussing nothing but diecast models. Quite a lot of them seem to be frequented by folk with bottomless pockets, all high-fiving and back patting each other on their latest megabuck 1:18 purchase, often…
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Living the life (Of endless loans)
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There are a lot of things that make me incredibly jealous of America. New York’s 2nd Avenue Deli, for example. You also have a plethora of cheap used cars, and you don’t have to pay through the nose in import fees every time you want to buy anything from the Internet. Having said that there’s one…
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Formula Fun: Malaysian Grand Prix Edition
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[youtube]https://youtu.be/vimZj8HW0Kg[/youtube] Well well, now isn’t this the Formula 1 we were all hoping for? The choice of music for this weekend not only refers to the amazing comeback by the Scuderia, who just a week ago were talking about far off they still were from the Mercedes duo, but the comeback of F1 in general.…
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Hoonivercinema: Monday Movie Trailer
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Despite the best efforts form the likes of Quentin Tarantino and his ilk, the genre of sixties sexploitation films has never seen a popular resurgence. Maybe that’s because modern film makers can’t hold a candle to the original master of boobs and brawling, Russ Meyer. Meyer’s destiny was set in motion at the age of fourteen when…
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Lincoln Continental Concept – Improved
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Unless your automotive enthusiast soul is under a leaky Rover, then you are probably aware that Lincoln showed off its Continental Concept at the New York International Auto Show on the internet over night. It’s a really nice concept and you can read all about it on websites that cover stuff like that. But that concept…
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Encyclopedia Hoonatica: Front Beam Axle With Leaf Springs
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Back when I had my ’66 GMC van, I was amazed on how basic and uncomplicated the front suspension was: A simple, solid axle bolted to two longitudinal leaf springs. It’s about the simplest front suspension one can imagine, and isn’t much different than the suspension on a horse-drawn frontier buckboard of 150 years ago…
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Hooniverse Asks: The Porsche Boxster – Future Collectable or Future 924?
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Sometimes you get to ask yourself where should I put all this money? For most of us, being car enthusiasts means that the usual answer is to buy a car or truck that will, hopefully over time, appreciate in value. Some of the best investments of the past decade have been in air-cooled Porsches, the…
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Weekend Edition: A Top Gear Epilogue
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After years of entertainment, one must consider a future without BBC Top Gear. It will hardly be the same without Clarkson, and the BBC will hopefully not attempt to plaster on new faces and attempt to carry on as if nothing had happened. The name will live on in some form, and I believe there…
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Weekend Edition: Saab and Lancia remembered on Top Gear
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Some of the excellent stuff BBC Top Gear did was remembering fallen manufacturers, like on the Cheap Car Challenge where they bought British-made sportscars and visited old premises of Lotus, Jensen and TVR. Elsewhere, their special films of two linked manufacturers who have been dying for years, Saab and Lancia, turned out to touch the…
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Life After Top Gear: The 20:00 Void
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What to do? There’s a 42″ black rectangle where there should be a moving image of something exotic being thrapped to within an inch of its carbon-fibre life. My Sunday Evening living room is no longer home-cinema filled with mind-blowing visuals, flat-plane crank V8 howls or tinkling piano-meets-Marina crashes. With the house being freed of…
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Weekend Edition: Volkswagen Golf GTI MkV on Top Gear (2004)
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It’s nearly impossible to pick a single review out of all the brilliant ones BBC Top Gear ever did. However, the time when Jeremy introduced the fifth-generation Volkswagen Golf GTI on the wet Dunsfold Aerodrome track, to the sounds of Depeche Mode’s Enjoy the Silence (as remixed by Linkin Park), everything really clicked. This was…
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Weekend Edition: Mystery Car Sighting: The Westland Empire Aristocrat Edition
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So awhiles back in my V.I.S.I.T. post about that Deux Chevaux this olelongrooffan had spotted, I mentioned I was returning from picking up TheKenMan’s generously provided AuctionsAmerica weekend pass for their auctions over the past few days. So on this past Saturday morning after making sure the underside of the lid of my washing machine…
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Weekend Edition: Top Gear Botswana Special (2007)
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It’s difficult to say which of the Top Gear adventure specials feels the best. After careful thinking of at least five minutes, I decided to nominate the Botswana Special – it simply works so well, and there’s genuine affection towards the Opel Kadett, nicknamed “Oliver” by Richard Hammond. The car choices of the other two…
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Weekend Edition: Top Gear £100 Car Challenge (2004)
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One of the cheap car challenges BBC Top Gear did best, and one that speaks to Hooniverse-esque people the most, is the original one from Series 4. Given a seriously modest £100 budget and told to perform various tasks in questionable cars never fails to entertain, and it’s something I would like to try again and again.…
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Weekend Edition: Top Gear Polar Special (2007)
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One of the greatest “extreme” challenges BBC Top Gear ever did was the Polar Special, aired in July in 2007. Has it really been that long? The idea behind it was to reach the Magnetic North Pole by car, and their vehicle of choice was a modified 2006 Toyota Hilux, specced up by the Reykjavik-based…
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Weekend Edition: A Top Gear Prologue
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So, after the daytime soap opera that was the so-called fracas, or #steakgate, BBC Top Gear isn’t going to be the way it was, with Jeremy Clarkson having to find fresher pastures on which to perform donuts. Then again, it hasn’t been the way it was for a while, has it? The past few seasons,…