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Last Call: Top Gear News Edition
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As you may have heard, there has been a kerfuffle involving a Top Gear host that has put the remainder of the current season’s shows up in the air as far as, well, airing. We don’t go in for digging that kind of dirt and so won’t be making mention of the issue outside of…
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Diecast Delights: A BMW M635CSi in 1/18th Scale
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You can come back now. Those of you who were mortified by the sinister direction in which Diecast Delights turned with the Cadillac Escalade review the other week can relax. We’re back to cars, and nice ones at that for a little while, starting with this one. It’s an AutoArt E24 M635 CSI, and not…
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Kijiji: The Renault In The Crawlspace
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This advertisement from Alberta, Canada creates far more questions than it answers. First of all, how on earth did most of a Renault Dauphine (Wren Oh, dough-fan?) find itself buried in the crawlspace of a house? Was this car stolen at some point and chopped up and hidden away? Did some poor sap have an…
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Mystery Car: Something On A Trailer
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Okay, so lets start by getting the “It’s a 914” comments out of the way. It’s a gorgeous Willow Green 1972 Porsche 914 four cylinder with extremely rare chrome four-lug wheels. This car looks to have been originally delivered in North America, but the person who posted this picture to Facebook lives in the Netherlands,…
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Podcast: Ep 94 AND Ep 95 this week!
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I’ve been a bit of a busy traveling bastard as of late and haven’t been able to record a podcast. Thankfully, our producer Chris Hayes is a better man than I and he’s remained vigilant on the Hooniverse Podcast front. So I’m dropping in this weeks episode as well as the one that ran last…
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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. Last week we got prepped for some summer fun with a quest for the best and worst of mini motorhomes available for sale. We’ll make it mobile home in a sec, but first…
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Wagon Wednesday: Volvo 240 Super Long Wagon
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One morning I was drinking coffee and casually browsing obscure car blogs when suddenly, this! This long longroof was spotted by the readers of a Polish website called Stado Baranow. It is obviously some kind of one-off creation, but damn, it looks good enough to be factory.
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Hooniverse Asks: ‘50s Edition: What’s the Greatest Production Car of the 1950s?
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We’re celebrating the 1950s this week in our daily question series, and as yesterday’s asked what was the 50’s top production motorcycle, you can probably guess that today’s follow up asks the same question regarding automobiles. There were so many cars that debuted in the fifties. Some, like the Corvette, went on to become world…
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Last Call: Cool Dads Make Cool Kids Edition
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Mendel’s mother may have dressed him funny, but his dad made sure he was still the coolest kid in school. 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: Oldstox
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Who Moved My Damn Switches?
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You get used to your car. Far more so than you’d ever realise. You jump in, point it in whichever direction you’re aiming to travel in and then jump out again after a certain mileage has elapsed. You’re either driving for the sheer pleasure, in which case you’ll remember every single second, or you’re just…
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"Great Triumph Stag" is Kind of like "Great case of Ringworm"
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Look up your personal car (or personal favorite car)’s Wikipedia page. Are there eight paragraphs, roughly 25% of the word-count, dedicated to its design and manufacturing flaws? Then you don’t drive a Triumph Stag, arguably one of the worst engineered vehicles in history. Among the 3.0L V8 powered touring car’s failings: The water pump is…
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Track Tuesday: Name That Track
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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 a corner. Good luck! Image: ©2015 Hooniverse/Robert Emslie, All Rights Reserved
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Track Tuesday: About Last Week's Track
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Well, last week I was finally able to find a track that could stump you. Perhaps it was the landmark-free cropping of the image, or maybe it was just a track that you don’t often see from the air, if at all. I’m still not going to tell you what it is, but am offering…
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Hooniverse Asks: ‘50s Edition-What’s the Greatest Street Bike of the 1950s?
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It’s Two Wheel Tuesday and ’50s Week here on Hooniverse Asks, and that of course means that today we want your take on what was the best motorcycle that the 1950s had to offer. In the 1950s the Japanese had yet to make their presence known as a major exporter of two-wheeled transport, while at…
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Last Call: Wild Trucks Can't Be Broken Edition
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You can take the truck out of the country, but you can never take the country out of the truck, no matter what country that might be. 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. …
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Project Audinary- So close, So, So far
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Last year you were introduced to my erstwhile daily-driver turned nothing-to-lose street weapon. Project Audinary, a 1998 Audi A4 1.8t that I have owned for seven years. It’s covered seventy thousand miles in my custody, and at 120K elapsed is due its second cam-belt change. My intention was to kill a whole flock of birds…