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Last Call- Tattoo You Edition
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I was originally looking at a bunch of questionably chosen car-related tattoos, when I came across this one and said to myself, hey, that’s not half bad. In fact, I can imagine leaning this arm on the parts store counter and gaining a whole new level of respect. Last Call indicates the end of Hooniverse’s…
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In The Lot At The Eurotripper European Car Showor How Jim Yu Saved Me 5 Bucks
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This olelongrooffan doesn’t believe it needs to be reiterated that most of the time when attending a car related event the stuff seen In The Lot can be as cool as what can be seen at the show itself. I know that several of my fellow Hooniverse contributors believe that same thing. So this past…
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Motorboat Monday: Class A/B Sport Utility boat mixes fun, terror and awesomeness.
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We quite often start an article with a pre-ramble about what makes for a Hooniverse kind of vehicle and it’s generally accepted that anything goes, assuming it’s either exciting, beautiful, technically bewildering or soulful, or a mixture of all of the above. There’s also, though, a special place set aside for the gloriously insane or…
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Hooniverse Concept Clinic: Proposal #2
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Welcome back to the Hooniverse series intended to light-heartedly help the global motor industry take steps towards giving us, the buying public, the cars we want. Or, in some cases, showing them what they really shouldn’t consider offering lest we pelt them with retaliatory tomatoes. Our first Hooniverse Concept Car was a Compact Personal Luxury…
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Jimmie Johnson Thinks He's A Scientist
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[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_NXz7QfPhM[/youtube] Jimmie Johnson is a race car driver. Jimmie Johnson thinks he’s a scientist. In the above video, Professor Johnson uses his scientific mind to find better tools for a variety of jobs… one of which involves which oil you should be putting in your car. The video is a bit on the hokey side, but…
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Hoonivercinema- Monday Movie Trailer DOUBLE FEATURE!
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Just exactly how many times does Nicolas Cage have to check out of Hell and fight ultimate evil in order to save someone he loves? Well, so far he’s done so on a motorcycle in Ghost Rider and – in a series of amazing American muscle cars – in Drive Angry, and today we’ve got…
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Retromobile 2015: The Cars Outside
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Last weekend, I attended the large car show in Paris called Retromobile. It’s basically a new car show, a classic car show, a swap meet, a car auction, and a road rally all rolled into one– in French. I had a great time and there is so much to share. We’ll start with the cars…
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Encyclopedia Hoonatica: TV Anti-Hero Cars
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Television is a great medium for manufacturers to show off production cars through product placement deals. Who can forget the Saint’s Volvo or Jim Rockford’s Firebird? Likewise, prominently featuring fancy exotics (Magnum P.I., Spenser For Hire, Miami Vice, The Mentalist) or wild, customized show cars such as the Batmobile, Monkeemobile, and Mannix Toronado generate enthusiasm…
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Hooniverse Asks- What’s the Coolest People Mover You’ve Ever Seen?
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While this site focuses on cars, trucks and bikes, we do on occasion like to dip our collective toes into other modes of transportation, mainly because they are interesting, but also because there are just certain places that personal transportation just can’t go. In fact, in both transportation and information, they say that the last…
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Weekend Edition Quick Hit – The 80's Called, and they want their Benz Back… (Shhhh, You can buy it…)
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Something interesting happened this past week, and it was the fact that Radio Shack declared Bankruptcy… and then I remembered their Super Bowl Ad from 2014 and it actually makes sense. This was a store stuck in the past with too many locations, and nothing to actually draw new customers in. I bring this up…
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Weekend Edition Quick Hit – Crossing a Honda Z600 with a Suzuki Samurai, and you get a Monster!
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Continuing on with this weekend edition of Automotive Oddities (From a Morris Minor with Fiat Power, to a Mercedes S500 with a Mustangectomy) we have our next contestant. This was once a Honda Z600 Coupe that was available here in the states from 1970 to 1972. So, this is what happens when you have a…
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Weekend Edition Quick Hit – Your dose of French Weirdness in the form of this 1988 Citroen CX, and it's for sale!
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Here at the Hooniverse we love the truly perverse when it comes to our Automotive tastes. Classic Benz Wagons, Falcon V-8 Sedans, Ford Twin I-Beam Pickup Trucks, Older Lincoln Town Cars, reinterpretation of a Studebaker Open Roof Wagonaire… See what I mean? And when it comes to French Cars, well we all seem to go…
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Weekend Edition Quick Hit WTF Moment – This is a 2000 Mercedes S500, and it is for sale…
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Ah, Central New Jersey, so much Meth, so little time. This popped up on my feed this morning, and all I can say is WOW… I am not sure what kind of drugs are responsible for this creation, but would I be out of line in saying I wouldn’t mind my share… Make the jump…
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Weekend Edition Quick Hit – A 1969 Austin Morris Traveller with a Heart Transplant…
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Welcome to the Weekend Edition, and once again I am here in New England under the threat of more snow, while places in the mid-west (Like Denver for example) have been basking in record setting mild temperatures. Bloody Hell… Anyway, I thought I would start with this gem… This is a 1969 Austin Morris Traveller…
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Last Call- Das Gute? Edition
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Shaped like whales, the Walfisch-BlitzBlank Cars of Germany and Austria in the teens advertised household products like cleansers and beauty products. The one above is touting shampoo. They also most likely terrified passersby with their freakishly gaping mouths and all-seeing eyes. Kind of makes that Nationwide Super Bowl dead kid commercial seem benign in comparison, doesn’t…
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Hoonitales: Thank You Misters Henry and Chris Hanzel
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Please excuse this wandering all over, rambling on about nothing kind of post but if my fellow Hoons are interested, it is kind of tied together should you choose to hang around for it. So this olelongrooffan has been a total slacker of late round there here parts. It’s not that I haven’t been doing…