Articles
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Diecast Delights: A Volkswagen Phaeton W12 in 1:18 Scale
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Variety is the spice of life here at Hooniverse. Every-playa-has-one Supercars are not really guaranteed to get us twitching with excitement. We’re all grown-up enough to know that it’s engineering and thought, not just power and prestige that makes a great car. And there are more than a few of us who derive our interest…
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Project Subaru Justy: Sorting a Sloppy Shifter
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Finding gears in my Justy was a guessing game. The shifter was sloppy and vague, with long throws between gears. There had to be some way to improve this. It was diagnostics time.
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24 Hours of LeMons: 'Shine Country Classic' preview at Barber
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The 24 Hours of LeMons has developed an image as a greasy racing series—mostly based on its never-fear-grime contingent of diehards—but several times a year, the series sneaks a date at a beautiful racing facility or two. This weekend’s “Shine Country Classic” is one such weekend, taking place on the pristine, manicured grounds of Barber Motorsports Park…
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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. The pioneers used to shout wagons… ho! or at least that’s what TV shows and movies have led me to believe. Another of my closely held beliefs – and one that I bet you…
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Upgrade Your Garage With a Huge Whiteboard for $14
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I have entirely too many projects to keep track of inside my increasingly crowded head. This includes two project cars, a finicky daily driver, and all the various issues that come up when you own a house. My wife wanted a whiteboard to attach to the fridge so we could plan weekends and keep a running honey-do list. But even small…
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Hooniverse Asks- What’s the Best Car Built in Great Britain today?
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Great Britain once had an enviable automotive industry. So much so in fact that the Japanese, seeking to crawl their way back from economic collapse after WWII copied many aspects of British cars, resulting in many parts made in Japan being interchangeable with their British sources. The Brits also produced some of the most engaging and lust-worthy…
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Last Call- Lotus Position Edition
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The caption for this 1927 photo from the Boston Library is Newbury St. from Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Newbury St. looking toward Arlington St. from Clarendon St, but what I first saw in the composition was the awning with LOTUS prominently displayed upon it. The font used is so similar to that made famous by Lotus Cars that…
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An Audio Guide To The Liqui-Moly Bathurst 12 Hour
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Didn’t we just have a major endurance race? Something, something, Daytona 24, something, something? Yeah, we did. Get used to it, because there are a whole lot more endurance races coming at you this season, and this weekend is one of my absolute favorites; The Liqui-Moly Bathurst 12 Hour. Last year’s race was so insane that…
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1964 Studebaker Wagonaire Daytona For Sale Like It's No Big Deal
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Who wouldn’t love a funky compact wagon with a 289ci V8 up front? Despite what those iconic numbers would suggest, today’s subject hails from South Bend, Indiana, not Dearborn, Michigan. Specifically, we’re looking at a Studebaker Lark Daytona Wagonaire. Daytona = 289 V8 powered model, with power steering and disc brakes; Wagonaire = Studebaker wagon with a…
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Track Tuesday- Name That Track
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Welcome to Track Tuesday where you are asked to identify a famous race course from just one closely-cropped aerial image. The only other hint you get is that this track is in… the Estern Hemisphere. Good luck! Image: ©2015 Hooniverse/Robert Emslie, All Rights Reserved
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V.I.S.I.T: Land of the Rising Sun, Zero inspired Datsun 240Z
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Way back when in the time Independence Day was the top movie in the box office and the Macarena was permanently burned into our memories, I was perfecting my skills in driving a manual transmission. I first learned when I was 14 on a 1984 Maserati Biturbo that my father had at the time. I…
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Classic Captions – The 1957 Plymouth Belvedere Edition
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Welcome to the Hooniverse Classic Captions Post, and it’s that time of the week in which this feature appears, so let’s review the premise; I search for images that were used by the car companies in their print advertising, dealer displays or brochures, and it is your job to provide a humorous caption that is…
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Hooniverse Asks- What are the Acceptable Performance Parameters of a Standard Daily Driver?
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I’ll bet you would kill to get behind the wheel of one of Mopar’s new Hellcat cars. With 707 horsepower, sub-four second zero to sixty times, and a top end of over 200 miles per hour, the Challenger and Charger bring hypercar performance to the masses. Well, the upper-middle class masses, whoever they might be.…
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Last Call- '60s Drop Bar Fashion Edition
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The women who rode café bikes in the ’60s were so cool they needed two eyebrows per eye to show their bemusement. This is Live it to the hilt. Rene’, Westminster Bridge 1968 from the impressive collection of images captured by Frank Habicht. Habicht’s work documented London life in the swinging sixties, snapping both the famous, and…
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Hoonivercinema- Monday Bonus Music Video
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This lede image is, sadly, not part of the music video here. In fact, it isn’t a video at all, but it is a link to a Drive-By Truckers song called “Daddy’s Cup” on YouTube. The song is all about a father and son who live their lives for racing. Given the subject matter, I…
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Long Shots: BMW Poliezi 330
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Now this olelongrooffan has lately been somewhat remiss at keeping up my end of having possession of the keys to the vault that is Hooniverse. Well, I intend to change that up thanks to the esteemed Mr. Hanzel out there in the City By The Bay. (more about that shortly.) Anyway, earlier today this olelongrooffan stopped…