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Hooniverse Obscure Muscle Car Garage – The 1971-72 GMC Sprint SP
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Welcome back to the Hooniverse Obscure Muscle Car Garage, a regular feature which aims to expand the notion of what a muscle car is, and to think outside the box while doing so. This time I’ve uncovered a car based pickup that could be ordered with a Special Performance package, and that you could get…
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Hooniverse Asks- What's the World's Greatest Actual Flying Car?
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So, I’ve met George Jetson. I am also acquainted with: his boy Elroy, midriff-bearing daughter Judy, and Jane, his wife. And while the tribulations of their future lives seem remarkably indistinguishable from those of our current era – over-worked, over stressed, still no cure for baldness – the one thing that makes me pine for…
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Last Call- Brother of Another Mother Edition
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As incongruous as it may seem, both of these cars are connected by a simple alloy thread, that being the involvement of Lotus in their making. Interestingly, one car represents an era when the company would drop their motors into another maker’s cars, while the other represents the polar opposite. Image: ©2013 Hooniverse/Robert Emslie, All…
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Northern Workhorse – 1987 Mercedes-Benz W201 190D
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For this post, you need to use your nose. There are several mental images of fragrant recollections you’ll need to conjure, to get the most out of this article. It’ll help you transport your mind to the parking lot with the sky blue 1987 Mercedes-Benz. We all know what an old diesel automobile smells like.…
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R.A-S.H: The Reliant Scimitar SS1
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So, in your last dose of R.A-S.H you read about the Reliant Scimitar in Grand Touring Estate guise, and we saw that it was Good. By the onset of the ’80s the game-plan was changing, and what you see before you is the result. It could be pure coincidence, but the Scimitar SS1 plopped onto…
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Truck Thursday: Logan's Run – Dacia Logan dCi Pickup
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Walking on the Helsinki street, I noticed this humble-but-useful Dacia Logan pickup. Since trucklets such as this are favorably looked upon around these parts of the Internet, out came the cameraphone. The Dacia is a couple years old, with the 1.5-litre Renault-sourced turbodiesel. Of course, everything you see here is Renault-sourced. Even the Volvo S40…
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Renaults Surprise at Carlisle Imports 2013
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Every spring Carlisle hosts an impressive variety of French machinery, and this year was no exception with the best selection of French cars on the east coast. The Renault club once again put on an impressive show, displaying a ridiculously awesome group of automobiles in its indoor pavilion, like a minty Renault Fuego and a…
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Los Angeles to Ann Arbor in an Ford XE Falcon Ute
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I am biased, but I think Hooniverse is the best car blog out there. A big reason for this is YOU, the readers and commenters. The wealth of experience and the oddball vehicles owned are second to none. Today, I present Hooniverse commenter Matthew’s XE Falcon ute. I’ll give the Cliffs Notes version. For the…
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Off-Roading in a 2014 Land Rover Range Rover – Part 1
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It is no secret that I have an unhealthy addiction with most things Land Rover. It probably started at an early age while watching Camel Trophy coverage and matured when I spent six weeks driving around southern Africa in a Defender 110. Overtime my lifetime I was prepared to sign a check for various Landys…
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V.I.S.I.T. – 1966 Ford F-100 is Ready for Action
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On Monday, I attended a huge car show in Everett, WA called Cruzin to Colby, hosted by the fine folks at Seattle Rod-Tiques. When I first heard about it last week, I thought it would be worth checking out, but likely a small event. Then I heard that registration for the car show was limited…
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Hooniverse Asks- Have you ever Bought Part of a Car… Company?
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In case you haven’t noticed, Tesla Motors is on kind of a roll. Just within the past month they have repaid their government loan early; have announced that their Model S is presently outselling all the other hundred-grand luxury cars; and have French Castled the New York Times in true Monty Python fashion. It’s a…
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Last Call- Formula Punk Edition
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Have you heard Random Access Memories, Daft Punk’s new album? The French duo’s latest is more a homage to ’70s disco than the beat-heavy techno of their previous releases. Befitting that theme, the band has “designed” a Formula One ride from a marque that also saw its greatest fame during the ’70s , that being…
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R.A-S.H: The Reliant Scimitar GTE
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Reliant are an interesting company to trace the history of; their product output includes, of course, the much-derided three-wheelers that sold so well for half a century. At the very opposite end of the scale, the Tamworth concern found themselves chosen by Ford to produce the bodyshells for the awesome and under-acknowledged RS200 Group B…
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Among the weeds grow roses: Porsche 928 S4 Edition
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It’s one of my favourite cars, the 928. The 928 S4, with the extra roundedness of the nose cone was my favourite favourite, and in my opinion one of the prettiest cars ever to issue from between Stuttgart factory gates. I would dearly love one; but I know that ownership would likely be an…
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Greenwich Concours This Weekend
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It’s that time of year again, when you ditch your weekend plans at the last moment because you realize that it’s Greenwich Concours weekend. Or perhaps you’re the kind of person who remembers what the weather was like during the first weekend in June for every year of the last ten years, because you have…
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Cadillac Day at the Larz Anderson Museum
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During the summer, the Larz Anderson Auto Museum, in Brookline, MA, hosts a number of themed events. We, Jay and I, have covered many of them in the past and by now we all should be familiar with what’s what; it’s a series of themed car shows: Porsche Day, Miata Day, Mercedes Benz Day, German…