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The News for May 10th, 2013
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Welcome to the Hooniverse News! This is a weekly recap of some of the biggest stories in the automotive industry without the fluff or the bull. I also throw in a little opinion of mine, just because I can. This week: Bentley announces six Le Mans Edition models just for North America Tesla Model S scores big…
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Craigslist: a 1996 Buick Century wagon… oh, it's also a custom-built dually
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I ask you to take a moment and simply bask… Bask in the magnificent glory of the custom-built beast you see above. This is a 1996 Buick Century wagon, which has been given the extra awesome that comes with a set of a dually rear end. The rest of the car is actually completely stock,…
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Mystery Car
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Back in the day a popular mystery was the Bermuda Triangle, a geometrically defined region of the Atlantic where planes, ships, and U.S. tax revenues disappeared. These had been attributed – by foil hat wearers at least – to paranormal activity or perhaps aliens, but of course much of the mysterious disappearances ended with the…
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Hooniverse Obscure Muscle Car Garage – The Ford Galaxie 500 7-Litre
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Welcome to the Hooniverse Obscure Muscle Car Garage, a regular feature which aims to expand the notion of what a muscle car is. It was the Autumn of 1965, and at that time Pontiac’s hot-selling GTO heavily influenced the performance car market. Intermediate-sized cars with big-block power were the hot ticket. Ford was about to…
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Hooniverse Asks- What's The Weirdest Thing You've Ever Seen at a Gas Station? (Pump Week)
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So this week we saw a surveillance cam video of a gas theft in which the getaway driver suffered an itchy right foot and sent his female accomplice flying. That was pretty weird. What other oddities have you witnessed while filling up? I had the. . . well, I wouldn’t call it good fortune,…
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Last Call- Stop Bugging Me Edition
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I don’t care how retro they may be, or that VW officially refers to them as the New Beetle, that modern era, front-engine, front wheel drive car will never earn the right to be called a Bug. Image: Imgur
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Mini with MINI parts is a bad idea
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Worst. Retromod. EVER! And what’s worse is that it comes from my home country. I don’t feel so bad knowing that we have recently been showcasing some amazing horrific U.S. made custom cars, but this one really bothers me. I guess crack is available everywhere. What really grinds my gears is the fact that they…
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Quick Spin: 2013 Mercedes-Benz GLK250 BlueTEC
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Mercedes-Benz has had a long love affair with the diesel motor. The automaker has been churning out oil burners for well over 75years. In the United States, Benz has been sending over diesel-drinking machines since 1949. In fact, during the oil crisis of the 70’s and 80’s, many car shoppers turned to Mercedes for diesel…
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Hooniverse 101- Let’s Do Drum Brakes (Part Two)
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Hooniverse 101 is intended as an introduction to auto maintenance and function, so as to give inexperienced car owners a leg up on either tackling simple maintenance tasks themselves, or being better informed when going to a shop, potentially helping to not get ripped off. Today, in part 2, we are wrapping up our discussion on…
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Greenwich Concours Preview: 1956 Fiat 1101 Campagnola
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It’s rare to see any kind of truck at a top tier concours event, unless the truck in question is a Subaru Brat at Concours d’Lemons, so it was a real treat to see this vintage 4×4 at Greenwich Concours 2012. This of course is the 1101 Campagnolo, which was Fiat’s riff on the wartime…
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V8 Supercars Austin 400 Schedule Announced
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We’re about a week away from the Austin 400, Australian V8 Supercar’s US debut race. Along with fender-into-fender racing, they bring a full weekend of racing with heats on both Saturday and Sunday. On top of that, V8SC will run the Circuit of the Americas short course, eliminating the back straight from the track. Say what you…
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Hooniverse Asks- Would You Seek Out Car Repairs at a Gas Station? (Pump Week)
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While today you are far more likely to get a Big Slurp at one than a battery, there’s a reason that the place with all the pumps was once called a Service Station. In fact, in many smaller communities where car dealerships didn’t exist, getting your oil changed at the same place you got it…
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Last Call- Changing of the Guards Red Edition
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The Austin Healey in the back went out of production in 1967. Less than a year later Ferrari debut the 365 GTB/4 in front. One year, two vastly different takes on the hairy chested sports car theme. Image: ©2013 Robert Emslie, All Rights Reserved
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More tea, Vicar? – 1962 Rover P4 100 Saloon
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This acquaintance was one of the quicker ones, even if the car is one of the slower ones. The 1962 Rover P4 100 you see here belongs to a fellow auto enthusiast from the region, Pertti. He also drives a ’90s Cadillac Seville, and the Rover serves as a summertime car. Pertti let me take…
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Come to Hanzel's In Oakland for Seconds Saturdays This…Saturday
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No doubt by now, you have heard that not only is Oakland, California, one of the top five places in the world to visit, it is also the most exciting city in America. Why, you ask? It is because of the Seconds Saturdays car meets that Hanzel Auto Body Works regularly hosts. This coming Saturday,…
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Volvo 343 Surprises at Rhinebeck Spring Dust Off
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There is perhaps no classic event in the northeast that brings out more hard to find domestic cars than the Rhinebeck Spring Dust Off. But every year there are one or two foreign cars that simply reset the bar. A few years ago it was the Tatra 613 that we have since seen up close,…