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Podcast: Episode 9 – I’m King of the Moon!
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Blake Zedward Rong was away this week. Apparently driving vintage Lancias was more exciting than attending the podcast recording. Still, we have friends in many places and Zack Klapman from The Smoking Tire joined us in the podcast palace this week. Our topics range from the new Lexus IS and the 2014 Nissan GT-R to…
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Podcast: Episode 9 – I'm King of the Moon!
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Blake Zedward Rong was away this week. Apparently driving vintage Lancias was more exciting than attending the podcast recording. Still, we have friends in many places and Zack Klapman from The Smoking Tire joined us in the podcast palace this week. Our topics range from the new Lexus IS and the 2014 Nissan GT-R to…
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Video Review: 2014 Nissan GT-RIt's amazing, yeah it's all that…
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Cars and music go hand in hand for me. When I’m driving a car, I like to have certain songs queued up that serve to enhance the experience. Sometimes when I’m sitting at my desk, a certain song might remind me of a machine that I’ve recently spent time enjoying. From classic rock to hip-hop…
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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 I channeled the Red Queen with my demand of off with its head! That’s right, I wanted aftermarket convertible conversions. We’ll get the drop on those after the jump, but first let’s…
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Classic Captions – The 1970 Dodge Adventurer Pickup Edition
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Welcome to the Hooniverse Classic Captions Post. This is a series of posts that are set to run this time each week, so let’s review the premise; I search for images that were used by the car companies in their print advertising or brochures, and it is your job to provide a humorous, snarky, or…
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Hooniverse Asks- What's the Coolest Car Storage Feature?
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I once had the opportunity to drive a Honda S2000 up the twists and turns of the Angeles Crest Highway through the rugged San Gabriel Mountains. The experience was a barrel of monkeys but you know what was its most enduring takeaway? It was that the cabin in the little sportster offered about as much…
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Last Call- Too Short Edition
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Whether an Easy Rider or just plain In The Wind, you wouldn’t think that being a big bearded biker would make the situation described on this gentleman’s shirt that a rare an occurrence. Image source: Imgur
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For Sale: A Limousine Fit for Royalty
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Suppose that you like Jaguars, but crave something a tad more exclusive. Well, have we got the car for you! The now-defunct Daimler served as Jaguar’s glitzier stablemate, meant to chase after those who might otherwise find themselves ensconced in the rear seat of a Bentley or Rolls-Royce. The Double-Six was Daimler’s version of the…
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R.A-S.H: The Volkswagen CITI Golf
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This series has gallivanting all around the globe so far, but this is our first visit to South Africa, where we’re off to see, er, a Volkswagen. Yes, a German car, built in South Africa, using tooling that may possibly have been brought in from Pennsylvania. Well, maybe. An intriguing proposition, but not as intriguing…
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Rhinebeck Spring Dust Off Preview: The Foreign Cars
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If you’re in New England this weekend, and you’re sick of the extended winter that we’ve been treated to and need a quick summertime car show fix, you’d be hard pressed to find a better car show than the Rhinebeck Spring Dust Off. Situated on the right bank of the Hudson River, the town of…
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The Weird and Wonderful Vehicles of Glastonbury
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In England we have a festival; you may have heard of it. It’s called the Glastonbury Festival of Performing Arts and it’s pretty much legendary. Typically millions of people vie for the 150,000 available tickets and they all sell out within an hour and a half. Anyway, this post marks the first time I have…
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Hoonivercinema- Address is Approximate
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Everyone yearns to go places, to shed life’s routine and get away. The road trip is in fact one of mankind’s greatest pleasures, feeding the yen for new experiences and quelling wanderlust. But what if, for one reason or another, you were unable to act on those desires to travel to new places and see…
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American Detours: Episode 2 – Grabber Green and Mardi Gras Gold
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American Detours is back for another episode. We’re still in southwest Louisiana but we’re checking out a few new places, and we’ve got a different classic car to experience. This time around the machine being utilized is a 1971 Ford Mustang, and our waypoints are a Mardi Gras Museum and a Cajun kitchen that is…
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Big Meet For A Small Car: Miatapalooza 2013
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In the past, I’d been to what I thought of as large car meets. Forty or fifty Subarus? Sure! That’s enormous! But I recently learned that it really isn’t. I’ve heard that the Miata community was large, but little did I know how big it really is until I recently attended this year’s Miatapalooza in…
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Motorcycle-based Three Wheeled Pickup Truck-ish Thing
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These days, many automotive enthusiasts here in the United States can be found complaining about the lack of small pickup trucks. That problem does not exist in other parts of the world, where small pickup trucks dominate the market and full-size pickup trucks are essentially nonexistent. The problem in other parts of the world,…
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Hooniverse Asks- What are the Coolest Factory Flares?
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You ever notice that car makers rarely put wide enough wheels on their cars? And of course by the time they’ve realized the error of their ways it’s too late, the car already having hit the dealer lots riding on its bicycle tires. That’s not the end of the story however, because too-narrow tracks can,…