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Last Call- Sticker Shock Edition
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Of course the sticker on the other visor warns This Mustang is powered by a V8, and while you might think that will compensate for your physical shortcomings, this car alone will not tempt the ladies out of their clothes. Image source: drjournal
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Hoon's Day Out: LeMay America's Car Museum – La Ferraris
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In my previous post, I showed you around the parking lot of the LeMay museum in Tacoma, WA. That day, it just happened to be full of Ferraris of different kinds. I also mentioned that, while I appreciate them, I know little about these Italian thoroughbreds; several of you were kind enough to educate me in the comments,…
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The Carchive: The Dodge Spacevan
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It’s time for another instalment of The Carchive, the vehicle brochure based series that was voted #1 in a poll of sanitation workers in Newark, N.J. Thanks, guys. We’re here in the UK today, with a small van that carried a well recognised American badge. Truthfully, it had carried various identities before the Pentastar arrived,…
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Greenwich Concours Preview: 1990 BMW Z1
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If you needed any more reasons to attend the Greenwich Concours d’Elegance this June, here’s one more reason: cars like this 1990 BMW Z1, one of the few magically federalized examples to be precise. During the next few weeks we’ll be looking at a number of cars that have appeared at the 2012 edition of…
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Welding Two Cars Together: FX32 Lemons Build Video
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Just in case we have fallen short on our coverage of the two-engined MR2/FX mashup Lemons build, here’s one more post about it. Many of the commenters in the previous posts have asked for more photos of the build process. Well wish no more, for here are all of the pictures, strung together, into a 7…
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Minardi Madness, I Must Have It
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Let’s examine the numbers for a moment, shall we? Minardi F1 Team participated in the highest echelon of motorsport for an amazing 21 seasons between 1985 and 2005. The team entered 345 Grands Prix, attempting to qualify 674 times (one driver in their premier season, two drivers from then onward). 32 separate instances, the team…
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Hoonivercinema- Monday Music Video
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Rob Zombie may be a horror-loving freak, but he’s also a media savvy freak who consistently integrates retro-pop culture tropes into his work. Born to carnival-worker parents, Zombie grew up loving b-grade horror and sci-fi films of the ’50s and 60s. He’s been quoted as saying that, when but a lad, his dream was to…
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Hoon's Day Out: LeMay America's Car Museum – Ferrambo
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They call it Ferrambo. Here at Hooniverse, we often talk about crazy car mashups, unholy mechanical unions, often in the popular Craigslist Crapshoots. Have any of us ever dreamed of stuffing the engine from a 360 Modena into a 1960 Nash Rambler wagon? Well, dream no more, because I have just such an example for you…
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McLaren mp4-12c Launch Control Demo
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While McLaren’s MP4-12C may sound like a new audio compression format, it’s shocking performance means the only thing most people will hear is the doppler effect of its exhaust as it disappears in the distance. Don’t believe me? Well make the jump and watch as the MP4’s launch control makes short work of some big ticket…
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Hooniverse Asks- Should Electric Cars Be Required To Carry Noise Generators?
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Along with their general lack of range, one of the major downsides of an electric car is its total fail in the cool noise department. Engine noise, or more succinctly a car’s exhaust note, is one of the most important ways we subjectively judge a car’s coolness factor, and the electric car’s puny swooooooosh just…
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Italian Used Car Weekend – Innocenti 1100 Spyder
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The Italian Used Car Weekend concludes with a certified oddity. The Innocenti 1100 Spyder you see here is a rebodied MG Midget or Austin Healey Sprite, featuring Ghia design and assembled by OSI. And it looks irresistible. Calling a 1967 car just “Used Car” is somewhat of an understatement, but I feel it’s nice to…
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Italian Used Car Weekend – 1980 Autobianchi A112 Abarth
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While the other offerings this weekend have been more powerful, this Autobianchi A112 Abarth from 1980 is a light, compact package. It’s about the same size as a Yugo, but closer to the original Fiat concept of an excitable little terrier econobox. The Autobianchi A112 was a kind of a test run before Fiat unveiled…
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Italian Used Car Weekend – 1994 Lancia Dedra 2000 HF Turbo
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The second Sunday car in our Italian Used Car Weekend is a 1994 Lancia Dedra 2000 HF Turbo. The car here is a performance model, and even if it’s not as madcap as the Delta HF Integrale, it still packs a punch with 162 hp out of the two-litre turbo engine. The Dedra is a…
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Italian Used Car Weekend – 1985 Maserati 425 Biturbo
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It would be completely wrong to post used cars from Italy and not include a Biturbo. Or at least I think so, and for that reason you get to admire this 1985 Maserati 425 Biturbo. It’s a very well-kept, low-mileage example of the four-door Biturbo body and is even reasonably priced. Take a look.
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Italian Used Car Weekend – 1995 Volvo 850 T-5R
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The Italian Used Car Weekend continues, and yet again I’m rolling out another Mediterranian special model. This 1995 Volvo 850 T-5R is extremely rare in this specification, as it’s a forest green manual T-5R. Originally, T-5R 850s were only available in either canary yellow or black except for a short 500-piece run of green cars,…
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Italian Used Car Weekend – BMW 320is aka Italo M3
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This 1991 BMW E30 320is is another Italian specialty. What you see here is basically an E30 M3, but clothed in what appears as a normal but well-specified 320i. There are no fender flares, no M3 roofline, no tall spoiler. However, under the hood is the 2.0-litre version of the M3’s S14 engine, dubbed the…