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Italian Used Car Weekend – Ferrari 208 GTB Turbo
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The Italian Used Car Weekend continues, this time with an Italian specialty. You see, usually anything with an engine displacement higher than two litres was frowned upon in Italy, and perhaps still is. There’s a significant difference how much a two-litre and a three-litre car are taxed, so Ferrari in their infinite wisdom catered for…
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Italian Used Car Weekend Edition – Triumph TR7
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Hello, and welcome to another Weekend Edition. This weekend I’m displaying classic cars for sale – in Italy. That’s right, the cars do not specifically need to be Italian-made, but Italian-registered and currently for sale there. The used car market in Italy seems to be quite unique in its offerings, and there are a lot…
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Question of the Weekend – Would you repaint this near flawless 1972 Plymouth Wagon?
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Hooniverse and Station Wagons… Like Peanut Butter and Chocolate, they seem to go together, which bring me to this dilemma. This is an almost flawless 1972 Plymouth Sport Suburban Brougham Nine Passenger Wagon that has only one thing wrong with it… the colors. You see, it looks like the previous owner wanted to have a…
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Last Call- Caption This Edition
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I have no words for this, so you try. Image source: Imgur
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1994 Toyota MR2 brings the spring chicken yellowness
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I spotted this 1994 Toyota MR2 on the parking lot of a local hardware store. Yellow cars aren’t too common here, and anything yellow is sure to stand out like an exclamation mark… in yellow. It’s only the base 152-horse 2.0GT SW20 model, but seems useable enough for targa topless summer driving.
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V8 Super Cars Is Gonna Be Wicked
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Finally, about 3 years after I first heard that the NASCAR-from-Down-Under was coming to Texas, I get to strap into a V8 SuperCar for a joyride around Circuit of the Americas: Austin’s automotive rollercoaster. Let me tell you one thing: This is gonna be wicked. The example they had for us was their prototype of the Car…
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Carlisle Import Nationals Preview: 1980 Citroen Visa
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At what other car show besides the Carlisle Import Nationals would you have a chance to see not one but two Citroen Visas? That’s right, this Visa was one of two present at the 2012 Carlisle Import Nationals, which perhaps represented a substantial fraction of all Visas in North America, while also representing two out…
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The News for April 26th, 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: Audi teases us with an Ultra-light TT concept Chevrolet prices the new Corvette Stingrays GreenTech Automotive…
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Mystery Car
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April famously arrives like a lion, and bows out as would a lamb. Of course, if this year’s edition is anything to go on, you’d need to plug a polar bear in there someplace, as this year April has been snowy and cold in a lot of places. In an attempt to warm the cockles…
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Hooniverse Obscure Muscle Car Garage – The 1977 Pontiac Can Am
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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, and to have some fun in the process. Today’s feature dates back to 1977. General Motors was in the midst of rolling out their new “downsized” full size cars, which shed a…
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Hooniverse Asks- Do You Share a Car?
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You’ve probably heard the socialistic maxim – (Marxim?) which is to share and share alike. That’s all well and good in theory, but especially when it comes to bacon and cars, it can a tough dictum to follow. Whether spouse or sibling, parent of child – having to share a car can cause all kinds…
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Last Call- Aye Aye Eye Edition
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The styling of Fiat’s new 500 L could be best described as lugubrious, befitting the tradition of Italian sedans not comparing to their coupe sisters in the beauty department. But while the car as a whole appears passable, its headlamp, viewed alone, takes the cake in being over-styled and looking like something the queen alien…
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How reliable is a high-mileage Lexus LS400?
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No, seriously, I’m asking. This 1990 Lexus LS400 with the only vanity plates that make sense on one, has 560,000 km on the clock – 348,000 miles in another words. It’s the cheapest LS currently for sale here, and it’s not even too far from me. And the price of vanity plates (~1k) is almost…
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Mystery Car – Bonus Thursday Edition
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Rob’s awesome Mystery Car series runs every Friday at noon (EST). With a few exception his cars are old, rare, and obscure. Today, because we’re low on time and content, I present to you a special edition of Mystery Car. This edition is different, however, because I did not blur anything out and it’s no…
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Carlisle Import Nationals Preview: 1991 Sterling 827SL
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If you thought the Sterling was pretty much extinct on American roads, you were partially correct. By our experts’ estimates, there are less than 50 of these left in semi-regular use in the US, most of them in the northeast where this car enjoyed the “strongest” sales. This is only the third Sterling I have…
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1970 Plymouth Duster in glorious brown
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I saw this 1970 Duster last Sunday on the parking lot of the newly opened local hypermarket. Since everything around it is dusty and brown after the winter, it sort of suits the scenery extremely well. Dusters have actually been relatively popular around here, in the hooning crowd. Check this survivor out.