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The News for April 19th, 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: Lamborghini’s updated Aventador is a birthday present to itself Rolls Royce launches Alpine Trail Centenary Collection…
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Mystery Car
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This week’s Mystery Car is that rare occurrence when our subject is in motion. More accurately the image of it is a single static moment of the vehicle in motion. Did you know that there is a condition known as Akinetopsia, or Motion Blindness, that renders its sufferers unable to perceive motion? Hopefully none of you…
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Hooniverse Obscure Muscle Car Garage – The Ford Maverick Grabber
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Welcome to the Hooniverse Obscure Muscle Car Garage, where we discover cars that were never really thought of as Muscle Cars, and it’s my job to change your mind about them. I know that this feature will produce a fanatic following, so over the next several weeks we’ll be running this feature super-regularly so you…
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Insane Video- Pike's Peak Detour
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Jeremy Foley took his Evo 8 for a little off road excursion on a run up Pike’s Peak in 2012. Fortunately neither Foley nor his co-driver suffered anything worse than some bumps and bruises in the kinetic deconstruction of their Mitsubishi racer. You can view the calamitous results of this slight course miscalculation here (NSFW, language),…
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Hooniverse Asks- What's The Coolest Celebrity Car?
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Whether it’s Will.i.am’s Delorean debacle, or Shaquille O’Neal’s custom Ferrari, cars and celebrities go together like bacon and eggs, or bacon and. . . well, everything. Part and parcel with celebrity often comes the onus of wealth, and as celebrities need to maintain the uniqueness of their carefully cultured personas, that mans that a lot…
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Last Call- Ruffled Feathers Edition
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Los Angeles traffic today may be vastly heavier than it was back in the 1920s, but at least today you can open up your ostrich without worrying about being hassled by the Man. Image source: LAist
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Truck Thursday – Lifted 2001 Jeep Cherokee XJ
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Last Truck Thursday, I featured a very beaten and used Mercedes-Benz Geländerwagen. It had also been lifted, and it looked like it could make short work of quite a bit of sticks. This Thursday, I’m posting a final-year XJ Cherokee I saw last week in my town, and it too features larger rubber than stock,…
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My 12,000-Mile Pan-American Highway Journey
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As some of you might know, I have been on a quest to travel the length of the Western Hemisphere by land. I just returned from my fifth trip– a bus ride from Guatemala City to Panama’s Darien Gap. For those of you counting at home, I am 88% done with my goal. I hope…
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The Ford Capri proves that 5 into 2.8 doth go
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Since cars have roamed the roads, the urge has always been there to modify. Whether to improve, optimise or customise, or, as demonstrated by the millions of Civics with PepBoys / Halfords clear lamp clusters, simply to ensure that the car is slightly different to how it left the factory. I have empathy for those…
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Is this drink a bit of Absolute Marketing Genius?
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I’m writing tonight from the mean streets of Valencia, Southern Spain, where I am lucky enough to have been sent for 48hrs of “Training” by a certain German manufacturer of luxury sedans, coupes and 4x4s, who will remain nameless. But who are based in Stuttgart. And also make lorries. They pay my mortgage so I…
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Truck Thursday – A Fetching F-150 Find
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For your Truck Thursday viewing pleasure, I’d like to present to you my nomination for induction into the Orange Car Appreciation Society. This is a gorgeous 1979 F-150 Custom. From the ad: Original 460 motor, gas shocks. Original Holley Carburetor completely rebuilt – just installed. Exhaust installed in 2000. 3″ stainless into a triple flow…
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Hooniverse Asks- Do You Keep a Scale Model of Your Dream Car?
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When I was a lad, I built plastic scale models like they were going out of style, which sadly, they eventually did. Still, back then I had quite the collection; Mustangs, Corvairs, TR4s, Model Ts, you name it. And for a time, many of them were painted a uniform primer red. That was because I…
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Last Call- Ice, Ice, Baby Edition
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Mirror, mirror on the door, what’s the coldest that’s in store? Image source: Imgur
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On April 17, 1964, the Ford Mustang was born
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Ford just couldn’t wait for the 1965 model year, could they? They have to have been certain they had a winner in their hands, as the 64½ Mustang was unveiled five months earlier than other ’65 cars in Ford’s model lineup. But it was worth it, as the game was changed and ground was broken…
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This is a 1973 Fangio Renault Torino Pininfarina…and it's gorgeous
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So there this olelongrooffan was hanging out at the all Brit show beachside there in Burt Reynold’s hometown and I stumbled across this Rambler American. Wait! What? No my fellow Hoons, this is no mere mid 60’s Rambler American but instead it’s a crossbreed of a Rambler, Renault, and Pininfarina design all mashed together and…
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Wagon Wednesday: Travelling The A40
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So this olelongrooffan is now settled down here in tony Palm Beach, Florida and I have had the good fortune to see a whole dang bunch of automobile related stuff since my arrival. I think it was my first or second weekend here that I was able to scout up the 13th Annual All Brit…