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Reader Find: Flossin' as all heck in a Mercedes-Benz 230S 'Camino
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The W110 Mercedes-Benz is a classically cool machine that combines the standard vintage style you’d expect from an old German machine with a dash of rare exterior flourishes. The car has fins, a great face, and wonderfully sculpted wheel openings. It’s a classic for sure. Reader Otto Nobedder managed to spy a rather unusual looking…
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Podcast: WE’RE ON A BOAT… at the 2013 NYIAS, and we’ve got a full crew with us
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We brought our recording gear to New York, and the result is a podcast from the floor of the NYIAS. Well, truth be told, we wound up a few feet above the floor because we recorded Episode Six from the back of a gorgeous boat built by Dave Cheurbini and Cherubini Yachts. This is a…
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Podcast: WE'RE ON A BOAT… at the 2013 NYIAS, and we've got a full crew with us
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We brought our recording gear to New York, and the result is a podcast from the floor of the NYIAS. Well, truth be told, we wound up a few feet above the floor because we recorded Episode Six from the back of a gorgeous boat built by Dave Cheurbini and Cherubini Yachts. This is a…
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Wrenching Tips: How to bring a non-starting car back to life
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The face of a modern day Dr Frankenstein Medically or magically, few feats impress more than reviving the dead. If we issued Hoon Merit Badges, starting a “No Start” car would be a major one. In today’s Wrenching Tips we’ll walk through the basic principles and steps to getting a mystery non-running car to at…
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Craigslist Crapshoot
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What better way to spend your hump day than with our weekly dumpster dive, Craigslist Crapshoot? Last week I asked you to find itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow polka dot bikini cars that might perhaps contain a murder of clowns. We’ll get to the diminutive winner of that hunt after the jump, but first let’s…
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Wagon Wednesday – A One Owner 1958 Packard Wagon on eBay with No Reserve!
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Yes, this is a Wagon Wednesday Posting that I decided to share with all of you here on Hooniverse. Yes, it has been some time since my last Wagon Wednesday post, but this car was so special that i had to share it with all of you.
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Hooniverse Asks- What's the Wildest One-off Shooting Brake?
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Just like an open bar at a distant cousin’s wedding, or that little tag on the underside of your mattress admonishing its removal to be a crime, the lure of the sport wagon is nearly impossible. The sportiest of all sport wagons is of course, the shooting brake. Or perhaps, shooting break, should that be…
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Last Call- Oil And Water Edition
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They say to each his own, and that one man’s pork chop is but another’s poison, so who am I to judge? Still the juxtaposition on this rat rod of a chopped canvas top and highboy stance seems oddly incongruous to me. At least it does have a proper flathead mill encased in its louvered…
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V.I.S.I.T. – Volkswagen surf bus extracts extra excellence in Hale'iwa
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This past weekend, while uploading a few hundred pictures from a trip to the LeMay auto museum (stay tuned), I found a few leftovers from my vacation to O’ahu that I forgot to share. Shame on me! Two of the days I spent on O’ahu were in Hale’iwa on the North Shore. It’s a cool…
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R.A-S.H: The Citroen CX
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When Guglielmo Marconi died in 1934, leaving a world that was much poorer in terms of personalities, but oh-so-much better off in terms of the transmission, reception and interpretation of electromagnetic wave-forms; on his deathbed he was heard to utter “I wish I’d spent more time reading R.A-S.H”. French cars are an almost sure-fire hit…
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Spring Is Here… Eventually – 1976 Mercedes-Benz 280SLC
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Slow and steady, the snow dunes are receding in my neck of the woods and the sun comes out. The spring has been uncharacteristically late here, and I still wouldn’t want to swap on summer rubber, so not to end up in a ditch one night. However, what progress there is, is surely helped by…
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Craigslist: I didn't want to hate on this Victory Kingpin ad, but I'm going to hate on this ad
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I’m no evangelist when it comes to safety. I have no say when it comes to what folks do on motorcycles. However, I do believe that if you strap yourself on to a two-wheeled mean machine you should live by the adage all-the-gear-all-the-time. Clearly, not everyone feels the same way, and the seller of this…
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Diecast Delights: ZiL 164 in 1:43 is Stylistically Socialist in Any Scale
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The next piece of diecast awesomeness we’re going to ogle this week is this ZiL 164 by AIST, which came out just a few weeks ago. If you’ve never seen one of these, that’s quite understandable, as the Internet Movie Cars Database shows the ZiL 164 appearing only in hard-to-pronounce films that even I haven’t…
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Classic Captions – The (Second) 1967 Jeepster 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 every Tuesday, 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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This Sunday, You Could Be Queen for a Day
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If you happen to be in the Los Angeles area this Sunday the 14th, you might want to stop by the confluence of the 101 and 405 freeways where Woodley Park will be hosting the annual oiling of the grass, or as it’s better known, the Queen’s English All-British Car Meet and Jumble. The event runs between…
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Hooniverse Asks- What’s The Coolest Bike Logo?
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Billy Crystal used to do this bit on Saturday Night Live called Fernando’s Hideaway in which he would intone in an over the top Latin accent that it is better to look mah-velous than to feel mah-velous. Fernando may not have been the best celebrity interviewer, but he did know a thing or two about the…