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Last Call- Rebel Scum Edition
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Duke, use the four-speed. Image source: Worth1000
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V.I.S.I.T- Austin A30 Countryman equals casual sidewalk cool
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This is my debut post for V.I.S.I.T; a series best left to the Hooniverse A-Team who keep it nourished with offbeat oddities and curious conveyances with consummate ease. For me, well, in this neck of the woods it’s a struggle to find much that isn’t miserably mundane. Until this weekend. The sun came out for…
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A Race Rookie at Sears Pointless 2013
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As you may have seen in previous posts, two of your trusty Hooniverse correspondents were able to finagle their way onto a real-life racing team… well, a 24 Hours of LeMons team at least. Sure, they might be $500 cars, but the experience is about the most fun a person can have for any price.…
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V.I.S.I.T. – 2008 Toyota Aurion Grande is a Camry with a cooler name
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Just for Monday’s sake, I’m officially posting The Most Boring Car You’ll See Me Post, Without a Doubt™. Of course, the car wouldn’t be photographable and postable if it held no merit whatsoever, and I believe this sky blue Toyota is the only Aurion Grande in the country, at least the sole Aurion between Finnish…
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Modern Art Monday: Cars and Coffee continues to be automotive heaven on Earth
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When folks talk about Cars and Coffee, they could be referring to any number of early-morning automotive gatherings that take place across the country. If they’re specifically talking about the Cars and Coffee that takes place every Saturday morning in Irvine, however, they’re talking about the greatest car show on the planet. It costs…
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Carlisle Import Nationals Preview: 1962 GAZ 21i Volga
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It feels kind of strange writing about this Volga in the context of a Carlisle Import Nationals preview, because this was the car’s last appearance as a major classic car event before it was flooded in Hurricane Sandy in late 2012. This GAZ was the first Russian passenger car to appear at Carlisle, where it…
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Hoonivercinema- Monday Music Video
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If you’ve very been a kid and had only the back seat as your kingdom- far away from the controls of your destiny or at the very least the aural assault on your ears, then you can appreciate the grown up who plays the favorite song of these two six year olds. Taken on various…
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Modern Art Monday – You can own Dick Clark's Cord 8/10 now listed on eBay… But at what cost?
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We haven’t had a Modern Art Monday piece in a very long time, and my last one was this very good looking Cord… Funny how that works out. However, this is a Cord Replica, built in 1966 by the Cord Automobile Company of Tulsa Oklahoma. The designation 8/10 was actually the scale of the replica,…
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Hooniverse Asks- What's the Most Alarming Crash Test Video?
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[youtube width=”720″ height=”514″]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk5cp93zefk[/youtube] You know, there’s one aspect of our automobiles and trucks that all of us never like to consider, but which still remains in the backs of all of or minds, and this is how our vehicle might hold up in a significant crash. Fortunately there are people – notably the Insurance Institute…
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Weekend Edition – Dusty Corvette C6
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In the same garage as the dusty Porsche 924S sits an equally dusty C6 Corvette. For you guys it might be almost yawn-inducing, but I rarely see one of these beauties, let alone unregistered and sitting dormant. The Vette has probably been brought into the country semi-recently, used, and hasn’t been registered yet.
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Weekend Edition – 1989 Porsche 924S
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Yes, 1989. That’s what the plate info says when I run the tags of this Porsche 924S; manufacturing of the 924 ended in 1988, but this one probably spent a little while unsold and got registered on 1989’s side. This 924S spends its days in the parking garage where I park when I’m in Helsinki,…
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Weekend Edition: Barrett-Jackson Palm Beach: The Muscle Car Edition
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As this olelongrooffan was wandering around the Barrett-Jackson Palm Beach show this past few days, I got to thinking about the wide diversity of cars and trucks available at this show. See the Cutlass post in the above image. I am pretty sure this is the first non-hardtop Cutlass I ever remember seeing. Not only…
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Weekend Edition – Two-Liter Scorpio & Three-Liter Lupo
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Lightening John’s weekend workload with a post of two German machines from the opposide ends of the spectrum, shot just a couple of streetcorners away from each other; a 1990 Ford Scorpio and a 2003 Volkswagen Lupo 3L TDI join the ranks of cars posted from my Jakobstad camera run.
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Weekend Edition: Yeah Rich Car Guys Are Real Folks After All
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So I would suspect that many of my fellow Hoons are wondering just why this olelongrooffan would bother capturing an image of a 2011 F150 pickup truck being offered on the auction block down at Barrett-Jackson Palm Beach on Saturday.
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Weekend Edition: In The Lot At Barrett-Jackson Palm Beach
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It’s 9:20 pm Saturday here on the East Coast. Antii is sleeping, Pete is doing the family thing, UDMan is still AWOL and all the Hooniverse Overlords are out partying their ass off or being parents, so this olelongrooffan, having just returned from the Barrett-Jackson festivities, decided to blow the whole scheduling thing here in…
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Last Call- You are the Tubes Beneath my Wings Edition
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A typical goal of the average teenaged boy is to see a girl with her clothes off. Perhaps more exciting to the not so typical teen, and most likely to most of us adults, is the view of a Mercedes Benz 300sl Gullwing, showing off its bare bones. It just doesn’t get much more Sport Leicht…