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Hooniverse Asks- Should Tall Cars Make a Comeback?
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We live in a universe with – if you believe reality – three physical dimensions. Oh sure there’s like a gajillion other dimensions as Stargate SG1 long ago proved, but for our purposes today we’re just going to concentrate on the three that are easiest to comprehend- length, height, and roundth width. In the world…
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Last Call- I'm So Cardboard With This Crown Vic Edition
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Just because you’re really into recycling doesn’t mean you can’t have some fun on the way to the drop off center. Image source: Imgur
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Down on the Amsterdam Street – Peugeot 505 GTI
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It’s not only the esteemed Jay Ramey who posts photos of Peugeot 505:s and other quality French cars – this one was spotted on the Amsterdam street during our Dutch weekend. The minute I saw it, I wanted to pounce closer and grab a few quick shots of it for Hooniversal use. It even has…
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R.A-S.H: The Ford Puma and Racing Puma
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Welcome back to R.A-S.H, the car-brochure discussion series that car manufacturers, well, frankly couldn’t give a damn about. Sometimes a car is damned by its hyperbole, sometimes the reality is greater than anybody could have expected. Sometimes I find myself gushing even more revoltingly than the car brochures I’m presenting. In this case, though, I…
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FX32 Lemons Build Update: Only Two Weeks Left
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March 22 is coming at us like a freight train, and the new Lemons car needs a lot more work before it is ready for the track. That said, a ton of work has already been done. So far, the guys over at the asylum known as Volatile Ram/Stick Figure Racing have cut two cars…
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Podcast: Episode 1We’re back baby…
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“We existed before… and we’ll exist again.” – I just made these words up, but they sound like they could’ve been spewed from the mouth of a great Sci-Fi-centric General. Let me try that again, “Take my love, take my land, take me where I cannot stand, I don’t care, I’m still free, you can’t…
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Podcast: Episode 1We're back baby…
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“We existed before… and we’ll exist again.” – I just made these words up, but they sound like they could’ve been spewed from the mouth of a great Sci-Fi-centric General. Let me try that again, “Take my love, take my land, take me where I cannot stand, I don’t care, I’m still free, you can’t…
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Craigslist Crapshoot
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Welcome to our Wednesday dumpster dive that is known as Craigslist Crapshoot. Last week your assignment was four by four cars, and boy were there a lot of losers winners to be had. We’ll get to the winner-iest in a moment, but first this week’s task. This week I want obscure cars – ones that…
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A Texan Hoon Goes to GRAND-AM, and other Texans Win! We Talk to One Winning Driver.
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The Circuit of the America’s, Austin’s new road course, opens up 2013’s wicked year of racing with GRAND-AM. GRAND-AM comprises of a mixture of production-based road cars and purpose-built race cars, known as the Daytona Prototypes (Which still used production-based motors). For the production cars, GRAND-AM gives us the GT and GX classes, where an…
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In Soviet Russia, Subaru WRX Passes You While Spinning
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Well, OK, Subaru also passes you in the United States, and would probably pass you in Japan and Europe as well. And any other places on earth where slippery roads and overly-aggressive drivers exist, so yeah – pretty much anywhere and everywhere. There really is no Soviet-style humorous reversal here. YOU pass Subaru? No, that’s…
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Hooniverse Asks- What Is It About Cadillacs That Make Great Songs?
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While dialing up some Dwight Yoakam on Grooveshark the other day (don’t judge), one of his hits “Guitars, Cadillacs, & Hillbilly Music” came on. That got me to thinking about other songs about Cadillacs. Turns out, there are several good country songs about these 6-ton sleds. Here are few of my favorite.
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Last Call- Hood Winked Edition
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Daniel felt that his mentor taught him so much, especially through the instruction of wax on-wax off. Unfortunately, he didn’t learn until after having far too many lessons on Mr. Miyagi’s Mitsubishi. Image source: Imgur
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Down on the Amsterdam Street – Subaru Impreza 2.0 GT 4WD
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I’m adamant this is the cleanest sporty Subaru Impreza outside a factory museum. Seriously, 99% of any performance versions have been either modified, riced, stolen or otherwise beaten to bits by now, but not this one – and it’s even a very early Impreza, a 1996 pre-facelift one. Definitely not too common anywhere in this…
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V.I.S.I.T. – 1965 Ford Galaxie
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That’s a tree trunk, not a creepy dude behind the wheel. A few months ago, this car showed up on the street just around the corner from my house. It hasn’t moved much, but I can tell it’s driven from time to time. I’d like to meet the owner one of these days and talk…
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The Carchive: The Porsche 928
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Welcome to another issue of The Carchive, the internet feature that your average Russian would say was “Более интересным, чем я ожидал”. We’re popping back to Germany today, rewinding to a time that might now seem very strange to us jaded, dyed-in-the-wool, sceptical nay-sayers. “We at Porsche are the only German car manufacturer to produce…
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Video: Look here, see! You can't stop when you're in front of me, nyaaaah!
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I know that not every cop is a bad cop, and I don’t have a negative attitude towards the police what so ever. When I got my mega speeding ticket a few years back, the police officer was exceedingly polite and even asked me about the car I was driving (“How’s it handle?!” “Great.. until…