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Mystery Car
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You know how they say that nothing rhymes with orange, well, what’s up with that? Today’s Mystery Car happens to be orange, for no particular rhyme or reason, just because that’s the color that happened to come out of the spray gun that painted it. After last week’s contest was solved in a matter of…
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Storm Vehicles of the Massachusetts State Police
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A huge Nor’easter storm is about give those of us in the northeast a brutal pounding. It’s probably well-deserved too, as New England hasn’t got a good pounding in about two years, or at least since Super Bowl XLVI. The media is, of course, off their rockers, proclaiming the end of the world. Schools, transportation, and…
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Hooniverse Asks- What Feature do You Wish Cars Had?
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You’d be surprised at the age of certain automotive convenience features. Auto tune radios, cruise control, running board-mounted dwarf valet, they all go way back. Modern technology – notably the electronic revolution – has accelerated many convenience and safety feature adoptions, but there’s still an empty place that many drivers feel inside, every time they…
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Last Call- The Velveteen Rabbit. . . er, A3 Edition
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For decades – seriously, decades – automakers worked tirelessly to make their cars’ paint shiny and lustrous. In the fifties and sixties, car paint even sometimes included metal-flake to give it added sparkle. Of course today what everybody wants is matte finish, and, if this European Audi is any indication, the next step will be.…
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Video: Lifting a crane with a crane
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It’s Truck Thursday, and today is as good of a day as any to ask – what’s a truck? Living in a city where there is almost too much construction going on (seriously, it never ends, mostly because the new stuff needs to repaired right away), I see cranes all the times. And each time,…
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R.A-S.H: Thunderbird Week #4: The Tenth Generation
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It’s part four of my / our Ford Funderbird Fantastic, and you’ll be immensely pleased to hear that it’s also the final instalment. If you have any strong feelings towards or against these multi-part features, or about R.A-S.H in general, don’t be afraid to comment, so I know whether to pat myself on the back…
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Truck Thursday – A Duo of Chevrolet Chevy Van Diesels
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Like two cargo ships passing amongst icebergs, these two Chevy Vans sat parked back-to-back on the parking lot on the other side of the street. Both just a little ratty around the edges by now, both powered by the 6.2-litre diesel V8, both probably driven to the moon and back, they were a step closer…
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Hooniverse Asks (Bonus Edition): What Should Be In A Car Registry?
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Fellow hoons, I need your input. I am helping a fellow Phaeton owner start an online Phaeton registry. It may or may not be limited to just cars in North America between model years 2004 and 2006 (3,410 units total). The question is, what should be in the registry? So far, I’ve got 1) picture…
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Video: Romanian painter is cheaper and better than your local MAACO
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Getting your car painted is an annoying affair, unless you’re having the entire vehicle redone. There’s GOOD NEWS, however, if you have a classic Dacia that needs some paint work, and you live in Romania. Just hire the guy in the video shown below the break. He uses an airbrush powered by his own air,…
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Video: Ryan Tuerck needs not music to make an incredible driving film
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Making a good automotive video is not an easy task. Questions one might ask include; What type of music should we use? Which locations should we utilize? What car should we cover? Who should host the video? For driver Ryan Tuerck and director Andrew Laputka, you can throw out all of those questions. Just let…
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Hooniverse Asks- What’s the Weirdest Automotive-Branded Product You’ve Ever Seen?
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Okay, first off I would like to apologize for the lede image. It was the oh what a feeling that got me to giggling, and then there was no turning back. Despite its inappropriate nature, it does provide a fine example of a product category in which no auto maker ought to ever consider dabbling.…
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Last Call- Devolved Deauville Edition
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Do you remember the attempt to resurrect the de Tomaso brand a couple of years back with a Deauville rehash that looked like a Ford Fusion with the mumps? Well, that atrocity wasn’t the first to sully the Deauville name, as this one-off Giardinetta version built for Mrs. de Tomaso proves. Image source: [PanteraAustralia]
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Plastic Fantastic – Microcar MC2
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It’s not too often that I completely condemn something I feature. This time that is the case, as I openly loathe these things. The plastic box you see is a French-built Microcar MC2, a four-wheeled penalty box in other words. These trinkets populate the roads here, driven by youth too young to drive an actual…
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R.A-S.H: Thunderbird Week #3: The Ninth Generation
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It’s time for the third part of our R.A-S.H Thunderbird festival, and, well, so far it’s been a bit of a saga. Ford, looking to the future and mindful of the fact that the Seventies had seen energy crises and political unrest, had started trimming the fat off the T-Bird for the seventh generation, and…
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Wagon-esque Camera Car built from a Porsche Panamera
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I don’t know why, but I loves me some camera car build stories. The various outlets that build these vehicles all seem to have made a switch a few years back to utilizing luxury sport utility vehicles. The stable platforms and their smooth suspension setups helped create the types of platforms necessary for camera work.…
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Rolex24 Heritage Exhibition: The Last Lap for 2013
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So this olelongrooffan has shared with my fellow Hoons that I had the opportunity to party my ass off attend the Rolex24 at Daytona with a great bunch of friends a few weekends ago down here in the World Center of Racing. While out at my local race track, I checked out a bunch of pretty…