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Craigslist Crapshoot
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It’s Wednesday and that means it’s time to take a look through the classifieds and see what awful cars and trucks are being offered for sale. That’s right, it’s time for Craigslist Crapshoot. Remember, while we’re looking for the worst crap there is, they at least need to be running and licensable to be considered.…
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Turner Motorsport vent gauge is the perfect tool for the OCD BMW owner
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Remember when A-pillar gauge pods were all the rage? Yup, I had one in my Integra when I was about twenty-three. While I never really liked it there, it was a great place for that much needed oil pressure gauge. You never know, it’s always a good idea to keep your eye on the oil…
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Hooniverse Asks – What Automotive Ad Typo Makes You Cringe the Most?
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Look, we all do a lot of writing in our lives, especially those of us on this side of the screen, and it’s inevitable that we’ll make a mistake every now and again. As a matter of fact I once read a statistic that the New York Times contains, on average, 20 typos an edition.…
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Last Call- Faster Than A Striped Hen Edition
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This opens up whole new avenues of debate in the conundrum of which came first, the chicken or the egg. Image: [Imgur]
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Finnish Line – For Sale: 1987 BMW 528e automatic
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The E28 bodystyle BMW 5-series is one of my favorite cars. It’s pretty much the right size for a car, it’s classically styled, there’s an airy glasshouse and the attractive sharknose is always a nice sight. True, the US-spec bumpers do affect the looks a little bit, but this side of the pond they’re not…
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The Carchive: Thunderbird Week #2: The Eighth Generation
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It’s day two of the R.A-S.H Thunderbird Spectacular. I’ve been raiding my archive to document the four generations of T-Bird that were relevant to Kids Like Me when we were growing up. How’s that for self-indulgence? Yesterday we were looking at the freshly-downsized Seventh-Generation of Thunderbird, where, by downsized we meant not-quite-so-obscenely-mahoosive. Today, though, the…
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Video: Two Guys, One Bike courtesy of RideApart
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Friend of Hooniverse Matt Farah can typically be found behind the wheel of something with way too much horsepower, having way too much fun. Anything with four wheels, and it’s likely that Matt’s taken one for a spin. This time, however, Farah finds himself behind someone, not something as he goes for a ride with…
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Wicker Man
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In Boston they may say that a car is wicked cool, but in Nigeria, this VW is wicker cool. Woven by 40 year old artisan Ojo Obaniyi as a means of advertising his work and showing his talent, the car is covered inside and out with raffa palm cane. Obaniyi has 20 years experience weaving Raffa…
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Quick Spin: 2013 Hyundai Genesis Coupe 2.0T R-Spec
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After a long week of travel, I arrived at my home airport. A statue of John Wayne was there to greet me, but I also had another smiling face waiting just outside. A 2013 Hyundai Genesis Coupe 2.0T R-Spec sat by the curb waiting to head out on the 20 minute trip taking me from…
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V.I.S.I.T. – Audi 4000 Coupe
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This is a different kind of Audi. Before Audi became the Audi of today, and sometime after it ceased being a DKW, Audi was what you see here. The Giugiaro design is a bit boxy and color sensitive viewed through today’s eyes, but it was quite stylish for the time and has aged well overall,…
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Hooniverse Asks- Does the Douche Make the Car, or Does the Car Make the Douche?
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Have you ever felt the urge to wear a backwards cap? How about to purchase tan in a can? Yeah, me neither, but there are some people for whom there’s no internal debate over doing either of those things. And those people usually drive cars that also readily identify them as purveyors of a…
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Last Call- Big Blocks and Big Hair Edition
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In the Bible, Eve was supposedly done in by a snake. You would think that would be a cautionary tale for future women, however here’s a 1962 picture of the Greer-Black-Prudhomme dragster with a bevy of scantily clad ladies and Don ‘The Snake’ Prudhomme around it, all probably admiring what a big block he has. Image source: [twm1340 via…
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V.I.S.I.T. – Audi 5000
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Before Audi started selling literally dozens of Audi V8s on our shores following that whole 60 Minutes unpleasantness, we had the Audi 5000 as the third fiddle in the German triumvirate of executive sedans. Actually, things weren’t going too bad for Audi during those years. The year before that program aired Audi managed to sell…
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R.A-S.H: Thunderbird Week #1: The Seventh Generation.
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So, it’s the fourth week of the Car-Brochure-based online series that Gene Roddenberry described as “way beyond the final frontier”. Its Rusty’s Archive-Showroom Hyperbole. And we’re having an end-of-month special. This is going to be a four-part Thunderbird Spectacular, and I’m touching on the Seventh, Eighth, Ninth and Tenth generation of Ford’s beautiful bird.…
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The 10-For-1 Car Collection
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This is a great story. When I first found the internet, I hung out at the Craigslist Auto forum. One of the regulars, AK, shared this story with me. His friend wanted to buy a new, black Bentley that cost 135,000 pounds. His wife would not let him. So he did the only rational thing–…
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A night in Los Angeles spent staring at the McLaren P1
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When you build a car that, even 20 years after its inception, still serves as a benchmark for hypercar performance, you’ve set the bar pretty high. The McLaren P1 is without a doubt once of the most highly speculated and most anticipated hypercar of all time. Ever since production of the McLaren F1 ended…