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Mystery Car
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New year, new mysteries, it’s just that simple. Last week’s – which also happened to be the last of last year’s – proved not to be, requiring multiple hours to solve rather than the usual nanoseconds. That inscrutably cropped Lamborghini gave most of you vexations, let’s see if today’s first of 2013 Mystery Cars gives…
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1965 Plymouth Barracuda's Been Left Out to Dry
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It doesn’t get more fastback than the first generation Plymouth Barracuda. With an acre (actually 14.4 sqft) of fixed curved glass, you could have a decent sized greenhouse going back there…which might be tempting, given the condition of today’s example. However, I contend that under the (substantial) layers of surface grime, there’s a lot of…
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Hooniverse Asks- What Youthful Car Crush Do You Now Dismay?
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Do you remember when you were a kid, and you had that poster of a Lamborghini Countach on your bedroom wall? Every night you would narrow-eye that poster and whisper to yourself one day before drifting off to pimply dreams of the lusty Italian replacing Schwinn as your daily driver. Well, have you…
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Last Call- Under Where Edition
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Every once in a while we like to look at a car or truck from a new perspective – that of someone over which the vehicle is leaping. This one is more of jacked up than inflight, but that till gives an excellent look up its skirt, so to speak. Without resorting to external resources,…
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The White Pearl of the Baltic Sea – Helsinki Deals with Snow
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I spent my NYE in HKI, and the city had had a whole bunch of snow fall on it recently. Like any 600 000 inhabitant town (the capital region has a population of some 1,3 million), there’s a number of cars roaming the streets even if the powers-that-be seem to increasingly dislike the fact. Half…
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Truck Thursday: Transporter Truck Thursday Revisited
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So this olelongrooffan is getting rusty. This morning on the way in to schlep some trailers, I decided to stop by the Daytona International Speedway to capture some images of the transporters in town for the Roar Before The 24 this weekend. There was no way in hell I could talk my way past that…
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Found on Craigslist: A Truck Thursday special for under $8,000
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It’s Truck Thursday, and that means I’m scouring my local Craigslist for be-bedded vehicles to share with you, Dear Reader. After slogging through mostly modern crap, I’ve come across a sweet little looker. The seller describes it as a 1953 GMC short-bed five-window pickup. Additionally, it’s sitting on a Chevrolet frame, and judging from the…
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Amazing Classic Car Rallies and Autocross from Eastern Europe
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Living in the United States since the late 80’s, not having any Polish friends, and not having returned back to Poland until last year, I feel like I have missed out a lot. Following my trip I started to explore what I may have missed all those years, and cars are obviously a big part of it. Call…
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Hooniverse Truck Thursday: America LaFrance Type O-11B
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Last weekend, I visited Castle Air Museum in Atwater, California. In addition to the 50+ combat and support aircraft on display, there was this weather-beaten Air Force fire truck.
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Hooniverse Asks- Digital Vs. Dials, Which Instruments Do You Prefer?
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I saw some sort of factoid the other day about how very soon there will exist a generation that won’t know how to read an analog clock. Sha-zizzle, if that doesn’t scare you then maybe this will. Much like clocks with hands, car gauges with dials could conceivably go the way of Elvis…
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Last Call- Road Signs You Should Be Pulling Over Edition
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We’ve all been there- driving along, being awesome, when you come across some shmuck who doesn’t have the slightest clue about roadway etiquette. Maybe they’re rolling 55 in the passing lane, or riding on the bumper of the car ahead when that same passing lane is open. For whatever reason, they’re idiots. Redditor…
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BoldRide takes a spin on the new EPCOT Test Track
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I’ve always wanted to ride the GM Test Track at EPCOT. Unfortunately, I’ve never made the trip to DisneyWorld, and if I did I would most likely wind up spending my time trying to complete the Around the World Beer Challenge (without puking on Minnie’s shoes). My time has run out on the old track,…
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The Last Full-Sized Mercury with a Unique Body, and it was for sale on eBay!
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Mercury, thou art a line-up of vaguely disguised Fords… How you pretend to be upper middle class, yet are still so pedestrian. You are a sham… and now you’re no more. The Mercury division of the Ford Motor Company held so much promise during the 50s, promising affordable luxury and giving the Ford buyer a…
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V.I.S.I.T. – The Snows of Kilimanjaro Edition
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For the record, these aren’t the snows of Kilimanjaro. These are merely the snows of Connecticut. Mount Kilimanjaro, on the other hand, barely even has ice anymore, due either to increased production of new iPads for Black Friday, or relentless, round the clock stamping of Justin Bieber DVDs half a world away. By the middle…
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Craigslist Crapshoot
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Today we’re inaugurating a new weekly series, one that I call Craigslist Crapshoot. What the hell is that, you might ask? Well, most of us spend an inordinate amount of time scouring the online classifieds for hidden gems, and we invariably have to slog through a sea of automotive detritus whilst doing so. I want…
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A New Year's Junkyard Stroll With This olelongrooffan
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So a couple weeks ago during that Weekend of Weird Ass Crap we featured here in the Hooniverse, this olelongrooffan headed over to my local U-Pull-It to snag an elcheapo replacement headlight lens for my olebeaterpickemup truck. While I was at that fine and oh-so-clean establishment, I captured those images of the nearly all there…