Articles
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Hooniverse Motorsport News For The Week of May 29th, 2012
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Welcome to the Hooniverse Motorsport News. This weekend, a bit of rain showed up in Monaco, youth and exhuberance showed up in Indianapolis, and Charlotte played host to treachery and made for some exciting racing. The Formula 1 circus, and all it’s coattail-riders arrived in the principality of Monaco. IndyCar returned to it’s namesake track for…
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Modern Art Monday: The 2012 Audi A7
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These days it’s becoming increasingly difficult to find faults with the latest new automobiles. Sure, the heated seats might not warm up as fast I’d like, or the satellite radio cuts out in the shortest of tunnels. Maybe the latest economy car only runs from 0-60 miles per hour in eight seconds, but it still returns…
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Truck Thursday: 1975 Volvo C304 6×6
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[singlepic id=3316 w=720 h=540 float=center] There’s rare– Unimogs and Pinzgauers. And then there’s rarer– the Volvo C303 4×4. And then there’s the rarest– this magnificent Volvo C304 6×6!
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The Flood Retires
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After 40 years of service, the 1972 Ford tractor that has been used in my hometown of Rossland, British Columbia, to flood the local hockey rink is finally being retired. It’s a sad day, but also a celebration. This was a vehicle that was never supposed to do this job. It was not designed for…
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Review: 2013 Nissan Altima – Keeping up with the Camcordsontibusion
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The US Midsize Sedan is the most competitive market segment, with an ever growing list of competitors from almost all the automotive brands. There are entry level models, mid-priced entries, and even entry-level luxury options. There are some very good models vying for your hard earned dollars, as well as some also-ran entries that are…
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Hooniverse Asks- What’s the Worst Car Fetish?
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If Ötzi the iceman is any indication, then humans have been marking their bodies with ink for more than 5,000 years. That 5,000-year old hunter is not only only the oldest known tattoo parlor patron, but as evidenced by the arrowhead in his back, he’s also the earliest confirmed murder victim. Several millennia later, we’re…
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Craigslist: 1966 Renault Dauphine for $800
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How can you say no to this!? Sure, the ad states that it needs to have the water-pump replaced and a new battery installed, but those cheap and easy, and the seller is even throwing in the water-pump! Yea, that seats need to be reupholstered and there is some rust, but the rust is a…
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The Police Crookhook, Designed to Stop Hoons
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Cue the stereotypical cheesy line from Wolrd’s Wildest Police Videos: “I’m Sherriff John Bunnell, when a police officer is in pursuit, the stakes are raised when a crook is on the loose. His driving behavior is not just sloppy and dangerous….but fishy…looks like we’re gonna have to hook him him up”…” lalalalalala. Ladies and gentleman, hoons and…
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Carroll Shelby; A True American Icon Passes
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Many of you may have read that the legendary Carroll Shelby died this past Friday at the age of 89. His life was full of accomplishments that any Hoon here on this site would give anything to have lived, but be careful of what you wish for. He may have been many things: An accomplished…
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No Longer A Daytona International Speedway Virgin
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Appropriately enough, I gathered this image Saturday evening prior to the Bud ShootOut. My fellow Hoons, stay with this olelongrooffan until the end, it’s worth it.
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Hoonage Classics – 1974 Triumph Spitfire IV
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It’s convertible season soon enough. Everybody’s swapping their winter tires to summer rubber, there’s that certain feeling in the air and it won’t take long until everybody gets their steering feel back (winter tires always feel different, somehow mushier). And it’s just like stepping outside and getting your pipes full of fresh air, when you…
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Priceless Acquisition: Hundreds of 1970s Car Magazines
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Sometime in early January my friend John Voelcker, of GreenCarReports, posted on Facebook that he has four large boxes of 1970s car magazines to give to a good home. Several people responded but realistically none would have 200 pounds of magazines shipped or travel thousands of miles to get them. Except me, and it was about…
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Hooniverse Asks- What’s The Best Motorcycle Movie?
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Car movies – or at the very least movies that feature cool cars as prominent set pieces – are timeless and, unlike westerns or movies with Val Kilmer in them, never seem to go out of style. Maybe it’s because we can all identify with, or project our personas onto, characters who both drive wicked…
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Hooniverse Truck Thursday: The Bianchi Green Ranger Edition
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The Ranger series of trucks offered by the Blue Oval has met its demise but only after a long run as both full size pickup trucks as well as a smaller model in its later years. Recently, this olelongrooffan spotted one of the former while out at my local race track and I thought I…
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Hooniverse Fastback Friday – A 1974 Jensen Interceptor III with 43,000 miles
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Fastback Friday is a very fickle feature here on the Hooniverse. I even asked our fanatical audience what exactly a fastback was. Lately, we have had recent Fastback Friday features that really stretch the definition of a fastback. Well, here is a British-American Grand Touring hybrid that can be identified as a fastback, a 1974…
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Hooniverse “It’s 1987″ Weekend Edition – Some Really Questionable 25 year old Antiques, with a Poll!
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Welcome to the Sunday Edition of the “It’s 1987 II” Weekend Edition. It has been a pretty good run so far as far as 1987 vehicles go, so let me review why this is my chosen theme this weekend (again). The Antique Automobile Club of America has designated cars and truck that have reached at…