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Video: How NOT to pull a car out of a ditch
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Someone in the Netherlands got their little Hyundai (I think it’s a Hyundai) into a ditch. How? I do not know and that’s not important right now. A good samaritan in a Land Rover came to pull the little econobox out of the said ditch. Typically that would be enough of a setup for a good youtube…
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A Junkyard Stroll With The Olelongrooffan
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There have been entirely way too freakin many shiny assed cars here in the Hooniverse lately. So, this olelongrooffan decided to pop up some of the images I gathered up a few weeks ago while out getting some body parts for the “Charles Barrett Special.” However my fellow Hoons will need to make the jump…
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Review: Senna by Asif Kapadia
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I was in seat 10E. An aisle seat on a Delta airplane that was traveling from Atlanta to John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California. I had just finished driving the 2013 Infiniti JX35, and I was ready to settle in for the long haul as the twin CFM International engines prepared to do battle…
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Caption Contest: Rally Wheel Edition
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How did this happen? I have no idea, but I’m hoping that you guys can play detective and figure it out. Also, give your best caption to this picture. The caption with the highest number of “pluses” by Monday wins a Dodge Dart memory stick, which is in a shape of a dart. Also also, a…
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Two-Door Tuesday – 1980 Mercedes-Benz W123 Coupé
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Finding it acceptable to stretch the Tuesday nomenclature in yet another way (Two-wheel Tuesday, Tudor Tuesday), I’m posting this good-looking two-door Mercedes today. The sun was shining, somebody was out with his/her classic Mercedes; last Wednesday was a good, albeit dusty day. Unlike in more southern parts of Finland, snow has been all but banished…
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Hooniverse Asks-What 1970s Auto Accessory Should Make a Comeback?
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It used to be – or so I can assume from looking through car magazines from before even my time – that there once was a whole ton of aftermarket performance parts available to bolt onto your car. Hell, Popular Mechanics used to advertise a ram jet-powered go-kart! But looking at the chronology, something happened…
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California Craigslist: The "… just frame damage nothing big" BMW M Coupe
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A BMW M Coupe remains very high on my “must own” list. I recently took to Craigslist to get an idea of what they might be going for behind the Orange Curtain. My eyes were instantly drawn to a link with the words “1999 Bmw M Coupe – $10,000”. That seems like a great deal…
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Rolex24 at Daytona Week: The Parade Pic Dump
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So as Bradley Brownell, who this olelongrooffan is picking up from the Daytona Beach airport in just a few minutes, related to we Hoons a few weeks ago, this year for the 50th Anniversery of the Rolex24, Joie Chitwood’s team was able to gather up most of the past winners of that esteemed race. Last…
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Hooniverse Classic Captions – The 1968 Ford Mustang Edition
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It’s the first Monday since we returned to Daylight Savings Time, so it must be time once again for the Hooniverse Classic Caption Contest. I have to tell you that my full time gig seems to be getting in the way of producing any weekday content lately, but I will try and get this posting…
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Vandals destroy '56 Studebaker and '25 Model T
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Seeing a good portion of our readers are in Canada, perhaps you could help this guy out. Some asswipes broke into the barn of one Don Keltie, 63, near Edmonton. The said asswipes went for a joyride in Don’s recently restored Studebaker and when it got stuck in the mud, they did the next dumb thing… they set it on…
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Depth of Speed: A fast flower looks to 300 miles per hour
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If you’re not familiar with Josh Clason’s Depth of Speed video series, you need to school yourself immediately. Clason has a subtle style, which applies a wonderful aura to everything his lens captures. His most recent subject is a streamliner called the Flower of Scotland. For those out of the quest-for-speed loop, streamliners are the…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition – Ford's Fox Platform, GM's F-Body and Y-Body
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Continuing on with our Platforms that seem to go on forever, I thought I would turn to the Pony Car Chassis of both Ford and General Motors, and dive into the C2 and C3 Corvette Y-Body. While the Ford Fox architecture underpinned most of the Ford lineup that wasn’t a Panther or an Escort/Lynx, the…
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Hooniverse Asks- What Individual Designer has the Most Impressive Curriculum Vitae? (Design Week)
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There’s this joke that goes: Heaven is where the Police are British, the Chefs are French, the Mechanics are German, the Lovers Italian and it’s all organised by the Swiss. Hell is where the Chefs are British, the mechanics are French, the lovers are Swiss, the Police are German and it’s all organised by the Italians. Romance…
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Automotive Flash Card Book for Kids
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Tyra Banks, Dolly Parton, Terrell Owens, Madonna, Prince Charles, Jimmy Buffet, Glenn Beck, Bill Cosby, Spike Lee, Tim McGraw, Jamie Lee Curtis, Billy Crystal. Other than being some kind of pop-culture celebrities, they have seemingly nothing in common. Except the fact that they all wrote children’s books. Apparently writing a children’s book adds another minute…
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NYIAS – Yes there are Classic Cars on Display
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As the oldest guy at the show, i decided to take off and look for some of the classic cars that were rumored to be on display. I found them, but there really wasn’t a lot of them. The lead image is from the Chevy Impala reveal (it’s a 1965 Impala Super Sport with a…
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EV Midget Build – Part 6: Odds and Ends
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The next item on the to-do list for the midget was brakes. We could roll and steer, now we needed to stop. ’40s midgets did not use a brake pedal. Instead, they had a lever on the outside of the vehicle which was actuated by hand. The lever actuated the rear-only brakes. Midgets were drift…