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Truck Thursday: 2013 Mazda BT-50 – The Small Pickup We Can't Have
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Sigh. Ford has said that, despite between 70,000-200,000 annual sales in the last decade, it did not make financial sense for them to sell a small pickup truck in the United States (or something along those lines). Head scratch. Being that this little Mazda is built right along the new Ford Ranger in other parts of the…
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Last Call- Rainbow Car-nection Edition
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You may have many colorful matchbox, Hotwheels, or Dinky, but do you have enough to do your own art installation in the form of a giant toy car rasta hat? See if you can name all the cars starting with the white one in the center! Image source: [David T. Waller via thisiscolossal]
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Hooniverse Asks- What’s the Worst Pickup Truck Add-on Ever?
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There isn’t a category of car that doesn’t have some advocate for adornment in its corner, and some of the most offensive are pickup truck owners. Who else would festoon their vehicle with a disembodied pair of gentleman’s marbles like the rendered safe for work image above? Sure, Ricers may aerodynamicize their rides beyond comprehension,…
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EV Midget Build – Part 7: Wiring, Body, and Test Drive
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Four cables looping back and forth from the throttle assembly to the resistor pack. This crazy idea of mine was about to come to life. The midget only needed wiring to be fully functional car. (Car? Toy? I don’t know, or care.) So, off we set, plying our electrical skills. Click it for more…
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Last Call- Variable Speedo Wiper Edition
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You can keep your peeing Calvins, your praying Calvins, and your cutsie family stickers. I say, if you’re gonna’ do back glass, go big or go home, and this speedo wiper is pretty durn big. Image: [Imgur.com]
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NYIAS – It's Truck Thursday, So it must be time for Trucks at the Show
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Yes it is Truck Thursday, and here are some of the trucks that were on the display floor. Usually, the trucks and commercial vehicles are located on the lower floor of the show, and Ford decided to group their trucks with more than a few Mustangs (????). Chevrolet and GMC trucks were grouped together, and…
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Vettes of the May 1st Cruise
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We’re nearing the end of the megalomaniacal photo post bonanza of early May. And as no US car cruise is complete without a dedicated Corvette parade, that’s exactly what we’re seeing here. The first one to be posted is a cool-as-hell sunshine yellow Corvette C2. Perfect colour combination right there.
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Hagerty puts out its Top Threatened, Endangered, and Extinct Lists
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The Hagerty insurance company has put together a few lists, and the focus is on vehicles that are described as threatened, endangered, or extinct. For a car to be considered threatened, it has to have had a production run greater than 10,000 units and now Hagerty insures less than 25 of them. Endangered cars see…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition – A 1959 Fiat 600 Multipla Project
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Continuing on with our journey through the Other Makes category of eBay, and this time I thought I would dispense with all the high-caliber makes like BMW, Iso, Holden, Maserati, Rover or even Graham, and present this Fiat 600 Multipla Van Thingy Project. This version of the Fiat 600 was produced from 1956 until 1969,…
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Hooniverse interviews Wayne Carini
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Inspired by Bradley’s interview with Graham Rahal, I decided to conduct a series of my own interviews with people from within the automotive industry. My second victim interviewee is Wayne Carini, owner of F40 Motorsports and the host of Velocity’s Chasing Classic Cars. I would like to point out that this interview stuff is not easy. The venue that…
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Night Rider – 1990 Mazda 323F
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I’m a hidden headlight enthusiast. Not one to keep my light under a bushel about it, I think the best feature on a sporty ’80s-’90s car is the ability to pop up the headlights at will – even when the car is an affordable little FWD hatchback with sporting pretentions. So, the logical thing to…
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Hooniverse Asks- What Car or Truck is Your White Whale?
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Call me Ishmael. Or Ish Kabibble, I’m that easy. In the thus-named merchant marine, Ahab, the fated captain of the Pequod, finds a worthy documentarian. He also discovers that finally capturing the object of your obsession has consequences beyond comprehension, and in Ahab’s case, saying that he’d get that whale if it’s the last thing he…
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Wagon Wednesday: '63 Chevy Nova Wagon
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Recently we had some internal discussions here at the Hoon about how we don’t do enough cool cars from CraigsList and how we do too much about new cars, and how we are forgetting why Hooniverse started. Very well, off to the list that Craig created I went and I found this beauty, which is perfect Hooniverse…
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Hooniverse Neo-Classical Weekend – The Journey of the Excalibur; From Sporty to Cartoonish.
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Continuing on with the Hooniverse Neo-Classical Weekend, and I want to take time to discuss one of the oldest Neo-Classics, the Excalibur. This car was designed by Industrial Designer Brooks Stevens, and was styled after the 1928 Mercedes-Benz SSK. So let’s see how the Excalibur went from becoming a true performance car to one that…
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Black Smoke Racing Team Releases Best of 2011 Compilation
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Remember Black Smoke Racing Team, the crafty Finnish drift dastards behind the smokesome super-turbodiesel W123 wagons?The team just put out a compilation clip today (a day after Wagon Wednesday, handily enough) and it’s seven minutes of offbeat badass drifting set to offbeat badass music. Make the jump to enjoy the video. It’s worth it, I…
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Last Call- Nice Rack Edition
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As cars have become infinitely more reliable, and requiring of less regular maintenance, certain aspects of the Service Station service has faded from our lexicon. One of those was the lube rack, where regular application of axle grease was applied through the various grease nipples, or Zerk fittings, common throughout chassis’ back in the day.…