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Hooniverse Weekend Edition – A 1961 Chevy Apache 4X4 Panel Truck
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Continuing on with our Vintage Panel Truck Weekend, and here is an odd one. It’s a Chevrolet Apache 4X4 Panel Van, which is rather rare, and very desirable. The pictures leave a lot to be desired, but one can forgive such transgressions for this particular vehicle. Want to see more? then make the jump…
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Mystery Car Bonus: Everything's So Blurry
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I snapped this photo under pressure (meaning I couldn’t get my phone out of my pocket in time for a respectable photo.) Still, I was rather pleased with it’s artistic merit. What say you Hoons? Schmo did gud? Now find your inner CSI and enhance that thing. Make and model will do.
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Everything You Need to Know About Formula 1 in One Image
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Do you remember a time when a steering wheel was just a steering wheel? I wish I could. Source: Cars Move Us
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Hooniverse Truck Thursday: Let's Travel To The Harvest, Shall We?
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My fellow Hoons, I realize this could fit equally in the Hooniverse Wagon Wednesday as well as the Hooniverse Truck Thursday section of this ever growing blog of which this olelongrooffan is so honored to be a part. I chose to include it on Truck Thursday as this olelongrooffan spotted it while at work (ssshhh..don’t…
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Jackie Stewart – Weekend Of A Champion
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The roar of Cosworth DFV V8s filled the air in 1971. Sir Jackie Stewart slid his Tyrrell-Ford to victory from pole in the 1971 Monaco Grand Prix. While the Monaco race is always a special one, this one was even more exciting for Stewart. He would be followed for the entire weekend by friend…
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Last Call- Hood-lums Edition
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I don’t know which is the bigger travesty, someone scratching a swastika and ‘JDM’ into this BMW’s carbon fiber hood, or someone putting a carbon fiber hood on this BMW. Upon further election, the biggest travesty is the zip-tie holding the kidneys in place. Image: [Imgur]
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Quick Shift: Take A Collector Car However You Can Get It
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I would suspect that if you drive one of these or… [keep reading]
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The News for May 4th, 2012
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Welcome to the Hooniverse News! This is a weekly recap of the biggest stories from the automotive industry without the fluff or the BS. I also throw in some opinion, just because I can. This week: The Nissan Juke-R is headed to limited production Volkswagen Polo R Line is headed to Europe Ford Focus ST…
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Hooniverse Asks- What are Your Plans for $5-Gallon Gas?
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I have this theory. I think that every time there’s an event that can be even remotely connected to oil production, the producing companies raise the price to hair on fire levels, and then slowly drop it back to somewhere lower, but still more than it was before. This makes people feel like they’re getting…
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Ferrari F40…Weak In The Knees…Video…My God!
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With glorious sound and amazingly beautiful videography, this is definitely worth a few minutes of your time to sit down, turn it up, and enjoy. What others in your office will likely call noise, you are more likely to know as the sound of pure glory. This is the reason man crawled from the primordial…
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Some Of The Cars Of Truly Nolan
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So this past weekend while this olelongrooffan was bursting at the seams with pride over my youngun graduating high school down in Fantasyland, I managed gather up a few images of some of Truly Nolan’s antique automobile billboards. The first one of my fellow Hoons to identify the vehicle in the above image gets some…
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The Art of The Auto Show: The Just For Our Commenters Edition
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So this past weekend down here in the World Center of Racing was a huge car show with tons of cool new and old cars. I spotted about $10,000,000.00 worth of cars in about three minutes. Yeah, it was pretty freakin awesome and this olelongrooffan thought I might share a few images I gathered up…
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Nissan to Rejoin V8 Supercar Championship in 2013
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There have been rumours flying around for several days about a major announcement over in the world of V8 Supercars. Many had speculated of the possibility that Nissan or Chrysler or both would be joining the fray to take on the likes of Holden and Ford in what had been a two-make series. This was…
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Modern Art Monday: In The Lot At The National Corvette Museum
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If you read any of my posts here over the weekend, you do know there is a Hooniverse Weekend Edition by now don’t you? Anyway, this olelongrooffan got to visit the National Corvette Museum over the weekend.
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Mazda and Alfa Sitting in a Tree
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The big news of the day is: Mazda Motor Corporation (Mazda) and Fiat Group Automobiles S.p.A. (Fiat) have signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the development and manufacturing of a new roadster for the Mazda and Alfa Romeo marques based on Mazda’s next-generation MX-5 rear-wheel-drive architecture. I am looking forward to a reliable…
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Last Call- Argument Against Vinyl Upholstery Edition
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While this is arguably the greatest parking permit on the planet, there is an issue with the car upon which it was found. It seems unfortunate to go to a nude beach to show off your Morris Minor. Image: [Hooniverse 2012, Rob Emslie]