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  As I sat in my folding chair at the 2011 Fathers’ Day car show in Wendover, Nevada, I watched several of the other participants buzzing around the parking lot in golf carts, Jazzy scooters, and a motorized cooler.  It was then that it hit me.  Let’s put a golf cart drivetrain in the midget…

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I always had the idea, I finally had the engine block, and now came the hardest part – actually getting it home. There are few problems with that: first, I live in a high-rise condo in the middle of a city, meaning that it pretty much has to be finished before it gets there. Second, my…

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Last Saturday, I took a quick peek at the local American Car Show here in Kokkola, Finland. More from the four-wheeled display pieces later, but here’s a glance at the two-wheel goodness that occupied an another room at the venue.

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In 1986, the skunkworks division of Mercedes-Benz unleashed an unholy beast upon the world. It arrived in four-door form by way of the W124 E-Class sedan, and it had its guts reworked by way of the mad minds at AMG. Called the AMG Hammer, the AMG engineers started with a 300E, and promptly bolted in…

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This car was listed on eBay and it just closed this evening without a single bid. It it being sold by the Daniel Schmitt & Co. classic car dealership in St. Louis. With the exception of the Two-Tone paint job, it was about as basic as one could purchase for the year. Six-Cylinder engine, three-speed…

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This is a continuation of the Hooniverse Interesting Project Car weekend, and it’s time to take a look at the rarest car of the weekend, a 1964 Isuzu Bellel Diesel Sedan. I know what most of you are thinking right now… But Jim, isn’t that suppose to ba an Isuzu Bellett? Why no it isn’t,…

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A while back when I was working a saturday shift at my very part time valet job, low and behold, I hear the sound of some whiny Italian V-8.

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I hope you all enjoyed the Hooniverse Malaise Era Low Mileage Weekend, and as the last post for Saturday I thought I would go deep into the Malaise with two large Fords, each with 2-Doors, acres of Plastiwood, wide bench seating, multiple opera windows, stand-up hood ornaments, and more vinyl than a Tupperware factory. Yes,…

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This weekend, I though I would uncover a couple of discontinued vehicles and dive into how old they really were. I’m sorry to all of you foreign car buffs, but this will deal with domestic iron only, but you are all free to discuss your favorite make, and tell us how old it really was.…

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So this olelongrooffan was chatting it up with my brother, Bus-Plunge, the other day and he was talking about his bus. I mentioned he should write something up so I could share it with my fellow Hoons. Well, my fellow Hoons should make the jump to see and read more about it.

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Welcome to the Sunday Edition of the Hooniverse Interesting Project Car Weekend. This is the weekend posting that finds unusual and sporty affordable cars that once fixed up can participate in events like the one our own Jim Yu wrote about a few days ago. (By the way, you can click here to read that…

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We tend to praise the racers of days gone by for their balls of depleted uranium. While still dangerous today, racing in the 1950s and 1960s was damn near a death sentence. It’s not that they didn’t want to be safe, it’s just they didn’t know any better. However, even in those heady days of…

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  After the need for the Mustang II was over Ford went back to the drawing board to bring the Mustang back to it’s roots. It was time to move the Mustang out of the Seventies and head towards the next decade. No one at Ford could have predicted  the chassis  would last in production…

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Welcome to the Sunday Version of “It’s 1987” Weekend. Judging from all the comments, there are a few grumblings about this weekend theme, so let me set the record straight. I could choose to have a theme, and write up all the great cars that were available from a said year, but you can go…

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It was a cold northern Ohio weekend when a co-worker of mine invited me on a rusty car spotting trip.  Hitting a number of locations, be they closed dealerships, scrap yards, sales lots, or repair shops, there was just a little bit of something for everyone.  To be honest, I was drawn in by the…

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Carl sent in the pictures of this very interesting forklift. Now, I only know two things about forklifts and they are both wrong, but this thing sure as heck does not look like any forklift I have ever seen. According to Carl the owner of this thing is Mike Bennett of Purdy, Missouri. He says…

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