Articles
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The Jalopy Dust Up – Hot Rod Dirt Track Racing
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You don’t see this every day. Guys racing their hot rods on a dirt track. Where do you find such entertainment? Why, New Zealand of course. The Jalopy Dust Up is an annual event held at the scenic Waihi Beach dirt track. Click through for video action of Krazy Kiwi kulture.
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Pink Piranha – 2009 Ford Ka Individual
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You hate it. I hate it. But I’m sure the owner of this three-year old Ford Ka must be madly in love with it. Let me conjure a stereotypical image here: You remember the “Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays” character in Office Space, the annoyingly cheery person in the next cubicle…
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The News for March 16th, 2012
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Welcome to The Hooniverse News: Slow News Week Edition! This is a weekly recap of everything that mattered in the automotive industry (or everything I could find) without the fluff or the BS. I also throw in some opinion, just because I can. This week, enjoy a fine selection of stories I wouldn’t normally…
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Truck Thursday: Walking Dead Edition: Two Jeeps and a Pinzgauer
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Perhaps due to the return of actual zombies in the recent The Walking Dead season finale, or 2012 jitters, it appears that some residents of Salt Lake City have taken the opportunity to outfit themselves with an appropriate escape vehicle. While on a jaunt through the Avenues neighborhood near downtown, I spotted a number of…
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The News for February 24th, 2012
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Welcome to the Hooniverse News! This is a weekly recap of everything you should care about in the automotive industry without the BS or the fluff. I also throw in some opinion, just because I can. This week, it’s [almost] all about high-octane performance cars, so I hope you don’t mind… Bugatti reveals the insane…
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Beautiful Chaos in the Streets Ho Chi Minh City
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Photographer Rob Whitworth lives in Vietnam, and has assembled some 10,000 individual images into a 2-1/2 minute time-lapse look at the insane traffic of Ho Chi Minh City. Despite the obvious danger, congestion and chaos contained therein, the result is a visual fantasia in which scooter-led traffic seems to course through the streets like the…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: Anticipating The Pick
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Just before the Turkey Run last year, this olelongrooffan shared with my fellow Hoons the fact that I had, indeed, purchased another means of transportation from a junkyard. Yeah, my daily driver Comanche was, until then, the most recent purchase following the wrecked E30 I salvaged for a boat load of parts and ebay stuff…
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2012 Anti-Football Run
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Every January 1, classic car enthusiasts from all over the San Francisco Bay Area get together in Sausalito and go for a spirited drive through the hills of Marin and Sonoma Counties. Here are just a few of the cars at 2012’s Run. Be careful, picture intensive, may cause uncontrollable drooling.
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Truck Thursday: Paper Toyota Land Cruisers
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We have all seen little paper cutouts of cars before, but these are special. Really special. First they are extremely detailed and very specific to the Land Cruiser line but also include other models such as the classic Bronco, FJ Cruiser, and even the awesome Jeep Mighty FC Concept. And at prices ranging from only $4 to…
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Last Call- War Huh! That's What it is Good For Edition
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There is so much that is right about this picture that, this being Friday and all, I’m just going to leave this here for you to soak it all in. If you need a bigger soaking, the desktop-sized version may be downloaded here. Image: [Wallz]
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Hooniverse Motorsport News For The Week Of April 2, 2012
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Welcome to the Hooniverse Motorsport News. IndyCar ran a back to back weekend last Sunday at Barber Motorsports Park. Joining IndyCar was the Grand Am circus. Formula 1 was absent from the festivities, but fear not as Australian V8s fired up in Symmons Plains, and WTCC stormed Valencia. After a weekend out west, NASCAR trekked back across…
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Fastback Friday: The Golden Age of Hatchbacks
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Over at Hatchtopia, I’ve ruminated a number of times on an idea that I have – that there used to be a far greater selection of hatchback vehicles than there are today. I don’t have any numerical evidence to back that theory, but I know it to be true. It used to be that a…
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Hooniverse Asks- What's The Most Ludicrous Use Of Hybrid Tech?
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Hybrids are, to many an enthusiast, the automotive equivalent of granny panties. But for those who value efficiency over speed, milage over handling, and smugness above adrenaline-fueled magical laughter, hybrids have carved out a substantial niche. The standard hybrid of the modern era is defined by an internal combustion engine and an electric motor/battery combo…
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Shelby Drop, Roller Spring Perches, a Monte Carlo Bar and other Oddly Named things that Prep a Falcon for Road Rallying
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A little while ago, I filled you in on the experience of roughly 10,000 miles of commuting in my ’64 Falcon. The Falcon proved itself to be a worthy commuter, but phase two of the operation was to transform it from a highway cruiser to a proper(ish) sporting car that might just hold its own…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: On Your Mark, Get Set, Wait A Minute
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So this olelongrooffan was checking out the back lot of the place where I am, finally, gainfully employed and I spotted this curvaceous beauty and thought I might share it with my fellow Hoons. Kind of a V.I.S.I.T. post but in the parking lot.
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition – Three Relatively Inexpensive Special Interest Cars
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Welcome to another Hooniverse Weekend. Throughout the week, I have been highlighting vehicles that are currently for sale at Kevco Classic Car Sales in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. So this weekend will be a series of showdowns featuring their entire inventory, and I thought I would start with these three relatively inexpensive Special Interest Cars,…