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Absolutely Stunning: 1932 DeSoto Hot Rod
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Count on the Saucy Minx herself to drag us back to our roots. This tip comes from the always exotic Murilee Martin, and it comes at just the right time. Enough of this nonsense about new cars. Enough of new Hyundais and Volvos, enough of generic jellybean designs. Let’s get back to basics. And it…
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ICON Reformer Project: The New Aston Martin DB4 GT Volante
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From ICON, the maker of some awesome 4X4s: Back in 1960, Aston Martin wanted to put the hurtin’ on Ferrari with their new DB4 GT, so they went to the masters at Zagato to have a lighter weight body designed and built. The chief of the transportation department at the time was Ercole Spada. Mr.…
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Wrenching Tips: Tools You Didn't Know You Needed
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The Dunning-Kruger effect explains much about society on the whole. The gist is that the incompetent tend not to realize they’re incompetent. Why? Because they lack the competence to recognize it. We’d never go so far as to call our readers incompetent (ourselves, on the other hand…), but we will point out that the purpose…
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Last Call- Neon Knights Edition
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Whether you are a Ozzy-edition Black Sabbath fan, or more appreciate the later, Ronnie James Dio-fronted version of the group, there’s no doubt that the band’s pulsing dirge rock can make for an excellent soundtrack to a fast car and a Friday night on the town. After all, Bloodied angels fast descending Moving on a…
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Hooniverse Wagon Wednesday – Wagons of the May 1st Cruise
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As promised, here are a few more cruising cars from yesterday’s May Day cruise – wagons this time. It seems VW Buses and US-made beaters are wagons of choice for the wrenching individual.
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Wrenching Tips: Let's Go Shopping, Round Three: Online Suppliers
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For previous Let’s Go Shopping adventures, we talked more about how to shop than where to shop…partially because giving a thumbs-up to a given retailer reads a lot like advertising. While we’d be happy to run ads from any of these vendors, we want to assure you that this time around it’s entirely uncompensated. In fact, given…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: The "Surprise Car": E 30 Anyone?
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It’s New Year’s Eve and this olelongrooffan is home by 8:30 (I don’t like to mingle with the rookies this night of the year) and, as such, this will probably most likely be a long, wordy post in my “pseudo folksy” style so my fellow Hoons might want to grab a fresh cup of java,…
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Hooniverse Weekekd Edition – Glastonbury AACA Show; Some Vantastic Vans
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Last weekend, I decided to go to the 38th annual Antique Auto Meet that was held in Glastonbury Connecticut and as you can tell from my other postings, I decided to highlight some of the iron that was at the show for this weekend. Here are three Vantastic Vans that made it to this event…
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NYIAS Mystery Car!
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When the great Mr. Emsile does Mystery Car on Fridays he writes something clever or thought provoking here. I won’t do that. You know the drill: make, model, engine and/or motor.
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Last Call- World's Worst Job Edition
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As a teacher, Leonard understood the elimination of the music and art programs due to budget cuts. He did however take exception to the cost cutting measures’ impact on the driver ed program. Image: [Imgur]
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Two Wheel Tuesday: "I Need A Tent Trailer"
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This olelongrooffan has previously mentioned that I am now gainfully employed hawking trailers for a living. All sorts of trailers, car haulers both enclosed and open, regular old cargo trailers, open utility trailers, heavy equipment trailers. All sorts.
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Pony Cars and Ponies – A New Hooniverse Rivalry
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It’s safe to say that pretty much everyone here at Hooniverse is a huge fan of the 24 Hours of Lemons. It’s like Le Mans endurance racing, only without the multi-million dollar racing programs and team trailers that cost more than a typical neighborhood. Each car at any given Lemons event has to be…
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BMW Motorsport: BMW M635CSi E24
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As I’m constantly running into things to fix with my Mitsubishi, I’ve now visited the local Mitsubishi garage numerous times. Of course, it might all be a ruse to make it possible for me to ogle at these two absolutely perfect M-series BMW:s. The garage is also a BMW specialist, and the M classics have…
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One-off 1938 Peugeot Competition
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Tripoli Grand Prix, held from 1925 until 1940, was held outside the city of Tripoli, in what is today known as Libya. At the time it was an Italian colony in northern Africa and the race was actually set up as a mean to raise tourism to the region. History tells that the Tripoli Grand…
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Hooniverse Rolex24 Weekend Edition: The Garage and The Horseshoes Edition
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This dead tired olelongrooffan, unlike fellow Hoon Bradley Brownell, was able to stay and see the end of the Rolex24 Hours at the Daytona International Speedway. Unfortunately, the timing of Brad’s flight back to the home of the Rock & Roll Museum was such that he had to be at the airport a half hour…
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Wrenching Tips: Bolting and Unbolting
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This week we’ll be getting back into more tips involving, you know, actual wrenching. Like, with wrenches. Specifically, these our our tips for making your life easier when it comes to cracking ’em loose and snugging ’em up.