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Hooniverse Truck Thursday: Yet Another Caddy From This olelongrooffan
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Yeah, another one from this olelongrooffan. So while this olelongrooffan was visiting the cold white north, I was lucky enough to come across a couple cool old vehicles rarely seen still wandering around out in the wild. This was one of them.
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Hooniverse Motorsport News: Nurburgring 24 Hour!
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While I normally use this space to briefly cover each event from the weekend that most recently evaporated, this week, there was very little motorsport of note, aside from one giant elephant in the room. A DTM event? The NASCAR All-Star race? Indy qualifying? (Friend of the blog, Graham Rahal starts a respectable 12th) Moto…
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Last Call- Jungle Jam Edition
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That 10:00 meeting with Tarzan? Yeah, you’re not going to make it. More on the Chatillon BE Car Graveyard here. Image: [Imgur]
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Julia’s Rotten Rental Car Reviews: 2011 Chevrolet Impala
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Juxtaposed. Snoop Dogg does not approve “Top dolla with the gold flea colla, dippin in my blue Impala?” Well, mine was silver, for one, but this car was so unbelievably mundane that I can’t help but thinking that Snoop Dogg would’ve shaken his head in disgust at this boat sharing the Impala name. Welcome back…
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Hooniverse Classic Trucks Weekend – Unimogs For Sale From All Over The Globe
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This is the Sunday Edition of the Hooniverse Classic Trucks Weekend. Borrowing liberally from the posting Mitch did about a Unimog in Alberta, I thought I would do one of my classic postings with a Poll. The last time I did this was with a grouping of Neoclassics, and we know how that turned out.…
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Porsche Zone Concours at Larz Anderson Auto Museum
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Each year the Larz Anderson Auto Museum in Brookline, MA (formerly Museum of Transportation) puts on a number of “lawn events”. Basically those are themed automotive gatherings. There is the Cadillac Day, the German Car Day, Day of Triumph, Swedish car Day, etc. You get the idea. I have been attending these events for years and they are always filled super…
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Hooniverse Rolex24 Week: It's Finally Race Day
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So this olelongrooffan is sitting between two buddie’s motorcoaches out at the Daytona International Speedway and I thought I would share with my fellow Hoons my Friday of Rolex24 Week, 2012. It started with an excellent viewing of some vintage race cars and then
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Abandoned ERC 90 Sagaie and Panhard VCR Found in France
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Details are somewhat sketchy and the story isn’t new, but it went something like this; some guys who like to explore weird caves and/or bunkers found some abandoned military equipment in an abandoned bunker. They did not seem know much about the bunker but based on the vehicles found it was used well into the…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition – A 1951 Frazer Manhattan 4-Door Convertible on eBay
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Hello and welcome to the Hooniverse whatever I feel like posting weekend. Cars from the early 50s really have no particular interest with me except for the strange world of Kaiser-Frazer. This was a car company that was created right after World War II in 1945, with two captains of industry at the helm. Joseph…
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An 18 Year Old Audi Goes 242 Miles Per Hour
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While Audi’s Quattro all-wheel-drive system has been notorious for providing excellent control in slippery and changing conditions, very few have viewed it as an advantage on the salt pans of Bonneville. Beginning in 2008, Jeff Gerner set off on a journey with his UrS4 to set records, and this year, that’s exactly what he has…
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Mystery Car
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If you’re even half-way familiar with the history of the JFK assassination, then you likely know about something called the Zapruder Film. That’s a piece of amateur footage that some say shows a puff of smoke from a grassy knoll along the motorcade’s path which supposedly calls into question Lee Harvey Oswald’s infamous but noteworthy marksmanship. That…
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Hooniverse Motorsport News For The Weekend Of April 30, 2012
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Welcome to the Hooniverse Motorsport News. This weekend, a bit of rain ended some races prematurely and made for some exciting racing. Elsewhere, desert heat and sunshine were the weather du jour. F1 was on hiatus this weekend, and the American Le Mans Series is gearing up for a 6 hour enduro at Laguna Seca…
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Back to Nature – Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz
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A while ago, I posted a very nice 1980 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz. After that body style, Cadillac downsized the Eldorado even further, resulting in the smoothed-over 1986-1991 Eldorado generation that we have here. My intention is not to symbolize the Eldorado’s downsizing as a downfall of sorts, but this example I found on a body…
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Black Stallion – 1983 Mercedes-Benz W123 250DT "ST"
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Much in the same vein as the recent white W123 post, this black beast of a Mercedes is a quintessentially Finnish build. It’s one of the famed “Superturbo” kit Mercs, which have been built in the Finnish countryside for quite a while now, and it’s clearly related to the Black Smoke W123 wagon that’s been…
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EV Midget Build – Part 5: Metal Work
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The midget project was beginning to take shape. I now had a midget that could roll around the garage – and even be steered – at my whim. It was a real gas. But there was more work to be done. Despite the decision to stay with a patina/rat rod look, there were a few…
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Last Call- Isle of Capri Meets Island of Dr Moreau Edition
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The last generation of the Mercury Capri, the two-seat convertible based on the Mazda 323, never got much love especially having to live in the shadow of its distant cousin, the MX5. Still, even so lamentable a car doesn’t deserve being converted into a convertipickafinamino. Image: [Imgur]