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Hooniverse Asks- What’s the Most Insane OEM Wheels on the Wrong Car Pic You Can Find?
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Some people are sufficiently competent to install one manufacturer’s propulsive device under the hoods of other manufacturer’s propulsive device-requiring machinery – i.e. drop an SBC into Smart Car. For the rest, Island of Dr. Moreau fantasies may only be satisfied with simpler melding of brands – such as the bolting on of wheels. After…
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Mechatronik: Classic Mercedes Looks with Modern Power
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The thing about old cars is that often time their street performance isn’t always up to modern standards. Those with restored classic cars and the desire to drive them daily have to share the road with monsters such as V6 Camrys driven by people who stream their music while sipping their soy fraps. Like it…
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Top Gear Season 18 Is Now Available for Your Viewing Pleasure
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The eighteenth season of TopGear has begun and our friends (ok, we don’t really know them, but I’m sure they’re cool) at FinalGear.com have it available for you in HD here and SD here. After the jump are two preview videos which you have seen. Also, feel free to discuss this week’s episode. I won’t…
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Wagon Wednesday: Trabant Wagon with Alfa Romeo Engine Swap
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The Trabant, be in a “sedan” (actually a coupe, but who’s counting the doors) or wagon version, was a miserable vehicle, even by Eastern European standards. All this misery was powered by a miserable two-cylinder, two-stroke engine. I still remember from my childhood days how people used to mix gas and oil at gas stations, often cursing at getting…
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Hooniverse Asks- Are You Known For Your Car-Affiliation?
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Carroll Shelby will forever be inexorably linked to his epochal Cobra sports cars. No matter that prior to their inception he had a pretty successful racing career, or that his Southern California shops also turned out a butt-load of other successful racers and road cars, he’ll always be the Cobra guy. We should all have…
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The News for April 20th, 2012
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Welcome to the Hooniverse News! This is a weekly recap of the automotive industry’s biggest stories without the fluff or the BS. I also throw in some opinion, just because I can. This week: More details on the Mercedes-Benz G63 and G65 AMG Dodge Dart gets reasonably priced Audi buys Ducati as AMG ends their…
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Hooniverse Asks: Bonus Volvo Edition: What do you think of the 2013 Volvo V40?
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I chuckle when I read that images of a car which has not yet been revealed leak out onto the internet. Such unfortunate leak recently happened at Volvo, where detailed images and video of the new 2013 V40 leaked onto the internet. Since we have many fans of the Swedish brand here, tell me Hoons, what do…
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Hooniverse Malaise Era Low Mileage Weekend Edition – A 1979 MG Midget with 12,000 Miles
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Almost a year ago I did a posting for another Low Mileage Weekend Edition, and highlighted this MG Midget. Well, it’s time to discover another MG Midget, this time with almost double the mileage, yet I suspect that many of you will still be repulsed by it.
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Can You Tell Why I Like These Coffee Cups?
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These Tri coffee or tea cups, made by the Finnish ceramics design company Amfora, are my favorites. Whenever I get the taste for something good and dark-roasted, it’s these cups I most often use. Looking at them, you can probably tell why.
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Hooniverse Asks- What’s The Weirdest French Car? (Weird Week)
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Man, this Weird Week is going even better than I expected with yesterday you all pulling odd-bodkin Brits out of the woodwork like Arthur pulled Excalibur from the stone. It was pretty epic. I expect no less today as we delve into a nation whose automobiles – for the most part – define weird. France…
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Modern Art Monday – 1965 Fiat 1300
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Before it’s time to get this Easter done with, here’s a very pretty eggshell white 1965 Fiat 1300 saloon. You almost never see Fiats like this driving around except for club meetings; most old Fiats are 600:s or other rear-engined little tiddlers. The 1300 is a good-looking, tall-sided family saloon that has a hint of…
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Modern Art Monday: Long. Low. And. Blue?
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Last week while the Hooniverse Prolotariat was conspicuous by their absense, Dearthair from over at Atomic Toasters stepped in to provide moral support to we contributors and even chimed in with a few posts of his own. A couple of them were about Cadillac SeriesSixtys and 75s. Even though this olelongrooffan thought I knew the…
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Video: Fear is not an option when unloading cars from a flatbed truck
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Maximizing the amount of cargo carried is the smart way for truck drivers to make the most money per trip. It doesn’t matter if it’s a truck full of rutabagas, Playstations, or even automobiles. One daredevil of delivery man was tasked with packing his cargo of cars onto the cozy confines of his raised flatbed…
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Hooniverse Tudor Tuesday: The Shared Platform Edition, Part Two
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Since this post is this olelongrooffan’s 327th since the Hooniverse Overlords foolishly gave bestowed upon me a key to the vault right at two years ago, I thought I would pop up this 1979 Impala coupe that could, at least theoretically, could have a 327 installed in it.
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International Wagonmaster! Master! Your Gas Burns Faster!
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This one’s agruably a better fit for Truck Thusday, but the auction ends today, so we’ll take International Harvester’s word for it that this is indeed the Master of the Wagons. What’s that? You’re not familiar with the Wagonmaster? While most of us know our Scouts 80s, 800s, IIs and Travelalls, fewer of us know…
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Circle Track Circling the Drain: Irwindale Speedway Closing
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As of last weekend, Southern California appears to be less one racing venue as the 1/2-mle asphalt oval at Irwindale is said to have closed. The Pasadena Star News reports track workers received their final checks last Thursday, and the weekend saw the dismantling of the pit-side grandstands and clearing of the business offices. The…