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Hooniverse Malaise Era Low Mileage Weekend – A 1981 Volkswagen Rabbit L with 8,200 Miles
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This will be my next to last posting for this Weekend Edition, and I hope you have enjoyed all the postings. Remember when Volkswagen made Rabbits in Pennsylvania? No? Are you too young to remember that experiment? Well, here’s one to refresh your memory. This is a very basic Rabbit L with the only option…
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Last Call- Shortcut Edition
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Despite the ubiquity of GPS devices on cell phones, and in add-on and in-dash navigation units, it’s always comforting to see an old fashion road sign letting you know you’re going in the right direction. Might be a good idea to gas up first before heading out though. Image: [Imgur.com]
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Wrenching Tips: The Concept of Vacuum
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This week’s Wrenching Tips is less about tips or tricks, but wrapping your head around a very useful concept for diagnosing engines, particularly badly running carbureted ones. Your motor is an air pump. It dedicates half of its to pulling in or pushing out gasses. In between, it converts chemical energy to motion and heat.…
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Daytona 24: The Start
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The start of the race was an amazing experience. Shortly after the awesome flyover, I bore witness to one of the coolest starts in all of motor racing. The start of the season. It is a surreal feeling knowing that this is the first time of the year that anyone in major American based sports…
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Last Call- Hot Body Kit Edition
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Steve was so excited about his Civic’s new ground effects that he forgot entirely about its exhaust’s effects. Image source: [quadcammer32 via the car lounge]
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Fastback Friday: A Muscular Mustang Show Circa Nineteen-Eighty-Something
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This past weekend, I had a homecoming in more than one sense. Firstly, of course, I went back home to Kalamazoo, Michigan to visit a friend for his birthday. Being just minutes from my childhood home, I had to stop in for a hot meal cooked by my tremendous mother (happy early mothers day, Mom!).…
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Hooniverse Asks- What’s Your Favorite Fantasy Corvette?
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The Corvette marque is closing in on 60 years old, an age were one typically slows down and takes it a little easier. Not the Corvette however, it just keeps getting faster and more Corvettier. But one thing that such an age brings – especially for a halo car like the ‘Vette – is a…
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Hooniverse Asks- What Car or Truck Models Need To Die This Year?
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Here’s a shocker for you, we’re only about two weeks away from being able to call the first quarter of 2012 history. That’s three months down, only eight and a half to go before you’re forced to spend the holidays with your relatives again. Sorry for being a Debbie Downer. Much like those annoying…
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The News for January 20th, 2012
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Welcome to the Hooniverse News: Relatively Slow News Week Edition! This is a weekly recap of all the automotive news you should care about we could find without the fluff from a hyper salesman and without the dullness from an executive in a suit. We also throw in some opinion because we can. This week you get…
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Hooniverse Wagon Wednesday – An Avocado 1974 Ford Pinto Wagon
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Here at Hooniverse we have a long standing tradition of showcasing forgotten, and sometimes regrettable wagons on Wednesday, and here’s one now. This is a pristine, Avocado Green 1974 Ford Pinto Wagon that is well equipped. The only thing missing is the Vinyl Wood overlay with good reason… It’s not a Squire.
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2012 NAIAS Other Interesting Cars
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Not to beat a dead horse, but here your final NAIAS post. I was browsing other automotive publications, it’s ok we all do it, and I noticed that many of them picked their NAIAS favorites. Some had one, some had several, but all consisted of either prototypes, concept cars, or the Aston Martin Rapide Ford…
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Modern Art Monday – 1970 Mercedes-Benz W114
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Last Friday, walking to the City Hall, I photographed this stately and admirable cream-coloured Mercedes. I’ve mostly accustomed to expect every old Mercedes-Benz to be diesel as default, as they’ve most often done long-distance duty for living; so I was pleasantly surprised to find out it was instead a 250 sedan, with a 146-horse 2.5-litre…
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Modern Art Monday – A 1965 Imperial; Once you see it, you can't un-see it!
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Well, I don’t usually do a Monday Piece (Since I stopped doing the Classic Caption Contest that is), but I have just a bit of time to show you all this thing. This 1965 Imperial looks a little pimped out from the front, but you have to make the jump to see the rest…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition Last Call – An Evil Monarch…
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To close out this Malaise Era Weekend… Why not a Mercury Monarch Malaise Era Rat Rod? By the way, this car is for sale.
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Hooniverse Asks- What's The Most Vastly Underrated Performance Upgrade Engine?
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You know, when you think about what engine you might want to wedge under the hood of your home built hot rod, kit car, or what have you, there are a couple of staples that will always come to mind. The first is most likely a Chevy V8, either in old school SBC form or…
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Video: Carousing Champions On Two Wheels And Four
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Barry Sheene and James Hunt were, quite possibly, a pair of the most boisterous and flagrant revelers in the history of motorsport, and possibly the world. Last year, British television channel ITV produced a documentary encompassing the lives of Sheene and Hunt in 1976 when they each won their respective world championships. Though they lived and competed…