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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: How To Stack Tires In V8 Supercar Racing
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In an effort to “gear up” for next weekend’s Roar Before The 24 out at the Daytona International Speedway, this olelongrooffan spent most of this New Year’s Day on you tube checking out racing videos and missing Mr. Scroggs. I came across this old video and while I’ve seen it a bunch of times (hell,…
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Project Phoenix: Tom learns a lesson edition
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Project Phoenix, for those of you not in the know, is the ongoing story of my friend Tom and his 1969 Pontiac Firebird. The car was purchased for a solid price, considering it’s in good shape for a daily driven car approaching its 44th birthday. Tom and I have replaced the carpet, he’s had the…
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Jason Bright Shows Hooniverse Some Love
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We’ve talked before about what a gentleman Jason Bright has been to Hooniverse. He’s spent a great deal of time chatting with us, and has been only too open about giving us some insight to the world of racing. It would be an understatement to say that we’re grateful; one of the main reasons we…
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Last Call- Lambo Comparo Edition
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For some reason, there was a period of time when a lot of car makers compared their products – often favorably – to those of Lamborghini. And while the Volvo 740 Turbo wagon was undeniably a great car, and Daihatsu’s Hijet MPV was. . . well, efficient, it’s doubtful many teenaged car nuts had posters…
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Foreign Domestic: 1956 Dodge Regent
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Here in the mythical land of Canada, back in the 1950’s, Chrysler of Canada decided that they needed a car all their own to sell in Dodge showrooms that would give them something unique and distinctive. As was so often the case with the Chrysler Corporation, they did not exactly succeed brilliantly.
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California Ford Falcon XB
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Several years ago, we Yanks enthusiastically appropriated the Australian slang term “hoon”. Just look at our eponymously named blog, for example. Well, this Falcon XB, on terra americanus, is the embodiment of hoon. [Editor’s Note: Click Here]
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Last Call- Hook 'Em Horns Edition
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You’ve spent a long day bolting a prized pair of Longhorn headgear on the front of your massive W140. And that was after you took steps to ensure that even Helen Keller could tell the Benz sported dual exhaust. So now what you gonna’ do? Well, apparently, you’re going to head down to Wendy’s, because…
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LA Craigslist: JDM RHD Datsun 510
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Our own esteemed Robert Emslie sent this into our tips line (which is also spammy email group where we exchange about 10000 emails a day). In his email he referenced a solo sex act that perhaps this could be relevant to hoon interests. Jeff agreed, but noted that it would require some some fixin’ and a price change.…
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Hooniverse Classic Caption – The 1973 Ford LTD Edition
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It’s Monday, so it must be time for the Hooniverse Classic Caption Contest. Hooniverse is fast becoming one of the most engaging Automotive sites on the web, and we have the fans to prove it, and the Classic Captions category is the perfect example of how engaging our fans are. Let’s review how this game…
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The 1962 Daytona Continental: A Photographic Retrospective
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The year was 1962, and the Daytona International Speedway was barely three years old. NASCAR and DIS president Mr. William France Sr. was oddly intrigued by diminutive sports racers and wished to have his newly built track brought into the limelight on the world stage. As such, he requested that Daytona be the first round…
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Last Call- It Isn't Easy Riding Green Edition
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Designed by Young Choppers (bikes starting at $25K) this Harley-based Mean Low Green is an example of retro-deconstruction. The leather seating surface is supported by a stitched leather surround, and the whole thing looks about as comfortable as riding a cab-over rhinoceros. It’s still an amazing-looking beast, a mixing art and function, and as evidenced…
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Pictoral: Outsmarting a Scumbag
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Everyone has witnessed, or perhaps been involved in, a fight over a parking spot. This one maybe better than any you have seen before. If a picture is worth a thousand words, below is 7000 words arranged in a chronological order. [Source: Imgur, via Reddit]
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In Search Of The Perfect Parking Spot
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Ostiusionophobia: <Late 20th-c. From L. Ostium “Door”, L. Sionem “Dent”> The irrational fear of door dings. I may have made up the name of the condition, but the condition itself is real. I know because I am afflicted with it. I don’t see it as abnormal, but those who ride in my car certainly do. …
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Hooniverse Asks- What’s the Weirdest Interior Feature Ever?
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So there I was, just outside the Lodge at Pebble Beach, about to walk on to one of the world’s most famous golf courses and bear witness to what, every year is of the greatest assemblies of automotive awesomeness on the planet, and I was staring at a coach-built Rolls Royce with a toilet in…
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Wagon Wednesday: Wagonmasters Film Trailer
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(Picture only slightly related to film) “The car that was once the quintessential image of the American Dream is all but dead – at least for most people.” – Wagonmasters website For every type, make, model, and style of car, there is a following. Part of the station wagon’s following is the Documentary Film Program…
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Postcards from a Peugeot: Part 2
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[singlepic id=3181 w=720 float=] Considering how the day before had ended up, we both slept surprisingly well. Severe tiredness had probably contributed to our success in finding slumber, but looking at our surroundings this morning, and hearing the trucks as trundle past our parked Peugeot, we would almost certainly have struggled to kip under any…