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Plastic Predator – 2001 Volvo S60
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Yes, it’s a Volvo underneath all that.. work. This 2001 S60 was spotted – and re-spotted – by a photographer friend Joose P, who did an excellent job on the Dacia Duster review photos earlier. The S60 is not one of the cars one would expect to receive a Predator-style plastic/glassfibre makeover, but with this…
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The News for February 3rd, 2012
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Welcome to the Hooniverse News! This is a weekly recap of all the things you should care about in the automotive industry without the fluff of a hyper salesman and without the dullness of an executive at a press conference. I also throw in some opinion just because I can. This week: Fiat goes…
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Custom 1946 Dodge COE is further proof of the excellence of our readership
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The winters may be long in Vermont, but for Hooniverse-reader Joe they serve as a time to stay warm by way of fabrication. In fact, it took three (described by Joe as “long”) winters for his 1946 Dodge COE to come to life. For those of you asking what COE means, it refers to the…
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Wagon Wednesday: Mercedes 450SEL Crayford Estate
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Haye writes: According to the ad the British company Crayford built a limited series of these estates (about 80) that were officially sold by Mercedes Benz in England and the USA. Because of the high price only 15 of those were the long wheelbase top version 450 SEL. Sophia Loren and Cher Bono (From Sonny…
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Hooniverse Asks- The New Dodge Dart Looks Like The Old Dodge Neon, is That A Good or Bad Thing?
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Is Dodge taking a risk in going modestly retro with the styling of their new small car? While the company has found great success with their ’70s-aping Challenger and Charger, and though having culled its name from that same era, the new Alfa-based 2013 Dart’s styling cues reach back only as far as the last…
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Hoonivercinema: The Beverly Hills Cop II Intro Sequence
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The second installment to the Beverly Hills Cop movie series has one of my favorite title sequences. As Axel Foley, Eddie Murphy takes his Ferrari 328 GTS to work through Detroit morning traffic, accompanied by a Bob Seger soundtrack. There are Ferrari engine noises, there’s some inspiring driving and there’s also a number of continuity…
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Hooniverse Asks- What’s The Best Spy Car? (Spy Week)
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Today we’re kicking off Spy Week here on Hooniverse Asks, and of course what better way to start than with what, in your opinion, is the best spy car out there. Spys, secret agents, moles, whatever you call them, these men – and women – of international intrigue fill our fantasies with visions of perfectly…
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A literary journey where the focus is a love for two-wheeled machines
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Frederick Seidel is an American poet who’s, to date, lived quite an interesting life. He’s been around the world, romanced beautiful women, and turned churning out words into a lifelong career. Born in 1936, Seidel’s been hanging around this green and blue ball for some years now, but there’s been one seemingly constant love affair…
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Last Call – Subirdru Edition
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In Native American mythology the Robin got its red breast be fanning the flames of a dying fire, and thus saving the lives of a man and his son. This native bird may have gotten his by meeting the intercooler of this non-native STi. Image: [Imgur]
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Last Call- Reverse Engineering Edition
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What’s wrong with this picture? Image source: [Spdmini via The Car Lounge]
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Hooniverse Wrenching Tips: Let’s Go Shopping, Round 1: Tools on the Cheap
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This week we’ll run the first of several Wrenching Tips about buying what you need to get the job done. Our opinions on what to get, and what to spend vary heavily depending on the intended purpose and what the actual need is. This week is all about how to spend as little as possible…
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Two Ways To Do Parade Vehicles
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[singlepic id=3315 w=720 h=380 float=center] Whenever a government is planning a special event, one of the calls they make is to their home automakers asking if they could build/borrow a vehicle for their special event. For an automaker, this is big deal. Building or allowing a government to use one of your vehicles brings a…
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Hooniverse Truck Thursday – 1998 Ford Ranger 4.0 XLT
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Hey, what do you know. This time my Truck Thursday post doesn’t feature a Land Cruiser or any other Japanese-made 4×4, but bona fide American Truck goodness: a 1998 Ford Ranger XLT. Yeah, in our neck of the woods a US-built Ranger is a large truck, even if in its home country it can be…
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1954 Rolls-Royce: Conspicuous Absence of Taste
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Whenever I do get a chance to sneak back across the fence and put together an article for Hooniverse, I usually try and write about a car I like. I try and restrict my selections to vehicles that are particularly beautiful, or somehow strangely awesome, or have somehow captured my imagination. This particular vehicle has…
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Hooniverse Malaise Era Low Mileage Weekend Edition – A 1976 Autobianchi Abarth A112 with 3,800 Miles
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Let’s continue on with our Malaise Era Low Mileage Weekend with I think is the gem of the weekend. Well, maybe not. This is an Autobianchi A112 Abarth. The seller states that this is a Fiat, and although it is based on Fiat architecture, it is actually an Autobanchi. This was the last year for…
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Hooniverse Asks- What’s the Shortest Time You’ve Ever Owned a Car?
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As far as elements go, Uranium-238 has the longest half-life at around 4.45 billion years, while the other end of the spectrum is supposedly occupied by Astatine (213At) which gets its business done in only 125 nanoseconds. Car ownership typically falls somewhere in between these two extremes, and in fact the average age of cars on the road today…