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Hooniverse Wagon Wednesday: The Addy Edition
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So last evening this olelongrooffan was hanging out at the Taj Mahal enjoying the consumption of some hurricane supplies and looking through my image library to try and scrounge something up for Hooniverse Wagon Wednesday. It’s been since my trip to the Corvette Museum that I had seen any cool longroofs. Before I could find…
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Hooniverse Asks- What’s The Coolest Dirt Bike?
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When I was a kid I read in a biker magazine – not like In The Wind biker, but like Cycle or something – a review of a Honda dual-purpose bike. You know what that is, a bike with enough suspension travel and knobs on its knobbies to be taken off road, but with all…
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Great Service Specials for Your Lamborghini
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The service cost of exotic cars is not discussed very often. Many of us heard stories of a $20,000 Ferrari shock absorber but we’re not sure if it’s fact or fiction. We do know that service costs of exotic-y Italian cars are not cheap, but we do not know exactly how not cheap they are. Yesterday my…
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For Sale – 1964 Jaguar Mark X
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How do you like your patina? Charming, characteristic or cadaverous? It’s up for you to judge this Jag, to guesstimate just how much work it requires. It’s a damn-near-50-year-old car that might have been refreshed once-over, or it could be as original as possible – the seller keeps schtum about it. It also appears the…
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Pictures of Cars with engineerd™: Sno*Drift Redux
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Last week I shared with you my experience at Sno*Drift and had a few pictures uploaded. I also promised to upload the rest of my pictures. Well, I’m a man of my word and my favorite 126 photos from Sno*Drift 2012 are now available for your viewing pleasure. Hit the jump for more!
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Pull Up to the Bumper Baby – Peugeot 206 GT & 205 Rallye
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Sometimes you need to take a second look at a car you pass as humdrum at first; walking past this Peugeot 206 I did a double-take; instead of another boring silver 206, it’s a boring silver 206 GT – one of 4000 cars made for WRC homologation purposes. Those bumpers, almost US regulation in size,…
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Last Call- Vanishing Pointed Commentary Edition
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There’s a new year out there ahead of us all, it’s just getting started. It will, in some ways, be a son of a bitch, and in others, the best time of our lives. One thing’s for certain – and proven by the movie Vanishing Point – if you’ve got a great car, it doesn’t…
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Sausalito Cars and Coffee Meet
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Martin Swig, local car collector and the man behind the California Mille rally, just put together the first Sausalito Cars and Coffee last weekend. It will be held on the first Saturday morning of every month from now on, so mark your calendars, Bay Area denizens and visitors! That 1925 Lancia Lambda in the lead picture is Swig’s…
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Last Call- Desmo Details Edition
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Long before Audi swallowed them up, Ducati was working on a successor to the 1198 Superbike. The result – the sequentially accurate 1199 – arrived with a record-best for a twin 197-bhp at the crank and an intricate desmodromic 4-valve breathing apparatus that allows for an 11,500-rpm redline and a mesmerizing CAD presentation. The Panigale engine…
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The News for March 9th, 2012
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Welcome to the Hooniverse News! This is a weekly recap of everything you should care about in the automotive industry without the fluff or the BS. Just all the facts and a little bit of opinion, just because I can. This week, it’s the Geneva recap, with the biggest stories from the auto show that…
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Hooniverse Classic Caption – The 1977 Dodge Street Van Edition
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It’s Monday, and once again it must be time for the Hooniverse Classic Caption Contest. This is a feature we have that our fans participate in to see if they can match a catchy, snarky, or humorous caption to the image that I supply. These images are found throughout the web, and to see if…
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Hooniverse Asks- What Was America’s Lamest Import Fighter?
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When American GIs returned from Europe after the end of WWII they brought with them a new-found appreciation for things previously unencountered before the war. Along with predilections for cafe au lait and Belgian waffles, they also discovered the joys of European cars. Many a soldier came back to America bearing the scars of war…
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Project ET-01: The Automotive Circle of Life
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[singlepic id=3370 w=720 h=600 float=center] It was a nice early spring day in 1997. I was in walking near Battery Park in downtown Manhattan when in the corner of my eye I saw it; jet black, on its three-piece wheels which came only on the models with six-speed manual transmission and mandatory sport package. It…
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Hooniverse Goes Grand-Am at Mid-Ohio
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Grand Am has got a good gig going. They are taking the month of June (while ALMS is on hiatus for the Le Mans 24), and running with it. Mid Ohio marks the second of four races in a 5 week period. Detroit, last weekend, shook out to a heck of a dog fight/street fight.…
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Hooniverse Classic Captions – The 1977 Mercury Monarch Edition
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Its another Monday, so it must be time for another Classic Caption Contest here at Hooniverse. This is the feature in which I find images throughout the web that the car companies have used in their advertisements and brochures. It’s your job to come up with a humorous or snarky caption that fits the image.…
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Last Call- Reading Is Fundamental Edition
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In this digital age it’s easy to forget the tactile pleasures contained in the reading of a good book. And if you have books, you obviously need a shelf upon which to display them, especially if you are the Dutch design studio Denieuwegeneratie (yes, I copy-pasted that). They have done so in their newly realized design…