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Long Distance Parts Shopping with ORLF and thejeepjunkie
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So my brother, affectionately known as thejeepjunkie around these here parts, has this sweet ole 1946 Willys CJ2A that he absolutely loves. But as this olelongrooffan has related to my fellow Hoons on numerous occasions, living near the Atlantic Ocean takes its toll on steel vehicles and his Willys is no exception to this.
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Hooniverse Wagon Wednesday – 1989 BMW E30 325iX Touring
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I’ll come clean, straight away. This post is dangerously close to being a cynical exercise in ticking as many Hooniverse boxes as possible. It’s an ’80s BMW 3-series wagon. In diamondschwarz. It’s four wheel drive. It has a tow bar. It runs on ethanol fuel. It wears chunky alloy wheels on studded winter tires. What…
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Hoonage Classics – From Alfa to Omega
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Behind the derelict-looking brick building which played background to the abandoned-looking E28 524td shot some months ago, I found this late-’80s rear-wheel drive saloon duo. One of them still looks somewhat useable and probably does daily driving, while the other has little air left in its tyres and not a lot of rust-free sheetmetal. Both…
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Productivity Killer: Build Your Own 2013 Porsche Boxster
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First off, like some of the videos posted last week, please treat this as a Hooniverse Gold Extra Freebee and not as a part of our regular stuff. If you had the Hooniverse Gold membership, you’d get this kind of awesomeness all the time. Second, we love online car configurators (that’s all Glucker really does), it’s really…
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V.I.S.I.T.: 1994 Mitsubishi Delica Super Exceed
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Just how rare is a Delica in the United States? When I jumped out of my friend’s car in Oakland to snap some shots of this van, there was another dude already next to the van, taking pictures of his own. This is the third Delica I’ve seen in the States. The first was registered in…
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Film Noir – 1974 Citroën DS 20
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I’ve been photographing Citroëns on the streets and test-driven the occasional one. Still, I hadn’t yet spotted a DS anywhere near. I love them, I think it’s mind-blowing how advanced they could be for 1955 – so advanced in fact, that they made it until 1975 without it really becoming obsolete – and that there’s…
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What's Up In Utah With Those Crazy Intersections?
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Those of you that have driven in the great state of Utah know that things are a little different here. The streets are generally wide, the blocks enormous and the drivers all have four wives someplace to be right now. The first two can be traced back to Mormon leader Joseph Smith’s plat for the…
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Found in the Forums: A garage upgrade project is afoot!
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You remember my friend Tom? He’s the one who got the approval from his wife to bring a 1969 Pontiac Firebird into his family. More recently, Tom and I redid the carpeting in the car, and the owner has since added a nice wooden steering wheel. The car is running smoothly, looks good in all…
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Last Call- Oh Hail No Edition
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Whether you accept global temperature change, or see it as a crock of bull, there’s no doubt that we’re getting some weird weather these days, and sometime it’s not just stupefying, but costly as well. One would hope that the victims of this mondo big hail storm had broken glass and dinged up bodies as…
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Intended Acceleration – Audi 100 Avant & 200 quattro
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There. The contrived article title is the only reference to the bullshit case of self-accelerating large ’80s Audis. Now we can move on. I’ve been fond of the C3 body Audis for a while. A friend drove a stylish 100 2.0E for some time, and while that car had its share of issues due to…
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101 Year Old Lady Hoons a Packard
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I am afraid of getting old. With age come weakness, sickness, and physical inabilities. Some lose their minds too. The availability of social security is in question, pension plans are nonexistent, and the value of my 401K… I don’t even want to look. I am 35 and I am afraid of the future. And then I watch a video like this and…
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A Trio Of Cadillacs For Your Viewing Pleasure
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Last week one of the topics was the automotive design changes from era to era. One of the threads of discussion in the comment section was the fact that pre WWII designs were almost the same as post WWII designs. This past weekend at that freakin awesome car show this olelongrooffan attended, I was able…
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Toyota Prices the GT86 High For Finland
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The JDM GT-86 RC base model. Bring it. Today in the national papers’s automotive supplements, Toyota announced the pricing for the upcoming GT-86 for Finland. While the US market will get the FR-S for 25k USD and the UK market will get theirs for 25k GBP, the Finnish out-the-door price has been set at a…
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Last Call- Classical Gas Edition
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What better way to end the week but with the comfort of 1955 gas prices. Eisenhower was in the White House, Annette Funicello was taxing the stretchability of her Mickey Mouse Club Sweatshirts, and the Corvette grew a V8, it was the best of times. That new Corvette V8 was obviously more thirsty than its…
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18 and Life – 1984 Renault 18 GTL
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What does Renault mean to you? For some, images of classic Gordinis spring to mind; some remember the infamous Alliances, for some it’s all about the Clio RenaultSport V6. I’m partial to the gawky hotness that is the Fuego; you know, the geeky chic of a gangly nerdy chick is there, present in the slim-tired…
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Time Sink: Hundreds of Automotive Brochures from the Last Hundred Years
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My Dearest Hoons, I hope this message finds you in good spirits. I chose this late afternoon timeslot to post this because I love you and I want you to stay employed and/or not expelled from school. The worst that this post will do is leave you single, which isn’t going to matter because after…