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We won’t be getting any grease under our fingernails in this week’s Wrenching Tips. In fact, we wont be doing much of anything besides changing diapers, washing bottles and trying to get some f%&*#ign sleep. That guy right there is Carson, the latest edition to this Hooniverse family. He was born Sunday night, about three…

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Remember when there was a simpler time? Remember zero specification? Glorious base models have disappeared, since everybody wants a bit of aloe vera on their derriere these days and it’s cheaper to mount gadgets into the dash than to substitute them with a blanking plate. In case you’re feeling a bit bloated after reading the…

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  A.J. Allmendinger has not won a single major international racing event since his departure from open-wheel racing for NASCAR at the end of 2006. After toddling around the middle of the Sprint Cup mid-pack with Red Bull Racing for the last six years, AyJay has moved to the Penske seat vacated by the recently…

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Let’s say you need to get somewhere in a hurry, or perhaps to elude the police due to some other, more nefarious motive. What would be your prime automotive equivalent of a very fast invisibility cloak? Now, Harry Potter had one of those, albeit not so quick, and what I couldn’t get past was that…

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Media days at this year’s Chicago International Auto Show has come to a graceful close. Apart from the delicious free pizza and cupcakes, thousands of pictures I took, and many miles of walking I did the past 48 hours, the two best parts of this show were the great media friends I got to see…

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  They say New York is the city that never sleeps, and staying awake might have been a good idea back in the late sixties should you have lived near Gotham Ford at First and 61st seeing as they happened to have a Mark III GT40 (as well as a Shelby GT350) on the lot.…

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Period English dramas, like period English sports cars, are an acquired taste. Chariots of Fire, a drama about British runners competing in the 1924 Olympics, was one flavor that was adopted by many, including a sufficient number of Academy members to garner the film seven nominations and four wins, including best picture. The thing of…

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Welcome to another Hooniverse Wagon Wednesday. This will be the last time I will draw from the well that is Kevco Classic Car Sales in Sioux Falls, but it is a great car to celebrate Wagon Wednesday with. This is a 1962 Chevrolet BelAir Wagon, and it is about as stripped as anything out there.…

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I know I have been absent on Wagon Wednesdays for a while, but I thought this listing was just what the feature is made for. This is a 1967 Plymouth Fury Suburban Wagon that has been slightly customized by an Airbrush Artist. I’m still not convinced that I am in love with it, but I’m…

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As you undoubtedly know, the essence of classic Volvo wagons hasn’t always been blockiness. Even if one can’t deny the cool exuded by a good-looking last-series 245, fully loaded, it’s the Amazon that sends my heart fluttering. But, as they are durable cars, their durability has often been tried and tested and they do show…

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As I sat down to write this post, our apartment as well as the entire block as far as I can see lost power. So, as I type this in candlelight, this Range Rover converted to woodgas seems somehow suitable. In a world where there would be no available electricity or oil, a Range that…

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Welcome to the Hooniverse News! This is a weekly automotive news recap featuring the biggest stories of the week without the fluff or the BS. Just all the facts and a little opinion, just because I can. This week: Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT debuts with more power Roush gives 2013 Mustang V6 a performance kit…

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  Ever since I was in college in Michigan, I’ve been enamored with the watered-down yet still-gets-you-there flavor of Labatt’s Blue. While this has the late 1940’s pseudo-aero look, it doesn’t appear that it would carry much beer, and isn’t that the most important thing? Brewed in London, Ontario, Canada, Labatt’s beer is a beer…

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We’re going for a theme this week, and that is weird cars. That is, the cars you think are the weirdest expressions of their creators’ intent. To keep things a little under control we’re also going to segment by country of origin, and for this week keep it to Europe. Today we’ll consider weirdos from…

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Who say’s Porsche just recently started to diversify its offerings? img src=John Vachon via Hemmings blog

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Folks, this is the new E63 AMG wagon a.k.a, the mother of all station wagons. Wait a minute, what about the Cadillac CTS-V wagon? You just can’t ignore the American rocket ship now. Don’t get me wrong, I like anything with a Corvette engine under its hood, especially old Jaguars and Miatas, but this….this is…

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