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The Killer ZomBee – A Season Ender to One HELL of a Season.
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It’s 10am, Saturday morning at Buttonwillow Raceway in central California, and the sun is finally starting to take the bone-aching cold out of our toes. Around one hundred thirty crappy old hoopties and ultimate driving machines circle the track in a motorized spectacle that can only be described as part Burning Man, part mid-20th century…
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Hooniverse 24 Hours-of-LeMons Craigslist Weekend – Make way for the Vomit Comet (What a great theme!)
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The 24 Hours-of-LeMons is one part race, one part craziness, mixed in with art cars. Lets face it, the judges and organizers are looking for not only the crappiest cars on the track, but great themes as well. Here is your chance to have both, with a grouping or wretched early 60s Mercury Comets, with…
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Hooniverse 24 Hours-of-LeMons Craigslist Weekend – Three Studebakers… One has to be raced in this event…
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Continuing on with combing through Craigslist, I wanted to stick to a formula for this weekends postings. What I did was to keep the search between 1960 and 1965, with a price tag between $100 and $1,500, and I also wanted at least one image in the listing. And look what I found…. three different…
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Hooniverse 24 Hours-of-LeMons Craigslist Weekend – How about a Couple of F-85s?
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Welcome to another Hooniverse Weekend. For this weekend I thought I would try and introduce all of you, our loyal Hooniverse fans, a way of enjoying a 24-hours-of-LeMons event in the only way one should, by participating in one. A little confession here… I did participate a couple of times in these events, but getting…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: Last Call: A Tad Late
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Midrace at the BFE GP a couple Saturdays ago, I spotted these life jacket clad dudes in their garage wrenching the clutch underneath the bonnet of this cobbled together Fiat Moke and to get it up and at ’em once again. My fellow Hoons that’s what keeps the LeMons spirit alive.
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: It's Not LeMans or ALMS
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Dateline Denver, Colorado Over the past couple days we here in the Hooniverse have been blessed with two really fantastic posts about automobile racing. One an excellent Bucketlist Post about the 24 Hours of LeMans and the other about a sneak into Lime Rock Park for an ALMS race. And while those posts were excellent…
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Wandering Around In The Lot At The BFE GP LeMons Race
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In the comment section of the blogpost today asking what was the worst factory body kit ever, the LeMon Petty Cash race team was brought up. Mad Science mentioned they kicked butt at Buttonwillow and this olelongrooffan remembered seeing them do the same at the BFE GP last weekend. That reminded me of some images…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: Last Call: LeMons Edition
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So this olelongrooffan has only this to say about that…if you are going to run a turbo charged Volvo longroof just for fun in the 24 Hours of LeMons And ask this question… You might want to have an extra HEAD gasket available…just saying… But that water hit the spot on this hot Colorado day…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: In The Lot At The BFE 24 Hours Of LeMons
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After watching King Jay and Judge Phil harrass instruct a participant, this olelongrooffan returned to my workstation for the day and popped a few images of what I saw in the lot.
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: Live At The BFE 24 Hours of LeMons
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Dateline Deer Creek, Colorado; July 9, 2011 So unbeknownst to this olelongrooffan when I arrived in Denver, the BFE 24 Hours of LeMons is this weekend. Once I found that out, I knew that attendence at that afternoon open air concert in downtown Denver was out the window. I headed east on I-70 to find…
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Mystery Car
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A couple of weeks ago I went to a local car show, and this car was present. So I thought it would make a great mystery car because this particular image isn’t plastered all over the internet, so googling will be fruitless. Sorry, I refuse to give even a bit of a hint, as you…
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Last Call- ALVIN! Edition
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Rodent track. Image source: [Imgur.com]
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Hooniverse Truck Thursday: Keep Your Stinking Ford Maverick, I Want a Chapman Super Maverick
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Dateline Denver Colorado; July 7, 2011 Last weekend my nephew, the Kid, and this olelongrooffan paid a couple visits to the Daytona International Speedway for the Subway Nationwide event on Friday as well as the Coke Zero 400 on Saturday. As usual, we spend most of our time wandering around the garage and pits leaving…
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Matchbox Mania: Whiteletter Snakebite (Whitesnake?) Edition
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So far, all my Matchbox cars have hailed from Italy (via Taiwan), but today’s contender is a hybrid in the primal automotive sense of the word. It’s a Hot Wheels Classic Cobra, devoid of any mention of the words AC or Shelby for reasons apparent to anyone who’s ever read the words “Carroll Shelby” and…
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Seconds Saturdays at Hanzel's: Be There
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All right folks, this is your second and final reminder that Seconds Saturdays will be taking place this Saturday, July 9th at Hanzel’s Auto Body Works (more businesses need to end in “Works”, by the way). If you missed the details last time, we’ll summarize to say it’s basically the car show that Hooniverse would…