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Hooniverse Mad Men Weekend – The Cars of Mad Men, According to MSN Autos
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Yes, I thought I would fall back onto another list, not necessarily a ranking list, but a list none the less. This is a list of cars of the Mad Men series according to MSN Autos. It is quite comprehensive, but I’ll let you see if you agree with it….
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Quietly Judging You
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The Dana Point Concours is underway. More about this next week.
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Hooniverse Mad Men Weekend – The Top 10 Cars of the "Mad Men" Era According to Hagerty Insurance
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Welcome to the Sunday Edition of Hooniverse Mad Men Weekend. While doing a bit of research on how obsessive the fans of Mad Men are, including car fans, I came across this article from the collector car insurer, Hagerty. If anyone should know the Top 10 Collector Cars for the era, it should be them.…
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Question of the Weekend: Of your favorite TV Series or Movies, What Car Related Event Stands Out?
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I chose Mad Men for this weekends series of postings because it was very easy to tie into my car based fixation. Here is a beautifully written, visually stimulating show that usually gets the “Car Thing” right. They have story lines about cars, they make use of the car in other story lines, they make…
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Weekend Wallpaper!
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Presented without comment. Full size here. Via Asphalt Heritage.
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Hooniverse Mad Men Weekend – Betty Draper's 1957 Ford Country Sedan, and One You Can Own!
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Continuing on with our Mad Men Weekend Edition, we turn to one of the central female characters of the series, Elizabeth Draper. Like any good housewife of the late 50s and early 60s, her mode of transportation is the family station wagon. Compared to the cars her husband tools around in, the Country Sedan is…
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Hooniverse Mad Men Weekend – Don Draper's Buick Convertible, and One You Can Own!
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Continuing on with the Mad Men Weekend, and continuing on with the central character of the series, Don Draper. Draper seems a little uncomfortable with the 1962 Cadillac he bought in later episodes, but he didn’t seem all that uncomfortable with the Buick Convertible we saw him driving in when the series first took to…
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Hooniverse Mad Men Weekend – Don Draper's Cadillac, and One You Can Own.
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Welcome to the Hooniverse Mad Men Weekend Edition. I thought this would be a great time to explore the vehicles that appeared in the wildly successful television series Mad Men. This series has been so successful that there will soon be another series set in this same period called PAN AM… yes, that Pan Am.…
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Last Call- That's How I Roller Coaster Edition
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A good first date, thought Ronald, but not a great first date. Image source: [holicrap.com]
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eBay Insanity: Want A Wedgie?
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In the 1983 film Blue Thunder, Roy Scheider’s character famously assessed his sanity by comparing his intuited perception of time against a stopwatch. Here we have an eBay auction that is an equally sure test of your sanity: The supposed numero uno of British Leyland’s 1978 fleet of North American “prototype” (or somewhat more accurately,…
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Settle An Argument: The Buick RoadMaster Wagon
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Alright, Hoons, it’s time to settle an argument that’s slowly simmering behind the scenes. One of our Editors, who will remain nameless, is looking for an appropriate vehicle to accommodate his gradually-increasing family, multiple pets, extended relations, luggage, cargo, spare parts, camping gear, hitchhikers, science lab, servants, and a fleet of F-14 Tomcats. So help…
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Fastback Friday: The 2011 Honda CR-Z
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At one point during my week with the 2011 Honda CR-Z, I found myself pacing a late-model Mercedes SL65 Convertible on the Lion’s Gate Bridge. The comparison between the two vehicles is ludicrous: one is a mild-hybrid with a milquetoast 122 horsepower and 128 lb/ft of torque; the other has thrice the cylinders, four times…
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Hooniverse Fastback Friday – The Very First V-12 Jaguar E-Type Coupe Certified for the US
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Welcome to another edition of Hooniverse Fastback Friday. After all the discussions we had about what a fastback really is, I started discarding my collection of future articles for this feature. Out went the 68-72 GM Mid Sized Coupes; Bye bye to the Nova and their clones; So long to the full sized Fords and…
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Mystery Car
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So you’re sitting there at work, or maybe your mom’s basement and you’re asking yourself, it’s Friday, so where’s the Mystery Car post? Well wonder no more because you are reading – right now – this week’s Mystery Car postarino! For this one we went all the way to a place where they paint cars…
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Hooniverse Asks- What's The Worst Automotive Engine, Ever?
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Guess what, peeps, you all really like V8s. Oh sure, some of you get your freak on over weirdness like the Sterling engine, or compression ignition, but most of you like being behind the eight ball. But what of favorite engines? That’s kind of an easy question as anyone with half a brain could just…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: Hooniverse Asks – What Car Should Kris Buy?
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Please allow this olelongrooffan to offer my apologies to both my fellow Hoons and my fellow contributors for my lack of posting here in the Hooniverse lately. A couple weeks ago I received a distress call from a friend (unfortunately without benefits) of nearly ten years. Kris had relocated from MickeyMouseLand to the the Land…