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Hooniverse Wagon Wednesday – The Worst Wagons Ever Produced
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Welcome to another edition of Hooniverse Wagon Wednesday. The Station Wagon is a celebrated automotive variation here at Hooniverse, which is the reason why we started Wagon Wednesdays. We love all types of Wagons… Wood Bodied Wagons, Glitzy two-toned 50s Wagons, The Dreadnoughts of the 60s, the Malaise Era early 70s Wagons, Economy Wagons, Luxury…
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Last Call- Sleep Tight Edition
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Milhouse’s dad sleeps in a sportscar. Don’t be like Milhouse’s dad. Image source: [Imgur.com]
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Let's Never Forget That Motorcycles Are Ruthlessly, Unforgivably Cruel
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Regular readers know that I love motorcycles. But motorcycles don’t love me back — they don’t love anybody; they are capricious, dangerous things that will snuff out your life in an instant or leave you in physical torment for the rest of your life with little cause — and often for absolutely no rational reason at…
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Redcar Mountain
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Yesterday we posted an advisory to those living in Los Angeles that this week is Bike Week, and that you should keep an extra eye out for our two-wheeled friends lest you gain a spandex hood ornament. Bikes and LA traffic are a potent mix for mayhem, but the city wasn’t always a bastion of…
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Hooniverse Asks- Turbo or Super, What's Your Favorite Way to Get Blown?
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Some people think turbos are just super, while others find superchargers turboriffic. Pumping up the volume isn’t just for club music and Jersey Girl hair, it’s also a good way to claim some additional horsepower out of an otherwise un-modded engine. Pressurizing the intake creates a more dense charge of fuel and air, giving each…
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Last Call- What's That Smell? Edition
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Damn hippies. Image source: [Imgur.com]
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Hooniverse PSA- LA Bike Week: Spanning the City in Spandex
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Los Angeles has always been very auto-centric, its surface crisscrossed with freeways and the general topography being spread across miles and miles of hills, valleys, and ethnic neighborhoods. Despite being engineered with the car in mind as the primary mode of getting from point A to point B, it still takes seemingly forever to get…
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Hooniverse Asks: What Vehicle Most Deserves a Diesel?
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When’s the last time you looked forward to driving a minivan? Years back, I was gallivanting around Europe breaking hearts, causing diplomatic crises, and generally being irresponsible. When a friend’s parents came to visit, they rented an Opel Zafira turbodiesel (I’ve no idea if it was a 2.0, 2.2, or the 2.2 hi-po) mated to…
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Hooniverse Modern Art Monday – The Art of Visual Futurist Syd Mead
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Syd Mead is one of those visionaries that has created many distinct visions of the future over the course of his career. While there are a number of artists that try and illustrate what the future may look like, only Mead has been able to string together superb draftsmanship, plausibility, artistry, and an engineering prowess…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: Last Call: Did I Mention I Like Longroofs?
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It sure seems like this olelongrooffan spent alot of time here as an adolescent. I think I saw a bunch of my fellow Hoons there also. Remember that cool lake the girls canoed on?
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: The Roadwork Edition
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This olelongrooffan doesn’t often offer a suggestion to check out one blog over the other. There are a ton of great ones out there. But I do have this to say about that. The Roadwork blog, as noted in the sidebar here in the Hooniverse, is definitely a must read. Excellent writing as well as…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: Four Horsepower Is Enough
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My younger brother, who I affectionately refer to as thejeepjunkie, has owned a few CJ’s in the last couple years. Last weekend, BZR commented in a post I did to blog about a few experiences I had referred to in it. This olelongrooffan thought of the time thejeepjunkie and I got a Jeep stuck in…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: Another Monstrocity From The Hard Drive
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Yeah, I know.
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: Last Call
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If your last name is Kierstein and it’s your birthday, you might not want to declare the Nash Healey as the ugliest sports car ever. Cuz that’s what you’re going to get.
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: 1971 McLaren M8FP
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With the sad image of the TTTO Corvair on a hook going to its final resting place possibly forever burnished in my brain, this olelongrooffan thought we should attempt to lighten our hearts and take a look at another rear engine, rear drive, also powered by Chevrolet race car.
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Happy Birthday, Kierstein!
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Not content to simply let Jim enjoy his day in the sun, our own Alex Kierstein thought that Jim’s birthday looked like so much fun, he had to go and have one of his own. Honestly, Kierstein, sometimes you should just let others have their moment. Just because Jim has one doesn’t mean you have…