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Hooniverse Asks-Hidden Engines, Yay or Nay?
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Most every car has a hood – or for you anglophiles, a bonnet. And usually what you expect to find when you pop that hood is an engine, right? It’s becoming more and more common these days that upon lifting that lid instead of finding mechanical marvels you are confronted by. . . plastic .…
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Last Call- You Can Take the City Out of the Bike. . . Edition
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Honda’s CB750 was the first ‘big bike’ from the Japanese manufacturer, and remains today one of the epochal motorcycles of our time. The ‘CB’ in the name stands for City Bike but that urban nomenclature doesn’t mean that you can’t build a sick cafe racer out of one. Build thread and image source
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WTF Files: Well At Least It'll Make Wheelies Easier Edition
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Jerry deep-sixed his restrictive exhaust for something that flows a tiny bit better. “Backpressure? What backpressure?”
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Hooniverse Two Wheel Tuesday: The What Are They Edition
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As I have mentioned, I don’t really know alot about motorcycles. I mean if they have their logo on them, I can recognize them. I know a Norton was a pretty desirable bike back in the day, Ducatis run like the dickens and Triumphs, well they are British what can I say. However, I saw…
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Two Wheeled Hotrodding: Overcoming The Curse of the Comstars
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Back in the 1970s, new motorcycle models were migrating from traditional wire-spoke wheels, which predate the internal combustion engine, to cast wheels that offered much more modern styling along with lower maintenance and (in some cases) the ability to run tubeless tires. But there were some drawbacks to early production cast wheels, namely excessive porosity…
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Quick Shift: Model Bloat
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The 2011 Volkswagen Rabbit has grown much bigger than It was last year. We’ll leave it to someone else to determine interior space.
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Hooniverse Two Wheel Tuesday: Quasi Modern Show Bikes
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While I was at the Art of the Automobile Lifestyle this past weekend, I did spot several motorcycles that I thought I would share with my fellow Hoons this Hooniverse Two Wheel Tuesday. As I don’t know much about bikes, I will leave their description up to my fellow two wheel Hoons.
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Mystery Car
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Well my fellow Hoons, it seems every time this olelongrooffan does a Mystery Car, it is usually identified by about the time I hit the “publish” button. This has happened so much that I thought I would try it once more just to see if those occurrences were aberrations or are my offerings just to…
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Hayabusa Reaches for the Sky in 230 MPH Run
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This video is a few years old, but it’s still pretty remarkable. In it, a turbo Suzuki Hayabusa rider pegs the speedo at 220 kph, while the tach keeps climbing. We get to go along for the ride. Click through for the butt-clenching trip.
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Hooniverse Asks- Would the Porsche 989 have Made a Better Panamera?
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Porsche did something a few years back that it had never done before, it offered for sale a watercooled, front-engined, four door SUV. Strangely enough, the Earth continued to spin on its axis. Despite the protestations of those who would never be able to afford one of the brand’s products, traditional or otherwise, expanding their…
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Last Call- Battle of the Sexes Edition
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Who knew airbags came in his and hers? Image source: [Me]
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Hooniverse Military Monday: The Flat Fender Edition
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Holy Flat Fender BatHoon. I have spent the day gathering an image of a non beige Camry for the Question of the Day, replacing the driver’s side seat belt buckle in my 183,879 mile possessing Comanche (wonder how many times that AMC button has been pushed?), gathering background for a mini Italian week over at…
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Hooniverse Asks- What's the Most Generic Car Sold Today?
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In Alex Cox’s classic movie Repo Man, Emilio Estevez’ character ate FOOD and drank BEER, each an inside joke for those familiar with the Ralphs Grocery chain’s brand of plain wrap foods. Some people shun plain wrap as the trappings of the impoverished, but truth be told, the cheaper brands are usually made by name-brand…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: Last Call: The Elky Edition
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“Grandpa, you can have either a 57 Chevy or an El Camino but not both!” Oh! Wait!
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: It's Not Sports Car Sunday!
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Now this olelongrooffan can hear my fellow Hoons shouting “It’s not Sports Car Sunday! What’s up with the Lamborghini shot?” It’s like this my fellow Hoons, in my initial post about this show, I commented about the broad enormous range of vehicles at it. And this post is about a couple extremely rare vehicles.
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: The Lotus Evora Edition
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I have mentioned in a couple earlier posts that I generally am able to recognize a rare car and usually grab some images of it. One time, however, this olelongrooffan made the mistake of getting some images of a Lotus Elise and did not recognize the then new Lotus Evora parked right next to it…