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  • Last Call- Bass-akwards Dentist Edition

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    Open wide. . .wider. . . wider. . . ewww! Image source; [Imgur.com]

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  • Bad Ideas Made Worse With Trailers!

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    What happens when you put a small, turbocharged Renault motor into a trailer? The real question is, which psychotropic spawned the question? youtube

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  • Mystery Car Revealed – A Last Year Caprice LS Brougham

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    I thought I had you all fooled with this one, as I thought everyone would have guessed a Chrysler 5th Avenue. However, within the first 45 minutes after the posting went live, dukeisduke guessed correctly that is was a Caprice Classic LS Brougham. Many of you noted that the car didn’t have the LS decal,…

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  • Mystery Car!

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    Welcome to another edition of the Mystery Car. A friend of mine purchased a striking car a few months ago, with extremely low mileage, and needing very little work except for some rust that developed around the roof line. when taking care of the rust, he discovered that the car was modified by a subcontractor…

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  • Hooniverse Asks – What American Car is Least 'Merican?

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      Car and Driver recently printed an article about the percentages of domestic content in cars nominally built within our nation’s borders. And while it turns out that the vast majority have enough foreign-sourced content to require a green card just to drive here, most people show by nameplate, and are most likely oblivious to…

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  • Morning Qualifying – History Lesson, Part V

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    With the advent of the Second World War, all racing in Europe, except the 1940 Mille Miglia and Tripoli Grand Prix, ceased by spring of that year, as hostilities heated up between the Allies and Axis powers.  By year’s end, auto racing ceased worldwide.  Once the geopolitical dust had settled, fans starved for racing were…

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  • Last Call- OPEC Can Go To Hell Edition

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    If it doesn’t also come with those HOV lane single occupancy stickers, then I’m not interested. Image source: [Imgur.com]

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  • Could Someone Else Eulogize the Toyota Echo for Me?

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    Because I spent all day in one, and I can’t think of a single nice thing to say about it.

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  • Hooniverse Truck Thursday: Another Monstrosity From The Library

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    It’s still Hooniverse Truck Thursday, isn’t it? Anyway while I was out and about at some event in the recent past, this truck was spotted parked in a vacant parking lot across the street from Bellair Plaza down on A1A here in sunny Daytona Beach. Now this olelongrooffan can hear my fellow Hoons screaming what…

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  • Hooniverse Asks- What Foreign Car is the Most 'Merican'?

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    German engineering, Italian styling, Continental dimensions, you just can’t get more European than Volkswagen’s original generation of Golf, er Rabbit. That is until VW decided to build the car at their Westmoreland, PA assembly plant. Slapping the car together in the U.S. wasn’t enough, the company also had to redesign the taut Giorgetto Giugiaro-penned body of…

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  • Morning Qualifying – Tubolare Zagato edition

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    Today would have been Nicola Romeo’s 132nd birthday. Over the the last century, Alfa Romeo has turned out many legendary and beautiful race cars. This one, the Giulia TZ, happens to be my favorite. First of all, just look at it. Every line and every curve from it’s ducted nose to the kamm tail is…

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  • Last Call- Worse Than a Titty Twister Edition

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    On April 16th at approximately 5 AM, an EF-1 force tornado touched down 7 miles North East of Fort Benning, Georgia. Thankfully, nobody was hurt, but this car  (what the heck is that?) came out a little worse for wear due to the 100-mph winds. Image source: [AccuWeather.com]

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  • Hooniverse Asks- What Other Car Could be. . . er 'Cheaper'?

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    Volkswagen introduced a new Jetta in the U.S. last year. The previous generation of VW’s small sedan had been engineered and positioned to be a next rung down option for those considering a BMW 3-Series, but without the means to afford one. Then somebody at Volkswagen must have taken a look at BMW’s annual sales,…

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  • Morning Qualifying – The Vatanen Touch edition

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    I don’t know if Ari Pieti Uolevi Vatanen was born with a steering wheel in his hand. Or, if his mom always oversteered his stroller in corners.  Or, if Ari yumped his first tricycle.  The Finns just have that national mojo that makes them excellent rally drivers.  For more than a quarter century, Ari Vatanen…

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  • Last Call- Leather Jacketed Motorcycle Thug Edition

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    Hell’s Disabled   Image source: [Imgur.com]

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  • "A girl, wearing a bikini, riding a shark…"

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    …with, like, some sort of golden medieval warrior cuffs on her arms and legs…and really long hair, and big ol’ —”

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