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Hooniverse Van-Tastic Weekend – Dodge A100 Forward Control Vans
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The Dodge A100 Vans got off to a late start compared to Ford and Chevrolet. The A100 was introduced in the autumn of 1963 for the 1964 model year, and closely copied the successful Ford Econoline with its conventional front engine, rear drive layout. What was unconventional about the Dodge was the front windshield, as…
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Hooniverse Van-Tastic Weekend – The Early Ford Econoline
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Ford’s answer to the popular VW Type 2 van was the Ford Econoline, with the Falcon nameplate used for the passenger versions to tie in with the new Ford Compact. These vans were an immediate hit, with the Bell Telephone Company placing sizable orders. Over 36,000 were sold in the debut year, and sales numbers…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition – Get Ready for Hooniverse Van-Tastic Weekend
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Since this is April, and the Spring Flowers are just starting to show, my thoughts about what to post during this weekend centered around the flower…. specifically the flower children of the 70s. And what mode of transportation defined the 70s flower children was the early forward control Vans from Chevrolet, Ford and Dodge. This…
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Last Call- Keep your Hands to Yourself Edition
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Sadly, Rosie Palm and her five daughters don’t count towards the car pool lane. Image source: [Nellie]
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Hooniverse Fastback Friday: It's A Riv, Baby…
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Yeah, the other weekend while I was out and about, I spotted this old beauty down at Bellaire Plaza.
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V.I.S.I.T. Turning Over a New Leaf Edition
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Driving down the 210 Freeway in Glendale yesterday afternoon I came across an interesting sight – a Nissan Leaf volting its way down the road, right next to a similarly sized, but gas engined, Nissan Versa.
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Let Us Be Honest With Ourselves For a Moment
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The easiest way to talk about the R16 in this eBay ad would be to rave about how much confit de canard and wine that tastes like raspberry jam you can fit in the sizeable hatch area while you drove around town wearing a mime outfit on your way to a Jerry Lewis appreciation event…
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Hooniverse Asks – What Car Company is the Most Badass?
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Brand personas are like people personas, which are frequently cultivated to engender a higher position on the pecking order. Some brands get realigned so as to remain relevant. Remember Mountain Dew? It used to be marketed as some kind of hillbilly sweat or something – which may have been the bee’s knees back when Nixon…
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Last Call: Grilled Godzilla
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Hummer H3: It’s a little monster.
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Stainless Steel Stays In Style In Finland!
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Editor’s note: Sticking with the Finland theme laid down by our Mr. Scroggs, this was written by friend-of-Hooniverse Antti of Finnish Camaro fame, who recently visited a man in the Great White North with a Delorean that somehow hasn’t rusted to metal shavings. Antti himself owns a Mitsubishi Sapporo, and is living proof that the…
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Hooniverse Truck Thursday: The Barn Find Edition
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My fellow Hoons, if back in the day you owned a farm truck up in the great state of Illinois and needed to patch the floor of it, nothing works quite like a state of Missouri license plate.
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Hooniverse Asks – What Car Deserves to be Immortalized in Song?
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There’s been Hey Little Cobra, 409, Mercury Blues, Little Red Corvette, and Little Deuce Coupe, all songs about cars that really deserved to have songs written about them. With the exception of the Prince ditty, all those songs hail from the ’50s and ’60s – an era in which seemingly cars and music went together…
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Hooniverse Truck Thursday – A 1929 Model A Hot Rod Pickup, with a Twist!
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Welcome to another edition of Hooniverse Truck Thursday. The American Hot Rod…. These were usually fashioned from the early Ford Model T, or the Ford Model A, and were the staple of the California Custom Car movement for several decades. The formula was simple; Take a discarded Model T or Model A, install a Ford…
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Last Call- Not Going Green Edition
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In both politics and junkyards, going green is a wedge issue. Image source: [daeBree via Panoramo]