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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]
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Chuck Taylors with Your Bertone? The Bad Idea Mill Grinds On
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I have a serious and vaguely irrational affection towards most of the misfit Gothenburg sleds, even the ones whose complexity and unreliability threaten to knock some of the Italian horrorshows off their Mount Olympian throne of awfulness. The Volvo 780 (by Bertone!) actually straddled this divide, rolling out of Bertone’s Turin assembly plant with some…
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Hooniverse Wagon Wednesday: Long and Low
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I have had this shamelessly stolen for google advertisement for a 1958 Dodge Swept Wing longroof in the longroof file on my hard drive for as long as I can remember. The other weekend while out at the track for the Spring Fling, it instantly popped back in my mind when I spotted this 1959…
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The Zombie car that will not die…
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So imagine it’s late Friday evening, and you have been invited to bring your somewhat infamous MGB-from-hell to the CSRG vintage races & West Coast MG Reunion at Infineon Raceway on Saturday morning. Delusions Visions of eager sponsors flowing with cash, and rubbing elbows with famous Group 44 drivers run through your head, while champagne freely flows…
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Hooniverse Asks- What Import Car Made The Worst Transition in Return For U.S. Sales?
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We’ve all had it happen, seen a picture of a possible long-term relationship online, or on the wall of the Post Office, and a spark of interest ignites. That image is carried, and potentially manipulated by the rationalizer in our brain – that little bit that convinces you that it would be stupid not to…
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Hooniverse Wagon Wednesday – An Old Fashioned Chevy Beauville Passenger Wagon
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Welcome to another edition of Hooniverse Wagon Wednesday. This time I’ve decided to mix it up, and highlight an old fashioned Passenger Van/Wagon in incredible original condition. Remember, I’m calling it an old fashioned van/wagon because this is basically the same van that was introduced in the Autumn of 1970. Almost every body panel was…