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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…
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Last Call – THX 1138 Edition
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I think the main reason that sidecar racing didn’t really catch on here is the U.S. was because the participants were kind of creepy. Image source: [svrider.com]
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Live To Ride, Ride To Live
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vksdBSVAM6g[/youtube] My wife and I and a good friend of ours rode just over 125 miles on Saturday. We hit a couple of scenic overlooks here and there, had a long conversation over breakfast in a roadside diner, dropped in on a couple of friends along the way, but mostly we were just out for…
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Attention Midwest LeMons Participants – Guarenteed IOE Winna Available
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Oh My God…. That was the first thing out of my mouth when I saw this listing on Craigslist. This is one of those plastic GM Minivans from the late 90’s that has been modified… and it’s a perfect entry for a team looking to enter one of the 24-Hours-of-LeMons events. Wait… What?
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Hooniverse Asks- What's the Best American-Built Car Sold Outside the U.S.?
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Yesterday we asked about your favorite American car that affected an accent and pretended that it was from ‘The Continent.’ Lots of U.S. cars – from Chevy Celebrities to Dodge 600 Es’s made the black-out trim, alloy wheel, trans-gender switch, and no one car seemed to build a consensus as to being the best. That’s…
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Last Call- Twitter-Plated Edition
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Not necessarily ROFL, but LOL none-the-less. Image source: [Imgur.com]
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Monday Mini Madness: British Purity
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So you’re sitting at home in your large wing-backed chair beside the fire, meticulously packing and lighting your pipe while your tea cools. You’ve had a long day, and your feet are hurting, despite the tweed slippers your dear wife has so kindly provided for you. Try as you might, you just can’t seem to…
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Encyclopedia Hoonatica: Stealth C-Pillars
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Earlier today, Lotte brought up the distinctly similar wraparound window treatments on the Scorpio and the Sable. This got me thinking about two GM offerings that were not only similarly similar to each other, but also had the same “stealth” C-pillar treatment. So, your Hoonatica project for today is name other car designs had this…
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Hooniverse Motorboat Monday – A 1969 Schiada Flat Bottom Boat, with a Monster L88 427
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Welcome to another edition of Hooniverse Motorboat Monday, in which I find (or in this case, tipped) an interesting piece of boating history, and bring it to your attention. The Motorboat Monday Features have not been as regular as I would like, but this should make up for it. This is a unique and interesting…
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Fifty Ugliest Cars of the Past Fifty Years, according to Business Week
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Here at Hooniverse, we really have no respect for publications that stray from their area of expertise. Take this pictorial from Business Week highlighting Fifty of the ugliest cars of the past fifty years, in we object to some of the entries on this list. (Thanks to Rob in Ocala for the tip!) Make the…