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Hooniverse Weekend Edition – A Renault Alliance with only 340 Miles
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OK, so I’m running Sunday Postings about cars that their owners think are collectible because of the low mileage, and look, here’s one now. This is a 1985 Renault Alliance Convertible, built in Kenosha, Wisconsin. This is the time that AMC simply kept their factory open by building French hand-me-downs. So, is this a car…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition – A 1983 Subaru with only 9,400 miles
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Welcome to the Sunday Edition of the Hooniverse Weekend. One of esteemed editors on this site sent this tip to our tip line, and since I’m the only one up this Sunday Morning, I decided to run with it. If you had the chance to purchase a brand new 1983 Subaru GL 4WD Wagon, would…
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Question of the Weekend – Brass Era and Pre-War Cars… Do they interest you?
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Time for the question of the weekend here on Hooniverse.com. Our core audience is actually much much younger than I am, a fact that was pointed out to me on our last Hooniverse Pod Cast and on our semi regular Drunkcasts, so my taste in vehicles is somewhat out of step with most of our…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition – What would you pay for a Brennan?
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Looking through the eBay other makes section I discovered this unusual listing. It’s for a 1904 Brennan Brass Era Horseless Carriage. Imagine my surprise that there was ever such a thing as a car named Brennan! Unfortunately, this car needs to be put back together to become an actual car again.
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition – My Wiper Wiper Wiper Blades….
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Every time I look into the Hooniverse Tips Inbox, I walk away in amazement. Where do you come up with this stuff? Case in point, this tip from SSurfer321 (Thanks Man!) alerting us to the YouTube video “Wiper Blades by Heywood Banks”. SSurfer321’s reasoning for sending us this tip? You will have to make the…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition – A Couple of Mazda Rotary Engine Pickups
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On Friday, I did a posting featuring a few Mazda Rotary Powered Fastbacks, and while searching through all the RX-3s, RX-4s and that lone Cosmo, I found a couple of very hot Mazda REPUs. So, will you find them hot, or not?
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Last Call- So Much Wrong Edition
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See, this is why we can’t have nice things. Image source: [Imgur.com]
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Hooniverse Fastback Friday: The General Motors Edition
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Well, my fellow Hoons, this is the last, or the first, depending on when you tuned in, post for this olelongrooffan on this Hooniverse Fastback Friday. Yeah, I was down at Bellair Plaza and gathered up a few images of some fastbacks for your Hoon pleasure.
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Hooniverse Fastback Friday: The MOPAR Edition
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My first post here in the Hooniverse was just after the esteemed Mr. Glucker had noticed a Barracuda while out with his family enjoying some May, 2010 weather in a park on the left coast somewhere in the Hooniverse. Well, this afternoon down at Bellair Plaza, this olelongrooffan spotted another one and thought my fellow…
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Hooniverse Fastback Friday: The Blue Oval Edition
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Well, someone up there is watching over this olelongrooffan. After watching me miss both the Amelia Island Concours D’Elegance and the 12 Hours of Sebring the last couple a weekends, who ever that being is decided this weekend would be a good time for the 2011 Spring Fling down here in The World Center of…
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The Hybrid Car Is Dead. Long Live The Hybrid Car!
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It’s been months since I actually drove the 2011 Lexus CT200h. Well past the industry-standard thinking period. Well past the point of reason to write a relevant review. This does not escape me. The problem has been I didn’t know what to think of the car. There was no nice little box to fit it…
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Mystery Car!
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Well, here it is, another Friday and you know what that means. Every time I think I have a good mystery car you guys nail it in the first five minutes. NO MORE! I’m done being mister nice Schmo so suck it hoons. If this one is guessed in the first post, the next Mystery…
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Hooniverse Asks- Factory Repair Manual, Haynes Manual, or Let The Dealer fix it?
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My daily driver is an ’05, and is well out of warranty so if anything goes wrong with it (knock on wood) it’ll be up to me to screw it up fix it. That means I need the factory service manual, so I’m hitting up this new fangled thing called the Internet to see…
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Hooniverse Fastback Friday – The Rotary Powered Mazda Fastbacks of the 70's
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Welcome to Hooniverse Fastback Friday. A couple of days ago I was reading Rob’s posting over at Jalopnik about a peculiar Mazda Rotary that was not an RX-7. That set me on a quest to see if there are any other vintage Fastback Mazdas that could possibly fit within “Fastback Friday”, and look what I…
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Last Call- The Back to the Future Trailer Still Cracks Me Up Edition
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You know, Marty, I figured – if you’re going to make a trailer out of a car, you might as well do it with some style. Image source: [Imgur.com]