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YOU CAN'T FIRE ME, I QUIT!
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AN OPEN LETTER TO THE READERS OF THIS SITE, FROM THE DESK OF ALEX “HAN SOLEX’ KIERSTEIN Dear Readers, Before they lock me out of the Hooniverse offices for good, I have to share with the world the hideous perversion of ethical journalism that has sickened me for the last time. I am hereby resigning…
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Bristol 412, the Rich Man's Firebird
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You know what’s cooler than owning a Bristol? Owning the entire company. – Justin Timberlake Ok, maybe JT didn’t actually say that. I can’t imagine him behind the wheel of a Bristol anyway, especially this fine 412 that comes rocketing straight out of the 70s with both T-Tops and a landau roof and styling by…
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Mystery Car Revealed – Now With More Video!
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Many will play, few will win, and even fewer will attempt to resurrect a semi-obscure classic sports car brand. That last achievement was the goal of Raffi Minasian and Bill Miller back in 1979, and this was the result- the Pegaso Dual Turbo. Pegaso, as you will recall, was the truck and bus maker, founded…
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Hooniverse Shooting Brake Friday: The Jensen GT [UPDATED]
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How fondly I recall my youth in the country! The baying of the hounds as they chased the fox! The horsemen, resplendent in their hunting finery, bravely leaping creekbed and badgerhole in pursuit of their sly quarry. However, nothing tickles my fancy so much as the thought of those splendid vehicles that carried our rifles…
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Mystery Car
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Well, T.G.I.F., and that means it must be Mystery Car time. Here’s a car in Italianate red that looks like it could be from pretty much any of the past three decades. For your Friday pleasure, start channelling Mr. Peabody and Sherman in setting your Way-Back machine of a brain. Or, if you’re lazy, just…
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Bristol: The Greatest Car Company You've Never Heard Of
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Bristol has always had one showroom, a modest building on Kensington High Street. Away from the bustling shopping of the rest of Kensington, namely Harrod’s, where its owners presumably frequent, the showroom lacks the sleek veneer of any Audi or Rolls-Royce dealership. Filing cabinets line the rear walls underneath dusty office glass. The wood panels…
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2011 Chevrolet Cruze Eco
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For some time now, I’ve wondered if GM is capable of making a good boring car. Between the Vette, GTO, CTS-V and various SSs, GM’s demonstrated they’re were capable of making kickass cars that represent impressive performance bargains. Unfortunately, the market for kickass isn’t what it’s cracked up to be. Toyota spent two decades building…
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Hooniverse Fastback Friday – The TVR Sagaris Pictorial Posting for British Week
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As I said earlier today, there was only one TVR Sagaris listed for sale at the TVR Webmart site. So, I thought this would serve as your orgasmic experience with the TVR Sagaris, by simply doing a Pictorial Posting of the cars that were sold on the site. So, sit back, and experience the Sagaris.
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Hooniverse Asks – What's Your Favorite British Car Industry Joke?
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So I have this tee-shirt – it’s one of my favorites in fact – and it has the Lucas Electrics logo, and below that the admonition a gentleman does not motor about after dark. Now, I don;t know about you, but I think that’s damn funny. In fact, I’ll probably be wearing it to the…
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British Week – V.I.S.I.T.: Triumph Spitfire 1500
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A while back (before I learned how to turn off the date on my elcheapo ebay digital camera) this olelongrooffan was up in Flagler Beach to meet a buddy from St. Augustine for lunch. While I was there, I spotted this ole British machine and captured some images of it to share, unwittingly, with my…
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Hooniverse Fastback Friday – The TVR Webmart, where you can buy actual TVRs
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Welcome to another edition of Fastback Friday. So we are at the end of British Week here at Hooniverse, and yes I caved. I was trying to do a little research on rather obscure fastback models for this feature, and finding nothing all that interesting, and decided to join in on the British car love-fest.…
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Last Call – I'd Like a Side of Fries, Please Edition
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I’d bet that’s a big Mack truck. Image source: [Imgur.com]
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Hooniverse Truck Thursday – British Week: It's A Jaaaag Baby!
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A year or so ago, I was out and about and stumbled upon this Jagamino and grabbed a few images of it just in case.
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Streetwalker – Alfa Romeo Giulietta
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I spotted this little Alfa across from an Italian restaurant and around the corner of the German battleship, in the trendy district of Clerkenwell. I was there to stake out a car made entirely from Play-Doh, but to no success. Clerkenwell is a small area, and a bright-blue Play-Doh car is hard to miss, so…
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Triumph the Comic Insult Timing Chain – Stag 1, Your Wallet 0
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There’s nothing finer, perhaps, then waking up, fixing a pot of tea, and settling down to write about one of the shoddiest vehicles to ever disgrace the United Kingdom with its inimitable combination of congenital defects. That’s saying a lot, particularly considering that the UK is one of the few first-world countries to compete with…
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Streetwalker – Sink the Bismarck!
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When it was constructed, the Bismarck was the largest warship in the world. It displaced more than 50,000 tons and featured 72 total guns; its largest battery were a complement of eight 380mm guns on four turrets, which it used against British heavy cruisers with devastating effect.