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Hooniverse Fastback Friday – 2 Mid Sixties Pontiac Full Sized Fastbacks
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Welcome to Hooniverse Fastback Friday, where I find some interesting Fastback Vehicles from across the web to bring to your attention. Blake has lately been on a British Car Obsession, and while I can appreciate the occasional piece from Great Britain, they are nowhere near as reliable as a 1960’s American Full Sized Car. On…
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Hooniverse Asks- What Car Would You Shoot into Orbit?
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A few years back on Top Gear, Hammond and Mays attempted to launch and return to Earth a Reliant Robin – a herculean task if there ever was one. Of course, as anyone who has seen that episode knows, they nixed the idea of putting Clarkson in the death chair pilot’s seat, choosing instead to…
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Last Call – Cat Out of the Bag Edition
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From an era when drivers were fat, and tires were skinny, the XJ13 sported a 5.0 V12 and all the aircraft engineering that designer Malcolm Sayer had learned at Bristol Aircraft. Sadly, it never went toe to tire against Ford’s GT40 or any other LeMans car as resources and budgets doomed it to being but…
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Conundrums, Conundrums
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Sorry my fellow Hoons, the esteemed Mr. Brennan has been providing some excellent Hooniverse Truck Thursday posts so my post about the now reassembled Crosley pick up will have to wait until the next time around. However, this olelongrooffan has a conundrum and requests the assistance of my fellow Hoons.
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Encyclopedia Hoonatica: Rear-Engined Wagons
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While recording this week’s zany, alcohol-fueled podcast, the subject of rear-engined wagons came up somewhere. Back when one car model carried an entire lineup by itself, putting the engine in the back seemed like a great idea until it came time to actually get more room out of the back there, somehow. Rear-engined wagons: they’re…
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Hooniverse at the NTEA – 50 Awesome Images on the Floor of the Work Truck Show
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Welcome to Truck Thursday, and as I’m still at the NTEA Work Truck Show I thought I would share with you, our faithful Hooniverse Readers, some of the images I captured on the floor. This is a show that receives very little mainstream media coverage, nor does the other car based blogs bother to make…
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Hooniverse Asks – What Car Would You Flatbed?
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El-Caminoizing a car is for wusses. No, what real manly men do is cut up an unsuspecting car, preferably a unibody, from the B-pillar backwards, then shoehorn a diamond-plate dump bed (giggity), perfect for hauling knockoff David statues, stolen motorcycles, and barrels of gasoline that always explode in action movies. So what strange car…
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Hooniverse Asks – Which Car Most Needs a Convertible Version?
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There used to be this guy – Richard Straman – who cut the roofs off of cars for a living. He didn’t just Henry the VIII them, he turned them into proper convertibles, and by this act, he rectified a deficiency the original manufacturer had not seen fit to. Straman brought forth more 365 GTS4s…
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Hooniverse at the NTEA – Getting to know Mike Levine of Pickuptrucks.com
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During the NTEA Show, I had the distinct pleasure to meet the creator of the truck-centric site Pickuptrucks.com, Mike Levine. We managed to talk about some of the new debuts at the show in between the press conferences, and he is a one man dynamo. He did put together a set of videos about some…
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Last Call – Charlie Sheen's New Gig Edition
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This is one bus that you really have to get on to get off. Image source: [Imgur.com]
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Hooniverse at the NTEA – The Green Truck Ride and Drive Event
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Yes, this is another National Truck Equipment Association (NTEA) Work Truck Show posting, but this time it is about the Green Truck Ride and Drive Event. These are all the trucks that are Hybrids, Electrics, and Propane and Natural Gas fueled vehicles. I was specifically there to try the Hino Hybrid, as well as the…
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Hooniverse at the NTEA – Isuzu introduces the new Reach Van, re-introduces the V-8 COE
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Continuing on with our NTEA coverage here in Indianapolis, Isuzu held their press conference yesterday in which they introduced the Reach Van (in cooperation with Utilimaster Corporation), and re-launched their V-8 powered Low Cab Forward Truck. One is very interesting, the other? Not so much….
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Handle With Caution: "The Wages of Fear"
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The job is simple. Drive a heavy truck 300 miles on a rough dirt road, and collect $2000. That’s a small fortune, enough to buy your way out of the South American hell you’ve been slowly rotting in, back to France and the promise of no malaria, a full belly, and peace of mind. There’s…
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Hooniverse at the NTEA – Another New Cab Forward Truck Introduction – The Fuso Canter Series
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The Low Cab Forward truck market is one of the hottest sectors in the industry right now. There is such a pent-up demand that there were several introductions here at the NTEA Work Truck Show, and they all have a different take on the market. Hino introduced a Hybrid Low Cab Forward model, geared to…
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Hooniverse at the NTEA – Ram introduces a New Van, and the React…….zzzzzzzzzzzz
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Day three of my travels at the National Truck and Equipment Association (NTEA) Work Truck Show, and the introductions were non stop. This is a very under reported event in the mainstream media, and even less so within the enthusiast online sites, but it is worthy of coverage by the hoons at Hooniverse. I went…
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Hooniverse Asks – What are Your Plans For When Gas Hits $5 a Gallon?
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I have to drive a lot. That routine, coupled with an average of about 22-mpg means I frequent the neighborhood filling stations a hell of a lot more often than I’d like. It used to be that I could get away from the pumps only about $40 poorer, but these days, it’s getting to the…