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Hooniverse Weekend Edition – The Very Definition of the word Malaise: The 1979 Chrysler New Yorker Brougham
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Within the Automotive Enthusiast community, the term “Malaise” describes pretty much any vehicle built during the 1970s and perhaps in the early 80s as well. This was the era in which there was a convergence of government mandates regulating emission levels, bumper regulations, and fuel economy. With such mandates, each of the automakers had to…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition – A 1976 AMC Pacer that goes beyond any particular genre…
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Genre: A class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique, or the like: the genre of epic poetry; the genre of symphonic music. Automotive customizations have gone through many genres over the decades, and there are fans of each niche. There are Hot Rods, Street Rods, Low-Riders, Tuner-Cars, Rat Rods, and…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition – A Cadillac Pickup via Bangshift.com
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A quick posting, but check out this weird and wonderful Cadillac Eldorado Seville that has been converted to a pickup truck….. One more image after the jump…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition – Videos You Must See via Hemmings and Vimeo
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Welcome to the Sunday Edition of Hooniverse Weekends. These two videos recently ran on the Hemmings Blog, and they are both well produced, are about great old cars, and make you want to go out and discover hidden treasures for yourself. But you will have to make the jump to see them.
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: Last Call: NASCAR Headquarters Edition
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So, as Mr. Brennan seems to be recovering from his partying like a Rock Star or is it Charley Sheen totally business like time out in the home of the Indy 500, this olelongrooffan thought I would pipe in with Last Call for this last night of the Bike Week down here in the greater…
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Hooniverse at the NTEA – The Nissan NV Commercial Van
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As many of you are aware, I was at the NTEA Work Truck Show this past week, and many of you have asked about this particular truck, the new Nissan NV. This truck was introduced at this very show a year ago, and they are now showing up at Nissan Commercial Dealers now. So, is…
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Hooniverse Bike Weekend Edition: All The Craziness That Is Main Street
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So, last Sunday, this olelongrooffan took a first time ever during Bike Week stroll down Main Street here, Beachside, in Daytona Beach. It was, shall we say, rather enlightening.
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition – A Sprinter with a Flatbed
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I am just getting back to posting the Weekend Edition after returning from the NTEA Work Truck Show, when this shows up in our in-box. Our very own Tanshanomi suggested that we feature it since he really liked it, and truth be told, I do as well. There are very few of these Sprinter Cab…
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Hooniverse Weekend, Reader Submission Edition – A 1973 Dodge Dart Found in Seattle
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Welcome to another Hooniverse Weekend Edition, and I thought I would start this weekend with a reader submission. This comes our way from Bret (Thanks Man!), who is one of the members of the legendary 24 Hours of LeMons teams, the Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys. He has been writing about cool iron in and around…
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Last Call- Food Tastes Better When it's Served on Skates Edition
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Drive-ins – both of the cinema and eatery variety – have become relics of a by-gone era. And that kind of sucks. (Yeah I know, this image isn’t that old – the A/C, and radio give it away. But you’re still hungry now, right?) Image source: [Imgur.com]
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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…