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Hooniverse Fastback Friday – How about a Pinto and a Bobcat?
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Welcome to another edition of Hooniverse Fastback Fridays. There is nothing fast about the two cars in this posting, but they are two neat little cars that are probably worth nothing close to their asking prices, but does that make them bad? Take a look, and apart from the price, are they even remotely lustworthy?
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Last Call – Lincoln Continental Drift Edition
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I love you, Franco. . .
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Disappointment Abounds……
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Yeah, this olelongrooffan will be forced to leave Pit Road by the end of Speedweeks and the Daytona 500 next Sunday.
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Micro-Scale 4×4 Hoonage at its Finest
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As the affordability of high-end video equipment progresses the interwebtubes have been flooded with gorgeously shot videos of the cars and trucks we love. Alas, all too often they’re rich music an slow-mo-shots of nothing happening. This time around, we get to see a classic truck (Ford? Studbaker?) on a gnarly 4×4 chassis putting its…
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Hooniverse Asks: What's your favorite factory truck stripe package?
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Two weeks ago, during our discussion about whether or not wagons should still have woodgrain, the comments drifted into a discussion of various malaise-era truck graphics. Black Steelies suggested that we make it a Hooniverse Asks entry for Truck Thursday. Today, we dutifully comply.
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Hooniverse Truck Thursday – A Last Year Ford Ranchero with only 2,300 Miles
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Welcome to another edition of Hooniverse Truck Thursday. Many of you have left a comment (or a few) suggesting that a Truck Thursday Posting should highlight either an El Camino, or a Ranchero (or better yet, an Aussie Ute). So I took this suggestion under consideration, and while looking through eBay Motors I spotted this…
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Last Call – Edsel, The Final Frontier Edition
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You know, from some angles, the Edsel was really cool looking. Image source: [mesabi via Flickr]
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AtomicToasters: Instant Pizza!
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Were you curious about the “instant pizza” that caused Blake to put on his rubber pants in the middle of an English night during our last Hoonicast? No? Well, pretend you were anyhow. After a bit of prodding, he’s revealed all of the secrets of the magical pizza-making vending machine with which he shares a…
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A Wagon Wednesday Rarity
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When the esteemed Mr. Brennan initiated Wagon Wednesday here in the Hooniverse, I doubt he considered the far reaching implications of the popularity that Wagon Wednesday would become.
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Hooniverse's Greatest Director Films Hooniverse's Greatest Opening Sequence
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a27pCW2DPc0[/youtube] The above clip is from the beginning of a 1986 French movie called “Un homme et une femme, 20 ans déjà,” which is about…I’m not sure exactly, but it’s certainly not about a bunch of guys who bash up a Lancia Thema, Saab 900, Mercedes-Benz 190E, BMW 528i, Peugeot 505, and a Renault 25…
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Hooniverse Wagon Wednesday – When the Going Gets Weird, The Weird Turn Pro Stock
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Just when AMCs of yore are transcending their ironic-kitsch status into becoming genuinely collectible cars, here comes a Pacer that threatens to blow everybody’s cheeseball notions right back into the Stone Age.
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Hooniverse Asks – What Car Would You Like to Recapture Your Automotive Youth?
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Maybe it was the cool woodgrain along the long sides of your mom’s Country Squire. Or it was the way the leather in your dad’s 5-series smelled, and the way it made you feel when he’d row it through the gears. Whatever it was, there was probably a car from your formative years that represents…
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Hooniverse Wagon Wednesday – Three Post War 2-Door Wagons from the Big Three
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Welcome to another edition of Hooniverse Wagon Wednesday. The 2-Door Wagon seems to be popular with the Hoons here at Hooniverse, so I thought I would do a Wagon Wednesday Showdown between three different 2-Door wagons of 1949-1953 vintage. So which one will prove to be the one that tugs on your want-o-meter? The 1949…
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Last Call – Your Ass Is Grass Edition
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Did you hear the one about the butcher who backed into his meat grinder and got a little behind in his work? Jump, but…well, there’s always a butt… (that’s a hint…probably NSFW)
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Have You Been To AtomicToasters Lately?
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In the last few days on Hooniverse’s sister-site, AtomicToasters, we’ve discussed solar panel arrays, Benjamin Franklin’s batteries, Piper’s pilotless warplanes from World War Two, uses for Altoid tins, and the digital animations that took over your screen during the SuperBowl. Sound like stuff you’d be interested in? Then come join the conversation. You can even…
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Rotax Type 486: The Greatest Motorcycle Engine You've Never Heard Of
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The Rotax Type 486 is a titan of an engine. Upon its arrival on the scene in 1983, it was as good as anything made of its type. It was a dirt bike powerhouse that possessed not only industry-leading peak power, but massive midrange, a linear horsepower curve, remarkable versatility and surprising durability. And yet,…