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Hooniverse German Lesson: Say "MARE-KOOHR!"
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Expensive. Poorly positioned in the market. Cursed by currency exchange rates. Saddled with a difficult to pronounce name. Sold out of indifferent Lincoln-Mercury dealers. Slow by today’s standards. Lima engine derived from a Pinto unit. Not especially durable. Also, one of the greatest vehicles ever to grace our undeserving shores; a brief glimpse into the…
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Mystery Car!
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All right, folks. Here’s another chance for you to impress us with your crazy car ID’ing skills. You get no hints, but I will say that you’ll see the rest of this picture this afternoon. Guesses after the jump!
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Hooniverse Asks- What Car Has The Angriest Face?
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We humans tend to anthropomorphize our possessions – extending even to our cars – and we even assign them personalities. As such, we look at the physical features, the hips of an E-Type say, and equate that to those of a person, oh say Kim Kardashian. And most every car has a face, what with the…
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Sunday Question – How Much Do You Think A Dealership Should Make on Repairs?
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Welcome to the Sunday Edition of Hooniverse Weekends. The lack of posts this weekend is due to two facts; I am trying to clear all the ice from around the house, and the fact that I now have to try and care for my elderly parents, with both of them currently residing at different care…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition – Wood Gas Vehicles via Low-tech Magazine
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We have some of the best fans on the net, and here is another example. We received this tip from Andrew (Thanks man!) about another really interesting site called Low-tech Magazine, and one of their recent articles featured Wood Gas Vehicles.
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition – Where Tradition Meets Tech
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I received this tip from Tim about a really cool website, ScooterMcRad’s Whatchaworks. This is one of the coolest sites I have seen in a long time, and I thought I would highlight one of his features he does every Friday called Friday Cutaways… Tim described this as cutaway porn, but that is a really…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition – A Datsun 200 SX Roadster Found on eBay.
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Welcome to another Hooniverse Weekend Edition. The Datsun 200 SX of the early 80’s is re-badged Nissan Silvia and was really a Japanese interpretation of a small Monte Carlo of Ford Thunderbird of the 70’s. I remember going to a Datsun dealer and looking at the Notchback Coupe version, finished in a 2-tone blue with…
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Last Call – The Donner Party Edition
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Because you can never get enough Oregon Trail. Image source:[Imgur.com]
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Showdown: Cad-on-Cad Edition
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In our last Showdown the Puma pounced all over the pop-stop Sterling. Today, we’re going to put that good taste to a test and ask you to chose between two pinnacles of Malaise-o-Lux. Both are ’70 Cadillac Sevilles, but only one’s a Gucci Special Editon. you’d think the brown-with-gold trim Guccimobile would have it, but the…
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Mystery Car!
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Did you know that the word coupé comes from the French to cut? Did you further know that the traditional triangular martini glass is also known as a coupé? Oh the things you learn from basic cable. Here’s a car that’s a coupe -the car version, not the cocktail glass. It has two doors and…
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Hooniverse Asks – What Car-Related Story Should Get the Hollywood Treatment?
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There’s been Tucker, The Man and His Dream, and then there was. . . oh, I don’t know, Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang? Sure there have been a number – a small number in fact – of movies about cars and the people who built them, but don’t you think there could be a whole lot…
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Hooniverse Fastback Friday – Avanti, Avanti, Avanti, Avanti!
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Welcome to another edition of Hooniverse Fastback Fridays. Studebaker was already on the ropes by 1960, and in one desperate attempt to be relevant again, turned to Raymond Lowey to design and produce a world class GT car. Many stories have been written about how he took a group of designers and engineers to Palm…
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Last Call – Made For a Citroën Edition
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At up to 25 feet long, and more than 200-lbs, the green anaconda is the world’s largest snake. I can’t quite put my finger on why, but this road made me think of that. Image source: [Imgur.com]
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Hooniverse Truck Thursday – A 1952 Ford F-600 Cabover Resto-Mod on Craigslist
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Welcome to another edition of Truck Thursday, and I will NOT be doing a marathon edition of Truck Thursday because the weather cleared here, and I have to get some work done….. But that doesn’t mean I can ignore actually writing a Truck Thursday Posting. We received this juicy tip from jeepy jayhawk (Thanks, Man!)…
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Hooniverse Asks – What’s The Best Car For a Las Vegas Roadtrip?
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Who doesn’t like a road trip? And should you and a clutch of your friends decide to undertake a journey of discovery to a neon-lit destination such as Las Vegas, as exemplified by the movies The Hangover and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, what would be the best vehicle in which to travel? I…
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How Is This Even Possible?
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A pileup during Snowpocalypse 2011 (aka Snowtorious B.I.G.) along New Hampshire’s I93 resulted in one of the most implausible accidents we’ve ever seen. Somehow, despite physical probability dictating otherwise, a Ford Fusion ended up perfectly balanced on its nose, sticking straight out of the snow. Click through for the bizarre amateur clip.