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Kit Car whatsit?
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Jims recent post aboot kit cars inspired me to toss this out there. I’m kind of a jerk when it comes to handing out clues so this is all you get. Cheers!
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition – Relive the 80s with this Mustang 5.0
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Ahhhh the 80’s. It was a new generation in which MTV took hold, and was firmly implanted within the sub-culture of the country. Where else can you combine bad music, bad fashion, and bad cars all into one memorable decade? It was a time when in 1980, it was morning in America again, and by…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition – Kit Car Showdown
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A kit car is an automobile that is available as a set of parts that a manufacturer sells and the buyer then either assembles into a car themselves, or if they are really lame, retains a third party to do part or all of the work on their behalf. The engine and transmission are usually…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition – Cars You Should Know – The 1999 to 2001 Dodge Ramcharger
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We received this delicious tip from OA 5599 (Thanks Man!) about a vehicle that has been rarely spotted in the states. What is unusual about the vehicle is the fact that is was crafted by one of the Detroit Big Three for Mexican consumption only. Introducing the 3rd generation of the Dodge Ramcharger.
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition – Remember the Inexpensive, Sporty, Two-Door Coupe?
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This past Friday, I ran a posting about some rather delicious Toyota Celicas and Celica Supras, which got me to thinking…. What happened to all the little, affordable, and sporty two-door coupes. Almost every make had one, from the big three, to Volkswagen, every Japanese brand, even Hyundai offered one. Let’s do a quick photo…
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Saturday Question – How Much Do You Think a Car Dealer Should Make Selling a Car?
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I have been posting car features for over a year here at Hooniverse, and every time I post a car that is showcased by a dealer, there is the inevitable comment that says something like: “Wow, great car, but its really overpriced”. The term “Stealership” has been tossed about on this and other sites as…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition – The 1967 AMC Rebel Rambler Regional Stationwagons.
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Welcome to another edition of Hooniverse Weekends. This past week Rob ran a Hooniverse Asks posting about whether of not woodgrain should make a comeback for wagons. Everyone seemes to chime in with this one, as we received almost 100 comments, but it was the one from our very own Tanshanomi, who said: 1967-68 was…
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Last Call – S-S-S-Surf’s Up Edition
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Hope doesn’t just spring eternal, it apparently also drives a Rav4. Image source: [Imgur.com]
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Eleanor just got a little brother!
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I know, it is hard to get much smaller than Eleanor but somehow I managed.
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Daily Drivers
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The Fiesta did not make a good first impression. What awful seats, I thought as I struggled to find the recline lever. What an awful noise, as the engine wheezed to life. What an awful car. I had been curious about the Fiesta ever since I’d ridden in a European model with an acquaintance who…
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Lone Star Pulsar NX for $1850
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When the original Pulsar NX came out in 1983, I immediately fell in love with it’s slab-sided, sharp-cornered gawkiness. Then I read the car rag reviews of it. I believe it was Road & Track that summed up the 1983-86 Pulsar NX as “proof that you can build a thoroughly mediocre car and people will…
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Hooniverse Asks – What Do You Consider Automobiledom’s Most Hallowed Ground?
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Religions have Jerusaelem, celebrity stalkers have the Beverly Hills hotel, and car nuts have the. . . Geez, where to start? The Nürburgring? Ford’s Rouge River plant? Louisville? There are so many places that a car nut could call their nirvana, it’s impossible to point out one as the center of every petrol head’s world. Funny…
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Hooniverse Fastback Fridays – Vintage Toyota Celicas and Celica Supras
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Welcome to another edition of Hooniverse Fastback Friday. Since you all seemed to like the Plymouth Barracuda posting from last week, I thought I would offer a similar posting, only this time with a distinct Japanese flavor. These are all from one dealer, St. Charles Toyota in St. Charles, Illinois. It seems that this particular…
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Last Call – All My Roads Are Orange Edition
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I don’t wanna’ grow up, I’m a Toys R Us kid. . . Image source: [Imgur.com]
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My, What A Big Camry You Have! (with bonus ad scans)
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On the back cover of same 1983 issue of Omni from which I pulled a Honda CX650T ad for a post last fall, Toyota was pitching its one-year-old Camry nameplate. (Previously, the Camry name had been a variant in the JDM Celica line.) What’s doubly amazing to me is not only the original V10 Camry’s…
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LeMans, GT40, 1969: Enough Said
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We love a gorgeously shot, perfectly recorded HD video as much as anyone, but there’s just so much honesty in this slow-cut, grainy, fuzzy ride-around in the lead-up to the ’69 24 Hours of LeMans. Our favorites are the commentary about the new safety on the Mulsanne straight, while off to the left are trees…