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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…
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Hooniverse Truck Thursday – A '54 Dodge Power Wagon that'll serve as your support vehicle
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Welcome to another edition of Hooniverse Truck Thursday. We received this tip from Anonymous (Thanks Man!) specifically for Truck Thursday, and what a Truck. Can you imagine the uses for this rugged, go-anywhere vehicle?
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Hooniverse Asks – Should Woodgrain on Wagons Make a Comeback?
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To many of you, born too late to engender nostalgia for such things, a Woody isn’t just a Toy Story character or what you get watching Olivia Munn, but a specific kind of car. Starting out, most all cars were built primarily of wood, as that was reasonably light, strong and cheap material. However, aside…
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Last Call – Allemande Right Edition
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Dagen H, or H Day- 3, September 1967 was the day that the entire nation of Sweden switched from driving on the left to doing so on the right, like their neighbor Norway and the rest of Europe. At 4:50 all traffic was required to stop. They were then to switch to the alternate side…
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Bad Ideas Made Worse™ with Renault!
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Beautiful Mexico! Land of beaches, tiny shivering dogs in teacups, and horrific drug-related violence. It’s also where the VW Type 1 went to die, and where the full-size two door SUV lives an Elvis-in-Vegas afterlife among the agave and smog. You’ll be happy to know that it’s also the home of this particular fiberglass enchilada…
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The Sound and the Fury: Hooniverse Reviews the Soundracer (with video!)
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Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Ol’ Billy Shakespeare (college hip-hop name: “DJ Shaky P”) wrote this when he…
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Hooniverse Asks – Where Do You Go For Car Advice?
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So far this week we asked if you ended up crushing on Top Gear USA, and whether or not MotorWeek is your guilty pleasure. Both of those show talk about cars, and Goss’ Garage even gives you product placement-tinged car advice. But when you’re really stumped over what to buy, when to change, or just…
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Hooniverse Wagon Wednesday Showdown – Three Desirable FoMoCo Wagons on eBay
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Welcome to another edition of Wagon Wednesday, and I thought I would shake things up just a bit by doing a Wagon Wednesday Showdown. These three Ford Motor Company Wagons are currently running on eBay. So which one would you park in your driveway?
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Last Call – If a Tree Falls And No One Is Around To Hear It Edition
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Tim-berrrrrr! Image source: [Imgur.com]
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Bad Ideas Made Worse with DIESEL!
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I know what you’re thinking: you’ve got stuff and it needs to move. Whether it be a mosquito fleet of mopeds, a Renault-powered Devin, or a small regional brewery’s worth of MGD cases, it’s gotta go. You need transport, son. Have I got a deal for you!
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Son of Killdozer: The Power Wagon Town Panel Is Here
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Commenter extraordinaire and former DamnElantra owner Jeremy has brought something for show and tell. After reading our post on a certain Power Wagon Town Panel (Town Panel = no windows, Town Wagon = windows), he was smitten. It got away from him once, but thanks to a deadbeat eBayer, he got a second chance. When…