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Honda’s California City Test Track For Sale, Commence Scheming!
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Ohmanohmanohmanohmanohmanohman this is big. Certainly literally the physically largest and likely the most expensive thing we’ve ever featured, at least until the whole state of Rhode Island comes up for sale. Located just north of the failed master planned community and Hooniverse playground, California City, is Honda’s huge vehicle testing facility. The property features a…
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Hooniverse Fastback Friday – A Group of Desirable Shelby Mustangs
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Welcome to another edition of Hooniverse Fastback Friday. This time I thought I would take you to a dealer in Colorado that is offering a special grouping of Shelby Mustangs. Are they desirable, or are they overpriced? You make the call…
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2011 Dodge Challenger SRT8 392: Wandering Wildly Through Wine Country
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Perhaps the biggest fan of the new 2011 Dodge Challenger SRT8 392 came from an unlikely demographic: a shaggy, bearded man with dulled blue eyes under a dirty wool cap, scars and scabs all up and down his gaunt cheeks, pushing a woman wrapped in faded blankets and sitting cross-legged on a wheelchair, holding a…
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Hooniverse Asks – Have You Ever, or Would Your Ever, Eat Road Kill?
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It’s pretty inevitable that you’re going to one day hit an animal with your car. I was lucky, it was a pigeon that I hit – of course it wasn’t too lucky for the pigeon. I didn’t mean too, but they usually fly away with plenty of time when your barreling down on them. This…
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Last Call – But I Only Stopped For One Drink Edition
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It’s the Ultimate Slip-sliding Machine. Image source: [Imgur.com]
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Hooniverse Truck Thursday: A 1956 Oshkosh Snow Plow Truck…. For Obvious Reasons!
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Welcome to another Hooniverse Truck Thursday Edition. A day after the record setting snowfall we received in New England, I thought this would be an appropriate truck to showcase to the Hooniverse audience.
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Hooniverse Asks – What’s Your Least Favorite Product of Your Most Favorite Car Maker?
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You can’t usually choose your family, especially when you’re a conjoined twin. Sometimes it’s a black sheep brother, or the creepy uncle who always wants you to sit on his lap and talk about how much you’ve grown. Car companies are like that too, and not every sibling from even your most beloved manufacturer is…
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Last Call – Roads? Where We’re Going We Don’t Need Roads Edition
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Dude, your boat’s back there. . . and your colonic is just up ahead. Image source: [Imgur.com]
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AtomicToasters Features the Napier Deltic!
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While we try and stay clear of the realm of automobilia that Hooniverse has mastered so perfectly, that doesn’t mean we aren’t interested in the workings of machinery, or the weird and wonderful offerings from the rest of the world of transportation. Today, Hooniverse’s very own Rust-MyEnemy jumped into the fray to tell us all…
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Just a Snarky Weather Comment
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Even though there is a “freeze warning” down here in the Birthplace of Speed for overnite on Wednesday, this olelongrooffan is proud to note that the Sunshine State was the only State in the Union, including Hawaii, not to have received any snow during the last couple days! And know Tonyola and this olelongrooffan are…
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Frank Bacon's 1947 FB-500
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[The above image and following text is adapted from Unique Cars & Parts’s “Car Spotters’ Handbook,” and is reprinted here with their kind permission – Ed.] After World War II ended, British car enthusiasts could once again seek out something spirited to drive. But these were still hard years, and money (and petrol) still hard…
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CES 2011: eCoupled Induction Charging for EVs
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While stumbling, bleary-eyed, dead on my feet, across a hall so large the curvature of the earth would have been visually apparent were it not for a vast sea of similarly stumbling event attendees, I spotted a Tesla Roadster at the Fulton Innovations stand. The Tesla was charging … without wires! “What unnatural divination be…
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Hooniverse Asks – How Important is ‘Detroit’ as an Automotive Icon These Days?
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The North American International Auto Show is opening shortly, and as you all know, the media (and Hooniverse) have been there for the pre-show getting to know the 30+ new models and booth models who are visiting the Motor City for a couple of weeks. And that last bit – about Motor City – is…
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Hooniverse Wagon Wednesday – A Cadillac Fleetwood Wagon, with Provenance?
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Welcome to Hooniverse Wagon Wednesday, and today I found this Cadillac Fleetwood Wagon that may have been owned by the musical Jackson Five family. Well, that is what this blog had to say about it back in June of 2007, when it was sold by Vintage Motors of Sarasota. Even if it doesn’t have a…
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Last Call – Goose Has Really Let Himself Go Edition
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Why Harley Davidson invented the ‘hardtail.’ Image source: [Imgur.com]
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2011 Toyota Sienna
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Coolness is effectively the art of doing it wrong. The best music isn’t always the most pleasing to the ear and great paintings are rarely pretty. Fashionably good looking clothes are rarely well suited to any task and conversely, going about your business in combat boots, cargo pants and a tactical vest would make you…