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Hooniverse Truck Thursday: A Few Studebaker Pickup Trucks, with a Surprise!
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Hello again and welcome to another Hooniverse Truck Thursday. Being the automotive experts that you are, I doubt that the Studebaker Pickup is unknown to you, except I found three rather rare ones, but I’m keeping the third as a surprise, as you will have to make the jump to see it…
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Last Call – Misogynistic-gnügen Edition
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In the ’60s, VW advertising’s Mad Men, were obviously also very lonely men. Bitter, lonely men. Image source: [Imgur.com]
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A Hooniverse PSA: Beat Hoonibbles Into Submission
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Okay, it’s no secret that “Hoonibbles,” the evil rodent gatekeeper at Intense Debate, will sometimes cast loyal Hoons’ comments into interweb limbo, should the views you express therein displease him. The symptoms of this syndrome are: The comment shows up on your IDC comment feed page, and… the comment is counted in the total comment…
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GM Performance Parts E-Rod Crate Engine: New Best Friend to Lovers of Smog-Controlled Malaise Era Machines
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As lovers of single-digit-thousand-dollar cars and residents of states with emissions controls, we often find ourselves sighing in disappointment to learn that a certain Wagoneer, Monza, BMW Coupe or Cutlass is from 1976 or later. At least here in the Golden State, all post-’75 cars are required to pass a smog test (though oddly, no…
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Pininfarina Peugette
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Despite the derivative name and use of Peugeot mechanicals, the Peugette concept car was not a Peugeot factory effort. It was actually a 1976 Pininfarina design study built on “spec,” with hopes of generating a desire for production from Peugeot (with whom Pininfarina had a good relationship with at the time). The base platform for…
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Hooniverse Asks – What French Car Would you Like to See Back in the US?
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Fiat has triumphantly returned to the U.S. market, a feat just shy in difficulty to landing on the sun – during the day. With that Italian maker of all things impermanent once again filling dealerships with Latin love, I got to thinking that maybe the French too ought to once again darken these shores with…
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Hooniverse Wagon Wednesday – A 1979 Chevy Monza Wagon
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Welcome to another edition of Wagon Wednesday. I was cruising around on the web over the holiday weekend and I came across an interesting web site, and I thought I would share it with you. So, what do you think a business named Ted’s Tuna Boats would be selling? Hint…. it’s not Tuna Boats!
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Last Call – Sign Language Edition
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I don’t know exactly when stick figures on car windows became our nations primary channel of discourse, but it is extremely handy. Here, for example, you can see that this driver has two cats- one shy of being legally considered a crazy cat lady. Also conveyed in this simple message is that, should you catch…
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Help MPOTD Rise From The Cyber-Ashes
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Steve Ducharme’s “Motorcycle Picture of the Day” has been of my favorite bike blogs for a while — a definite daily check. Unfortunately, the powers that be at Blogger (where the site was hosted) determined through some inscrutable, automated Google algorithm that this above-average-quality blog was “spam” and unceremoniously locked the door, sending hundreds, perhaps…
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Speed Reads: The Battle for the Beetle by Karl Ludvigsen
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It’s difficult to not be fascinated by the once-ubiquitous Volkswagen Beetle, from its conception as a pet project of arguably the worst person in history to its unprecedented success. It has also been a veritable primordial ooze from which thousands upon thousands of Hoon-worthy project cars, kit cars, and race cars crawled to meet their…
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Hoonobituary – Anne Francis
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Actress Anne Francis passed away over the weekend, at age 80, due to pancreatic cancer. Some of you might remember the actress for her role in the 1956 sci-fi classic, Forbidden Planet ,were she played Walter Pidgeon’s daughter and wore very short skirts. Nice legs aren’t typically criteria for getting a mention here on the…
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Hooniverse Asks- Did You Make Any Auto-Related New Years Resolutions?
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I think that, aside from Hooniverse, 2010 pretty much sucked raw camel under-tail. That being said, here we are with a bright shiny new year, all rife with possibilities and opportunity for change. So, petrol heads what’s on your agenda for two-oh-double hockey sticks? Are you planning to stimulate the economy with a new car…
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1936 Auto Union Type-C Schematics, Be Still My Beating Heart.
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For reasons requiring no explanation, the 1936 Auto Union Type-C is one of the most lustworthy race cars in automotive history. Unapologetically sleek and sinister and revolutionary, the scariest of the Silver Arrows is one of the best things ever to come from Nazi Germany and someone’s dug up absolutely stunning schematic illustrations. Desktop background?…
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Last Call- Samuel L. Jackson Edition
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I gotta’ get these mother eff-ing snakes off this mother eff-ing dash! Image source: [Imgur.com]
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Das 929 Koupe Begs for Kraftwerk Mix Tape
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I submit to you this – the most 1980s vehicle to grace this crazy globe we call Earth. It’s managed to survive these past 28 years without turning into a roughly rectangular oxide sculpture, and is currently enjoying an extended run of salad days in Deutschland, of all places. Grab some louvered glasses and a…
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Hoonicast #2: Goodbye 2010 Edition – Featuring Davey G. Johnson
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Congratulations! You survived 2010, and in celebration of that incredible, natural-selection-defying feat of existence, we’ve put together an hour and a half of the greatest car discussion in the history of 2011, with your host … me! Our special guest this time around is the legendary Davey G. Johnson, who joins us to talk about…