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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…
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Art Monday- Junior Achiever
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Milan Kunera’s book and its film adaptation The Unbearable Lightness of Being centers around the lives of four individuals during the Prague Spring and subsequent Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. It’s too bad it wasn’t about race cars, because that would have been a lot more interesting, and this 1957 Stanguellini Formula Junior would have…
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Hooniverse Asks – What Beverage Goes Best With Car Talk?
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While we were setting up to record the podcast (coming in two hours!), I noticed the sound of many a carbonated beverage being uncapped coming in over the headset. This prompted a long-ish discussion on what we were going to imbibe during the show, and there was a broad range of responses. That got me…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition Review – Weekend Last Calls….
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So we come to the end of another weekend here at Hooniverse, and it is the special Last Call Edition. Rob usually does the last calls for the weekday editions, but I run a last call to call the weekend edition closed. Click on the title of each picture for the link to the original…
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It Was Fun Meeting A Fellow Hoon, The Followup
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As this olelongrooffan mentioned on New Year’s Day, I hooked up with a fellow blogger down in Fantasyland for lunch and some wandering.
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition Review – A Pictorial Review from "Mike the Dog"
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During the weekend shift, I have had the pleasure of showing the images captured by out good friend, Mike the Dog. Why not make the jump to see the images Mike produced for us throughout 2010.
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition Review – The Showdown Editions
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It the weekend, and every so often I try and produce some exclusive content for our fans. We call these postings showdowns, where we highlight two, three, or more vehicles, and then ask which one would you rather own, drive, or blow-up. So with this Weekend Edition Review, I thought I would bring out some…