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Pinto Cruising Wagon? Hell Yes! Can Someone Spot Me $3500?
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Dear lord, could you pack any more style, finesse, panache, into a single package? Who wants to cruise for a run-in with law enforcement near an elementary school chicks?
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Boss Cat I: 1,000HP of Turbonique Fun in the Snow!
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By now you all should be familiar with the paste-eating, babbling, straightjacket-worthy insanity of that legendary purveyor of turbines and turbine accessories, Turbonique. Lest you think that the egregiously dangerous rocket drag axles were limited to dry conditions, may we present for your eye-rubbing, stupefied enjoyment, the Boss Cat I, a Turbonique-equipped 1,000 HP rocket…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: When Did Photography Become a Contact Sport?
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I found this over at StreetFire. You will have to make the jump to see what happens to the Photographer….
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Last Call- Riding Shotgun Edition
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Zero percent financing? $10,000 off MSRP? Eff that, I’m getting me a FREE 12-gauge with my Silverado. Image source: [Reddit.com]
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Hooniverse Asks- What Was Your Worst Car-Buying Experience?
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Whether it was through a dealer, craigslist, or calling the number on a For Sale sign in the window of a street-parked ride, we’ve all had some less than wonderful experiences with buying a car. Some of them just leave a bad taste in your mouth. Some, make you question the fate of humanity- let’s…
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Retrospective via Automotive Traveler: The Jeep Grand Cherokee
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With this week’s press introduction of the new Grand Cherokee, Automotive Traveler looks back on the Jeep Grand Cherokee’s first three generations. Automotive Traveler’s Editor in Chief, Rich Truesdell, details the Grand Cherokee history, from its beginnings at AMC right up through today, with all the intrigue that went along with Renault, AMC, Chrysler, Daimler,…
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No, Really? Top Gear Names Car of the Decade
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Last night on the snooze-fest that was the first Top Gear of the new year (although taped two weeks ago) the lads from Leeds (I know their not from Leeds, but it sounds good) attempted to one-up Hooniverse by awarding not only their Car of the Year winner, but also their Car of the Decade.…
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Found on BaT: Green dream machine
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When I saw this on BaT this morning, I about crapped myself. You see, I spent the better half of last summer stalking this car. I would see it in downtown traffic almost every day but it never sat still long enough to make it into my V.I.S.I.T. file.
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Last Call- Digital Juvenalia Edition
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Admit it, when you first got your digital calculator you typed in 58008 and turned it upside down, making you the coolest kid in 7th grade math class. Fortunately, while some of us are getting older, a few refuse to grow up, meaning that rare opportunities like this get documented rather than ignored. Go boobs,…
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Hooniverse Asks- What's the Best Car Face?
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Yesterday, Ford lifted the embargo on information about the 2011 Shelby GT500. You can read the details on what’s different in the ’11 car here. One change that’s obvious, and can be seen in the beauty shot above, is the narrowing of the speed stripes that run the length of the Mustang. While the previously…
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FreeRace Combines Demo Derby, Spec Racing, Autocross and Drifting into One Delicious Stew
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OyaVi2Dvd0[/youtube] Whoa. Why didn’t we think of this? Basically, the folks behind FreeRace take over a parking lot, set up a nice, wide autocross-ish course with barrels and barriers and let loose a few hoons in matching 370Zs. First one across the line wins; any and all shenanigans are fair game. Any downsides? We can…
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Last Call- Water Sports Edition
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For those of you who may not have gotten today’s Name That Engine, it’s from the Arno XI Hydroplane (1/8 scale kit shown above). That 800kg class three point hydroplane was built by Cantieri Timossi and was powered by a type 375 Ferrari Formula One engine. That 4493.7-cc twelve featured twin superchargers, pulling through a…
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Motorcycles Not Dangerous Enough For You? Try This!
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This is billed as an alternative for those who want to be able to ride their dirt-bikes all year round. I, for one, see some potential problems.
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Found on Craigslist: 1977 Buick Electra
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For the low, low asking price of $1490 you too can own this fine example of a malaise-era, two-door, boat-towing boat.
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Represent Your (Not-So) Huge Rimz Wherever You Go with Our New T-Shirts
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I’m notorious in the _Science household for my impeccably bad timing. Routinely, I’ll offer to help with the dishes just as The Missus puts the last one away. It’s with that same uncanny ability that we bring you two new shirts, just in time to completely miss the holiday consumer spending orgy buying season! We’ve…
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Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie and…Hofmeister Kinks?!
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It wasn’t all that long ago that Americans bought full-size, rear-drive, body on frame passenger cars in numbers large enough to more than justify producing them. However, sales of coupe versions of these leviathans tanked before the bottom fell out of the entire segment. But the market for big sedan-based two-doors still had a pulse…