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Cars and Coffee, Montrose, April 24th 2010
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Another weekend, another great collection of (mostly) classic machinery. We’re doing our best to bring you that which you haven’t seen before, and CnC Montrose has yet to come up short. Hit the jump to see our own little contribution to the mix.
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Ze Germans Take Ze Cake for Construction Equipment Hoonage
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We all know industrial-grade diesels make incredible amounts of low-speed torque. Liebherr decided to hold a whole different object lesson on torque. Jump for the video.
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eBay '69 AMC Javelin Checks All The Car-Ad Boxes
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In the spirit of today’s Hooniverse Asks, and my unrequited love for all things AMC, we stumbled across this ’69 Javelin on eBay earlier today. Clearly the seller has been reading Hooniverse, because he’s learned every lesson of how to sell a car on the internet, and he’s learned them well.
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Cars and Coffee, Montrose, February 20, 2010
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This week we decided to head north, rather than south and check out the Cars and Coffee going on in Montrose. Being 10 minutes from Chez Mad_Science, rather than 45 to Irvine certainly helps. Last night’s rain meant a lot of would-be attendees went to bed thinking they’d just skip it, only to awake to…
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69 Cougar XR-7 Something Something Joke About Middle Aged Single Women
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A lesser blog might use the emergence of a relatively clapped-out ’69 Mercury Cougar with a 4-speed stick to make a string of relatively obvious, tired jokes. At Hooniverse, we keep it classy. While everyone loves a Mustang, the Cougars really represented the classier FoMoCo big-pony offering. At least most did, back when they had…
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Vanity Plate WTF?
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This is either a proctologist that’s too full of himself, or someone who came out of the closet in a biiiiiiiig way. UPDATE: From our friend TheOnlyCannoli- Thanks man, that’s so funny it hurts. Source: [Vanity Plates: Creepiness in 8 Characters or Less]
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Last Call- Separated at Birth Edition
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The Mudskipper and the Messerschmitt – the car is on the right – look so much a like that the fish could rightfully sue the Germans for copyright infringement. That is, if Messerschmitt were still in business, and if the Mudskippers weren’t fish. Image sources: [vectorsite.net, Fressonssportsmopeds.com]
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The Bird is in The Nest
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For those of you also suffering from a mix of severe packratism, too many projects and not enough space, you know how much of a victory this is.
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: Dune Bashing in Dubai
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Buckle up and hold on tight–it’s not called the “white-water rafting of the desert” for nothing!
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Hooniverse Asks- Would You Buy a Three-Wheel Car?
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In the U.S., cars have to meet a lot of stringent safety and emissions standards. That onus can impact both the cost and performance of the vehicle, and have kept a lot of cottage-industry car makers from selling their wares here. A way around those standards is to build something that falls outside the narrow…
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Chevrorsche 924 Proves American Ingenuity Isn't Dead – It Just Needs a New Hobby
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Let’s say you’ve got a lot of Chevy parts laying around, as well as a funny furrin car that you can’t find parts for at Midwest Auto Parts, but that the girls all seem to like. Let’s also imagine you know which end of the wrench to hold, but not necessarily which end of the…
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Last Call- Seriously Edition
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Even Ray Charles was never that serious. Image source: [Imgur.com]
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eBay Find of the Day- Porsche 917 Throttle Bodies
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More rare than unicorn snot and civil political discourse are these aluminum castings that are claimed to be off of the flat twelve that powered Porsche’s insane 917 racer. The seller says they’ll also fit the 935, in case you’ve got one of those in your garage instead. It’s not often that you come across…
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Right Hand Drive AMCs Blow Minds (and Fuel Budgets) Across the Pond
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Our own FTGDHoonEdition was out and about in Essex and stumbled across what have got to be some ridiculously rare AMCs. Hit the jump for his description.
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Rail inspection? Pffhh … Try Minefield Inspection!
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Forget about crawling around boring railroad tracks … need a vehicle that eats IEDs for breakfast and plays in minefields for fun? Look no further than the Trojan, a Mad Max-esque tractor built from a bucket of main battle tank parts and a healthy dose of aggression.
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SUV Showdown: Infiniti FX50 Vs Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8, Part 3
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It’s time to move on from ridiculous hoonage back to the real world (for now). After the canyons and the empty streets of California City came miles of long, straight highway.