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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…
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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]