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24 Hours of LeMons: 'Doing Time in Joliet' preview
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[Disclaimer: Eric Rood will be getting paid to sit on the 24 Hours of LeMons Supreme Court for this race, punishing drivers for their misdeeds and generally doing his best to maintain order on the racetrack.] The 24 Hours of LeMons has been in its “experimental college student” phase this year, it seems, testing out…
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Motorsports Weekend Guide: September 12 to September 14
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Welcome to Hooniverse’s weekly look ahead to who’s racing what and where this weekend. The next few days of racing feature an incredibly varied mix of everything from two-wheel racing to open-wheelers racing without the luxury of internal combustion. Several series wrap up their seasons this weekend while in California, Thunderhill Raceway may see the…
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24 Hours of LeMons: 'Shine Country Classic, race recap
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The 2014 crapcan season opened up this weekend at Barber Motorsports Park with the 24 Hours of LeMons “‘Shine Country Classic,” the overall winner of which was perhaps hardly a surprise. I picked the RC Spiders squad as the favorite for this race and they showed why by making their third-ever overall victory look like…
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Motorsports Weekend Guide: August 29 to August 31
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Welcome to Hooniverse’s weekly look ahead to who’s racing what and where this weekend. This Labor Day weekend features what has quietly become one of the greatest endurance races in modern motorsport. In addition, several series wrap up their season this with championship titles at stake. Here’s the short list with a lot more after the…
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Craigslist: Get your brown '79 Chevy Nova and an appliance too
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When I was in high school, a classmate drove an Officially Malaise Era Chevy Nova in Brown with a plaid cloth interior. I always wanted to drive it—or at least sit in it—but I barely knew the girl and so never endeavored to ask. Instead, I frequently parked in the school lot nearby in my Mercury…
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Motorsport Weekend Guide: July 11 to July 13
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Welcome to Hooniverse’s weekly look ahead to who’s racing what and where this weekend. After a busy Independence Day last weekend, the next few days looks pretty tame. Motorcycle s might top the list of breathtaking racing ventures while IndyCar is in the middle of a busy stretch-run until the season’s late-August conclusion. Get the scoop on…
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Opinion: FIA's touring car series posts uber-creepy 'grid girls' video
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This is a still image from a 47-second video—called “Sexy back on the WTCC”—posted on the FIA World Touring Car Championship’s YouTube channel from last weekend’s race in Hungary. This is the least-offensive still I could find, but the lycra-clad women holding umbrellas and the video’s gratuitous posterior-and-chest shots aren’t the most worrisome bit (though…
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Opinion: The great, grotesque, and glorious of the 2014 Chicago Auto Show
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Auto shows are strange things, wherein manufacturers go to great lengths to appeal to all manner of car people: enthusiasts, prospective buyers, and even the biannually curious. With the greatest of pomp, car builders reveal their wares and maximize the hype, which is far more important now than ever. Along the way, they produce some…
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24 Hours of LeMons: Speedycop builds 'Jurassic Park' tour Ford Explorer
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Movie- and television-car replicas are a favorite subcategory of cars in the 24 Hours of LeMons and the series has seen some doozies (The Homer springs to mind as the best to date, possibly ever). But LeMons legend Jeff Bloch, known around the Interwebs as Speedycop, has built a picture-perfect replica of Jurassic Park‘s automated tour-guide…
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24 Hours of LeMons: 'There Goes the Neighborhood' preview
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The 24 Hours of LeMons makes its second foray this season into the hinterlands of southern New Jersey to New Jersey Motorsports Park. This weekend’s “There Goes the Neighborhood” will again run NJMP’s longer Thunderbolt configuration, a very fast track that will be packed with 130 entries. Aggressive driving played a huge part in the…
