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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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  • 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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  • Blank Canvas: The MGA, in V8 and Rotary Flavors

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    With proper fabrication skills, a car is a blank canvas for any angle-grinder wielding auteur. Today, we consider thought provoking variations on that hallowed tradition of stuffing a British roadster’s bonnet full of some lairy motor. However, instead of the more traditional and famous Tiger or AC Ace, today’s MGA twins bring a touch of…

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  • Obscure, Poorly Built, and Slow, the Gilbern Invader Still Best Welsh Car Ever

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    OK, so Gilbern was the only Welsh marque ever, but even so, just look at it! The Mustang-meets-Longchamp lines, the gaping maw inhaling a gryphon, the howling Essex six-pot up front … it’s positively nwydwyllt, in the local vowel-challenged tongue.

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  • Showdown: Dig These Groovy Gassers!

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    In our last showdown, the Volvo C30 shunted its two competitors into the weeds for a commanding 56% of the vote. Today, we’re reducing the number of choices so as not to confound addled pre-vacation brains. Two groovy gassers will go neck-and-neck in the Hooniverse drag strip of public opinion – who will prevail?

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  • ¡Viva Argentina! SIAM Di Tella Argenta is the Riley Pick-Up that Never Was

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    As if the Riley 4/72 wasn’t obscure enough for our North American friends, Sección Industrial Amasadoras Mecánicas Di Tella, in a fit of revolutionary brilliance worthy of Bolivar himself, created the Argenta. And it was good.

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  • Still Life: Forged in Kenosha, Replaced by a Renault

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    Sometimes it’s hard to believe the AMC Spirit was canned in favor of the Renault Alliance. So what if it was a freshened-up Gremlin with an optional 5.0L V8? I mean, just LOOK at it – the Spirit in its natural habitat, surrounded by that endangered species known as American heavy industry. They will always…

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  • Showdown: Vannin'

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    If there’s one trend that Hoons the world over mourn, it’s the penchant for extraordinarily hairy men to gut a shorty van and fill it full of shag carpet, teardrop windows, and sci-fi murals. Unlike that terrible swing dancing trend that nauseated the country for several years in the ‘90s, we think that shag vans…

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  • V.I.S.I.T. – Spawn of Scottish Militant Left-wing Shipbuilders Edition

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    I’ve written about the troubled but awesome Imp before, but I’ve never seen one off the track (where they’re less troubled and more awesome, generally speaking). And then this little bastard comes into view, parked in my new mecca for automotive randomness, Ballard.

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  • Two … Er, Make that Three-Wheel Tuesday Review: 2010 Ural Patrol T

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    Last week, Hooniverse reviewed the 2010 Ural Solo sT, Ural’s newest product, and this week we’re looking at an updated version of the Ural that started it all – the Patrol. While the Solo broke new ground for Ural, the bread-and-caviar of their product lineup is the iconic Patrol. No one is going to claim…

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