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  • Hooniverse Asks: Why Is the El Camino More Venerated Than the Ranchero?

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    Let’s just get this out of the way, the first pickup trucks were car-based and that makes the Chevy El Camino and Ford Ranchero the defacto inheritors of the form’s traditional lineage. Today, Ford’s F-series trucks may claim the title of best-selling vehicle in the U.S., but that proprietary pickup platform didn’t even arrive until…

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  • Last Call: Quit Loafing Around Edition

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    This is just how I imagine artisanal breads should be delivered the world round—in the back a well-worn and homey Renault R4 van. Last Call indicates the end of Hooniverse’s broadcast day.  It’s meant to be an open forum for anyone and anything. Thread jacking is not only accepted, it’s encouraged. Image: Hanger.Amsterdam

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  • Craigslist Crapshoot

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    Welcome to Craigslist Crapshoot, our weekly search for the most bizarre, awesome, and/or terrible vehicles that the online classifieds has to offer. Wranglers aren’t just jeans, they’re also Jeeps, and that’s what we wen’t looking for last week, Wranglers and CJs, all for under five-grand. We’ll what’s off the road and on the table in…

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  • Hooniverse Asks: What's History's Greatest Poor People's Car To Have Been Embraced By The Not So Poor?

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    Whether it’s the gentrification of a neighborhood down on its luck, or the fancification of what’s generally considered to be “peasant food,” the commandeering of the  simple trappings of life by the well to do has long been an annoying industry. Cross-class appropriate even occurs in the automotive world. You may not be completely familiar with the history…

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  • Last Call: Pontiacs in Australia Edition

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    Fun fact: the bumper/grille portion of the 1968 Pontiac Catalina’s nose is reversible! Last Call indicates the end of Hooniverse’s broadcast day.  It’s meant to be an open forum for anyone and anything. Thread jacking is not only accepted, it’s encouraged. Image: Reddit

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  • Track Tuesday: Name That Track

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    Welcome to Track Tuesday where you are asked to identify a (maybe) famous race or test track from just one closely-cropped aerial image. This week, it’s a snippet.  Good luck! Image: ©2017 Hooniverse/Robert Emslie, All Rights Reserved

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  • Hooniverse Asks: Has Every Possible Motorcycle Engine Configuration Already Been Tried?

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    One thing that both motorcycles and automobiles share is a penchant for a variety of different engine layouts. For both types of machines you can find inline engines, V-units, and horizontally-opposed. With the death of the Wankel in production guise that pretty much covers all the forms available today. That doesn’t mean that there haven’t been…

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  • Last Call: Kermie Edition

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    I feel for ya’ Kermit, I don’t think she’s funny either. Last Call indicates the end of Hooniverse’s broadcast day.  It’s meant to be an open forum for anyone and anything. Thread jacking is not only accepted, it’s encouraged. Image: Imgrum

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  • Because it's Monday: Let's Watch This VERY NSFW Chrysler Plymouth Dealer Ad Parody

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    That’s Chick Lambert, and that’s Chick’s dog “Storm on the hood of that fine Ford product. This ad parody is from 1969 and is waaay inappropriate for mixed company so make sure grandma and the nuns are out of the room before you watch it. Why can’t ads be this good in real life? Source: YouTube

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  • Hooniverse Asks: What Was Your Favorite Model Car as a Kid?

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    Did you build model kits when you were a kid? I sure did, and my favorites were cars and WWII airplanes. It was really the construction that I enjoyed more so than the pride in the completed output, so much so that I oftentimes wouldn’t even bother painting my models, leaving them denuded in white plastic.…

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