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Thursday Trivia
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Welcome to Thursday Trivia where we offer up a historical automotive trivia question and you try and solve it before seeing the answer after the jump. It’s like a history test, with cars! This week’s question: Under what name was Italian wheel maker Borrani originally founded? If you think you know the answer, make the jump and…
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Hooniverse Asks: What’s The Worst Place You’ve Ever Had To Fix a Car?
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I’ve always said that the most opportune place to repair a broken down car is in its new-owner’s driveway. I don’t mind at all maintaining the various members of my herd, but it truly vexes me when something on any of them goes wrong. It’s especially frustrating when the problem arrises in an inconvenient locale.…
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Last Call: Strapped On Edition
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Here’s a question for you: have you in your entire life ever strapped a suitcase or other piece of luggage to an exterior rack on a car? Sadly I never have, and, seeing as such, I am adding it to my bucket list, right along with owning a Porsche 356. Last Call indicates the end…
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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. I’d like to say that small car makers, what we oftentimes refer to a cottage car makers, are the backbone of the industry, but that’s simply not true. In fact, they are more…
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Hooniverse Asks: Do You Let GPS Tell You Where to Go?
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I’m sure for those of us stuck in daily slog of “rush hour” traffic, the arrival of the fully autonomous car can’t come a moment too soon. I mean, it’s the same thing every day—get into the traffic queue, get out of the traffic queue, get into another traffic queue, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. If you,…
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Last Call: Cub Reporter Edition
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Have you ever asked yourself, just how will I be an engaging conversationalist at parties? Well, ask no more because now you can regale others with your vast knowledge of Honda Cub model names and introductory model years. I know, and you’re welcome. Last Call indicates the end of Hooniverse’s broadcast day. It’s meant to…
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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 figure eight. Good luck! Image: ©2017 Hooniverse/Robert Emslie, All Rights Reserved
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Hooniverse Asks: What’s the Most Immature Person’s Car?
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Yesterday we tucked in our shirts, combed our hair, and for the moment at least said goodbye to the kiddie table as we discussed what might just be the world’s most grown up car. That’s all over and while it was fun to play let’s pretend I’m glad to get back to the juvenile…
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Last Call: Sherbet Edition
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Why, oh why don’t they offer wonderful pastels on trucks any more? California license plates were also once much more pleasing to the eye. 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: ©2017 Hooniverse/Robert…
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Because it's Monday: Let's Watch the Happy Wanderers Intro
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When I was a kid, the non-network affiliated TV stations in the LA market were da-bomb. There was so much that was weird and wonderful on local TV back then, stuff that the networks were too busy or too focused on profits to air. I remember a cartoon show hosted by a freaky clown named…
