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Last Call: Strut Your Stutz Edition
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It’s been a while since I’ve watched Saturday Night Fever but this picture of the New York skyline and Brooklyn Bridge backdropping a Tiparillo-smoking woman while her chauffeur waits in her custom two-door Stutz Blackhawk convertible is reminder enough of the tackiness that era exuded. Seriously, who the hell gets chauffeured in a two-door 2+2? Last Call…
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Mystery Car
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Happy birthday, Olympic gold medalist and Tarzan portrayer Johnny Weissmuller, and likewise happy coronation anniversary British Royal Family top-dog Queen Elizabeth! I generally consider June to be a pretty mundane month, but there are in fact a lot of important events that have occurred during the year’s half-way point. The latest of course is this Mystery…
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Hooniverse Asks: What Current Model of Car Should Be Spun Off Into Its Own Brand?
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It is indeed a rare occurrence when a single model gets spun off as its own marque, but on occasion it has happened. Among those brands that once were models are the Avanti, which survived the demise of its parent brand, Studebaker. Mini likewise was once just a model. First under the Austin and then…
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Last Call: Fitting Farthing Edition
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Finding a bike rack that accommodates a Penny Farthing is hard enough. Procuring one that fits a Citroën DS deserves a toast. Here’s to you, Citroën Penny Farthing Person! 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,…
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About That Track Tuesday From A Couple Weeks Back
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I had thought that the Track Tuesday contest from a couple of weeks ago had been rightfully solved. It was brought to my attention on Twitter however, that I was wrong. Oh so wrong! I’d like to rectify that egregious oversight and hence, without further ado—seriously, there’s been far too much ado of late—here is…
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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: What did Smokey Yunick do to give his car the edge in distance for the 1968 NASCAR series that didn’t actually break…
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Hooniverse Asks: What Failed Car Brand Put Up The Best Fight?
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If you’re anything like me then you likely imagine that when GM told the Oldsmobile management team that their brand was scheduled for the axe, the response was something along the lines of “what kind of severance will you be offering?” The inner workings of an automotive brand’s departure from the market is not typically something that’s…
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Last Call: Pick-A-Part Pickup Edition
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Okay, I just want to know: which one of you magnificent bastards showed up at Pick-A-Part in a 3-Camino? Image: ©2017 Hooniverse/Robert Emslie, All Rights Reserved
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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. Last week we took a walk on the wild side while looking for cars and trucks with a reputation for being dangerous. That led to a bunch of results that probably should each…
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Hooniverse Asks: What’s Your Most Meaningful Automotive Performance Metric?
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The Shelby 427 Cobra legendarily could do 0-100-0 in under 14 seconds. That’s a stat worthy of bragging rights, but holds little real world, or racing, worth. Envisioned as a track car without compromise, perhaps a better benchmark might have been acceleration out of a corner, or maybe just straight line speed. And yes, I…
