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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. If you were born in the U.S. you are automatically American. Every time you go to the bathroom however, Yur-a-peein.’ Oh man I love that joke, but not half as much as I…

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  • Hooniverse Asks: Have You Ever Gotten Screwed Over at a Car Show?

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    I have served as a Concours d’Elegance judge at a number of events across Souther California, but there’s one event where I will never judge again. That’s the San Marino Motor Classic, a young event just celebrating its fourth anniversary this year. Youth doesn’t excuse the incredibly poorly handled trophying system that took place a couple of years ago however, and…

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  • Last Call: For What It's Girth Edition

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    If you’re like me then you probably still have the scar on the soft inside of your ankle from where you once drove your foot down to extend the kickstand on your Schwinn only to miss by a hair and have it make a nice gouge down the side of your foot. Yep, that’ll scab up…

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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: What Other Mistakes Do You Think Ford is Making?

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    Late Sunday night Ford Motor Company announced that the company was parting ways with its CEO and former mullet-sporter Mark Fields. The corporate line is that Fields retired, but everyone knows that’s bullshite. One has to wonder if he got to keep the little Ford emblem lapel pin, and whether or not his order for…

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  • Last Call: Choose Wisely Edition

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    Most Millennials won’t get this joke. 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: Pinterest

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  • Because it's Monday: Let's Gear Up

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    The reason I’m comfortable with having Hagerty as an insurer is because they really seem to get what the whole old car experience is all about. (Full disclosure: I insure my old cars through Hagerty, but they don’t pay me shit to link to their videos, I just think they’re stinkin’ cool.) Here we have…

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  • Hooniverse Asks: What Ad Campaign Made its Marque?

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    Let’s think a minute about advertisements. You remember those, they’re the things you’re using an ad blocker not to have to look at on Web sites right now. At one point in time, ad campaigns for cars established or enhanced the personality of that marque, sometimes it even rejuvenated it. Today we want your opinion…

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  • Last Call: The Last Whimsy Edition

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    While he did assume a controlling interest in the extremely lucrative candy enterprise, Charlie ultimately had to turn down Willy Wonka’s offer to move to the factory grounds as the CEO’s house had but only a one car garage, and Charlie was planning to use his new-found fortune to amass a huge collection of epic…

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  • Mystery Car

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    Today is a day of historical note as it was on this date in 1539 that Henry the VIII had his wife, Anne Boleyn beheaded after she was found guilty of a number of serious, and wholly trumpeted up charges. Let’s hope that you don’t lose your head trying to solve this week’s Mystery Car.…

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