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  • Hooniverse Asks: What was Your High School “Jock Ride?”

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    My wife has a friend whose husband is a total “Chad.” He exhibited his Chad-ness recently by responding on his wife’s Facebook to one of his wife’s friends with the bitter complaint that she shouldn’t feel empowered just because she is gay. Total Chad move. On the plus side, hearing about this dick move set me to thinking.…

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  • Last Call: Real Instruments Edition

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    One of the 1958 Corvette’s touted features was a bank of “real instruments” and sure enough the dash was redesigned that year to place the dials front and center before the driver rather than strewn willy-nilly. Add to that an available fuel injected V8 and the Corvette was well on its way from cruiser to bruiser.…

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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 was the design feature of Hot Wheels’ Ramblin’ Wrecker that caused its creator, Larry Woods such grief? If you think…

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  • Hooniverse Asks: What's Your Favorite Chill in Traffic Song?

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    So, I am currently obsessed over this smokey psalm by Niia that’s been making my drive home a little bit less soul-sucking for the past week or so. Honestly, it’s reduced my blood pressure by like 20 PSI. A current meme is to “Netflix and Chill” which is in fact a provocation to bump uglies,…

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  • Last Call: Simple Pleasure Edition

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    Kids today may have their smart phones and their vapes, but they’ll never know the joy of cutting and pulling the fenders on a war wagon Fiat 126 late at night in a bartered garage space. Pity them if you care. Last Call indicates the end of Hooniverse’s broadcast day.  It’s meant to be an…

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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 got ready for our closeup with cars that looked like those featured prominently in the movies. We’ll stand up the stand ins in just a sec, but first this week’s…

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  • Hooniverse Asks: What Automotive Brand Has The Most Cult-Like Following?

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    Yesterday we talked about which motorcycle really should have been more popular. Today we want to know what car brand is perhaps a little too popular. Fan comes from fanatic and what we’re interested in is your opinion as to what maker or marque has the most devoted—or maybe cult like—fan base. Image: VW Vortex

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  • Last Call: Whoa-Oh, Domino Edition

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    Gesundheit. 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: surfingbird

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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 the whole schlemiel. Good luck! Image: ©2017 Hooniverse/Robert Emslie, All Rights Reserved

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  • Hooniverse Asks: What's The Most Under-Appreciated Motorcycle?

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    There are certain motorcycles, like the Vincent Black Shadow and Suzuki Hayabusa that have earned veneration over time. Others seem to have never found a fan base despite obvious attractive  features or performance. Honda’s ’90s Pacific Coast is a bike that it seems never found its audience. Can you think of some other perhaps even…

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