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Monterey Auto Week: Legends of the Autobahn
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In the cabal that is Monterey Auto Week, an upstart appeared in 2009. It went by “Legends of the Autobahn“. It is a free event held just down the road from The Quail’s Motorsport Gathering, a prestigious event that is second only to Sunday’s Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. What is Legends? Essentially, it is a…
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Monterey Auto Week: Concours on the Avenue and Automobilia
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Monterey Auto Week started this Tuesday, and Hooniverse was there. As we approached Monterey, it was clear we were in car country. I mean, how often does a British racing green Bentley 4 1/2 litre blow past you on the highway? Come take a gander at what we saw!
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Photos: Mercedes-Benz W126 armored police car
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‘Nuf said.
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How A Bunch of Used JDM Corolla Wagons Ended Up In Afghanistan
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(I wrote this back in 2007 for my blog, and Kamil’s recent post made it relevant again.) Virtually all news footage of traffic in Kabul shows the obligatory yellow and white early 1990s Toyota Corolla wagon turned taxi. This begs the question, where did all of these right hand drive Corollas come from?
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Canepa's Porsche 959s
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As you may recall, a bunch of us caravanned from Hanzel’s in Oakland to the Santa Cruz Mountains for Canepa Motorsport’s Cars & Coffee. In addition to the car meet in the parking lot, the good people at Canepa opened up their incredible work shop and storage facility. We got to see NINE of the…
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A Hoon's Futile Attempt to Replace His Phaeton
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Ugh, talk about your First World problems. After selling my beloved and obnoxiously complicated VW Phaeton, I have been technically carless. Well, not really. Between sharing my wife’s car, Zipcar, and generous friends, I have had no problems getting to appointments. But eventually, I will need a car. My criteria– non-German, not too complicated, a…
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A Week With a 35,000 Mile Tesla Roadster
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Well… what’s it like? My friend with the Model S also has a Roadster Sport. He’s a good friend who knows I’m a car nut so he let me have the Roadster for a week. So, being Phaeton-less, I made it my daily driver. These are my impressions.
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Caravan to Canepa – Part One
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Last Saturday, Bay Area Hoons caravanned from Oakland to the Santa Cruz Mountains for the Canepa Cars & Coffee event. I am breaking this trip into two segments because honestly, there is so much awesome, I’m afraid of melting the internet. Vwminispeedster and his dad Henry, the hosts of Seconds Saturdays, organized this event. The…
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Hoons Will Be Caravaning to Canepa This Saturday
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This is a Public Service Announcement. For those of you not in the San Francisco Bay Area, you will be spending the next two weeks surfing Canepa Design’s website in your spare time. Canepa’s complex, near Santa Cruz, is an all-in-one showroom, museum, tuning and restoration shop, and design studio. For Bay Area Hoons, you…
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Los Angeles to Ann Arbor in an Ford XE Falcon Ute
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I am biased, but I think Hooniverse is the best car blog out there. A big reason for this is YOU, the readers and commenters. The wealth of experience and the oddball vehicles owned are second to none. Today, I present Hooniverse commenter Matthew’s XE Falcon ute. I’ll give the Cliffs Notes version. For the…
