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  • Last Call: The Falcon’s Swan Song Edition

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    Suzuki has announced that it is lowering the curtain on their once all-conquering Hayabusa 1300, after 21 model years (and just one fairly mild refresh halfway through its life). The official reason is that Euro4 emission regs prohibit sales of the Hayabusa in the EU as of the end of this month. A 2019 model…

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  • Last Call: Trar-cheology Edition

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    Yeah, Grandpa had it goin’ on. Source: Hot Rods & Rat Rods Facebook Group 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.

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  • Last Call: Absurdly Silly Edition

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      It all began with Big Daddy Roth’s fiberglass-bodied bubble-top hot rods, then by the late ’60s, radical TV and movie cars and full-scale, real-steel versions of popular model car kits. By the mid-’70s, and even through most of the 1980s, “hot rod show cars” grew increasingly outlandish, until a raft of fabricators were creating…

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  • Last Call: Perhaps Memorable Isn't The Word Edition

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    Amazingly, in 1974 this ad enticed prospective customers into wanting to be this guy. Well, it was theoretically intended to, at least. 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.

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  • Last Call: Perhaps Memorable Isn’t The Word Edition

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    Amazingly, in 1974 this ad enticed prospective customers into wanting to be this guy. Well, it was theoretically intended to, at least. 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.

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  • Last Call: Fern Gully Edition

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    Damn it, Doreen! You drove the Jag off the pavement and into the brambles again. You really need to watch where you’re driving. 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.

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  • Last Call: Stiff Upper Lip Edition

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    The Toyota Hilux’s new front fascia for 2020 is probably intended to look aggressive, like an angry face. In reality, it looks as though it’s trying really hard not to cry. 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…

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  • Last Call: Makes Learning Fun! Edition

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    This 7-inch tall tabletop cutaway engine is designed to teach the fundamentals of internal combustion, but I would love to have one on my desk because coolness. $349 is a bit steep for a slightly-larger-than-palm-sized toy but it seems a fair price, as it’s constructed almost completely of cast/machined alloy and includes a small electric…

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  • Last Call: Strange High Courage Edition

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    George Weller was no penny-a-page ghostwriter’s imaginary pen name, but a serious journalist whose long and storied career would take him around the world as a respected newspaper and magazine correspondent, in both war and peacetime. In 1936, however, he was just starting out and wrote a rather avant-garde collection of short stories intended to…

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  • Last Call: Jawa Doin'? Edition

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    The old Jawa name is now owned by Mahindra, along with BSA and Peugeot’s motorcycle brand. The first ground-up product from the reborn Jawa is this handsomely retro-styled 300cc four-stroke single. No word on whether it will ever be sold in Europe or North America, or how it will actually perform, but (other than a…

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