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  • New York Times Sunday: Artist Peter Max and his Corvette Collection.

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    I was going to run this piece for Modern Art Monday, but this story is so compelling it’s now under New York Times Sunday Edition. Anyway, I have a surprise for Modern Art Monday. This is a very interesting story by the New York Times author Daniel McDermon, as he described telling how the Corvettes…

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  • LT1-Powered Ferrari 250 – What's Your Take?

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    A few days ago on the ever-awesome Bring A Trailer, they covered the sale of a Ferrari 250GTE (that’s a relatively unloved 2+2 iteration of the 250 model) for a “mere” $38,000. The catch? Gone is the 3.0L v12 and manual transmission, replaced by an LT-1 and 700R4 slushbox.

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  • Superbowl Sunday Ride Special: The Armored Limousine, With a Stripper Pole!

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    So what do the Dallas Cowboys Football Star Terrell Owens, and Reality TV Star (and Sex Tape Vixen) Kim Kardashian have in common? They both chose to use a most unusual Limousine Service, based in the Dallas Metro area, the Armored Limousine Service, Inc.

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  • YaMon! Jamaican II: Fiberglass Boogaloo

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    Wow. Just…wow. We’ve never seen a more perfect distillation of the low-end car buying experience. We’ve got a no-engined kit car from the beginning of the Golden Age of Fiberglass (1969) based on a VW chassis, with no tires, two Keystone fake-Cragars, in Lancaster, being listed by a guy who doesn’t own it.

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  • Ok Bring A Trailer, You Win – 8 Corvairs, 20 Engines, Hesperia

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    Here at Hooniverse, we work hard to bring you the most absurd, most marriage-ending and homeowners-association-distressing project cars available. We won’t be happy until each and every Sunday night, each and every one of you inundates the tips line with tales from your weekend wrenching exploits. That said, we know we’re not on the only…

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  • In A Snowbank, No-One Can Hear You Scream: The Hooniversal Polar Expedition, Part III

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    In the previous chapter, we explored all the various forms of training and preparation for a mission to the North Pole that we successfully ignored in favour of drinking nice cups of coffee and strong forms of alcohol. Eventually we realized that our training was never going to be properly completed, and was really just…

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  • Hindsight Is 20/20: The Hooniversal Polar Expedition, Part II

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    In the previous episode, we spent a great deal of time arguing about which vehicle should be our appropriate choice of steed for a mission to the North Pole. We accomplished a great deal of arguing and managed to keep the liquor production industry of Canada in business for another day. We did not accomplish…

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  • Drunkenly Into Oblivion: The Hooniversal Polar Expedition

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    Like so many other great ideas, this one was borne of a whole lot of alcohol. We were sitting in the Techie Lounge and watching the Top Gear Polar Special. After a few more drinks, someone scoffed at the goings-on in the saga, letting loose with the fatal words that have doomed many men before:…

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  • The Rustman Cometh: 1973 BMW 3.0 CS is an Automotive Siren

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    The seller describes this ’73 e9 BMW as “Unbelievable”. The pictures don’t lie, it’s the “Needs a paint job” claim that makes us wary. It does, indeed need a paint-job, in addition to several thousand dollars worth of body work. e9 BMWs (2800s, 3.0CSs and CSLs) are Teutonic Sirens: gorgeous to look at, relatively simple…

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  • Ok, Time to Stop Adding Lightness

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    We’re all familiar with the famous words of Colin Chapman and their application to Lotus motorcars. Perhaps someone took this credo a little too far in application to a 1964 Elan. The seller claims the chassis is rust and accident free, which means either the body was accidentally washed with nitric acid, or…well…we’re not sure…

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