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  • HCOTY Nominee: Bonus Reader Submission Volume 1 – The Basement Lamborghini

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    I just got an email from reader citroen67 who suggested we nominate Ken Imhoff’s Basement Lamborghini as a potential Hooniverse Car of the Year. My immediate reaction was that I am stupid for NOT thinking of this car choice after Deartháir cooked up this wonderful HCOTY idea. Hop the jump for a video trailer of…

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  • HCOTY Nominee: Sebastian's '79 Hurst/Olds

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    Hooniversal Car of the Year Nominee: Sebastian’s 1979 Hurst/Olds Cutlass Calais Nominated By Mad_Science As seen in: What Malaise? 6.6L Hurst/Olds and a followup, here. We’ll get it out of the way ahead of time: this 1979 Hurst/Olds isn’t the best car nominated. It’s not even that great of a car in the first place:…

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  • HCOTY Nominee: 'The Beast' Ford Falcon Coupe

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    The essence of the Hooniverse community is our unrepentant love of cars. We’re passionate about anything automotive; we are the misfit gearheads, the slightly obsessed, the fanatical. Our adoration of our respective automobiles transcends rationality. Frequently we find ourselves trapped in the situation where we are trying to explain our love for our chosen steed,…

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  • HCOTY Nominee: Steve Darnell's 1929 Dodge Diesel Rod!

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    HCOTY Nominee: Steve Darnell’s Dodge Diesel Rat Rod, making it’s debut at SEMA this year. Nominated by: UDMan As Seen in the Post: What’s That? You wanted to see the Diamond T’s Passenger. I thought this was the very definition of the type of Rat Rod that the readers here at Hooniverse would want to…

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  • HCOTY Nominee: The Ford Mustang

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    HCOTY Nominee: The Ford Mustang – ‘64.5 – ’70, ‘78 – ’98, ’05- present Nominated by: Graverobber As Seen on drag strips, Dairy Queen parking lots, multiple covers of Fast Fords magazine, and, up until 2004, emerging from Ford’s historic Rouge River assembly plant. I’m not nominating a particular car that has been featured here on…

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  • HCOTY Nominee: 1983 Land Rover One Ten

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    HCOTY Nominee: 1983 Land Rover Defender 110 Nominated by: Braff As Seen in the Post: AutoTrader Find of the Week [Oct. 9 2009] Here at Hoon HQ, we love cars of all shapes and sizes… be they fast, slow, ugly, beautiful, big, small, short, long, rare, common, or a combination of all those things. Wait……

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  • What Should Be Our Hooniversal Car Of The Year?

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    Seems like everyone else in the automotive journalism world is bringing out a Car of the Year article or series. We want to play along too, but simply put we don’t want to be lumped into the never-ending streams of very similar COTY awards. We will let the big boys handle the generic stuff.  Over…

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