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  • Classic Captions – ZAZ 968 Zaporozhets Edition

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    Certain types of ads are richer veins of Classic Captions gold than others. For example, advertising images for malaise era luxury cars, anemic ’80s domestic “sporty” cars, and overly trendy ’90s cute utes each promise a giggle of anticipation even before you’ve seen the ad in question. Now, let’s add to that list Eastern Bloc…

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  • Classic Captions: 1986 Chevy Camaro Z-28 Edition

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    This is the part where I introduce this week’s photo and point out a few things to get you excited about developing a witty caption. I mention something cringe-worthy about the car, or point out something about the surrounding image set-up that is hokey, faddish, dated, nonsensical, or annoying. Obviously, none of that be necessary…

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  • Classic Captions – Gurgel G-15L Edition

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    Even though we just featured a Brazilian car three weeks ago, we’re going back to South America in honor of the Summer Olympics currently underway in Rio. This week’s Classic Captions Contest features one of Brazil’s most iconic — or perhaps just most original — homegrown vehicle designs. The Gurgel (“goor-JHEL”) G-15L was a forward…

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  • Classic Captions – '57 Dodge Royal Lancer Edition

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    Hooniverse’s Classic Caption Contest for this week features some appropriately manly ’50s military men having a testosterone-fueled chat near an Air Force jet and a Dodge Royal Lancer. What is that airman saying? Why are the other two smiling? Why is there a civilian car parked on the apron at a military base? How can…

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  • Classic Captions – 1925 Dodge Touring Car Edition

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    In the words of Monty Python, “And now for something completely different…” The ad art featured in the Classic Captions series typically dates from the 1950s through ’80s. But in my quest for journalistic excellence novelty, we’re going all the way back to the roaring 20s, when cars were still young and magazine illustrations were…

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  • Classic Captions — Brazilian Willys Aero Edition

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    Few people who aren’t car geeks remember what a Willys Aero was, and far fewer know that after being discontinued in the USA in 1955, production resumed in Brazil five years later. In South America, the Aero’s robust nature could shine, far away from the cheaper, flashier compacts coming out of Detroit. And shine it…

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  • Classic Captions – Mazda RX3-SP Edition

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    In pursuit of interesting contest fodder, Classic Captions photos tend to skew cheesy, with awkwardly posed people standing around stationary cars. Well, this is foremost an enthusiast site, and sometimes you just got bring out the speed. Here’s a crossed-up, rotary-powered, pre-zoom-zoom ’77 Mazda getting downright rowdy out on a twisty road. Hell yeah badass.…

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  • Classic Captions – '78 GMC Motorhome Edition

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    Thanks to Monday’s national celebration of freedom, pyrotechnics and over-consumption, this week’s Classic Captions Contest has been moved to today. To change things up, here’s a very different type of image, looking out from the red velour interior of a ’78 GMC motorhome at a couple outside, gazing off-camera. This photo is probably more open…

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  • Classic Captions – '76 Dodge Aspen R/T Edition

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    It’s Monday, which means you could probably use a mental jog and a bit of fun to brighten your day. What can do both? Well, Hooniverse’s Classic Captions Contest, of course! This week, we have a sporty young lady posing court-side with her ’76 Dodge Aspen R/T, both wearing white with avocado accents. What clever…

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  • Classic Captions – '54 Lincoln Edition

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    This week’s old-timey ad image contains not one car, but three differently outfitted 1954 Lincolns, skillfully chosen to show the car’s multi-faceted something-or-other. Or perhaps, they just happened to parked next to each other. What the ad men wished to convey is immaterial, of course, because what we’re interested in is what you make of…

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