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Hooniverse Asks: What's your favorite factory truck stripe package?
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Two weeks ago, during our discussion about whether or not wagons should still have woodgrain, the comments drifted into a discussion of various malaise-era truck graphics. Black Steelies suggested that we make it a Hooniverse Asks entry for Truck Thursday. Today, we dutifully comply.
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Last Call – Can’t Ride, Horse Will Eat Me Edition
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There comes a time in most people’s lives when it’s important to cast off the trappings of youth, no matter how painful the emotional bond. And sometimes you just dump those things because they plain ol’ scare the crap out of you. Image source: [Imgur.com]
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My, What A Big Camry You Have! (with bonus ad scans)
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On the back cover of same 1983 issue of Omni from which I pulled a Honda CX650T ad for a post last fall, Toyota was pitching its one-year-old Camry nameplate. (Previously, the Camry name had been a variant in the JDM Celica line.) What’s doubly amazing to me is not only the original V10 Camry’s…
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TWT: Pheathon, we hardly knew ye…
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These three horrible-quality photos are the only remaining evidence of my first (okay, only) roadracer, which I dubbed “Pheathon” (after the Greek demi-god Zeus was forced to strike down, because he was driving the chariot of the sun so recklessly — I assume you can make the connection). It was originally a Bultaco Pursang 250…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: Monterey California Weekend Review
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Yes it was quite a weekend on the Monterey Peninsula last weekend, with the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, The Mecum at Monterey Classic Car Auction, The Monterey Historic Races (since renamed), the Concorso Italiano, and of course the Concours d’LeMons. Unfortunately, I wasn’t anywhere near California to cover the events, but there were other sites…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: 1959 Fiat 682/RN2 Bartoletti Open-Deck Race Transporter
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Imagine arriving at an historic race with your vintage Ferrari on this instead of in an enclosed trailer. It can happen, as Automotive Traveler’s Rich Truesdell discovered recently, and it can be yours if you have the scratch. Read more after the jump.
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: The NY Times Collectible Car of the Year; A Tatra?
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I somehow missed this over at the New York Times, but Tony over at Car Throttle ran a story about it last weekend. Read more after the jump….
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Flying Nurburgring Racers Save the Day!
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The word “awesome” is overused far too often. This is not one of those times.
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: A Once Great Museum set to close this month.
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I wrote about the Golden Age of Trucking Museum both on Hooniverse, and Automotive Traveler. It is with great sadness that I have to tell you that it is set to close this month.
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Fun with owners manuals
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Otherwise known as “The Idiots Guide to Your Car”.
