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Last Call – Tower Bridge Bus Jump Edition
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I got this postcard at a souvenir shop. The back reads: On 30th December 1952, the driver of a bus on route 78, travelling over Tower Bridge in the evening, noticed the road was rising in front of his bus. The bridge was being raised. It was too late to brake as the bus might…
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Triumph TR6: What Would Van Gogh Drive?
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Did you know that the Triumph TR6’s panel gaps are large enough to fit another TR6?
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Rule Britannia from the (Upright) Wheel of a Motorhome Bus!
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London is one of the most expensive places to live on Earth. It’s also one of the most congested cities, forcing former car-hating mayor Ken Livingstone to install a “congestion charge” that forces drivers to pay tolls when they enter the city center. With this in mind, here’s one way to kill two birds with…
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Streetwalker – Bootless Brit Bruiser Battle!
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I spotted this dynamic duo shamelessly bringing down property values in West London: home of celebrities and cognoscenti and the rich and the famous and those who don’t find Robin Leach to be hilariously ironic. You can’t fling a chip butty without it splattering malt vinegar on a German luxury car. There must have been…
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For Sale: One British Car Company, Faint Whiff of Tweed
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Bristol Cars, which we discussed in minute detail on the last podcast, is undergoing a bit of trouble now. The formerly exclusive company is not only selling Bristol Cars, but Bristol Cars—that’s right, the entire company is up for auction. And it’s not just being sold to blueblooded aristocrats like their cars are: anybody with…
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Hoonicast #7: More British Than The Queen Edition
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You know, just because my last name is Rong, doesn’t mean I am, er, always wrong. Here’s one case where I am completely and irrevocably right, unique and perfect in every facet of my opinion. These clowns My esteemed co-hosts just don’t know it yet!
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Brown Reliant Scimitar GTE As 1970s As It Gets
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In 1970s England the coal mines shut down, Maggie Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister, Marc Bolan sang “life’s a gas, I hope it’s gonna last” (it didn’t), and this big, brown Reliant Scimitar GTE SE6 rolled off the Tamworth, Staffordshire production line with a two-fingered salute at the incoming wave of Japanese and…
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Introducing…British Week!
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The beauty of the Internet other than 24-hour pornography is that nobody knows you’re a dog, or on the other side of the world in London. Right now, I am one of those things.
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Encyclopedia Hoonatica: Rear-Engined Wagons
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While recording this week’s zany, alcohol-fueled podcast, the subject of rear-engined wagons came up somewhere. Back when one car model carried an entire lineup by itself, putting the engine in the back seemed like a great idea until it came time to actually get more room out of the back there, somehow. Rear-engined wagons: they’re…
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Hooniverse Asks – What Car Would You Flatbed?
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El-Caminoizing a car is for wusses. No, what real manly men do is cut up an unsuspecting car, preferably a unibody, from the B-pillar backwards, then shoehorn a diamond-plate dump bed (giggity), perfect for hauling knockoff David statues, stolen motorcycles, and barrels of gasoline that always explode in action movies. So what strange car…
