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  • Care To Take A Cruise With This olelongrooffan, My Fellow Hoons?

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    Although the byline on this post is not longroofian, it is actually by this olelongrooffan. Can’t figure out why a friend of The Chief Blooger got credit for it, although all is good. Based on his online presence, he seems to be a pretty cool dude. Well, it’s been seven months since this olelongrooffan has…

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  • 2017 Milwaukee World of Wheels!

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    The cure for winter seasonal depression is a prescription of car shows. Especially in Wisconsin, where days of single-digit temperatures matched with negative windchill gets miserably obnoxious. Thankfully the month of March brings a bit of warm relief to frozen gearheads across the dairy state. We have two car annual car shows on the calendar;…

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  • Hooniverse Goes to a Fundraiser with BMW Race Cars, Axe-Throwing, and Flat Bill Riley

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    If you’ve never been to a 24 Hours of LeMons race, you might not know that most race’s have a charity associated with the event. The charity occasionally affords teams the ability to donate to the charity to get themselves out of an unfortunate penalty while doing some good. It was through one of these…

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  • A Hoon's-Eye View of the 2017 Rolex 24 at Daytona

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    The 55th 24 Hours of Daytona (or Rolex 24) is in the books and by now you probably already know about the winners, the new cars, and what to expect from the rest of the season. If you missed the results and analysis, we’ve got you covered here and here. Every good thing you heard…

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  • The GT-86 Cup; Customer Racing at The Ring!

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    As a part of my trip to visit the lovely folks over at TMG, they arranged a taxi ride for me around the Nurburgring in one of their VLN customer team’s GT-86 cup cars. Developed in house at TMG, the customer GT-86 cup races in VLN around the legendary Nurburgring. So, how does it feel…

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  • Holiday Weekend Truck Edition: It's 'Murica After All

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    As there is a Big Assed Birthday Party going on in these here United States of America, this olelongrooffan suspects postings will be a bit light this weekend. I don’t know about my fellow Hoons but this olelongrooffan likes to get my Hooniverse fix no matter what the occasion so please enjoy the following this…

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  • Commercial Street Car Show

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    So this olelongrooffan has yet to attend a 417 Cars and Coffee this year but I did get an opportunity to attend the Commercial Street Car Show a whiles back. Now while I have not attended the Cars and Coffee yet this year, my niece, who my fellow Hoons may remember purchased an Acura RSXs…

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  • Lamborghini Cruise-In and Centenario Unveiling at the Petersen Museum

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    A new evolution of the Lamborghini Aventador was unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show earlier this year, named the Centenario, for the 100th anniversary of the birth of company founder Ferruccio Lamborghini. Looking at photos, it was hard to see how this really fit with the time and the legacy of Ferruccio Lamborghini. Besides that,…

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  • Quick Visit: Wayne Carini's F40 Motorsports

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    Chasing Classic Cars is one of the more popular shows on Discovery’s Velocity channel. Wayne Carini is the host and his now famous F40 Motorsports restoration shop is located Portland, CT. The good news for viewers is that Chasing Classic Car just extended their contract with Discovery for two more years. Over the years I…

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  • Weekend Edition: The Classic Motorshow Parking, Part. 2

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    At the show, there were a great deal of non-ancient cars parked neatly next to the older classics. This post shows the angular, ’80s stuff and the occasional newer car that had snuck in.

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