Lamborghini’s history is rich with could-have-beens and should-have-beens, of which the Bertone-designed Bravo – once considered as replacement for the Urraco – is one. Here it is wedging through some even more historical Italian architecture giving a brief glimpse of what might have been. 

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The Hummer H1 we just showed you is listed for sale with an asking price of $22,000. While hunting down other Hummer-related sales… wait, that didn’t come out right. While looking at other vehicles for sale, we stumbled across this eBay listing that depicts a real-deal Humvee, and the starting bid is just $2,500 with nary a reserve in sight. This isn’t just any HMMWV, however, as this specific Hummer was used in the movie the Avengers.

Sure, there might be six days of bidding left, but the $2,500 staring price is low enough to make most of us take notice. We don’t really care about the attachment to the film, but we are happy to see that the 6.2-liter diesel V8 runs as smooth as the transmission shifts. It won’t be as nice inside as the Hummer from earlier in the day, but that wasn’t exactly a Bentley inside either.

I’d ask you all to tell us which Hummer you’d rather hand over cash for, but I think we’re all pretty sure of what the answer would be.

SHIELD!

[Source: eBay]

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The Hummer H1 is the civilian version of the HMMWV from AM General. It was produced from 1992 through 2006, and, towards the end of the production run, a new one would fetch a handsome sum sitting north of $100,000… to start. Craigslist has a few used options, however, that can have you living out your Desert Storm fantasies for far less. Once such choice is the white 1993 Hummer H1 Wagon shown above, and it will cost you just $22,000 to put it in your driveway… assuming it fits in your driveway.

This particular examples has 99,000 miles on its diesel motor. We’re not sure exactly which mill is under the large hood, but it’s either a 6.2-liter paired with a 3-speed automatic or a 6.5-liter mated to a four-speed gearbox. The seller states that many wear items have been replaced, and the vehicle is currently registered through October of 2012.

Does $22,000 sound like the right price for a platform on which to build your zombie survival mobile? Or is this vehicle best left to the Governators of the world?

Check out the ad here.

[Source: Craigslist]

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I happened upon this Ford Probe GT Turbo today. I took it to myself to grab a few photos of it for comparison’s sake, as it benefits from the similar block-built taillights as my Sapporo, but has Mazda hardware under its suspension bump sporting hood.

But walking over to the front presented me with a surprise, as the owner of the car had for some reason stuck a great big Mercedes-Benz three-pointed star on it, giving the front end a passing resemblance to a 60s-’70s Mercedes concept car called the C111. It’s not orange, though, nor diesel nor did it come with gullwing doors.

The Probe is one of those cars everyone tells me to avoid. I hear they’re a pain in the ass.

Now that the inevitable jab at the name is out of the way, we can move on.

To be honest, I would really like a clean example at one point. The 2.2 Mazda engine should – in theory – be reliable even with a turbo attached, even if a 20-year-old turbo car can blow a headgasket at will at this point.

The design is a sleek evolution of the earlier Probe concepts, the glasshouse forms a floating roof in a tidy way and the aforementioned block taillights give it a handsome late-’80s look. I’ve sat in one, and always liked how the instrument cluster moved together with the adjustable steering wheel.

The driver’s side rear corner has been held together with duct tape at some point, it seems.

This 1991 car is an American import, used; the Probe was barely in the Finnish import program when new and some of them, especially the later, swoopier cars have swam here from Germany. Neither of those had automatic seatbelts to my knowledge, but this one does and that tells me someone’s brought it over as luggage from the States. Then again, there’s a German G-Kat sticker on the windshield, and that would mean it’s made a stop there for some time.

From this angle, the Probe is at its most dustbusteresque. If only the hoodline was lower.

[Images: 2012 Hooniverse/Antti Kautonen]

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Reader NoKetchup loves his local barbershop, and it’s easy to see why. Said barber is rolling around town in a rather excellent example of one of the greatest pickup trucks of all time, the Ford F100. Don’t get too excited about the steering wheel placement though, as we’re nearly certain this photo has been flipped around. Still, it’s a awesome image of automotive Americana.

This particular forum thread got me thinking about my own barber shop. The gent who cuts my hair is named Doug, and his closely cropped top is offset by the beard that runs down to about mid chest. Doug is (I believe) in his mid 20′s, and originally hails from Michigan, which is where is mildly modified Chevelle awaits his return. The parking lot next to my barbershop (Hawleywoods in Huntington Beach – it even says “HooniverseJeff” on the VIP board) often hosts classic car shows. These car gatherings highlight vehicles that appeal to both the lead sled set and the general lovers of old school steel.

Do you get your mop trimmed at a place that could be considered Hoon-worthy? Sound off in the forum thread, found here.

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So, the other weekend while this olelongrooffan was out picking body parts for the “Charles Barrett Special,” I decided to tour a couple u-pull-its on my way back to the Taj Mahal. I have previously shared the experience of the smallish mom and pop one down in Deland. After that I stopped off at the corporate owned, computer inventoried one out by the Daytona International Speedway.

I specifically was looking for a set of 11″ brake drums for the “Special”. You see during the Jeep Beach weekend here awhiles back, the owner of one of the trailer companies we hawk needed a set for his CJ5. Turns out the ones he got from his local, Sarasota based brake company were making some weird noises. He was in the Home of the World’s Most Famous Beach and came acalling to see how things were over at bestpricetrailers.com. He ended up talking to thejeepjunkie’s co worker and found out that his shop is all things Jeep and Willys. thejeepjunkie diagnosed the problem and came to visit my cube. He explained the situation and the fact the drums of the “Special” would fit perfectly. Did this olelongrooffan want to part with them?  Of course, I commented, “If the price is right.” And it was, hence my search for new drums for my “Special”.& I mean what the hell, I now have a valid reason for wandering around in someone else’s yard.

So the first place at that corporate owned junkyard this olelongrooffan headed was to the MOPAR section as that is where they keep the Jeep carcasses. Among all the mundane MOPAR products of 90′s was this thoroughly rusted out Barracuda vert. Ironically, the second or third post this olelongrooffan did here in the Hooniverse was about a Cuda at a MOPAR show I attended the same weekend our esteemed Blooger spotted a similar body style Cuda while out at a park with his wonderful family. The bias ply tire in the first image was spotted out front of this former beauty queen and she has definitely not aged well.

Just across the aisle from that 60′s sweetie was another but this one is just a tad bit larger. It was the matronly aunt to that Cuda, a Chrysler New Yorker that was relatively complete. A friend of my folks, who once told this olelongrooffan that I did a “jam up” job filing down the head of our 51 Ford F1, owned one of these back in the day. BTW, my brother, thehorsefarmer, bought his old 55 New Yorker when Hap bought his 67.

For whatever reason, some Hoon had removed the steering wheel from this stately queen. It along with the horn rim and horn bezzle were laying on the front seat of it. I trust my fellow Hoons to know that horn bezzle came home with this olelongrooffan that day. Check out the size of that ashtray. Remember those?

And just because I like to take junkyard images of vehicles I own, or have once owned, I gathered up this image of an old MJ Comanche. The clutch in my Indian is acting up this week and thejeepjunkie had damn well get it fixed before I head to Naples tomorrow for my daughter’s high school graduation on Friday. Yeah my fellow Hoons, this olelongrooffan continues to age. But I do it gracefully. Well, at least that is what I tell myself.

And just because there is absolutely nothing wrong with some vinyl coated goodness, I had to grab this image of a station wagon killing minivan.

Finally, this olelongrooffan gathered up this image of a mid 70′s era Chrysler produced executive coupe. This thing was nearly a 1/2 mile long and, honestly, was rather pretty as it sat there surrounded by all things beige.

Sadly, this yard turns inventory quite quickly so unlike the Austin America I had just seen in that u-pull-it previous, these will all be gone by the time this olelongrooffan returns to LKQ.

But that’s okay, this olelongrooffan is confident I’ll see plenty of other cool shit to share with my fellow Hoons.

Copyright Hooniverse 2012/longrooffan

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