Articles
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Hoonivision: Vintage Porsche Factory Vids For Your Betrachtungsgenuß
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That’s “viewing pleasure” for you non-Deutschaphones. But you don’t need to speak German to appreciate this late-60s-ish (they look like SWB 911s to me, but feel free to correct me if I’m wrong) film of the Porsche factory building the cars, a race at Daytona, and road testing (including some very clear examples of the…
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1956 Electric Star Chief Kids Car, For the Junior Hoon With Impeccable Taste
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…and wealthy parents, given that the the bidding’s up to $1750. Kids cars based on real models were pretty common promotional items back in the day, but like most promo materials (or things given to kids), they tended not to last long.
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Photo Friday Fun – Round 3
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A down and dirty wagon thats probably blowing dirt and diesel across the landscape… [Found via CarPr0n]
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Announcing the Hooniversal Car of the Year!
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The voting is over, the campaigning has come to an end, and with a great deal less pain and a great deal more excitement than any actual political election, the Hooniversal Car of the Year has been decided. For anyone following the epic, nail-biting drama, this should be no surprise. The results were there for…
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I don't want to grow up and you can't make me!!!
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How is it we have come this far and not done a single article on Legos? It’s a travesty I tell ya! Who doesn’t love Legos? I know I do, hell I even have a giant plastic tub of Legos in storage at the moment patiently waiting for the day when my boys are responsible…
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Illegal Alihoons Unite!
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In case you hadn’t heard, Arizona has passed a law requiring the police to question anyone they suspect of being in the country illegally. Many legal experts have warned that this potentially opens the state up to costly civil lawsuits brought about by individuals stopped under the auspices of the law. It appears that one…
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OMGWTFBBQ VAN!
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It’s widely recognized that forward control vans tie Camaros with T-Tops in their bitchin-ness. At times, the combination of an enclosed interior and smoke work to your advantage, but once those munchies take hold, wouldn’t it be great if you could grill your wings from inside the comfort of your vehicle? Our seller’s decided to…
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The Horror! The Carnage!
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If you recall, Der Überbird ended its last LeMons stint with a motor dead from unknown causes. Sure, there was water in the oil, we had a stuck valve and no compression in the number one cylinder, but beyond that it wasn’t obvious what had killed it. Now we know.
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Last Call- A Segway I Would Ride Edition
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You know what is holding the Segway back from being more than just a doughnut crumb-covered mall-cop prop? Why, a pair of turbofan propulsion units, of course! Designer Samir Sadikhov realized this omission and has come up with the Falcon, a design proposal that rectifies this discrepancy, and adds a new term to the segway’s…
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Missed It: You Could've Been King with this 1961 Dodge Coronet
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Our campaign to Hooniversize the world is well underway, as evidenced by the actions of our own Mr Schmo. Alas, sometimes we come upon a great potential hoonmobile too late. If nothing else, we can used these Ones That Got Away as examples of what you could’ve bought for the price of a used Camry.…
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Photo Friday Fun – Final Round
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This shot is special… it is a teaser image for an article we are running next week.
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El Camino Royal Knight Edition: Hot Vinyl Gryphon Action
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There was a brief but luminous period when huge faux-heraldic appliques were the ne plus ultra of Detroit chic. Remember the “poulet criard” that graced the hood of the Trans Am? Then there was the Royal Knight …
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Hooniverse Asks- What's the Worst Car Your Family Has Ever Owned?
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Parents, we can’t control them. And unless you were brought up by the Shelbys or the Earhardts, it’s pretty likely that at some point your family owned a car that you nicknamed something like the dump truck for how quickly a date would go south when you arrived in it.
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My Eleanor: Two Wheels, 10 Horses, and Three Moving Parts Edition
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Ed. note: From time to time we are going to explore the two-wheeled world of the motorcycle. We kick off Two-Wheel Tuesdays with a story from our friend Tanshanomi and his two-wheeled Eleanor… enjoy! My dream car is not a car at all, but a motorcycle, and by many measures not much of one at…
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We're Not Real Big on Corvettes, But This Black, T-Topped 4-Speed C3 Might Change That
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The C3 Corvette is an ostensibly terrible vehicle. Fragile, ill-handling and not particularly well put together, they’re also a representative of the decline of American Iron from the horsepower zenith around 1970 to the nadir or the late ’70s. They’re most commonly associated with bad hair and bad music. But it’s so easy forget all…
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Mullin Automotive Museum
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As Jeff hinted, we ended up on the guest media invites list for the grand opening of the Mullin Automotive Museum in Oxnard, California. To put it directly, if there’s a finer collection of pre-war French cars out there, you’ll need a passport and a transatlantic flight to see it. As a Southern California resident,…