Articles
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The Emperor Has No Divisions — Somebody finally nails what's wrong with GM
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“Back when General Motors was great, it was a holding company that owned some of the best car companies in the U.S. GM’s genius chairman, Alfred Sloan, constantly fought the very system he built to keep those companies autonomous and decentralized. He would be horrified to see how they are run today…. No executive is…
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Want to Get With a Starlet? Go to Las Vegas!
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Ah, Las Vegas. Come for the ephemeral promise of material gain, leave with the rolling chassis of a tiny Toyota for less than your booze-addled buddy is going to blow at the strip club (“Dude, I think she really loves me! I’m going to hit the ATM again …”). Not everything that happens in Sin…
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American As Tweedy Pie – The Big Daddy Roth T-Bucket Is For Sale
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The Mecum Auction typically gets a range of quality but fairly standard muscle cars and classics. Occasionally an interesting movie car will pop up as well. The upcoming auction in Monterey (August 13-14) has quite a character-of-a-car crossing the block. Pull out your checkbook and put on your Vans and Wayfarers to take a crack…
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Letter from an Elderly Lady About a Ferret Brings a Tear to Our Eye
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Ah…BringATrailer, you’re like a more focused, classier, mature version of us. Case in point, after featuring this 1957 Peter Dawson Ferret (to which we believe the current Maserati Grand Turismo’s front end owes a hat-tip), Mr. Dawson’s widow wrote in with more pictures and a touching description of her husband’s life as a mechanical engineer…
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Hooniverse Asks- What's the Best Car To Go Watch the 'Submarine Races'?
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The one-sheet for the 1960 Mystery Science Theatre staple The Girl in Lovers Lane shows a Plymouth Fury in the background of a girl too young to know. . . too reckless to care. . . you will never forget. Regardless, many people did forget that cheesy drama, but it brings up a point- what…
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Caption this: If the engine fits, hoon it.
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Hmmmm, now where in the hell did I leave my keys? Via
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Hooniverse Asks- Do you Deny Yourself Car Brands Because of their Owner's Reputations?
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Ricers, BMW douchebags, white belt and matching shoes Buick drivers, many cars and their owners are burdened with stereotypes. While you don’t necessarily have to possess those attributes to drive one, you know that eventually, either you’ll turn into that stereotype, or somebody will peg you as “one of those whatever-drivers.” Because of that, are…
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Last Call- World's Fastest Bias-Ply Tires Edition
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This morning’s Hooniverse Asks led with a cutaway drawing of Porsche’s insane flat 12 racing motor. I just thought you all might like to see the first iteration of the car that carried it, the 917. From the Flickr page: When the brochure went out for the 1969 Geneva Auto Show it featured an announcement…
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Adventures in model-hooning: An Interview with Michael Paul Smith, Part I
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If there’s any consolation to not being Jay Leno, or not having Jay Leno’s bankroll, or not having Jay Leno’s garage, or not having Jay Leno’s connections toward obtaining that which even vast bankrolls and ordinary fame cannot spring from the unobtanium well… it’s models – and the ability of the plebian class to amass…
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Meet Eleanor
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Yes, “that” Eleanor. The very same white unicorn I have been chasing for almost two months now. They say if you love something, set it free. To those people I say “it rubs the lotion on it’s skin…”
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Konichi-wha?! LeMons Team Announces Multicar Effort with Mind-Melting Vid
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PthVIL9YHR4[/youtube]The 24 Hours of LeMons and its participants are world nationally renown for not taking themselves too seriously. Then again, is it even possible to take oneself seriously when racing $500-and-under Pick-n-Pull escapees?
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Last Call- Malta Van is Both Creepy and Awesome Edition
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This Bedford bus, snapped in the ’80s alongside a Buggiba, Malta street, looks like the unholy union of Plymouth Fury and Greyhound Interstate. And that makes it awesome. . . and kind of scary. Image source: [Berresfordsmotors via Flickr.com]
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The Perfect Truck – $1800
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The 67-72 Chevies are pretty trucks, and the K5s from that era are on my “must own” list, but it cannot be denied that a two-tone ’61-66 Ford is better looking. Not only does this ’65 F250 sport a perfectly patina-ed white-over-blue two-tone, it’s got a parts list to die for: 390ci, 4-speed stick and…
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How to Make an Audi R8 5.2 V10 Commercial
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Take one expensive four-ringed German supercar, add an experience driver and film crew, and finally throw in one sweet-ass matte-finished Audi camera rig. Our friends at WebRides got their grubby little sparco-gloved hands on a 2010 Audi R8 5.2 (starts at $146,000) and drove the crap out of it at El Toro. Thanks for the…
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Three Point Zero 3.0s for a Three Followed by Three Nines
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…which is three times three. By our count that’s 31 threes. No, it doesn’t make much sense, but it’s the kind of logic you’ll need to rationalize picking up this trio of partial BMW 3.0 CSs. For your money you get three cars and two engines. Two of the cars are red, one’s silver (with…
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Two-Stroker Ace: ’64 Saab Races through Copenhagen Carnage
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Now that we know Saab will live to BORK! BORK! fight another day, we can put the eulogies for our favorite automotive jet spawn away. But who says we have to put away the moving pictures as well?