Articles
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: ESPN's New SportsCenter Shuttle Bus…
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Look at what I’m delivering to ESPN! This will be used to shuttle employees throughout their Bristol Connecticut Campus. More pictures after the jump.
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: Creative Hoons in Action
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What does a creative Hoon get when this and this are combined? Click on through to find out and let the Hoonage begin.
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What new cars do you want to see us review?
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Here at Hooniverse we have a fondness for the old/classic/busted/unusual/LeMons/exotic/cheap/expensive vehicles of the world. The problem is that we also like new cars. These two worlds can co-exist (daily driver vs project car) peacefully, I promise. We have posted a few new car reviews but they have all been expensive, high-powered machines. Wait, what’s the…
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Last Call- Can You Believe They Want $2.99 For One of Those Baby On Board Signs? Edition
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That lake in Deliverance? It wasn’t anywhere near deep enough. Image source: [Auto-Fail.com]
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Last Call- First Amendment Edition
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While it’s true that Peeing Calvin window stickers have become an increasingly popular form of expression, it’s obvious that this Blazer owner’s goal was to create the War and Peace of the medium. Of course what’s really strange is his expectation that viewers wouldn’t understand what ‘Truck Nuts’ are, and so has to spell it…
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Last Call – Like it's on Rails Edition
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Did you know there’s a whole race series for railroad handcars? It certainly can’t be that surprising—in a world where people drag race their belt sanders and try to top 100mph on their lawn mowers, handcar racing doesn’t seem so much a sport as it is a highly competitive form of upper-body exercise. Stuffing an…
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Cue the Benny Hill Music!
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This video make you want to plan your next European vacation around a trucker’s strike.
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Mystery Car Revealed
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That’s right, it’s a 1953 Moretti 750 Gran Sport. PFG “spit out” the correct answer after first addition an extraneous and kind of embarrassing appendage. Moretti got his start making motorcycle engines, transitioning to cars after WWII. This Gran Sport rocks a 748-cc dohc four that puts out a bantam 71 horsepower. The Michelotti bodywork…
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The Weirdness Overcomes You: 1969 Citroen DS Wagon
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Citroen. Aside from an unfortunate English translation associating it with an idiomatic expression for a fault-laden automobile, the name is synonymous with different. They went front wheel drive when no one else did. While others rocked good ‘ol springs and shocks, in very un-French fashion decided that passivism was no the way to approach suspension design. While…
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2010 Buick LaCrosse
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The 2010 Buick LaCrosse CXS is one good looking luxury sedan. It represents the mid-way point for the brands Benjamin Button-esque transformation from “vehicles fit for my grandmothers driveay” to “vehicles I would happily take on a Vegas road trip”. The first stage in this process was the Buick Enclave and the last stage will…
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Showdown: Dig These Groovy Gassers!
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In our last showdown, the Volvo C30 shunted its two competitors into the weeds for a commanding 56% of the vote. Today, we’re reducing the number of choices so as not to confound addled pre-vacation brains. Two groovy gassers will go neck-and-neck in the Hooniverse drag strip of public opinion – who will prevail?
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Are You Man Enough to Drive a Pink Nash Metropolitan?
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If you’re reading this site, you’ve probably come around to the idea of a Miata as an acceptable man’s car. In fact, on the whole, we’re cool with little cars. But dude…that’s a lot of pink.
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Mystery Car
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TGIF, so let’s have some fun. Here’s a car that’s not so common, but that has a pretty rich history, and one that you all should get in no time flat. You know the drill- year, make, model, and engine size, FTW. Regardless of which one of you comes up with the correct answer in…
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Hooniverse Asks- How Could Ford Have Saved Mercury?
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In case you haven’t heard, there’s a rumor floating about that Ford is about to pull the plug on granny Mercury. That octogenarian brand has been limping along on life support – and getting Ford-generic medication – for years, but it’s still sad to see yet another American nameplate fade from existence. We’ll do some…
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Like 2 Wheels Just As Much As Four?
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Friend of Hooniverse Tanshanomi has started a site where he provides “Snap Judgements” on a specific make and model of the two-wheeled kind. Head over to Tanshanomi.com for daily informative posts on all types of production bikes. The information is short, yet precise and insightful – perfect in a world of short attention spa-HEY LOOK…
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Hooniverse Projects- 2001 Jeep Grand Cherokee – Trailer Hitch
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A few weeks back I covered the replacement of some road-scarred headlamps on the 2001 Jeep Grand Cherokee. Today, we’re gonna’ get hitched!