Articles
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State of the Muscle Car, 2010
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[Ed. Note: This article was written and sent in by Skitter. Thanks!!] My consciousness of pickup trucks begins with the ‘new’ Dodge Ram. The Top Trumps mentality ruled the day, so occasionally I would remove the six-foot poster from the wall and pore over the spec sheets on the back. I would ponder how best…
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Last Call- I See Your Problem Edition
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Found on a mechanic’s tool chest at a local repair shop.
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Hooniverse APB- Stolen 2002tii Needs Hoon's Help
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Okay, LA-area Hoons- keep an eye out for this bumperless 2002tii. A restoration project, it was stolen yesterday near Beverly and La Cienega in West Los Angeles. The license number is 5KUA195, and it has gold honeycomb wheels. Most of the Latte-suckers in West LA wouldn’t know a 2002 from 90210, so more knowledgeable eyes…
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For the Price of a Lexus ES350, You Could Have This Thing
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$42 grand. That’s it. $42k For a Toronado-powered five-axle rig with a hydrogen peroxide rocket powered land-speed racer on the back. The scale of the picture’s a little hard to grasp, so we’ll help you out: that cab’s only 5.5 feet tall. This rig’s made appearances at Cars and Coffee, and I’ve actually seen it…
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Hooniverse Asks- Should Ford Give the Thunderbird Another Go?
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Ford has had a lot of storied names in its history. Some seem so faded in memory that it’s difficult to conjure up an image when brought to mind. Can you picture a Pilot? How about the Corsair? Now admittedly those were both Fords not sold in the U.S., but we’ve had our share of…
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Hooniverse Asks- What's Your Eleanor?
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You all remember Eleanor- the GT500 that vexed Nick Cage so in the mind-numbingly banal Gone in Sixty Seconds remake? While that film had little going for it other than a passel of great cars and Angelina Jolie’s throw-pillow sized lips, it did bring a new term into automotivedom’s lexicon- that of Eleanor, a mythical…
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Hooniverse Asks- What's the Best Car Face?
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Yesterday, Ford lifted the embargo on information about the 2011 Shelby GT500. You can read the details on what’s different in the ’11 car here. One change that’s obvious, and can be seen in the beauty shot above, is the narrowing of the speed stripes that run the length of the Mustang. While the previously…
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Got A Couple Hours To Spare This Monday Morning?
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If not, stay the hell away from this post. If any of these images are of interest to my fellow Hoons and you do not have the time to spare, DO NOT click on through.
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What Does a 4×4 Truck Have in Common with a Type XXI U-Boat?
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Why, if the truck is equipped with a snorkel, they can operate for long periods underwater! Make the jump to watch a hoon of the highest grade tackle a river in what looks to be a surplus military truck, complete with full snorkel equipment. Bonus points for IDing the truck.
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Learn How to Drive a 13-Speed Transmission in One Easy Step!
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The zombies are shuffling down the dark country road towards the 24-hour diner you idiotically determined to hole up in. Now it’s up to you – do you want your brains to garnish a zombie Grand Slam breakfast, or are you going to get the hell out while your cerebellum is still undigested? If only…
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Last Call- Sucks To Be Ewe Edition
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The only thing worse than being stuck in an ovine traffic jam is deciding, out of boredom, to count them and then falling asleep. Image source: [Webshots.com]
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That's One Big NACA Duct
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Over at Wired’s This Day in Tech they are celebrating the March 27th 1931 opening of the world’s first full-size wind tunnel at Langley Field in Virginia. Designed to test the real-world properties of aircraft, the tunnel is 60 feet wide and 30 feet tall, and features a gaping mouth that looks like Mick Jagger…
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Last Call- The Full Cleveland Edition
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Nothing special, just a ’69 Mustang with four 351 Cleveland motors. This “Mach IV” exhibition racer is owned by Jill and Gary Weckesser of Delavan Wisconsin, and a lot of the machine work was done by Gary himself. The stats are as outrageous as the visuals- four engines, four-wheel drive, 7-second quarters at an average…
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Like Martha Stewart with a Scotch and a Stogie
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This is being marketed as a “Potpourri for Men”. Let us be perfectly clear: THAT IS NOT FOR MEN. Read on for some suggestions that don’t suck. Okay, confession time. How many of you have had to surrender your decorations, or move them to your man-cave, in favour of doilies, scented candles and giant ferns?…
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From Our Tabs to Yours: Friday Afternoon Linkage
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As we’ve said before, this site was born as an outlet for all the car window-shopping and BS-ing that we were already spending too much time doing. Turns out it still takes a few minutes to put together a post, but it only takes seconds to open a dozen craigslist or eBay ads. Particularly if…
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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.