Articles
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False Neutral #51: Parts Is Parts
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Sometimes little details make or break a bike. This week, after a brief interlude for Eric and Garrett to swoon over the Ducati Desmosedici, we pick apart the multitude of minor changes that Harley made to change the existing 750 Street into the new Street Rod (spoiler, we like them). That prompts us to pay…
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Hooniverse Asks: What's The One Thing You've Done To Your Car That Made It So Much Better?
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Perfection is a noble but historically unobtainable goal. That doesn’t mean however that we shouldn’t always strive to make the world—or at the very least our little slice of it—a better place. Many of us start small and work our way up, and a good place to do that is with our cars. You may…
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Last Call: ACME Meat Edition
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The description of this image from its source says “Car crushed by meat truck at 5060 W. Jefferson. Mrs. Bernice Little 4-5-60.” Those were certainly simpler times. Back then apparently an Oldsmobile 88 minding its own business could get crushed by a truck, thus providing a photo op of the car’s owner standing between the wreck and…
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Prolonging the joy: Driving Anticipation
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Wanderlust has got a tight grip on The Towers of Rust right now – my wife and I have got ourselves a minibreak booked in Slovenia in May. It’s all thanks to one of those last minute holiday websites. The last trip we went on, which took in Prague, Vienna and Budapest was organised in…
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2017 Milwaukee World of Wheels!
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The cure for winter seasonal depression is a prescription of car shows. Especially in Wisconsin, where days of single-digit temperatures matched with negative windchill gets miserably obnoxious. Thankfully the month of March brings a bit of warm relief to frozen gearheads across the dairy state. We have two car annual car shows on the calendar;…
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"There's no bad new cars anymore"
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We’ve all heard it before, and with increasing regularity: “Twenty-thousand miles? That’s just getting broken it! It’s practically new!” In the times of once unimaginable engineering and manufacturing processes, 20k truly is nothing these days. But where twenty-thousand miles isn’t “new” though is with the machines that so regularly get treated with reckless abandon, the…
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BMW Motorsport Releases "Go Like Schnell" Documentary on Their First American Season
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BMW fans owe a lot to the 3.0-liter CSL and all the people who drove it to numerous victories around the world. The 2002 may have been their first sports car, but the CSL was their first true in-house race car. It was BMW Motorsport’s first creation and it helped pave the way for all the…
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Because it's Monday: Let's All Bask in the Glory of the Classic Compact Estate
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Since it’s the start of the work week, we need something to lift our collective spirits, and I don’t think there’s a better way to do that than to gaze longingly at a classic compact wagon with sporting pretensions. This MKI Cortina Deluxe 1500 is all that and more, as it’s decked out in GT…
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Race, Daily, Restore: 4-Door Pillarless Hardtops
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Rollover safety requirements, CAFE standards, and the quest for quieter cabins have killed the pillarless hardtop, especially the four-door variety. But having been allowed to drive my family’s 1973 Pontiac Bonneville 4-door hardtop throughout my teen years, I can assure you that the automotive world is the worse for it. There is a uniquely blissful…
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Hooniverse Asks: What's the Bare Minimum Feature Set You Would Demand of a New Car?
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The 1920 Briggs & Stratton Flyer was notable for featuring five wheels—four to hold the platform up in the traditional fashion, and a fifth, hanging out back that provided some sort of motivation from its tiny one-cylinder engine. The Flyer is perhaps more notable however for the fact that it offers absolutely no other features…
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Last Call: Éirinn go Brách Edition
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In honor of today being St. Patrick’s Day, I give you a shamrock green DeLorean DMC-12, which, as we all know, was built in Ireland. Last Call indicates the end of Hooniverse’s broadcast day. It’s meant to be an open forum for anyone and anything. Thread jacking is not only accepted, it’s encouraged. Image: DMCTalk
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The Carchive: The 1977 Mitsubishi Colt range
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Of the myriad documents found in The Carchive, a big percentage were collected as I grew up, many were harvested secondhand from autojumbles and the like, and a good few have come from generous benefactors – some of whom might be reading this right now. The considerable balance, though, have been purloined from eBay. This…
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Hooniverse Asks Bonus: How Are You Spending Your Tax Return?
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Tax returns are coming! Tax returns are coming! Tax returns are coming! Is anyone else super excited about getting their refund checks in the mail or seeing a few extra numbers boost up your bank account? Sure, we all want to be somewhat financially responsible adults, using some of that bonus cash towards bills, home…
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Friday Fun: $100K on/off-road dilemma
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And we’re back, another Friday Fun here to clear your mind at the end of what was a very snowy week for many. Last time we had some fun pretending our bank account had limit and yet there were only five garage spaces worth of real estate to fill, so this time we’re on to something entirely…
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The News for March 17th, 2017
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Welcome to the Hooniverse News! As always, this is a weekly recap of some of the biggest stories in the automotive industry without the fluff or bull. There’s also just a little opinion of mine because I can. This week: Toyota 860 Special Edition is an 86 with stripes Lucid Motor gets a price tag and promises…
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Mystery Car
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Happy birthday Gottlieb Daimler, born on this day in 1834. Geez, that would today make him… let’s see… dead. Let’s celebrate all the wonderful car things he did before he died by playing this week’s Mystery Car contest. Make and model in his honor if you please. Image: ©2017, Hooniverse/Robert Emslie, All Rights Reserved