Articles
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Formula Fun, First edition
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[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/27232626[/vimeo] Welcome everyone to the very first edition of a regular feature I am calling Formula Fun. “What is the purpose of all this?” you might be asking. Well, as someone who loves this great sport, I often find any writing about Formula 1 to be mostly doom and gloom these days. There are budget crises, Red…
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Diecast Delights: The Ford GT90 in 1:18 Scale
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What if? It’s a fun if ultimately futile game to play. What if, in 1995, the Ford Motor Company had successfully designed, built and sold a supercar which was absolutely without equal? Well, it never quite happened. But fortunately, Maisto built a model which is plentifully available so you can wistfully gaze at the legend…
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Craigslist: Porsche-Powered Ice Racer Karmann Ghia
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This little piece of history is so awesome, it deserves to be shared among the Hoonitariat. Back in the 1960s, someone decided it would be a good idea to make what amounts to a long-wheelbase Porsche 356 for ice racing. By using a late 1950s Karmann Ghia and dropping in a Porsche 356B Super 90…
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Hooniverse's Massively Oversized Guide to Motorsports, 2015
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Every week, Hooniverse gives you a simple weekly guide to the looming weekend in motorsport. Racing in those previews runs the gamut from the unobtainium-grade engineering of Formula 1 to the duct-tape-and-beer-can-aluminum garage necesseering of the 24 Hours of LeMons. However, in a quest to simplify those previews and create less work for the person…
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Hoonivercinema: Monday Movie Trailer
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Stanley Kramer’s 1963 comedy epic It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is not only perhaps the greatest assemblage of comedic talent on screen, it’s also one of the best car chase movies ever made. The movie features comedy legends Sid Ceasar, Milton Berle, Buddy Hackett, Mickey Rooney, and Jonathan Winters, along with a spate…
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Encyclopedia Hoonatica: Window Corner Fillers
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Thanks to Jim’s Antti’s Mitsubishi-themed weekend, I was reacquainted with the Cordia, a car I though was quite handsome as a young college student soldier. But I never realized back in the day how odd and obvious the black plastic filler was in the corners of the rear quarter windows. It is a styling technique…
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Riding On The Track For More BFGoodrich Sampling
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As part of last week’s adventures testing BF Goodrich’s new performance all-season tire, we were treated to some on-track mega-speed action through a series of ridealongs in some truly wicked machinery. Through three different cars, we were able to feel the difference in speed between the g-force Comp 2 A/S we’d been testing all day,…
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Hooniverse Asks- Do You Expect the Courtesy Wave?
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Let’s say you’re cruising down the freeway, traffic’s a little heavy and there’s someone with their signal on, dutifully waiting for an opportunity to merge into your lane to make a quickly approaching transition. Being the attentive type, and respecting their use of proper signaling, you ease up on the gas to create a space for…
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Eclipse Weekend Edition: The Mitsubishi Cordia
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Moving on from the Celeste, the next step is the Mitsubishi Cordia. A class above the Colt/Lancer, a class below the Galant, the Cordia shared its platform with the Tredia – so, if you’re thinking from an European viewpoint, the cars matched the latter Mitsubishi Carisma, size-wise. Still, the Carisma could never match the quirky…
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Eclipse Weekend Edition: The Mitsubishi Celeste
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If the Eclipse’s reason for existing was to be a reasonably affordable sporty coupe for young buyers, with somewhat straightforward technical solutions, it followed the formula laid down a lot earlier by previous Mitsubishi offerings. I’m very fond of the mid-1970s Mitsubishi Celeste, that relied on Colt/Lancer mechanicals but introduced a very easy-on-the-eye coupe design…
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Eclipse Weekend Edition: Gullwing Starion on Japanese TV
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“Gorilla: Metropolitan Police Department Squad 8″ must have been a great show. Not that I have ever seen an episode, and without subtitles I wouldn’t catch most of the finer points of the action, but we’re talking about a Japanese police action show that was sponsored by Mitsubishi and Toshiba. A sure-fire recipe for brilliance right there.…
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Eclipse Weekend Edition: 1990 Mitsubishi Eclipse
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We had a pretty decent look at the solar eclipse from here, at noon our time yesterday. My social media feeds quickly filled up with photos of the almost completely eclipsed sun, and I managed to sneak a peek at it as well, through two pairs of sunglasses and a Pet Shop Boys CD that…
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Last Call: Sidewalk Soak 'em Edition
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You can run, but you can’t hide. 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: Imgur
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V.I.S.I.T: Citroen Deux Chevaux
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So today this olelongrooffan was returning from TheKenMan’s pad where I picked up my pass for the AuctionsAmerica Auction next weekend over in Fort Lauderdale. As I was cruising down Airport Road here in FantasyLand, I squinted my eyes to take in a rarely seen shape in the next lane over just up a ways. Well…
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The Curious Case of the 2015 Australian Grand Prix
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Here we were, the long winter almost over, Caterham F1 was dead, Marussia, now Manor Marussia, was undead. Honda was back, recreating the legendary McLaren Honda partnership, the most dominate force of the late 80’s and early 90’s. And to top it all off, Sebastian Vettel had left Red Bull Racing, and followed in the…
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The Secret Mazda Basement Museum
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[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R25xfi2CGhA[/youtube] Mazda loves that Zoom-Zoom tagline. It means quite a bit to them. They take the idea of making driving entertaining quite seriously. This is a brand that loves the very act of driving itself, be it on the street or on a trace track… and they’re good at both. Hidden in a basement in…