Articles
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Last Call- They're Four Wide in the Straight! Edition
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Bill ‘Grumpy’ Jenkins raced Chevys and Mopar iron from the mid sixties into the early eighties, at one point vying with Wilt Chamberlin for the title of highest-paid professional athlete in the nation. Here he is running Grumpy’s Toy IV – a 1968 Super Stock D Camaro – against Dyno Don Nicholson, in his Pro-stock…
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Florida officials force Corky Yager to say bye-bye to his Beetles
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Zoning laws can be a bitch sometimes. Just ask Leroy “Corky” Yager who lives near Dade City, Florida. Corky is the owner of Sunray Bugs, which has been described as a Disneyland for Volkswagen enthusiasts. You don’t have to pay $50 to get inside like the aforementioned theme park, but you could be leaving with…
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E39 540i Wagon: Teutonic Longroof Bargain or Krauty Siren?
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It’s long been argued BMW’s e39 is the automotive equivalent of “their last good album, before they got all overproduced and stuff”. There’s no iDrive, no ///M button, and no bloody SMG. Despite the melty-looking headlights, they look like proper BMWs: staid and under-styled. Of course, they’re still subject to baffling overengineering and repair costs that…
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Postcards from a Peugeot: Part 4.
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[singlepic id=3267 w=720 float=] I’ll admit it. It’s a strange thing to like, but I really enjoy sleeping in motorway service areas. I mean In Europe, anyway; I can’t honestly say I’ve tried it in England without recourse to a Travelodge or some similar mischievous-night-away-with-the-secretary establishment. But in the big, well lit rest areas of…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition – A 1971 Datsun 510
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This will be the last posting for my Saturday Interesting Project Car Weekend, which was inspired by Jim Yu’s article (You can look it up here). This time, it’s a car that was once described as the Japanese BMW 2002. Yes, that’s right, its a Datsun 510 that the current owner has lost interest in.…
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Last Call- That's Sir Plow I'll Have You Know Edition
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Jeeves, we’re out of Monocle oil and Coelacanth caviar, go into town and retrieve more of each, post haste! But sir, there’s a good three inches of fresh frozen precipitate on the drive, and the show poodles’ scroti have been drawn right up! Blast it man, I need my impossibly expensive hors’ dourves and my cheek…
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Letter From America – 1995 Ford Escort
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Escorts? We got tons of ’em. Basic transport sold here for decades, some of them benefitting from rally history. But they’ve always been German/British-designed Euro Escorts, with the country of origin being Brazil at best but never the States. The USDM Escorts appear here only occasionally, being privately imported when someone’s returned to the country.…
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Is It So Bad To Grow Up?
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Like many young adults, I had rock-n-roll dreams. Dreams that involved touring the country while playing loud, obnoxious music that my parents wouldn’t like. Meeting girls, sex, drugs, rock-n-roll, the whole cliche. But the fact was that I had no musical talent. No desire to practice either, really. And to be perfectly honest, I hadn’t…
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Eight Passengers in Luxurious Awesomeness
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There are a lot of options out there if you need to take a bunch of passengers in comfort. Although the trend has very much died down, there are still plenty of minivans on the market that offer eight-passenger seating in something distantly resembling comfort. Seven-passenger vehicles abound, even though virtually none of the people…
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Video: Mustang Driver Drifts and Fails
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We are having somewhat of a slow day here at the Hooniverse. Everyone is busy with work and life and all that good stuff. We have some stuff planned but in the mean time check out this idiot drift a corner and lose it. Thank God for dash-mounted cameras. [Source: youtube]
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Hooniverse Wagon Wednesday – 1991 Subaru E12 Super Deluxe Wagon
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It’s been a Subaru-filled couple days over here at Hooniverse. There’s been some bird content, there’s been a submerged Legacy, and then there’s this: a white, striped box with the Pleiades prominently featured on the front. But it wouldn’t be postworthy were it not hoonworthy, and this thing is just like a shrunken Vanagon: a…
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Hooniverse Asks- What’s The Best Secret Agent Car Gadget? (Spy Week)
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Many spys live or die by their gadgets, as do quite a few of their foes. James Bond is most famous in having his rides gadget-ified by the reproving Q, making them as licensed to kill as was their owner. The much more animated Inspector Gadget, while a member of another law enforcement discipline, also…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition Last Call – Meet the Invasion, where all your nightmares come true…
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I thought I would wrap up this weekend with a custom van that I discovered on Autotrader Classics. Meet the Invasion, a chopped 1976 Dodge Tradesman 318 Van that has been thoroughly turned into your personal sin bin. Make the jump to see what the current owner did to turn this once docile work van…
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Mustard Yellow Museum Piece – 1973 Toyota Corolla
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Yesterday, we saw a freaking awesome black Corolla with insane flares and an even more insane V8 drivetrain. Over here, such builds are made even more complicated thanks to legislation that doesn’t necessarily see the virtues of a V8 ’70s Corolla; here, Corollas are also semi-revered as bone stock as well as hooned to the…
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Last Call- The Saddest Coffee Table in the World Edition
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You’ve no doubt heard of pheasant under glass, and glass-bottom boats, and now thanks to artist Charly Molinelli you can appreciate a glass-encased Ferrari that you can put your feet up on. Molinelli Designs shaped the already written-off car before putting it into a press to achieve the proper aesthetic when finally resting under glass…
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Hooniverse Wagon Wednesday – Hand-Me-Down Beater Xantia Offers Value for Money
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I consider myself a future Citroën owner. It’s only a matter of time before the marque with the double Chevrons finds its way onto my parking spot. The thing is, I’ve not yet sure which one is the one to get – I’ve not yet driven a CX or an XM. My daily-driver Mitsubishi Sapporo…