Articles
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Here's What Happens When You Mix Irish Whiskey and Crayons
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The Hooniverse editorial gang were having a rather strange chat the other night, and decided we should do something green-themed for St. Patrick’s Day. Then we realized that we were probably all going to be drinking far too heavily to attempt anything coordinated. Then, at some point, someone suggested that we all get some paper…
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Hooniverse Asks- Driving Accouterments – Necessary, or Just Douchy?
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Driving gloves, Piloti shoes, silk windbreakers with CORVETTE written up each arm- there are certain garments that are claimed to make driving more enjoyable, or help you celebrate your passion for a particular vehicle. But, are they really necessary, or does wearing them make you look like a dink?
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Hunter S. Thompson And The Song Of The Sausage Creature
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It’s just as important to keep close tabs on the past of the automotive fringe as it is to chase the new limit of strange. Nobody set up camp more firmly on the borderlands of vehicular oddity than our beloved Hunter S. Thompson. We bring you his “Song Of The Sausage Creature”, uncut in full…
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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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Last Call- They Say It's Your Birthday Edition
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Happy 70th birthday Chuck Norris. Top ten facts about Chuck Norris and muscle cars may be found here. Image source: [amcarguide.com]
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$600 1965 T-Bird: LeMons or What?
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The problem with searching for LeMons cars is that it’s too easy to come across potential daily drivers. For instance, we’ve got the 65 T-Bird sporting a 300ish HP 390ci, but with a blown transmission. The good news is, usable C6s are like $9, and rebuild kits go for half of that. 390s are easily…
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Hooniverse Weekend Edition: Ultra Cool Vintage Car Transporters
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It’s time to go back to the in-box to see what the readers of Hooniverse sent in to our tip line, and look what dropped in this time. This was sent in by Mad_Science….. wait a minute…. Why don’t you take a look at these beautiful machines after the jump, while I try and figure…
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Chevy Enthusiast via Hooniverse: John Cooper Fitch and his Fitch Specials.
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This week, I decided to introduce you to my columns in Chevy Enthusiast Magazine, titled Weird and Wonderful Bowties. Yesterday, we discovered about the Chevy Engineered V6 Chevette that had no chance for production. Next up is my interview with a racing legend, and a true Chevy Enthusiast, John Cooper Fitch.
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Last Call- Tea and Sympathy Edition
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Before there were Starbucks on every corner, British motorists had to fend for themselves when they wanted a spot of tea while zipping down the M4.
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Last Call- St Patrick's Day Edition
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The Beebe & Mulligan Fighting Irish dragster team was one of the most potent of the late 1960s. John “The Zookeeper” Mulligan’s untimely death of heart failure following a fiery 171-mph crash in September 1969, ended his 7-year partnership with fellow Garden Grove resident Time Beebe, and left the So Cal drag community stunned. You…
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What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Lion-Drawn Cart (and other Alternate Energy Vehicles)
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You know what the problem with Power Wheels and Go Karts is? Too predictable. How are we to raise our hoonlets properly when their vehicles run reliably (or reasonably reliably in the case of a kart) and go right where they point them? No. Far, far too easy. What they need are carts drawn by…
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Hooniverse Asks- What's Your Preferred Motorcycle Engine Layout?
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More so than cars, motorcycles have great variety in engine layout options. Many times it’s driven by type of bike, number of cylinders, and how much the engineer had to drink the night prior to first getting out his slide rule.
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Release the Sea Hoon!
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A Jet Sprint Boat is essentially a fiberglass coffin with a V8 engine and a racing seat. The cockpit has just enough room for a driver, co-driver, and their massive sets of junk. The driver of a Jet Sprint Boat navigates a course as fast as possible. How fast is fast? See for yourself in…
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Therapy, Jeremy Clarkson Style
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[googlevideo]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8917730350468263249#[/googlevideo] Having a rough morning? Need a bit of motivation to get moving? Need a little bit of cheering up? Does someone have a case of the Mondays? Yes, well all of that nonsense will get better with a little help from Jeremy Clarkson. I’m sure some of you fanatics have seen this before, but…
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What's Your Eleanor? – Edición Tomsk
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I’ve had many four-wheeled crushes over the course of my quarter-century-plus on this giant nugget of cosmic dust, but I guess the one that has endured the longest (even though it hasn’t always been right on the top of my head) is GMC’s resident two-pedal-NSX-slayer, the Typhoon.
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Mine engine mystery is solved!
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I was close, so close… Well ok, I had the correct manufacturer.