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My Face Is On A Porsche Cayman
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Earlier in 2011, Porsche reached the 1 million fans mark on their Facebook social network page. Remarkably, later that year, Porsche also surpassed the 2 million fans mark. To celebrate the first milestone, Porsche put each and every fan’s name on the 997 GT3 R Hybrid that currently sits in the Zuffenhausen muesum. For the…
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The most bizarre Daytona 500 in the history of ever.
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Sunday started in Daytona Beach with rain, and a lot of it. The problem was that it never went away. For the first time in the 54 year history of the event, it was rain delayed until the following day. Initially the delay was set for Monday at noon eastern. On Monday, it was decided…
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Lessons In Excessively Boastful Automotive Advertising: Bimmer Edition
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Is it 1986? Do you have a passion for speed? Do you also need to carry a full family and all of their things? Enter BMW’s “fastest sedan in the world”. The E28 Chassis M5 began a tradition of high speed sedan-ery that persists through to today.
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Daytona 24: The Start
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The start of the race was an amazing experience. Shortly after the awesome flyover, I bore witness to one of the coolest starts in all of motor racing. The start of the season. It is a surreal feeling knowing that this is the first time of the year that anyone in major American based sports…
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Fastback Friday: A Muscular Mustang Show Circa Nineteen-Eighty-Something
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This past weekend, I had a homecoming in more than one sense. Firstly, of course, I went back home to Kalamazoo, Michigan to visit a friend for his birthday. Being just minutes from my childhood home, I had to stop in for a hot meal cooked by my tremendous mother (happy early mothers day, Mom!).…
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Video: Carousing Champions On Two Wheels And Four
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Barry Sheene and James Hunt were, quite possibly, a pair of the most boisterous and flagrant revelers in the history of motorsport, and possibly the world. Last year, British television channel ITV produced a documentary encompassing the lives of Sheene and Hunt in 1976 when they each won their respective world championships. Though they lived and competed…
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Le Mans On-Board Mechanic: Motoyama and the Deltawing
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Not all of us are fans of the DeltaWing. In fact, some Le Mans fans are quite vocal about their lack of respect for the car, dubbing it the Delta-Wang, the Nissan-powered phallus, or even equating it to the car driven by the “Ambiguously-Gay duo” of SNL TV Funhouse fame. Regardless of how you feel…
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Vintage Advertising: Nurburgring Lap Alfa Romeo Edition
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Kamil’s recent run of vintage ads inspired me to pull the few I have out of my collection and share them with the Hooniverse. It looks like Nurburgring lap times mattered, even in the 1960s. By the way, this is a tease of the stuff you get as the $20/month as a Hooniverse Gold subscriber… avert…
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Two Wheel Tuesday: Project Hoonda MB5 Update
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In case you had not heard, or you have suffered the misfortune of being in a coma for the first month of this year, Project Hoonda MB5 is our extremely ambitious project with the aim of going 100 miles per hour on an 82 Honda MB5. Crazy? We’ll find out soon enough. This is the second installment…
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The 1962 Daytona Continental: A Photographic Retrospective
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The year was 1962, and the Daytona International Speedway was barely three years old. NASCAR and DIS president Mr. William France Sr. was oddly intrigued by diminutive sports racers and wished to have his newly built track brought into the limelight on the world stage. As such, he requested that Daytona be the first round…
