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Just for Kansas City Hoons
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If you’re in the Kansas City area and looking for something car-related to do this weekend, head out to Lee’s Summit tomorrow morning for the 7th Annual Abundant Life Car & Motorcycle Show. Bring your car to show (it’s free, and you might win some cash), or just munch down a fat breakfast burrito and…
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V.I.S.I.T.: VW Street Buggy
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[singlepic id=1751 w=720 h=480 float=center] I have a special affection for minimalist vehicles, and as a former VW buggy owner, street buggies hover somewhere near the top of my list. I snapped this rail-framed, amusement-park-on-wheels outside a local pizzeria. I thought this particular “shortback” design was just about perfectly proportioned.
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Encyclopedia Hoonatica: Cycle Fenders
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For our first Encyclopedia Hoonatica post, we’ll make it fairly easy. How many vehicles have cycle fenders? Cycle fenders, as most Hoons know, are separate from the car’s body, hug the wheels closely, and in the case of front fenders usually turn with the wheels. The two cycle-fender-equipped examples in the illustration above are about…
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New Feature: Encyclopedia Hoonatica
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Starting tomorrow, we begin a new (expected-to-be-) daily afternoon feature: Encyclopedia Hoonatica. Actually, it really doesn’t have much to do with any sort of reference volume. It is, instead, a series of posts similar to the commenter-participation Hooniverse Asks posts we bring each morning, only a bit more specific. Every afternoon, one of your humble…
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The SaaBSA makes you go 'duh.'
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There have been lots of bizarre accounts of bike engines swapped in cars, and car engines in bikes. But there has perhaps never been a more motorcycle-like car engine than the old Saab two-stroke triple. Not only are two-strokes and triple cylinder arrangements much more for bikes than cars, but the 841cc capacity was much…
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I love all you M/Fs!
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In yesterday’s Hooniverse Asks question about our favorite French cars, several folks mentioned the Renault 5 (Le Car in the States), along with Citroën’s SM and Traction Avant. All three are examples of the fairly rare breed of car that combines a longitudinally mounted front engine with a driven set of front wheels positioned fully…
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What would a four wheel motorcycle really be?
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Have you heard this joke? A large motorcycle manufacturer hires a group of traffic safety experts to study how to make motorcycles safer. After six months of intense research, the experts submit their unanimous findings. In the middle of a single sheet of paper are three words: “Add more wheels.” Many have tried to envision…
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1979 Mercury XM Concept Car: Rumble Seat FTW!
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Ran across this on the web, and had not seen it before. It looks vaguely like a EXP/LN7 derivative, but with a bit cleaner styling. Probably would have made an unimpressive production car, but as an unabashed fan of open-air motoring, I gotta give this one a hell yeah!
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1953-59 IFA/MZ BK350
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As far as engine layouts go, you can’t get much weirder than the BK350’s air-cooled two-stroke boxer twin. But when you think about it, the format makes lots of sense, at least by the somewhat twisted Eastern Block way of thinking common behind the Iron Curtain.
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And they say that nobody watches BBC America…
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On my way to work this morning, I captured this vanity plate, fortunately affixed to a suitably enthusiast-oriented vehicle. I guess the Stig’s American Cousin hails from Missouri.
