Encyclopedia Hoonatica: Cars Named After Cities
Peter TanshanomiVehicles named for exotic places are pretty common: racetracks, mountains, deserts, pretty much every place name has been mined for…
Encyclopedia Hoonatica: Chrome-Free Cars
A co-worker of mine has a Jeep Wrangler Unlimited. We were discussing its appearance one day when he said, "The…
Encyclopedia Hoonatica: Native American Names
I'm on the road this week, and as I was crossing a Sioux reservation in North Dakota, I was thinking…
Encyclopedia Hoonatica: Aluminum Bumpers
In the Malaise Era, manufacturers were eager to embrace whatever weight-saving, efficiency-enhancing technology and techniques their engineers could think up.…
Encyclopedia Hoonatica: Factory Roof Lights
Roof-mounted lights have been virtually required for off-road racing for many, many years. They have also been a popular modification…
Encyclopedia Hoonatica: Premium-Brand OEM Audio
For many years car radios were manufactured by subsidiaries of the manufactures themselves. The usual Ford or Delco radio, however,…
Encyclopedia Hoonatica: Special Editions Named for Females
Car manufacturers have produced a lot special/limited edition models with tie-ins to famous people. Oleg Cassini. Eddie Bauer. Frank Sinatra.…
Encyclopedia Hoonatica: Inside & Outside Seating
Last Thursday, Hooniverse published a pair of posts that featured the Subaru Brat and the Lambo LM002. I was struck…
Encyclopedia Hoonatica: More or Less than Two Windshield Wipers
Modern cars overwhelmingly have two windshield wipers, but that typical arrangement is certainly not the only one. Sometimes more or…
Encyclopedia Hoonatica: Factory White Wheels
Not too long ago in the history of the automobile, wheels were almost universally black steel, or perhaps painted to…