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Big Rock Classic Car & Cycle Show – Just the Trucks, Ma'am
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Last week, we took a look at some of the great classic cars at the Big Rock classic Car & Cycle show in Duvall, WA. It was a big show for a small town, and well supported by everyone who brought a car, truck, tank (yes), or motorcycle. For your Truck Thursday viewing pleasure, I want…
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Caravan to Canepa – Part One
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Last Saturday, Bay Area Hoons caravanned from Oakland to the Santa Cruz Mountains for the Canepa Cars & Coffee event. I am breaking this trip into two segments because honestly, there is so much awesome, I’m afraid of melting the internet. Vwminispeedster and his dad Henry, the hosts of Seconds Saturdays, organized this event. The…
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Saabs on Display in Vasa, Finland
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[Words and photos by friend of Hooniverse, Christian R] There’s a saying here in Finland: ”Saabismi on sairaus”. Or in English: ”Saabism is a sickness”. I can’t say I consider myself a proper fan of the brand, but I do enjoy cars of all shapes and sizes. When a friend and life-long fanatic of the…
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Hoons Will Be Caravaning to Canepa This Saturday
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This is a Public Service Announcement. For those of you not in the San Francisco Bay Area, you will be spending the next two weeks surfing Canepa Design’s website in your spare time. Canepa’s complex, near Santa Cruz, is an all-in-one showroom, museum, tuning and restoration shop, and design studio. For Bay Area Hoons, you…
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Hoon's Day Out: LeMay Museum – The Indy Cars
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This post comes to you just in time for the greatest spectacle in racing, the 97th running of the Indianapolis 500. The latest installment, of what I’m calling Hoon’s Day Out, is by far my favorite and one I’ve been looking forward to sharing for some time. Being a big racing fan, I spent a…
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Hoon's Day Out: LeMay America's Car Museum – The Longroofs
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In the latest installment of Hoon’s Day Out, I want to share with you some of the station wagons at the LeMay Museum. Of all the cars I saw that day, these are probably my favorite. I’m sure a certain olelongrooffan will concur. Let’s take a look at these classic wagons.
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2013 West Coast All AMC Car Show
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Today, I bring you something very, very special. As you might know, I am a huge fan of anything related to American Motors. I visited paradise… or something pretty close to it. The 2013 edition of the West Coast All AMC Car Show took place today at the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum, in Pomona, California. The show was hosted…
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Hoon's Day Out: LeMay America's Car Museum – In the Lobby
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In the previous installment, I showed you some of the great Ferraris contained in the Lemay museum. Today, I want to give you a quick tour of the lobby of this fine establishment before we get too far in. As soon as we walked in the door and saw a race car, a motorcycle, and…
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JDM Legends Thursday Meet: The Skylines
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JDM Legends holds a meet once a month for classic Japanese cars. All sorts of sweet Japanese car geeks show up with cool Toyotas, Hondas, Subarus, and Datsuns. A separate post will follow detailing all that great variety, but this one is just for the Skylines. Click through to get your Niss-on. (*self-congratulatory fist pump*)
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Come to Hanzel's In Oakland for Seconds Saturdays This…Saturday
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No doubt by now, you have heard that not only is Oakland, California, one of the top five places in the world to visit, it is also the most exciting city in America. Why, you ask? It is because of the Seconds Saturdays car meets that Hanzel Auto Body Works regularly hosts. This coming Saturday,…
