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Project Car SOTU 2017: Welcome to our misery
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It’s that time once again… Welcome to Project Car SOTU 2017. For those of you just joining us, this is where we’re going to take the next week or so and give you updates on all of the various project cars that appear on the pages of Hooniverse. It’s our State of the Union. We’ve got…
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Project Car SOTU 2016: Weekend Edition – Cam's Cars
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[As a member of the Cammed and Tubbed Podcast *Every Friday Morning, available exclusively on the Hooniverse Network Of Podcasts*, Cam sent me this blurb to include in the project car SOTU today. Hopefully you enjoy hearing about his quartet of lovely project cars. If you listen to the podcast, you’re likely already familiar with…
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Project Car SOTU 2016: Now it's your turn
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We’ve spilled the beans on nearly all of our project vehicles. Now we want to hear about your hunks of shit precious projects. Sound off in the comments below and share your current project car woes, highlights, fails, wins, and everything else. We want pictures and we want details. If we see some great stories,…
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Project Car SOTU 2016: HoonTruck
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A victory, for me, in the garage can be something that others might consider trivial, small, or perhaps even meaningless. To get two victories in one day… well that’s just something that doesn’t really happen. Yet it did happen recently when I was out in the garage. Face cozied up close to 5.8-liters of Blue…
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Project Car SOTU 2016: The Falcon
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Using cheap pliers from a cheap tool kit to tighten an alternator pulley nut at 11:00pm atop the SFO long-term parking garage in business attire isn’t particularly enjoyable, but it’s voluntary misery like that that us car idiots wear like a badge of honor.
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Project Car SOTU 2016: MokotoNB Update
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So here we have it. One year later, the Porsche is gone, replaced by a Miata named after an anime character. What happened? What is going to happen? And will I ever fix my broken fog lights? A full rundown as I log my SOTU for this year. #MokotoNB
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Project Car SOTU 2016: 2002 Ford Excursion
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If you want to call me an idiot for buying this vehicle I won’t blame you, but I’m secretly hoping to be validated about five years from now. Daisy still loves it for a new reason every day: great A/C, tons of interior room, a half-dozen always-on 12V outlets, and an infinitum of little storage…
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Project Car SOTU 2016: 1962 Ford Ranchero… er, Rancheros actually
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To be quite honest, progress has been minimal. To date, the activity’s been mostly shopping and disassembly, with little to indicate progress towards this thing becoming a race car. I’m typing this on a plane on my way to a multi-week work trip overseas, which definitely isn’t helping things.
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Project Car SOTU 2016: The Wombat
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Yes… the Wombat is still there. It’s been some time since we last had an update for you on the status of The Wombat. This is our 1984 Mercedes-Benz 300TD that currently has a 5.7-liter HEMI V8 sitting in the engine bay bolted to the oddball 5-speed automatic. It was all plucked out of a…
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Project Car SOTU 2016: 2001 Isuzu VehiCROSS Bonus Update
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2001 Isuzu VehiCROSS Update III: Maiden Voyage — Project VX finally sees the road Quick note: Hot on the tails of Update II, this update comes well after the following events happened in real life. Doing my best to keep things current, but there’s only so much time in the day… “That’s my dream car,…
