Cars You Should Know

Antipodean Oddities: The Valiant Charger E49 Six-Pack

Image courtesy Classic and Performance Car

A bully pulpit is by definition a medium abused by its possessor to espouse some sort of self-interested drivel, often to the detriment of the listener or discourse in general. Luckily for you, Hooniverse is a collection of bully pulpits that are built out of DKW fenders and Corvair [...]

Two-Wheel Tuesdays

A Goat Would Cry "Uncle" Before a ROKON

OK, so it's no cafe racer …

Both its driven wheels could be filled with gasoline for long-range travel. Some models sported a 146cc two-stroke motor made by Chrysler. The Israeli army mounted anti-tank missiles on them. It served as the basis for one of the most ridiculed use of federal funds, when the Nader-led [...]

eBay Insanity

The WTF Files: ‘79 Toyota Wooden Truck

Your eyes do not deceive you.

It’s a rare occasion in this line of work that, in that teeming sea of madness that is eBay Motors, an ad actually causes you to do a double-take. “Is that a coffin or is it the Unibomber’s cabin? An unfinished Amish buggy? Wait, am I having another acid [...]

Last Call

Last Call - HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT THAT NEW NASH SERVICE???????

“NO SERIOUSLY HAVE YOU??????????? IT’S SWELL!!!!!!”

Mr. Kierstein’s spin on a Nash ad found on xray delta one’s Flickr photostream

Hooniverse Asks

Hooniverse Asks - What Does it All Mean???

Who hasn’t imagined themselves behind the wheel of an F1 car? In that daydream, you just hop in and set a new track record, showing all those “professionals” how it’s really done. If you could live out your fantasy in real life, however, they’d strap you in and then lock one of these wheels, looking [...]

eBay Insanity

Na-Na Na-Na Na-Na Na-Na BATMAN!

You’ve already installed bat-poles in the foyer, but the bat cave is mostly filled with spiders. Adam West has a restraining order against you. Your yard is littered with ineffective batarang prototypes. And worst of all, your girlfriend refuses to wear the Catwoman suit you carefully stitched out of plastic bags. Maybe you’ll take things [...]