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Hooniverse Goes To Concours D'LeMons West
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Monterey car week has come and gone, and in that whirlwind half-dozen days, some of the worlds coolest cars assembled on the Californian peninsula for all to enjoy. Car guys came from all over the world to experience practically every corner of car culture for one week, and it was glorious. From the millions of…
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Hooniverse Goes To: Lancia Club Reunion In Portola, CA
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It’s strange how small the automotive community is sometimes. Last Wednesday, I was politely chatting with a customer on the telephone after he had finished purchasing some Porsche parts from me. The normal niceties were exchanged, the how are things going’s, how’s the weather up there’s, when he mentioned that he’d be in my area…
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Breaking: Sinkhole Swallows Eight Corvettes At National Corvette Museum
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The National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, KY experienced a nasty surprise just before 6AM this morning when a sinkhole approximately 40 feet wide and 30 feet deep opened up and swallowed eight rare and prestigious American sports cars. When the ground opened, luckily, the museum was still closed for the night, and nobody was…
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Rhys Millen Racing's Mid-Engine V8 RM460 Hyundai Genesis Coupe
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SEMA cars tend to be one-and-done kind of exhibitions of excess. Often, the cars will leave Vegas and head straight for the scrap yard, or to go on a press tour before being relegated to the dark and dusty corner of a shop somewhere. This one, though, seems to have survived to hoon another day.…
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Rolex 24 at Daytona: 24 Hours Down, 364 Days To Go
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That’s right. The race is over, and the trophies have been handed out, but the teams have already begun thinking about what went wrong, and what they can do to prevent that from happening next year. For the teams that managed to do well, they’ll document how they can go even faster next year. Every…
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Vintage Advertising: The Wild One Edition
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“The Wild One”; While the ad is referring to Continental’s new-for-1967 RaP 14 radial tire, it could equally be referring to the raw and untamed nature of the early 911 driving experience. Radial tires were still relatively new technology in the late 1960s, and commanded a premium over the old and outdated Bias Ply tires. …
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12 Hours of Sebring: 6 Hours In, 6 Hours To Go
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I’ve been to Sebring twice so far, and it is a truly magical place. As some who have seen the spectacle have been known to say “I went to a Spring Break party, and Audi won”. Well, for the first time in a long time, Audi’s LMP isn’t even there, due to the rule changes…
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Enthusiast's Guide To The 24 Hours Of The Nurburgring
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For the second time in a week, drivers will converge on an historic racing circuit in Central Europe for a twice-around-the-clock multi-class sports car endurance race. With the competition descending upon the green hell this weekend, we will continue our series of articles covering the various road racing series and important races all over the world.…
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V.I.S.I.T. – Facebooker Spies Porsche Prototype Train On Mulholland Drive
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The V.I.S.I.T. Facebook page is an awesome place to hang out, and occasionally someone shares something truly special. Porsche is known to drive their prototypes around in trains like this, especially on the Southern California loop on which this group were spotted. In this group, though the photos the poster shared are perhaps a bit blurred, we…
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V.I.S.I.T. – Asian Invasion
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Last Saturday, we decided to take a trip out to a little Porsche gathering in the SF Bay area, both to put some miles on our new Boxster and to meet and greet with some fellow P-car enthusiasts. It was a good time, and we were thoroughly enjoyed the vintage 911 fare. What we didn’t…
