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Craigslist Crapshoot
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Welcome to Craigslist Crapshoot, our weekly search for the most bizarre, awesome, and/or terrible vehicles that the online classifieds has to offer. Last week we gave the real wheels a rest and went looking for the coolest slot car racers and model cars money could buy. They needed to be used, and preferably sold by…
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Hooniverse Ask: What Was History’s Most Beautiful Full Car Line—Sedan, Wagon, Coupe, Convertible…?
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Today, when you go to buy a model of car your choices are typically pretty limited. With the advent of the age of Crossovers and SUVs in fact, your only option is likely to be a four-door hatchback tall wagon with black plastic wheel arches. That hasn’t always been the case, however. Back in the…
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Last Call: Limo Edition Edition
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Honey, your date’s here for the prom, and he brought a limo! Last Call indicates the end of Hooniverse’s broadcast day. It’s meant to be an open forum for anyone and anything. Thread jacking is not only accepted, it’s encouraged. Image: Imgur
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Track Tuesday: Name That Track
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Welcome to Track Tuesday where you are asked to identify a (maybe) famous race or test track from just one closely-cropped aerial image. This week, it’s a double apex with some green runoff. Good luck! And since nobody seemed to get last week’s track, here’s the answer. Image: ©2017 Hooniverse/Robert Emslie, All Rights Reserved
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Hooniverse Asks: Car Swag—Brah! or Blah?
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Back when he was staring in Smokey and the Bandit we all thought Burt Reynolds was the coolest of the cool. Today, even the coolest can’t make that screaming chicken Bandit windbreaker look like anything other than what it really is: cheesy. In fact, there are very few car-brand items of clothing or accessories that…
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Last Call: All the Wings Edition
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How many Ferrari F40s do you need in one place to be happy? Would three of them suffice? Last Call indicates the end of Hooniverse’s broadcast day. It’s meant to be an open forum for anyone and anything. Thread jacking is not only accepted, it’s encouraged. Image: ©2017 Hooniverse/Robert Emslie, All Rights Reserved
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Because it's Monday: Let's Contemplate the Tiny Alternator on Jay Leno's Daimler SP250
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The best way to get Jay Leno to show up at your car show is to hold the event close enough to his Burbank, California shop that the car needn’t come up to heat to get there. That wasn’t quite the case with the recent Queen’s English car show where Jay brought his Daimler SP250…
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Hooniverse Asks: What Piece of Car Advice Do You Wish You Had Gotten Sooner?
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They say that hindsight is 20/20, and for the longest time I thought that meant it was okay to look at sexy butts. I now know that it means to learn from your mistakes, but honestly who of us would rather not make those mistakes in the first place? When it comes to spending the kind…
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Last Call: Ruiner Edition
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The Stator stand-up EV scooter: wicked cool concept, already ruined by hipster association. Last Call indicates the end of Hooniverse’s broadcast day. It’s meant to be an open forum for anyone and anything. Thread jacking is not only accepted, it’s encouraged. Image: ©2017 Hooniverse/Robert Emslie, All Rights Reserved
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Mystery Car
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Today represents a sad day in history, as it’s the anniversary of the passing of Bertha Benz. Loyal wife of Karl Benz, she was also the first person documented to take a trip of any significant length by automobile. Karl and Bertha were married in 1870 and 18 years later she packed up their two…
