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Race, Daily, Restore: The Class of '65
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NEW FEATURE! Welcome to Hooniverse’s new weekly feature, “Race, Daily, Restore.” Each Monday, I’ll present you with three vehicles that have some detail in common: it could be brand, configuration, or engine. In the case of this inaugural week, it’s model year. We start off with three cars, very different but all dating from 1965:…
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Caption This: Indian Encounter
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Caption this publicity still for the 1913 silent movie, The Doctor’s Orders.
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Classic Captions Contest – 1987 Toyota Wonderwagon Edition
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Toyota was never sure what to call its forward control van in North America. Rejecting the TownAce name it wore in other markets, it was referred to simply by the unimaginative and generic “Toyota Van.” The lack of a real model name was actually quite fitting. In reality, the TownAce version was just a placeholder model,…
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Two Wheel Tuesday: Everything people hate about bikers crammed in one room
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Last night a co-worker and I went to the local introduction event for Triumph’s new Bonneville Bobber model, or by Triumph’s marketing, the “Brutal Beauty Tour.” That name should have tipped me off to what lay ahead. I expected to pop in after work, look at a couple of bikes on display, perhaps ask a…
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False Neutral #41: What's The Ask?
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We’re back from our holiday hiatus! Cam Vanderhorst, host of our HPN sister podcast Cammed & Tubbed, joins us to kick off the new year. It takes us about fifteen minutes for us to get around to talking about motorcycles (Because Cam). Once we finish talking about our cars and gifts, we discuss Sportsters, helmets,…
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Classic Captions Contest – 1958 Dodge Truck Edition
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This 1958 advertisement for Dodge Trucks tells a story, but I frankly have no idea what it is. You have a truck, and fencing, and what looks to be bags of fertilizer or sakrete. And you’re going to the bank. Okay, so the message is that you can do work and save money with a…
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Classic Captions Contest – 1976 Buick Century Pace Car Edition
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The 1970s and ’80s were peculiar for the widespread proliferation of what I’ll call the tableau-zany school of automotive advertising. These ad shoots were rife with imaginatively odd or awkward social situations and exaggeratedly diverse crowds of admiring onlookers, usually highlighting at least one dorky-looking nebbish. They were intended to invoke chuckles with their “wacky…
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Encyclopedia Hoonatica: Switchable Speedometers
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Several of my recent Hoonatica quests have focused on older automotive technologies, because Kennedy baby. Today, I am going with a more modern focus in order to make it up to those of you who have pre-school memories of Sega Dreamcast. For many years now, most speedometers installed in North American cars have indicated speed…
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Encyclopedia Hoonatica: Inset Rear Windows
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Last week, C-pillar buttresses got a whole lotta’ love from our commenters, therefore, I thought it prudent to let you explore that topic in depth today. Since what constitutes a buttress is up to debate, I thought I would open it up to anything with inset backlight glass. An amazing number of vehicles have back…
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False Neutral #8: Bikes We Love, Part 1
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In this two-episode discussion of the bikes we love, we challenge each other to name our favorite bikes in a number of categories. This week, we discuss: The one bike each of us likes best out of those we’ve owned in the past. The one bike that we have not ridden that each of us…
