Each and every day, on the way to and from work, I drive past it. Each day I feel less and less of a man for not accepting its challenge. To some, it may look like a mere crosswalk, guarded by two equal and opposite islands of concrete. To me, it is a big middle finger turned straight toward me by whoever hatched this devilish design. Hit the jump for the jump.
A couple of weeks ago, I walked past this Alpinweiss 1986 E28 while on the way to the town centre. I’d seen it around, and the plate sounded vaguely familiar. A glance at a Finnish BMW forum confirmed my memory; the white 518 had been a project car/daily driver and had received a host of fixes during a couple of years, namely a gearbox replacement and some differential work while accompanying another white E28. The next owner had spruced up the appearance by getting rid of some annoyingly peeking door rust.
When I noticed the car was also for sale for a couple grand, it didn’t sound bad.
Yes, it’s Weird Week over here at Hooniverse. Even if I like to think of the ‘Verse as some sort of ideal dimension where cool cars are the norm and normal cars are blown out of the water, this amazingly strange concoction of back-asswards cars on a French film set just blew all our minds and seriously twisted our proportions of weirdness. That Weird French Car article from earlier today is nothing compared to this stuff (sorry!).
Whenever I do get a chance to sneak back across the fence and put together an article for Hooniverse, I usually try and write about a car I like. I try and restrict my selections to vehicles that are particularly beautiful, or somehow strangely awesome, or have somehow captured my imagination.
This particular vehicle has definitely captured my imagination. I’m not entirely sure if that’s a good thing.
Despite a striking resemblance to Top Gear’s garden shed electric car, the Hammerhead Eagle iThrust, this Audi-engined backyard special isn’t as painfully slow. Painful it might be in the wrong hands, and I suggest you wear a helmet when trying it out, but then again it’s rather affordable at 5000 EUR. Or is it? You tell me.
Well my fellow Hoons, the Head Hoonitender hollered Last Call a bit early this evening just as this olelongrooffan was getting my groove on. However a whiles back the Hooniverse Overlords were a bit lax and gave me a key to the kegbox so I’m offering a free posting to all.
As a result, I am calling this the first posting of the Hooniverse Weekend Edition. There ain’t alot of text but a slammed and bagged truck load of images for your Hooning pleasure. Just don’t tell the Hooniverse Overlords this olelongrooffan snuck this one in.
They’re sittin’ in the mornin’ sun
They’ll be sittin’ when the evenin’ come
Watching other new cars roll in
And then watch ‘em roll away again, yeah
They’re sittin’ on the dock of Newark Bay
Watching the medical waste roll away
Ooo, they’re just sittin’ on the dock of Newark Bay
Rustin’ in time
[Image source: foundourownroad.com]
The JDM GT-86 RC base model. Bring it.
Today in the national papers’s automotive supplements, Toyota announced the pricing for the upcoming GT-86 for Finland. While the US market will get the FR-S for 25k USD and the UK market will get theirs for 25k GBP, the Finnish out-the-door price has been set at a bold 46 624 EUR – for starters. That is around 62 000 dollars. Well played, I say – aggressive pricing should not mean you set the base price around 10 000 EUR too high.
So you read Jeff’s post about the Xplore FJ Cruiser. You watched Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman ride motorcycles around the world in Long Way Round. Now you’re itching to go find your adventure. But you drive a Honda.
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Out on a Sunday afternoon stroll, I noticed this desperately low Jetta that had crawled up to a curb. ’80s German cars still have it tough in this town, with a number of jokester tuners dropping their ride heights and plastering wood vinyl on them; this Jetta is free from adornment but is hugging the pavement.
Thing is, it’s so slammed it probably can’t move too well. On the icy parking lot, it looks like a beached whale. With pink nipples.
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