Riding a streamlined Vincent Black Lightning is likely one way to get traffic ahead to part like it’s the Red Sea. Another is to adorn your helmet with satan’s own horns and wear a face mask that makes you look like a steampunk stormtrooper. Overall, on a scale of badassitry, from one to ten, I’d give this guy a 100. I’m actually kind of scared to give him anything less.
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The second installment to the Beverly Hills Cop movie series has one of my favorite title sequences. As Axel Foley, Eddie Murphy takes his Ferrari 328 GTS to work through Detroit morning traffic, accompanied by a Bob Seger soundtrack. There are Ferrari engine noises, there’s some inspiring driving and there’s also a number of continuity issues (count the times the 328 is replaced by a 308).
When I was a kid, I almost wore out my VHS copy of the film just rewinding the sequence back and watching it again, then repeating. Got to love YouTube.
Make the jump to see the clip again. It has been a while, hasn’t it?
We love driving schools.
Any chance we get to strap into a car and fling it around the cone-laden confines of a wide-open area makes for a great day. Thus it should come as no surprise that when Jaguar rang us up on the Hoon-phone to invite us to their latest driving experience, we sputtered out a “F*#k yes!” before they finished speaking. We apologized for swearing, and marked the date on our calendar.
Keep reading to find out what went down when the marked day arrived… … Continue Reading
After serving in the Navy, Dave Friedman attended and photographed many amateur sports car races around the Los Angeles area. In 1962,Friedman was hired as staff photographer for Shelby-American Inc. It was in this capacity that Friedman earned the opportunity to photograph the development of the Shelby Cobra. In 1966 and 1967, Friedman was hired by Ford Motor Company to document the company’s racing program. Friedman again bore witness to the unique experience of capturing the first American-designed and built racecars to conquer the grueling 24-Hours of Le Mans, the GT40. Friedman had a lengthy jaunt in the film industry, but continued to photograph his passion of motor racing through into the nineties.
400hp? Yep. Rear-wheel-drive? Yep. Back country roads and perfect driving weather? Oh yes. This is the wider, lower, longer, and damn fast 2012 Porsche 911 Carrera S.
Every Tuesday night during the summer time, I get the chance to help run a local car show. We’ve had varieties of muscle cars, exotics, and hot rods show up to dazzle all of us car fanatics. This past week, a good friend of mine brought out a brand new 2012 Porsche 911 Carrera S, and I got to take it on a quick drive throughout some of Wisconsin’s best rural back roads.
Since this post is this olelongrooffan’s 327th since the Hooniverse Overlords foolishly gave bestowed upon me a key to the vault right at two years ago, I thought I would pop up this 1979 Impala coupe that could, at least theoretically, could have a 327 installed in it.
Muscle car and restoration fans, rejoice. The Emmy-nominated program (they’re up against Martha Stewart) Chop Cut Rebuild is back for its eighth season, and the show on Speed invited Hooniverse into its garage for a sneak peek at a build that will take all year. Host Dan Woods and his team are holed up not far from our Huntington Beach HQ (one of our three HQs around the country, not counting our Canada and Finland facilities). The filming takes place at the Classic Industries Tech Center, and we knew we were in the right location thanks to the various pilfered parts cars covered up in the back of the lot.
The main focus in season eight is turning bits of metal into a showstopping 1956 Chevrolet Bel Air convertible. The team found a donor car, but quickly realized it wouldn’t fit the bill after it started to bend in half when they picked it up. They didn’t have to look very far for their next option, however, because Classic Industries sells a ’56 Bel Air body right out of their catalog.
Pair that fresh skin with the an Art Morrison chassis, and you have a package that’s ripe for a serious powertrain. Enter the dragon, err, the LSA. That’s right, these Hoon-minded folks are taking the supercharged 6.2-liter V8 engine that’s usually found under the hood of the Cadillac CTS-V (and now the Camaro ZL1) and using it to bring Project OpenAir to fire-breathing life. That mighty mill will be paired with the slick-shifting six-speed gearbox it’s so often found bolted to.
Stay tuned, because we’ve been invited to come back and take a look at the build as it progresses. For now, hop past the break for more photos from our trip to the set, and a rendering of what the finished product will look like.
[Images copyright 2012 Hooniverse.com/Jeff Glucker | Rendering of OpenAir courtesy of Chop Cut Rebuild]
Each year the Larz Anderson Auto Museum in Brookline, MA (formerly Museum of Transportation) puts on a number of “lawn events”. Basically those are themed automotive gatherings. There is the Cadillac Day, the German Car Day, Day of Triumph, Swedish car Day, etc. You get the idea. I have been attending these events for years and they are always filled super nice people, great cars, and it’s fun for the whole family, even the non-enthusiasts.
This year the Porsche Zone Concours event started off the season. It was an additional early event put on by Porsche Club of America, sponsors of the usual Porschefest (Porsche Day) which happens later on the season. And right away things were different.
While they may describe Polo as the sport of kings, racing spec Ferraris could be considered equally demanding of a princely pocketbook. Here we have a procession of the well-heeled heel and toeing a bunch of 458s through the lead turn in Laguna Seca’s infamous Corkscrew. Everything seems to be going as planned when. . .
Bonneville, Katana, Commando, Ninja, Express; just like their four-wheeled brethren, motorcycles have come with a lot of great, vivid names. Some recall famous races while others arouse an emotion akin to waking up with morning wood. There have been some great bikes over the years, and many of them have carried even greater names.
What you call a product can have as much to do with its emotional connectivity as does the physical manifestation. Occasionally a product takes off, perhaps in spite of its moniker – Apple’s women’s hygiene conjuring iPad being a prime example. But when it comes to bikes, rarely do the makers miss the mark in badging. After all, think of Honda’s Pacific Coast, a fully enclosed bike that only sold like two copies but can still evoked visions of leaning through turns on Highway 1 in Big Sur, maybe stopping at Nepenthe for a brief recharge before once again saddling up.
So, we all can agree that what something is called can drive its emotional positioning and even its place in the historical lexicon. With that in mind, and this being Two Wheel Tuesday – it is Tuesday, isn’t it? – which motorcycle do you think carries history’s greatest name?
Image: [moto ancienne]
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