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1902 De Dion-Bouton Type K Motor-Hansom
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As a kid, my parents gave me Peter Robert’s A Picture History of the Automobile. I spent a thousand hours reading and pouring over the photos. One in particular has always stuck with me; a photo showing a veteran-era (pre-1905) open car with a sort of transverse walkway between the firewall and the front of…
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Weekend Edition: V.I.S.I.T. – Sebring Edition
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Often when you attend a major race, such as the 12 Hours of Sebring, there is just as much to see off the track as there is on it. There were rare models cruising the grounds and parking areas of Sebring, devoted entirely to notable makes and models, such as Porsche, Corvette, Audi, and BMW. Each of…
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Remember To Drive
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Deep in the heart of central Texas, it’s twenty nine degrees. I’m hungover, waking with a half-eaten McDonald’s burger laying next to me. What a waste, I tell myself. Eventually, I collect my head, walk out into the cold and crank over my two-week old 1986 BMW 325. These little cars have a funny high-pitch…
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Forgotten Racetracks: The Eloy Grand Prix
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Hooniverse has written about several old temporary racetracks used by club racers when prepared racetracks were somewhat scarce: Brynfan Tyddyn, Las Ochas Millas, Callender Field, and Lake Garnett. Nearly all of those had gone away by the early 1970s, when liability concerns crept up and willingness among chambers of commerce dropped down. Street circuits became…
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Good News for Brooklands= Good News For ALL OF MOTORSPORT.
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The image above says everything you need to know about Brooklands. Fast, banked turns on which wildly moustachioed, goggled, flying hatted playboys fought wheel to wheel to prove the superiority of their chosen steed and, as we can see, even sometimes getting it to hover. Amazing things happened on this two and three-quarter mile oval in…
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Publicity Photo of the Weekend – The New for 1977 Buick Opel (by Isuzu)
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Ah the 70’s, such a weird time for automakers. They were trying to sell cars anyway they could while dealing with Government Mandates on Fuel Economy, Emission Controls, and Federal Bumper Regulations. On top of all this, the US Dollar was losing value to the ever stronger German Currency, and the US Core Inflation Rate…
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Hooniverse Drives to Berlin – via Checkpoints A–B–C–D
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I spent my 30th birthday in Germany. A little bit more than a month later, I was back in Germany, for a New Year’s Eve in The Netherlands. Huh? Well, in Central Europe it doesn’t take long to drive from a country to another, so naturally it would make sense to fly to Düsseldorf, drive…
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Polygons ahoy: Some MS-DOS racing games worth a try on Archive.org
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If you’re around my age (and probably a few years older), you came of age around the time when home computing was similarly coming of age. And if you’re like me, you spent an inordinate amount of time tinkering with polygonal and/or text-based MS-DOS games. While many of these games have fallen into the Abandonware…
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The Carchive: Re-living a 1994 Motorshow!
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I’m an extremely lucky chap. Among my possessions I find a great wealth of motoring memorabilia of every imaginable description, including a majestic “Road Works Ahead” sign that was definitely, 100% happened upon by law-abiding means. Totally. One item stands head and shoulders above the rest, though, in terms of sheer collectibility and must-have-ness, especially…
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Thursday Trivia
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Welcome to Thursday Trivia where we offer up a historical automotive trivia question and you try and solve it before seeing the answer after the jump. It’s like a History test, with cars! This week’s question is a three-fer: Where was the first Ford Mustang sold? What was the name of its first owner? Finally, what were its…
