Car Vandalism: You Hurt My Feelings But I’m a Nice Person Edition

No one likes car vandalism. The people who do the vandalism are the shittiest of shitty people, total cowards… and I’m specifically talking to certain two Bruins fans who like to park their shitty white Altima in my reserved spot, throw beer cans from their car, and evidently drive back to their mom’s house in the suburbs drunk. But I digress.

When in comes to the matters of the heart, ladies, I know one thing – you always knew he was going to cheat on you, you just didn’t know when. This girl, whose feelings were evidently hurt, wanted revenge and for it she stoop down to the level of the shittiest. Or did she?

[Thanks for the pics Vinny!]

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Automotive Flash Card Book for Kids

Tyra Banks, Dolly Parton, Terrell Owens, Madonna, Prince Charles, Jimmy Buffet, Glenn Beck, Bill Cosby, Spike Lee, Tim McGraw, Jamie Lee Curtis, Billy Crystal. Other than being some kind of pop-culture celebrities, they have seemingly nothing in common. Except the fact that they all wrote children’s books. Apparently writing a children’s book adds another minute to their fifteen, or perhaps allows you influence young minds, or just simply pays well.

Not to be outdone, internet sensation and friend-of-Hooniverse, DCAutoGeek, has also created a children’s book. Based on a typical set of flashcards, this e-book (what, you don’t have an iPad yet?) teaches the alphabet and the very basics of Automotives 101. Very cool. Go through the book after the jump.

This gave me an idea too…

[Source: DCAutoGeek.com]

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“The Charles Barrett Special” Commando: A Quick Update

In its prerunning days

A couple days ago this olelongrooffan shared with my fellow Hoons my experience in collecting my new to me Jeepster Commando. And as I seem to be doing the last few vehicles, I named it. Yeah, my E30 ragtop was the “Black Beauty”, the Falcon Station Bus was “the olestationbus”, and my Comanche is the “Indian.” Appropriately enough, I bestowed my Commando with the moniker “The Charles Barrett Special.” Now after that post went viral, I happened to be reading that Book about my Face and

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Man drops a K20 into a Ford Fiesta, creates Fonda Fiegra

The Honda K20 series of engines are known for their high revving nature in Honda and Acura sport compact cars. The engines are also known to be perfect candidates for transplants in older Honda compacts and lightweight sports cars to provide a bit more oomph and VTEC!! Yo!! So why is this engine in a Ford?

[Source: k20a.org]

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Hooniverse Motorsport News for the Weekend of September 26, 2011

We are going to experiment with motorsport coverage. Since there are a ton of websites already dedicated to motorsport, brining you detail race coverage here does not make any sense. Instead we will bring you highlights of the major events, rumors, changes, and some opinion.

Please keep in mind that this is an experiment, therefore feedback by the means of constructive criticism is welcome. We are running in on Tuesday (at least this week) to avoid complaints about spoiling the races from anyone who has not seen them. Speaking of spoilers, this article has more of them than a Hot Import Nights event. You have been warned. -KK

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Wandering Around In The Lot At The BFE GP LeMons Race

In the comment section of the blogpost today asking what was the worst factory body kit ever, the LeMon Petty Cash race team was brought up. Mad Science mentioned they kicked butt at Buttonwillow and this olelongrooffan remembered seeing them do the same at the BFE GP last weekend. That reminded me of some images I had taken that weekend demonstrating the distances some LeMons participants had traveled to attend the BFE GP.

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Speed Reads: The Battle for the Beetle by Karl Ludvigsen

Image courtesy VW of America Newsroom

It’s difficult to not be fascinated by the once-ubiquitous Volkswagen Beetle, from its conception as a pet project of arguably the worst person in history to its unprecedented success. It has also been a veritable primordial ooze from which thousands upon thousands of Hoon-worthy project cars, kit cars, and race cars crawled to meet their evolutionary success (Formula V or the Baja class) or ignoble failure (Bugatti anyone?). It almost didn’t happen, however, as war-torn Germany was stripped of much of its industrial capacity by indignant occupying Allies. How did the Nazi’s People’s Car survive being swept into the dustbin?

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Tanshanomi & The Search for the Ancient Lost Scrolls

I got into motorcycles in the spring of 1980, and when the bike bug bit me, it bit hard — more like soul-eating bacteria than a “bug.” This, of course was in the year 11 B.W. (Before Web). I had to feed my brain disease’s insatiable appetite for moto-data the old fashioned way: on thinly sliced wood pulp. That meant visiting every nearby magazine rack, repeatedly, along with every library in town.
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Speed Read: Ultimate American V8 Engine Data Book 2nd Ed.

Right off the bat, Peter Sessler’s Ultimate American V8 Engine Data Book, 2nd Ed., contains five words I like and one contradiction in terms. I like American V8s, data, books, and if something’s the “ultimate”, then there shouldn’t be a need for a second edition (ultimate means last). The title’s mix of lots of what I like with some minor shortcomings on the details, perfectly matches the Ultimate American V8 Engine Data Book 2nd Ed..

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Speed Read: How To Restore Automotive Trim and Hardware

Ever gotten in over your head? Started a project that you thought you could handle, but realized that doing it right was way beyond what you had skill, tools, money or time for?

How To Restore Automotive Trim and Hardware by John Gunnell may well save you from such an experience when it comes to restoring brightwork on classic cars. If you think you want to get into restoring automotive trim, it’s got just enough info to to point you in the right direction, which may well be to your nearest professional.

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