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R.A-S.H: GM World Of (e)Motion
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It was 1993 when the Delta L1011 touched down in Orlando and I breathed delicious American air for the first time. I was twelve years old and my family, like thousands more from Middle England, were headed for the neon artifice of DisneyWorld. For all the addictive rollercoasters and lose-yourself fantasy of Magic Kingdom, and…
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Hoon's Day Out: LeMay Museum – The Indy Cars
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This post comes to you just in time for the greatest spectacle in racing, the 97th running of the Indianapolis 500. The latest installment, of what I’m calling Hoon’s Day Out, is by far my favorite and one I’ve been looking forward to sharing for some time. Being a big racing fan, I spent a…
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Hoon's Day Out: LeMay America's Car Museum – The Longroofs
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In the latest installment of Hoon’s Day Out, I want to share with you some of the station wagons at the LeMay Museum. Of all the cars I saw that day, these are probably my favorite. I’m sure a certain olelongrooffan will concur. Let’s take a look at these classic wagons.
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Driving Vauxhall's Fiery Firenza.
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We never really had Muscle Cars in the UK. Sure, a few of the more popular V8 projectiles of the US Big Three were sold over here through specialist channels, and a great many more have been privately imported since then. But home grown, indigenous muscle? Not really. Our speciality seemed to be hotted-up versions…
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Hoon's Day Out: LeMay America's Car Museum – In the Lobby
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In the previous installment, I showed you some of the great Ferraris contained in the Lemay museum. Today, I want to give you a quick tour of the lobby of this fine establishment before we get too far in. As soon as we walked in the door and saw a race car, a motorcycle, and…
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Driving the Royal Jaaaag
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Tired of being subjected to revoltingly florid language on car blogs? Annoyed that every single car written about has to be more special than the last? Frustrated by the constant use of tired, hackneyed phrases like sense of occasion? Then you’re going to hate this article and should probably go and read something else because…
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More tea, Vicar? – 1962 Rover P4 100 Saloon
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This acquaintance was one of the quicker ones, even if the car is one of the slower ones. The 1962 Rover P4 100 you see here belongs to a fellow auto enthusiast from the region, Pertti. He also drives a ’90s Cadillac Seville, and the Rover serves as a summertime car. Pertti let me take…
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Junkyard Find- Ford Taurus SHO
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Oh how the mighty have fallen. That oft-quoted biblical passage is what first came to my mind when I spotted this 1990 Taurus SHO in the U-Pull-It yard. Amazingly intact and lacking any obvious evidence as to why this became its ultimate fate, the final blow was dealt when I remembered that all of these…
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Hoon's Day Out: LeMay America's Car Museum – La Ferraris
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In my previous post, I showed you around the parking lot of the LeMay museum in Tacoma, WA. That day, it just happened to be full of Ferraris of different kinds. I also mentioned that, while I appreciate them, I know little about these Italian thoroughbreds; several of you were kind enough to educate me in the comments,…
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Hoon's Day Out: LeMay America's Car Museum – Ferrambo
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They call it Ferrambo. Here at Hooniverse, we often talk about crazy car mashups, unholy mechanical unions, often in the popular Craigslist Crapshoots. Have any of us ever dreamed of stuffing the engine from a 360 Modena into a 1960 Nash Rambler wagon? Well, dream no more, because I have just such an example for you…
