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Submission Thursday: The 1980 Welsh Rally
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One Pro Tip we should have mentioned: if you’re going to send us a submission, please tell us who you are!
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Welcome to Submission Thursday!
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We’ve been receiving a whole lot of tips, emails, ideas, comments, marriage proposals, and Nigerian scams since we first started Ole Hoonie a few weeks ago. First things first: Pro Tip, everyone! If you’re going to send a marriage proposal, please include photographs and measurements. We’re not psychic, and stalking you takes so much time…
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Hooniverse Asks- What's the Best Turbo Engine?
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With gas prices through the roof, and eco pod-people calling out conspicuous consumers of dead dinosaurs like they are the un-converted, car makers are once again revisiting the idea of smaller, forced induction engines in supersession of large, gas-hungry motors. This isn’t the first time for this sort of renaissance, and there’s a mess of…
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For Sale: The Czech is in the Mail
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Today, Skoda is a wholly-owned subsidiary of VAG, but back in 1969 it was still under the auspices of the Soviet-Bloc planned economy, which had forced nationalized ownership on the company, and had cut it off from the west, stifling technological progress and access to modern parts. While the Ruskies and Americans traded narrow-eyed scowls…
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2010 Mitsubishi Lancer Sportback Ralliart
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From the NADAguides Garage: My review of the 2010 Mitsubishi Lancer Sportback Ralliart
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When Life Gives You LeMons…
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…It’s time to make LeMonade! All too often we come across some crazy beater on Craigslist that’s just begging to go out in a blaze of glory. That, or it comes with a ready-made theme too awesome to pass up. Regardless, it’s tricky to wring 150-ish words of description out of 3 blurry cell phone…
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Last Call- The Drag Queens of Italy
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In urban Italy, every traffic light is an opportunity for a drag race to the next, and the Latin machismo order of the hairy chest is ordained to whoever wins the block-long run. For decades, Italian car owners have tuned and tweaked their tiny cars to provide an edge in these impromptu street contests, and…
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Know My Fine! (Guess My Fine! Winner Announcement)
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Many many fine guesses today that ranged from the hopelessly optimistic (jthomp: $0. It got thrown out!) to the unique (.357: $959.87-You can see why I picked those numbers.) to the trollish (mk2441: what do you have a guilty conscience or something. your a retard and you made a blog about it). However, as the…
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Half-Car Driving Rodeo Roundup: Git-R-(Half)-Dun!!!
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Ever looked at a dilapidated FWD car and suddenly … PAH! … it hits you that the majority of the sheetmetal and a couple of the wheels are just dead weight? Wouldn’t it make hooning that boring Suzuki Swift much more fun, dangerous, and most of all, dangerous, if you just hacked off the back…
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Hooning it to the Man
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You know, you only get to take a new driver’s license picture once every few years, you might as well make it something memorable. Source:[imgur.com]
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Perhaps The Greatest Potential For LeMons Superstardom Ever
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We’re all familiar with LeMons racing at this point. Many men in many different cars have won the title, but none have even pretended to do it in a 1966 Sunbeam Imp. $500 gets you a shell and a dream.
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Grandma Said Knock You Out!
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In this corner, wearing the red EMR paint and weighing in at a stout 3 tons- THE CRUSHER! And in this corner, weighing in at 98-lbs and riding a Huffy- GRANDMA. Come out at the sound of the bell and let’s keep this clean. Link HERE and then click the forward arrow. Source: [reddit]
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Craigslist Egregiousness: Bait-'N'-Switch Temptation Edition
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For a classic example of temptation battling rationality we can always turn to Craigslist. Today is no exception.
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Ride of Frankenstein: Midnight Go-fer Edition
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Have you ever been happily minding your own mundane workaday business when you were suddenly blindsided by a mindmelting vision that you couldn’t even dare think to try to make up? Then wish you had a camera and time to make sure it pics-or-it-didn’t-happened, before remembering you do and are therefore in (somewhat questionable) luck?
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Name That Part: KHAAAAAAAAAAAN!! Edition
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Last time, on Name That Part, I managed to throw strange enough logic at you that I finally made you lose the scent. I’m not sure whether I feel proud of that or somewhat embarrassed.
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The Skoda 120: "A Masterful Blend of Precision and Subtle Refinements"
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Despite their ability to pull something like 4 million pageviews in a day, actually pay their staff, or even send them all over the world to cover car shows and the like, there’s a reason we’re glad we don’t write for Autoblog. It’s you (plural): dear readers. Jump to get to the point…
