gdp's Comments

Hooniverse : Last Call- Orange You Glad Edition

Fri, 20 Feb 2015 11:54:30 +0000

Hopefully, Jim remembers your caption. It was the clear winner. "Volkswagen knew that kisses should be horizontally opposed, air-cooled, and are best at slow speeds." (did I get that right?)

Hooniverse : Craigslist Crapshoot

Wed, 18 Feb 2015 23:39:02 +0000

I don't care if that breaks the rules. I'm not liquid enough to drop $11k on a project, and no one is going to give a loan on an '88, but damn, I want that. He lost me a bit on "No visible rust ..." Really? The plastic hasn't rusted? The hell you say!

Hooniverse : Craigslist Crapshoot

Wed, 18 Feb 2015 20:31:38 +0000

Even with a bad turbo, that undercuts asking prices on much rougher examples, while not being cheap enough to be an obvious scam.

Hooniverse : Eurotripper European Car Show: The Air Cooled Edition

Wed, 18 Feb 2015 00:54:19 +0000

I know it's just a Beetle in drag, but that Spyder is gorgeous. You don't often see them in a hue other than silver. That black looks incredible.

Hooniverse : Diecast Delights: The (old!) Ford GT in 1:18 Scale

Wed, 18 Feb 2015 00:48:57 +0000

Fun fact: The concept (and subsequently this model) has what appears to be two fuel fillers. One of them is the washer fluid reservoir cap made to look like the fuel filler for visual symmetry. It was changed on the production car over fears that owners would put gas in the washer reservoir.

Hooniverse : Classic Captions – The 1974 Volkswagen Beetle "Love Bug" Edition

Tue, 17 Feb 2015 15:50:55 +0000

Buggers!

Hooniverse : Encyclopedia Hoonatica: Sequel Model Names

Tue, 17 Feb 2015 02:41:02 +0000

Like Leonard Part 6

Hooniverse : Hooniverse Asks- Do You Know What all the Buttons in Your Car do?

Mon, 16 Feb 2015 19:24:19 +0000

Because Ford, in all their wisdom, decided that their customers are too stupid to determine if the windshield needs another wipe and hit the switch if necessary.

Hooniverse : Encyclopedia Hoonatica: Sequel Model Names

Mon, 16 Feb 2015 17:24:52 +0000

Panther Solo II. <img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/Myredsolo.jpg">

Hooniverse : Encyclopedia Hoonatica: Sequel Model Names

Mon, 16 Feb 2015 17:16:21 +0000

Discovery II? <img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/LandRover-Discovery.jpg"width=500>

Hooniverse : Encyclopedia Hoonatica: Sequel Model Names

Mon, 16 Feb 2015 16:34:46 +0000

Since concepts are fair game, how about kit cars? <img src="http://priceofhistoys.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/bradley-gt-ii-51.jpg" width="500/">

Hooniverse : Encyclopedia Hoonatica: Sequel Model Names

Mon, 16 Feb 2015 15:26:35 +0000

Duh. <img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/Ford_Bronco_II.jpg"width=500>

Hooniverse : Hooniverse Asks- Do You Know What all the Buttons in Your Car do?

Mon, 16 Feb 2015 15:00:32 +0000

Ford did that with all of their cars in 2010 (and might still. I haven't driven a Ford newer than 2010). I affectionately referred to it as the "auto streak". The washer would wipe until it was clear, and pause for a moment then do a dry pass just to streak the newly cleaned windshield. Every. Fucking. Time.

Atomic Toasters : Q³: The Bear

Sun, 27 Oct 2013 13:29:15 +0000

It looks to me to be a spring whisk with a piece of cardboard slid between the coils to hide the handle. <img src="https://www.whisknyc.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/i/m/image_3750.jpg" width=500>

Atomic Toasters : Q³: Beware of No Spare

Sat, 6 Oct 2012 21:15:21 +0000

This one is almost too easy, unless you're too young/have always lived in a house with breakers.

Atomic Toasters : Where's Wall-E?

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 21:58:14 +0000

Wall-E is pretty easy to find. I'm humbled by how many of these I don't know. Was the Tin Woodsman technically a robot? Some are easy, and everyone should know them. Some are obscure enough that I'm proud to know them. Others, I'm ashamed to know. R2D2, C3PO, "Johnny Five" from Short Circuit, Terminator, Bender, Calculon, The good Robot Bill and Ted, Twiki, Bicentennial Man, Eva, The horny robot from Robot Chicken, Tom Servo, Rosie from the Jetsons, One of the robots from iRobot, one of the sentries from The Matrix, Rodney from Robots, the sweeper robot from Wall-E, Dot Matrix, ED-209, Screech's robot Kevin. Including Wall-E and the Tin Woodsman, that's only 23. I'm sure many of you can do better. Edit: A quick Google search confimed my guess of the little guy from Batteries Not Included, bringing my total to 24.

Atomic Toasters : Shutdown: The Power of Shatner Edition

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 04:10:06 +0000

Welcome to the blogoverse, Atomic Toasters. I fear that this blog, in conjunction with Hooniverse will lead me to an ill-fated attempt to devise a vacuum tube controlled fuel injection system. I'm sure that it's possible, but it probably won't work well, and it would give a new meaning to needing to let your car warm up.

Hooniverse : Confession Time: Show Us Your Toys

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:53:10 +0000

I've got a few others, but these are the ones that I display (but they are displayed all over, so I consolidated for the purpose of this photo). I limit displayed models to vehicles that I've actually owned. There are several vehicles that I've owned that I haven't yet found models of (and the '98 Buick Skylark might be a lost cause) Counter clockwise from the bottom left: Triumph Spitfire AW11 MR2 AW11 MR2 with T-tops Nissan Maxima Jeep Cherokee Triumph Daytona Checker Marathon Jaguar XJ-S <img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4035/4390328121_c1ccf92de3_o.jpg">

Hooniverse : Craigslist Egregiousness: Check the Comps! Edition

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:57:03 +0000

The '61 is too nice to pilfer the bits, but if one were looking for an engine/trans donor, the drivetrain in it alone would justify $2800. Personally, I like the styling of the '61 better, too. To be fair to the seller of the '65, if you took the value of the engine/trans away from the '61 asking price to determine a price for the '65, the seller would have to pay you, but the '65 still has a positive value. Someone selling a better car for a better price doesn't immediately mean the the '65 is a bad price (though I do think it's a bit steep). It will just make it hard for the seller of the '65 to get his price until well after the '61 sells.