<![CDATA[Comments from hoontastic]]> <![CDATA[Comments from hoontastic]]> <![CDATA[hoontastic commented on Garage 419 Debates ZR1 Vs. GT-R, Nurburgring Times Faked?]]> Indeed the Nurburgring is as close as we get to the same real world street like condition testing.

And if it has too rain for a car too assert itself as a winner nobody cares unless they live in Seattle.

If it's raining and snowing these supercars are in Garages.

Hats off to the ZR-1 and the Rear wheel drive car that did
this. My fantasy dollars are getting spent on the Vette.

And place with nice weather.

]]> <![CDATA[hoontastic commented on The Chevy Beat Goes On...Into US Showrooms?]]> Small model finds perfect job modeling spaciously, spacious
beat under spacious skies. You can just feel all the wide open space that is the Beat.

]]> <![CDATA[hoontastic commented on Sony Ericsson Teams With Ducati For Cell Phone, Rich Dudes In Loveless Marriages Rejoice!]]> Don't underestimate the fun of being a rich dude in a loveless marriage.

Remember Kevin Spacey only gets the 1970 formula firebird
after the marriage got loveless. (American Beauty)

During the loving period he was saddled with a camry.

Rejoice.

]]> <![CDATA[hoontastic commented on Concours D'Ignorance May Be Greatest Idea In Auto Show History]]> Pontiac Aztec

Dodge Aries K-cars

Malaise era 1974 novas badged "GTO"

The horror...

]]> <![CDATA[hoontastic commented on Aston Martin Preps For Repeat Le Mans Victory, We Gawk At Familiar Colors]]> No no no.

FORD GT in Gulf Livery at Lemans.

Aston in BRG (British Racing Green).

Cats living with dogs any day now. The worlds gone mad.

]]> <![CDATA[hoontastic commented on Journalist Combines X6 And Deer With Disastrous Results]]> Boy that sure looks plastic through and through. I remember when plastic stuff was cheaper and metal stuff was good.

]]> <![CDATA[hoontastic commented on What's Your Favorite Ugly-Sexy Car?]]> The VW vanagon is UGLY sexy.

It's ugly and you can have sex in it.

Plain windowless white vans too. Ugly/sexy in more of
a molester way.

]]> <![CDATA[hoontastic commented]]> If you look closely you'll see a Japolnik logo as a wholey owned subsidiary of El Camino inc.

]]> <![CDATA[hoontastic commented on New Nissan GT-R Gets Crumpled In Malaysia, We Cry]]> Look on the bright side. Now there is one of those drive
trains loose, used and in the wild.

]]> <![CDATA[hoontastic commented on Would You Buy A V6 'Muscle Car'?]]> 8's for best sound.

]]> <![CDATA[hoontastic commented on Does "El Camino" Work For The New Pontiac G8 Sport Truck?]]> Hmmm ? What comes from down under and has a pouch ?

Nope can't think of anything...

]]> <![CDATA[hoontastic commented on 2010 Pontiac G8 Sport Truck: The El Camino Is Back!]]> Gentlemen start your mullets. Earl Hickey will have start
robbing liquor stores again.

]]> <![CDATA[hoontastic commented on O Canada! Snappy Dispatch On VW-Porsche Marriage From Our Neighbor To The North]]> Maybe it will be good and will force VW to build VWs
again. Instead of trying to be upscale everything.

A fun to drive Rabbit under 2000 lbs and with rollup windows and roll back sunroof, and manual door locks would be nice to see again. And you could stay out of the service depatments alot more.

You know, kind of like a old VW ?

]]> <![CDATA[hoontastic commented on 2009 Pontiac G8 GXP Coming Soon? High Performance Pontiac Magazine Gives Us Their Wish List]]> "The M3 is the worlds best selling sports car. And they are driven exclusively by cocks." -Jeremy Clarkson

Pontiacs are driven by Dudes.

The Dude Abides with and LS2 and Tremec 6 Speed Manual just like the GTO.

]]> <![CDATA[hoontastic commented on Hyundai Genesis Price Leaked, $39,000+ With Options]]> Yeah $40K Hyundai, Good Luck with all that...

See VW Pheaton...

]]> <![CDATA[hoontastic commented on And Now, Your Jalopnik Moment Of Zen...]]> Looks like the party favor noise maker nose action had
reached an emergency state. Maybe he got enough clippings for a sweater or small scarf.

]]> <![CDATA[hoontastic commented on Chrysler Builds Buzz For Challenger In Memphis Airport]]> It should say...

Automatic !

Still Automatic !

No stick ?

And a $10-$15K dealer premium for your automatic car.

]]> <![CDATA[hoontastic commented on So, You Want To See Bullitt As Intended?]]> Didn't I see goatrope pickin his feet in Poukeepsie ?

]]> <![CDATA[hoontastic commented on Who Is Your Automotive Hero?]]> Another Smokey Yunick Fan here.

Read Best Damn Garage in Town and see what that cat did.

Or maybe Broke Yates if you read Cannonball the original stories from those who did it back in the day.

]]> <![CDATA[hoontastic commented on Hybrid Camaro? "Muscle Car Wars" Going Green?]]> Bring on the instant high torque electric motors !

They generate more instant umph than internal combustion. I'll miss the sound though...

]]> <![CDATA[hoontastic commented on 2009 VW Routan Embargo Broken By VWVortex Before Chicago Auto Show Reveal?]]> Excellent, the $30K I dumped into a restoration on my 1989 Vanagon is looking slightly less stupid.
That's a me too jellybean chrysler minivan.
Even used eurovans are starting to look interesting now.

They stole the Subaru design mantra...

How can I make the ones I've already sold look better ?
or,
How to create a previous "golden age" instantly.

]]> <![CDATA[hoontastic commented on First Pontiac G8 Wagon Photo?]]> Bring on the Tin Indians.

All you holdens are belong to us.

]]> <![CDATA[hoontastic commented on Be Honest: Automatic or Manual?]]> Tremec 6 speed manual !

Had to sell a new C6 corvette shortly after buying one. I thought it was time to throw in the towel for city traffic ad get the vette in automatic (one and only one I've ever owned). That car was sold at a hefty loss 8 months later. I could not stand the complete lack of feeling like I was actaully driving the car.
I might as well have been staring blanking out the window of a cab or greyhound bus. My GTO I replaced that car with has the Tremec 6 speed manual that goes clunk with each heavy duty shift. I love it ! never again so long as I am able will I get an automatic. Except maybe in a van or truck. Automatics do leave one hand free though !

]]> <![CDATA[hoontastic commented on Celebrity Struggle Buggies: Mike Watt's '05 E-350]]> Mike Watt is cool. he played with Greg Hetson (Bad Religion and the Circle Jerks) and the drummer from Social D in the 90s up here in San Jose at Punk Rock Karoke night downtown and let schlubs like me get up and sing from the crowd with them. I choose Agent Oranges Blood Stains and Mike Watt gave me a nice high 5 when I had to step off the stage and go back to signing in my shower and car. A celeb yes. A cool regular guy keeping it real with the fans...yes !

]]> <![CDATA[hoontastic commented on PCH, Japanese AWD Turbo Edition: Celica All-Trac or Galant VR-4?]]> Celica All Trac all the way just based on it's rally hertiage being a Carlos Sainz/WRC winning car. Any car ever driven by a guy nicknamed "El Matador" automatically wins ! Get the red white and green paint and scoops ready. After the audi quattros and before the subarus and lancers it was that Toyota's day on the top of the world rally podium with that platform !

]]> <![CDATA[hoontastic commented on How Are American Cars Doing?]]> As a now departed 05 GTO owner, yank tanks are alive and well and faster funner than ever. As long as they
come from the land down under. I would buy another holden in a heartbeat. The jellybean goats stealth and velocity combo is just what the doctor ordered.
God bless Bob Lutz.

]]> <![CDATA[hoontastic commented on Is Drifting a Sport?]]> Yup it's a sport. One that needs to take care not slip into nancyboy showboat hotdog status over time.

Now stunt biking is the real deal. You can bet there
will be broken bones along the way and not just replacement quarterpanel budgets damaged.

Mixing stunt biking into D1 is like having the Led Zepplin show up to support Weezer. Someone's
gonna lose their repect for Weezer...

]]> <![CDATA[hoontastic commented on Municipal Hoonage: 2007 Elgin Pelican P]]> Name one other vehicle you can have 8 shots at the bar and drive home swerving along side the side of the road in peace. Hell equip the cab with wet bar and skip the middleman all together. Street sweepers are the boozers friend. I have 3.

]]> <![CDATA[hoontastic commented on Subaru Sketch: Forester? Outback? An Impossible Dream?]]> That front end is clean and undisturbing. Obviously it needs to get weirded up to pass subaru production approval. Bring in the snow monkeys, saki and crayons. Why do they make such great cars so hard to look at ?

]]> <![CDATA[hoontastic commented on Low-End Torque or High-RPM Power?]]> I'm on LS2 #2, 1st a C6 Vette then a GTO. 400Lb feet at low RPMs (and sub $30K new car cost) is the most powerful thing I've ever felt (torque). Not to mention the sound ! George Lucas is right the sound is 50% of the movie. That an LS equipped car is a fraction of the cost of the DOHC contenter with same zip code preformance makes it the clear practical winner too. Keep mine a simple stupid pushrod stump puller please. Oh yeah a LS2 crate motor goes for $6K new. Blow em up if you can they'll make more.

Winning at a stoplight without high revs...Priceless.

]]> <![CDATA[hoontastic commented on Mustang Bullitt Is Coming To The LA Auto Show]]> Oh no, I think I want one. And it's getting too hard to find Brown 426 Ford LTDs French Connection style.

]]> <![CDATA[hoontastic commented on Project Car Hell, LeMons Edition: CRX or BMW?]]> Gee, ya think anyone trades paint in that illustrious race ? Go for the BMWs mass. Put the CRX into the wall.

]]> <![CDATA[hoontastic commented on Commenter of the Day: Mothra Edition]]> Ding, best COTD ever. Order another bag of peanuts a red hat and a speedo and send that man a Jalop staff member offer letter.

]]> <![CDATA[hoontastic commented on Project Car Hell, Cheapskate Edition: Mercedes or BMW?]]> This patina is cool thing is going to save us all.

Buy a rat rod guy a beer.

]]> <![CDATA[hoontastic commented on Why The Transcontinental Driving Record Should Die]]> Lets have one day when we clear a path legally.
Just one day per year. Lets get under 30 hours the right way.

]]> <![CDATA[hoontastic commented on Project Car Hell, Fourth Circle: Quattro or Quattroporte?]]> Those where the coolest looking rally style audis of all time reminisent of the Gruppe B monsters. Audi all the way here no contest.

]]> <![CDATA[hoontastic commented on New 2008 Pontiac G8 Pricing Starts At $27,595, V8 G8 GT To Start At $29,995]]> Some of us WANT sleepers that have under the radar plain looks.

It's what we like to call being "cooler"

]]> <![CDATA[hoontastic commented on 2010 Chevy Camaro Production Mule Caught Stateside!]]> Hey, the GTO is no fiasco. It's a fantastic car.
And flys under the radar. Forget the Camaro more sleeper holdens with LS motors please and offshore
quality interiors.

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