* In the comments to the excerpt posted earlier this week from The Last Days of Henry Ford, Fred pointed out nailhed’s article from a few years back exploring the reasons for and ruins of the Rover Oaks mystery house, the estate where Ford allegedly socked away his mistress and chauffeur, who some say Ford persuaded to marry his mistress to raise Ford’s illegitimate son.
* Industrial designer Walter Dorwin Teague might be best known to auto aficionados as the father of Walter Dorwin Teague Junior, Marmon Sixteen designer, but he also put forth a few of his own automotive ideas, including the first all-plastic truck, a Ford-based van pitched to UPS. Geoff Hacker at Forgotten Fiberglass has more on it.
* This past week the Simeone Museum revamped its website to now include profiles of the vehicles in the museum, plenty of photos, and more.
* Rich Duisberg at MotorPunk spent some time recently tracing the paths of a few movie car chases, including the one from the Bourne Identity, above. Here’s hoping he finds the time to do more.
* Finally, in last week’s Four-Links, we discussed one one-off behind-the-Iron-Curtain sports car, and this week we came across another: the 1960 FSO Syrena Sport, aka the Polish Corvette. The sole built example was, according to Tim’s Car Talk, stashed away until the 1970s and then ordered destroyed by the Polish government.
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