Plymouth Superbirds and other winged warriors of NASCAR’s aero years seem naturally suited in just a few places – speedways, mostly – which is why Bob Jennings’s ‘Bird attracted so much attention when he recently drove it up and down the Alaska Highway for no other reason than to drive it up and down the Alaska Highway. FCA’s corporate blog has more on the trip.
* Speaking of road trips, Atlas Obscura has put together a dozen of them that follow those depicted in selected works of literature, though we’d cross Strayed’s “Wild” right off that list if it were up to us. And why has nobody apparently made a literary road trip through or to Florida? (via)
Liz Foster photo.
* Our own Jim O’Clair pointed us to the story of a 1968 Pontiac Catalina that was submerged in 30 feet of water in Caldwell County, North Carolina, up until this week, when the car was retrieved with its owner, Amos Shook, still at the wheel after 43 years.
* Over at MotorCities, Robert Tate looked into the history of Detroit-based model maker JoHan.
* Finally, Bonneville might have been canceled this year, but we still have a century of land-speed racing there to look back on. Ryan at the Jalopy Journal did so this week with an old article on a six-wheeled truck built in a thrash to take a bunch of racing enthusiasts to the salt flats back in 1955.
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