Read into the project what you will, but photographer Freddy Fabris’s series of photos of a group of mechanics recreating the paintings of Renaissance masters, which PetaPixel highlighted this week, made us smile.
* Matt Wolfe at the Automotive Hall of Fame recently took a look at the Hotel Pontchartrain’s bar, where early Detroit automakers and other industry titans gathered, and where much of early American automotive history was made, at least until that killjoy Henry Joy decided Woodward Avenue bars weren’t a respectable enough place for his peers.
* How many cylinders can you pack into one motorcycle engine? Andreas Georgeades is currently attempting to squeeze an H16 engine into his scratch-built bike, as Engine Swap Depot pointed out this week.
* The Lincoln in the corner of the above rendering doesn’t designate the subject car, rather the artist and designer, Clark Lincoln, who worked for GM for decades and whose work Dean’s Garage wrote about this week.
* Finally, tamerlane recently took a trip to the Toyota Museum in Torrance, California, to take a ton of photos.
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