This past Thursday marked the 50th anniversary of the land-speed record set by the Summers brothers in their Goldenrod: 409.277 MPH for a wheel-driven, naturally aspirated-engine vehicle. To mark the occasion, The Henry Ford – current caretakers of the Goldenrod – pulled together its photos and files on the record-holder.
* Lately there’s been a photo making the rounds of a Maserati in the back of a glass-walled truck on the highway. Impressive, but Mercury did the exact same thing for its XM-Turnpike Cruiser concept car 60 years ago, as The Old Motor showed us recently.
* Off-Road Action dug into the Chicago Auto Show’s photo archives to pull together all the Seventies-tastic truck, Jeep, and SUV photos from the show. Lotta campers.
* It sounds like Mac’s Motor City Garage has had a couple run-ins with radar-equipped Ohio State Highway Patrol officers and their cars in the past, and as an Ohio native, I can assure him it’s largely because of the blue on his license plates. Regardless, he pulled together a brief look at some of the cars the patrol has used in years past.
* Finally, Jerry Helck, son of Peter Helck, opened up the family archives for VanderbiltCupRaces.com this week to show a few photos of Old No. 16, perhaps the world’s most famous Locomobile.
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