* The most amazing thing about the Goldenrod streamliner isn’t that it set the engine-driven land-speed record at more than 409 MPH and held it for a quarter century. It isn’t (necessarily) the engineering that went into the quad-Hemi car or the innovative fundraising the Summer Brothers took to get it on the salt. Instead, it’s that two regular guys were able to build the streamliner in a vegetable stand and go on to become legends of land-speed racing. The Henry Ford has more of the incredible story behind the record-setter.
* Jason Torchinsky at Jalopnik recently spent some time behind the wheel of a 1941 Tatra T87 and seemed to thoroughly enjoy himself. In the process, he also dispelled a few myths about the T87 and highlighted some of the rear-engined car’s more interesting bits.
* What would the Continental Mark II have looked like if other contemporary carmakers had taken a stab at it? Frank Peiler pondered as much in pen and paper.
* Over on MotorCities, Robert Tate took a look at the history of Aluminum Model Toys, the Michigan-based company better known as AMT and as the source of all those plastic model kits you put together as a kid.
* Finally, The Petrol Stop this week introduced us to the PK Jimp, a Reliant-based kit utility vehicle that came in a few different flavors, including the pickup above.
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