Four-Links - unearthed Bonneville photos, Black Mustang Club censored, the Linda signature mystery,

Ryan never rests on his laurels over at the Jalopy Journal, and just this morning he brought us all something terribly cool. Following up on an earlier post, a reader sent along some photos from Bonneville 1951 - in color - that had never been developed. Until now, of course. Ryan includes scans of the photos as well as commentary identifying pretty much all of the racers shown. I wanna know more about the Crosley-powered bellytanker, though.

So what sense does this make? The Black Mustang Club, a forum dedicated to (you guessed it) black Mustangs, tried to print a calendar featuring photos they took of their own vehicles, but Ford stepped in and claimed they couldn’t because the design of any Ford car is copyrighted. So I suppose this means any magazine featuring photos of Ford cars is in copyright violation? Or any coverage of Ford cars - say newspaper articles about all the Ford intros going on as we speak in Detroit - that happens to include photos of Ford cars is in copyright violation? Gimme a break. (via)

Steve Siegel passed this on to us - it appears some assembly line worker in 1970 named Linda decided to personalize her inspection markings with her signature on the underside of a bunch of Firebird dashes. The guys at the Performance Years forum think they know what factory Linda may have worked at, but I’m sure they could use additional data if any 1970 Firebird owners out there have come across something similar. And no, it doesn’t appear to be Linda Vaughn’s signature:

Though similar.

And the BigLorryBlog guys posted their own condolences to the canceled Dakar rally with pictures of Dakar support trucks through the years, including the above Star.

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