* I don’t want to make this a regular feature of the Saturday Four-Links, but this is the third week in a row we’ve come across a stolen car while putting the Four-Links together. In this case, it’s a 1987 Citroën 2CV, taken late last month from Rossendale, Lancashire, UK. There is a reward.
* Even though our cash for clunkers program is over, Britain’s appears to still be going on, and one of the cars turned in was this 1958 Morris Minor (Britain’s program had no upper age limit for clunkers). The good news: It won’t be scrapped. The Hyundai dealership that took it in and the scrapyard that was authorized to crush it both decided it shouldn’t be destroyed. The bad news: Britain’s c4c legislation prevents it from being sold abroad or put back on the road, so it’ll become a museum doorstop, should some museum swoop in and save it. Still better than the alternative.
*True story: The other day, I was reflecting upon the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and realized a) I didn’t know what kind of car he and Sophie were shot in, and b) I didn’t know the fate of that car. Then, queer coincidence, I came across this post on A Thing For Cars that answered both of those questions. Perhaps the curse of Franz’s Graf & Stift is reaching through the Internet to get me… (photo via Wikipedia)
* A few weeks ago, we had a link to a vid of an old-school custom drifting in Finland, and now we’ve come across a link of several old-school hot rods kicking up dirt at an event in eastern Germany. We approve.
* Finally, from Eddie Stakes, a brief story of a 1978 Concord AMX that served as a jackpot car at the Reno Harrah’s casino. Unfortunately, Eddie doesn’t know the fate of the car – anybody out there happen to win big in Reno in the late ’70s who can fill us in?
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It’s been difficult keeping this under my hat for so long, but now that I have it in my hands, I can announce my first book for CarTech, the Muscle Car Interior Restoration Guide, chock full of tech on how to do just about everything from lay new carpet to install a convertible top.
