* The space age was about more than just tailfins and rocket motifs for automobile designs, as we see from this selection of photos that the Smithsonian’s Air and Space magazine put together this week looking at the various Fifties rocket ships that toured the country’s supermarkets and the efforts to preserve and restore them.
* One of the most unlikeliest of choices for a rally car would have to be the 1963 Chrysler 300, but one of the luxury hardtops did indeed compete in the Shell 4000 Cross Canada Rally, as Patrick Smith at PHSCollectorCarWorld wrote this week.
* The love affair with the automobile may not be as timeless as we think. As the Atlantic’s CityLab blog pointed out, that exact phrase hardly showed up in public discourse until about 1960, or more than half a century after Henry Ford introduced the Model T. (via)
* Chrysler built plenty of tanks during World War II, and indeed, that’s where we first see the company using hemispherical cylinder head designs. But its most radical tank was designed in the 1950s to use an even more potent powerplant: nuclear fission. Diseno-Art has more on Chrysler’s nuke tank.
* Finally, relax. Enjoy the hypnotizing and mesmerizing mechanical motion of this set of animated gifs. And just try to pull yourself away from them.
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