Four-Links – 2JZs in everything, West Coast Crosley meet, Year of the Unilamp, the leaded gas problem

While the Toyota 2JZ isn’t quite the ubiquitous engine swap as the SBC or the LS, the straight-six still manages to make its way in between the frame rails of a good diversity of cars, trucks, and other vehicles, as this recent roundup from Stance is Everything shows. Mustangs, rat rods, even a Lada…

* The big Crosley meet takes place in Ohio every year, but a smaller, equally as interesting meet also takes place on the West Coast. Tim Foster got to attend the latter and bring back plenty of pictures.

* Fifty years ago, it seems Detroit’s designers all wanted to try something new and collectively landed on the idea of the Unilamp, what James Kraus calls the full-width taillamp assembly seen on many American cars of that era.

* Lead in gas has proven to be bad for public health, but exactly how the metal got stripped out of our fuel supply is a topic Jil McIntosh recently tackled for Driving.ca.

* Finally, Robert Tate at MotorCities looked back at the patrol and pursuit vehicle packages that Detroit offered in the Fifties and Sixties.

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