Four-Links – forgotten fiberglass, abandoned diamond miners, two-headed tunnel-washer, history of Indian motorcycles

* You’re all no doubt familiar with Geoff Hacker, who’s fed me many cool pictures to use in HCC Lost and Found and here on the blog, and now Geoff has started his own website, ForgottenFiberglass.com, to share his love of all the weird and wonderful homebuilt and limited-built cars of the postwar era. He’s promised to keep us in the clover with odd fiberglass cars, but there’ll be even more such at his site.

* While researching the LeTourneau trucks for our recent post on them, we came across Artificial Owl, a blog focused solely on presenting photos of abandoned man-made creations. If you like decay, this is the blog for you. One of the interesting posts in their archives was of this Namibian junkyard full of diamond-mining trucks. Allegedly, De Beers, which runs the mine, won’t scrap or sell off their used equipment for fear that an errant diamond might make it out with the truck, so the trucks are left to rot right at the mine.

* How do you wash the inside of a tunnel? With a two-headed tunnel-washer, duh. BigLorryBlog has more on these rigs, designed to drive in and back out of tunnels without turning around.

* We had a couple great posts over at The Selvedge Yard to choose from this week, and the first part of a history of Indian motorcycles won out. Certainly not comprehensive (the history of Indian could fill – and has filled – volumes), but full of great imagery nonetheless.

* Finally, while poking around the website for our friend Melvin Benzaquen’s resto shop, Classic Restorations Enterprises, we came across a cool commercial he filmed for the business. Burnouts are always good for an ad.