Four-Links – turbine Corvette, more aero-engined monsters, New York to Seattle in 1909, Flxible trucks

* You got a turbine engine, where do you stick it? If you’re Andy Granatelli, you’re thinking Corvette – or, at least, he did so in the late 1970s, when he plopped the turbine from his 1967 Indy car into a third-gen Corvette, choosing the latter simply because it had a long hood. K. Scott Teeters has the scoop over at CorvetteBlogger.com.

* While putting together our recent articles on Chitty Bang Bang and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, we came across this article on AirportJournals.com discussing aero-engined race cars, including Fiat’s “Beast of Turin” above. Coincidentally, Granatelli and his turbine-powered Indy cars figures into this article as well.

* While the Great Race of 1908 remains famous today, the New York to Seattle Ocean to Ocean Endurance Race of 1909 remains less so, but as Anthony Cagle at the Car Lust blog argues, the latter was much more important to the history of the automobile, for it proved the durability of the Model T and led to an explosion of sales of Henry’s flivver.

* BigLorryBlog’s been on a Flxible kick lately, and thanks to one of their contributors, they unearthed something we’d never seen before – the Flxible tractor, with twin Chevrolet engines. What they don’t know is whether it progressed past the prototype stage – but if it didn’t, then why print up a brochure for it?

* Finally, thanks to limpe iven, we blew a good three minutes of a day recently watching this YouTube video made up of snippets from the 1977 movie Supervan, which features the Barris-built Supervan from which the movie took its name.