Four-Links – Baillon Talbot revisited, Duray U-16, Toyota V-12 update, early British motoring

Those cars from the Baillon barn find collection that went through Artcurial last year were impressive enough in their deteriorated state, but seeing what’s going into the restoration of at least one of them – the Talbot-Lago T26, which showed up in a partially restored state at Retromobile earlier this month, as The Old Motor showed us – is just as noteworthy.

* Plenty of odd engines have powered Indy 500 competitors, but perhaps none so odd as the supercharged two-stroke U-16 that Leon Duray entered in the contest twice in the Thirties. Mac’s Motor City Garage has more on the one-off spectacular failure.

* That V-12 made from two Toyota inline sixes? The chassis it’s going in has been laid out and the body is now taking shape.

* For those with a keen interest in how the British took to automobiles in the 19th century, there’s GPevolved’s Origins of British Motoring, part 1 in a series that started earlier this week.

* Finally, similar to the Ford factory monster we saw several years ago, there’s Freddie Ford, courtesy the AACA Library.