Four-Links – Tom White’s bikes, 2JZ Camaro, the closed car, ‘Yota resto

Tom White collects motorcycles. But his reasons for doing so go beyond mere appreciation, as this Los Angeles Times profile of the man and the collection shows.

* Ever since Tokyo Drift, we’ve seen plenty enough 2JZ-swapped Sixties Mustangs, but as we see from a recent Engine Swap Depot story, the engine seems to fit in first-gen Camaro engine bays as well.

* The term convertible wasn’t coined until 1927, as John Heitmann pointed out in his recent post on The Automobile and American Life, a post that provides plenty of context to the fairly quick transition from open to closed cars during the Twenties.

* Generously speaking, the 1979 Toyota pickup that Richard Boucher found in the woods was rough. Which made the pickup’s restoration, as highlighted by Off Road Action, all the more spectacular.

* Going through old bookmarks, we came across this BBC documentary on the rise and fall of the DeLorean Motor Company. Does the world need another DMC-12 documentary (we spotted at least two others on YouTube without looking hard)? Probably not, but we’ll take it.