Hemmings Sunday Cinema – 1959 Chrysler lineup, Audi unintended acceleration cleanup, The Stone Killer

As Mac’s Motor City Garage wrote this week, 1958’s “An Evening With Fred Astaire” was the first television program recorded on color videotape, a feat made possible in part by sponsorship by Chrysler, which took the opportunity to introduce its full lineup of 1959 model year cars.

* Anybody who recalls the Audi unintended acceleration scandal of the Eighties is probably amazed the brand was able to bounce back at all. These PR cleanup-duty videos that Tamerlane dug up this week show part of Audi’s effort to keep the scandal from sinking it.

* Finally, automatic Charles Bronson reblog rule. This time: the chase scene from The Stone Killer.