The Cutting
Motoring Anthropologist
Tuesday, 9 December 2025
1957: To The Stars
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A quiet end to 1957 came with the launch of a metal beach ball with aerials, better known as Sputnik 1. Quiet, yet profoundly disquieting: t...
Thursday, 13 November 2025
Country Roads: The 1957 Coonabarabran Speed Trials
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The traditional complaint about American cars is that they're only fast in a straight line. Well, what if that's all you're loo...
Tuesday, 14 October 2025
Nevil Shute's "On The Beach": A Very Fifties Apocalypse
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Content Warning: Includes discussions of suicide, and euthenasia of a child. On The Beach is not a famous novel ("famous" in thi...
Friday, 19 September 2025
Taking a Third Option: 1957 Chrysler Royal AP1
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The rise of Chrysler Australia in many ways parallels that of Holden. Both companies began as Adelaide coachbuilders in the 19th Century, an...
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