The Cutting
Motoring Anthropologist
Sunday, 22 March 2026
Peak Journalism: Caversham 6-Hours Le Mans
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As the 1950s entered their latter half, open-wheel and sports cars remained the headline act at race meetings, with the common-or-garden tou...
Friday, 6 February 2026
Golden Age: The Holden FC
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Dandenong Since beginning local manufacture in 1948, Holden had built more than 290,000 motor vehicles in Australia. And because they...
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...
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