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I have been with you and your staff for many years. I remember seeing my first Hemmings Motor News way back in the ’60s. That was when all the orphan cars were just used cars and no more. I’ve been through the comments about restomods in Muscle Machines. Then there were the foreign cars in Classic Cars. I’ve seen station wagons and four-door sedans, and plenty of trucks. All of this I have been able to digest to some extent. I have agreed to most of the writers’ viewpoints, even to the point of experiencing them in the past, now, and seeing some of the future, which doesn’t appear the best.

Now with all of the above being the middle of the road I hope, here comes more of my comments about describing cars at the auctions you attend. Let me preface this by stating that I hope we are on the same page about cars. That is,

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