Hemmings Classic Car

Handsome 1942-’47 Hudsons

books, profiling American cars of each decade from the 1920s to the 1970s. However, I couldn’t get my hands on the volume in the series featuring cars from the 1940s, which was frustrating. Around 20 years ago, I was working in a downtown Washington, D.C., building that housed one of the last remaining big-box bookstores on the first floor, and one day they put a “going out of business” sign in the window. Being a book lover, I would peruse the store just

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