December 2021

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The 25-Year Celebration
While pounding my head on the desk today, hoping something brilliant might shake loose (for once) to fill this prime location in Hemmings Motor News, something occurred to me: I should design a line of padded coverings to protect wood surfaces from t
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Jonathan Shaw, President Terry McGean, Editor-in-Chief Mike McNessor, Editor, Hemmings Motor News Mike Austin, Director of Digital Content, Hemmings Daily Kurt Ernst, Managing Editor Beth Nichols, Managing Editor Matthew Litwin, Senior Editor Mark
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Four Black Donuts to Go, Please
We car guys can be an odd lot. We’ve got more opinions on motor oil than most people even know there are types of motor oil. We can find immense joy in otherwise mundane automotive-related tasks that ordinary folks might never think about, or would r
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Backfire
Too bad hindsight is 20/20 and we never know what’s coming next. I would’ve been more than happy to drive my 427 Corvette Convertible 60th Anniversary Package to Bennington, so you guys could drive it and take as many photos as you wanted for the Buy
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Motoring News
Before there was Pikes Peak, there was the Climb to the Clouds. Since 1904 (with a 1961-1989 hiatus), speed demons have converged on New Hampshire’s Mount Washington to charge full-tilt up the auto road. Tim O’Neil drove in the first revived event in
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Base Specifications
Engine 90-degree OHV V-8 Displacement 462-cu.in. Horsepower 340 @ 4,600 rpm Transmission SelectShift “Turbo Drive” three-speed automatic Rear axle Semi-floating Tires 9.15 x 15 eight-ply bias Wheels 15 x 6-inch Wheelbase 160 inches Total prod
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1966 Lincoln LEHMANN-PETERSON LIMOUSINE
Limousines had been a fixture — albeit a small one — of the automobile industry since the dawn of the 20th century. In the years that followed, nearly every luxury car manufacturer either crafted its own or contracted with custom coachbuilders to cre
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1970-’71 Mercury Cyclone Spoiler
In any group, in any list, there’s the odd man out, the one that gets forgotten until someone reminds you. In a list of 1970 muscle cars, Mercury’s Cyclone line (including the hot Spoiler variant) usually ends up at the bottom of whatever list anyone
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1976-’85 Mercedes-Benz W123
Enough Mercedes-Benz W123s were around in their decade of manufacture that plenty of people have memories of them, stoking the fires of nostalgia for current buyers. These cars were also built to last, and so plenty remain out there today. After a pe
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Parts Prices
Armrest cover $95 Auxiliary fan assembly $460 Axle shaft assembly $545 Brake booster $650 Brake caliper (front) $310 Brake caliper (rear) $355 Brake disc (aftermarket) $30 Dash cover (Coverlay) $135 Door moldings (each) $75 Door seals (each)
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1963-’67 Renault Caravelle
As Fernando’s father once said, “It’s not how you feel, it’s how you look.” And Renault’s lithe 1960s two-doors, the coupe and convertible Caravelle, looked marvelous. For years, these little-remembered imports were criminally undervalued, and while
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Power To The People
Had the original Mustang not been dubbed a “pony car,” it could have just as easily been pegged as a sport compact. It was just a regular Ford economy car, the Falcon, slightly reconfigured for better proportions and handling. Still, it didn’t weigh
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1969 Pontiac Grand Prix SJ
There are a million reasons why the start of the 2021 car show season was welcomed with unbridled anticipation, not the least of which was the opportunity to walk around a swap meet field and, more apropos to this feature, peruse a plethora of vehicl
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1969 Pontiac Grand Prix Sj
Asking price: Undisclosed Seller description: “1969 Pontiac GP SJ.” Why buy? At a time when contemporary road test publications were more concerned with the latest supercars from Detroit’s manufacturers, the personal luxury car market gained a new
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The Prize Pony
Sure, Pete Schmid could’ve built the Butternut Yellow Camaro restomod on these pages. He’s an accomplished fabricator with numerous hot rod projects to his credit, including the full-tilt Pro Street 1953 Willys Aero on the cover of our November 2020
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2003 Dodge 5.7 Hemi
Back in 2004, the Dodge division’s TV tagline, “That thing got a Hemi?” achieved catchphrase stardom on par with Wendy’s “Where’s the beef?” or Budweiser’s “Wassup?” Technically, the answer to the Hemi question is, “Um, well… sort of,” and it’s a poi
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Pontiac-Oakland Club International Meet
Pontiac’s offerings, from the earliest 1926s to the last 2010s, were always something special within the General Motors hierarchy. (The same can be said of Oakland, which built cars from 1907 to 1931 and spawned Pontiac as a companion brand.) It’s ha
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Midwest Microcar Museum
You think you have problems with your single-vehicle restoration? Imagine trying to restore an entire museum. In August 2018, massive summer rainstorms blew through central Wisconsin, dropping 17 inches of rain in a little over two hours. The effect
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Barrett-Jackson Las Vegas
Las Vegas is full of big buildings — but there are generally big crowds to fill the space (concerts and shows, sporting events, even the casinos). And then there’s Barrett-Jackson: Still socially distanced, the auction house’s event, June 17-19, was
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Parts Locator
Q: I have a 1946 Lincoln Club Coupe and I am looking for the hydraulic window lift assemblies. I do not have any original units that can be rebuilt. Tom Bickman Via email A: You can purchase brand new hydraulic lift cylinders from Convertible Se
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New Products
Vintage Air • 800-862-6658 • vintageair.com • two-groove water pump pulley $109; three-groove crankshaft pulley $175 New pulley kits for Ford 429-460 cubic-inch engines are now available. The three-groove crankshaft pulley kits and two-groove water
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Books And Literature
By Larry Erickson and David Boule autobooks-aerobooks.com 818-845-0707 ISBN 9780578864594 $59.95 The American circus had P.T. Barnum. Professional wrestling has Vince McMahon. The orbit of wildly customized automobiles and the shows that displaye
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Legend
Reserve: Minimum price owner will accept Selling Price*: What the vehicle sold for, inclusive of buyer’s 5-percent fee (*sold as a Premium Classified following the live auction) Recent Market Range: The low-to-high value range for the vehicle based
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Hemmingsauctions.com
Hemmings Auctions is our live, online auction site staffed by customer service professionals ready to help bidders and sellers with any questions. A wide variety of classic and specialty vehicles from all eras are up for bid. Auctions run for two wee
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Advertextments
Car buyers are a shallow lot. We like a car if we think it’s pretty and painted a nice color, we justify our driving impressions to suit, and start making payments. As you drive, a car is your face to the world; better have something attractive, both

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