May 20233

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Unplanned Obsolescence
Video is all the rage now and print is dead. Sorry The Bible, The Odyssey, Hamlet, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1984. You had a good run. Lately, here at Hemmings, we’ve been talking a lot about being less focused on print and more on video. I
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A Bitter Pill to Swallow
I think most of us wouldn’t bat an eye if our doctor prescribed Stellantis for something that ailed us. However, that’s not some new pill — it’s the name of the corporation that makes the Dodge Charger. Maybe owning a Hellcat does wonders for the cir
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Intro to Roadsters
Psychologists tell us that the ability to laugh at ourselves is good for our well-being, a sign of our ability to look kindly on our own weaknesses or mistakes. If that’s true — and I suspect it may be — then my British-car friends must be among the
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Backfire
I just got my March issue and enjoyed theFord Mustang EcoBoost article. As an owner of many Saabs, it’s been gratifying to see much of the internal combustion engine car world end up where Saab started nearly 50 years ago: with high-output turbocharg
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Motoring News
RAM pulled the wraps off its new electric pickup, the RAM 1500 REV, in February, and announced that the truck will be available for purchase late next year. The company aired a cheeky EV pickup-themed TV commercial during the Super Bowl — and posted
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1950 Buick EIGHT SPECIAL DELUXE
Buick’s traditional role in the General Motors hierarchy was that of the penultimate brand, below the luxury Cadillac and above the upper-middle-range Oldsmobile. To many postwar car shoppers this premium nameplate was aspirational, perhaps a stretch
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1951-’54 Nash-Healey
When you think of historic Le Mans champions, you picture Porsches, Ferraris, Aston Martins, and Jaguars howling down the Mulsanne straight. But in ’52, a Nash inline-six-powered Nash-Healey lightweight racer bested all of those greats, earning a cla
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2002-’06 MINI Cooper
The original Mini was a major milestone in automotive history: it popularized the now-ubiquitous transverse engine, front-wheel-drive powertrain; it was a world-class rally champion; and it was also a movie star — a few times over. Imagine, then, try
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1961-’79 Citroën AMI
Citroën’s decision-makers never had much use for conventional thinking. Tell them that a road wheel should be secured with at least four lug nuts, and they’d declare that three were enough. Say that a steering wheel needed at least two spokes, and th
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1961-’67 Jaguar E-type
It’s been a decade since bidders were stunned to see a 1965 Jaguar E-type Open Two-Seater shatter expectations by selling for $269,500 at Gooding’s 2013 Pebble Beach auction, and prices for the very best examples have more than doubled since then. Th
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From an End, a New Beginning
In the 1970s, buying a Swedish car in America was something of a statement. It wasn’t the typical “Look at what I can afford,” keeping-up-with-the-Joneses pronouncement, though — it was more a “My priorities are different.” The cars from Gothenburg s
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100 Years of MG: The “Safety Fast” Century
Great Britain’s best-loved sports car brand is celebrating its centenary this year, marking 100 years since founder Cecil Kimber — then general manager of The Morris Garages — began “tuning” standard Morris Motors cars by upgrading their engines, imp
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1937-’41 BMW 327 Sport-coupe / 1954-’55 Emw 327/3
BMW has a proud tradition of building luxurious, sporting two-door coupes powered by the company’s trademark inline-six engines. The earliest such cars dated back to the late prewar period, and they offered a prestigious connection to BMW’s first wor
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1963 Ford GALAXIE 500
The photos in the mid-year brochure told the story. Captured against the backdrop of Monaco, the new 1963½ Ford lineup was an exercise in elegance and sophistication. Front and center on the cover was the full-size Galaxie, with a sporty, new semi-fa
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Barrett-Jackson, Scottsdale
There are two highly anticipated public auctions that take place during the month of January. Barrett-Jackson’s annual Scottsdale sale, in Arizona, is one of them. The often-hot gavel action it generates has become the anchor, so to speak, for other
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Mecum Auctions, Kissimmee
Wisconsin-based Mecum Auctions’ Kissimmee sale once again produced a record-breaking start to the auction season. The annual event took place at the Osceola Heritage Park in Kissimmee, Florida, January 4-15, and ushered 4,000 cars across the block ov
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Prize Possession
While most automakers make special note of the final examples of particular models, there aren’t many volume automakers that fuss over production-number milestones. The MG Car Company did things differently, proudly celebrating the 100,000th MGA (hmn
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New Products
Class-Tech • 540-896-5758 • class-tech-cars.com • $37.44 If the interior of your International pickup’s glovebox is worn, cracked, brittle, or broken, the key to fixing this problem is a new glovebox liner. These brand-new reproduction parts will fi
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Books And Literature
By Walter M. P. McCall and Alan M. Craig McFarland & Company 800-253-2187 mcfarlandbooks.com ISBN 9781476689203 $49.95 While more than 20 U.S.-based companies have specialized in firefighting apparatus over the past 100-plus years, American-LaFrance
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Parts Locator
Q: I’m a longtime reader looking to restore the front and rear brakes on my 1968 International 1100 two-wheel-drive truck. I’m specifically looking for front and rear brake drums, along with wheel studs for the front hubs, which I am hoping I can reu
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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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Wings And Wheels In The Pacific Northwest
With the swinging harmonies of the Andrews Sisters belting out “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” from the overhead speakers, the Warhawk Air Museum in Nampa, Idaho, sounds like the front row of a World War II-era USO show with troops eagerly waiting for Bob

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