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It shouldn’t surprise me how much awesome stuff changed hands through the pages of Hemmings Motor News over our 50-plus-year history, but every time I go looking through old issues, I’m simply floored by the unusual and the awesome. For instance, from the August 1978 issue, I found the above Pontiac-powered aluminum-bodied roadster. If you’re […]
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On the topic of early speed shops, we’ve already taken a look at the pre-war storefronts of Orr, Chapel, and Bell, but in a recent post on the Hemmings Forum, Barton Williamson pointed out another who should be considered in their ranks, Charles T. “Ted” Maedel, Jr., who in 1941 opened his first speed shop […]
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* Bob Gurr previously sent us several of his photos from old L.A. area used car dealerships, so we were pleased to see Dean’s Garage’s quick profile on Gurr, the designer and Disney Imagineer, this week. Some of those designs look like something somebody with metalshaping talent could bring to life rather easily.
* In the […]