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Hemmings Motor News has been around since 1954. We're proud of our heritage, but we're also more than the Hemmings full of classifieds that your father subscribed to. Aside from new editorial content every month in Hemmings, we have three monthly magazines: Hemmings Muscle Machines, Hemmings Classic Car and Hemmings Sports and Exotic Car.

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Adventures in Lotusland

Posted September 01, 2009 9:06 AM by dstrohl

In September 1946, Milwaukee industrial designer Brooks Stevens received a phone call from his friend Robert Paxton McCulloch, president of McCulloch Aviation in Los Angeles. "Get your tail here double quick," McCulloch cried. "We're going to build a car that will revolutionize the auto industry. Front-wheel-drive. Ultra-cheap. Henry Kaiser's involved. It's the biggest thing in the world."

At the time, Brooks Stevens remembers, "I didn't know Henry Kaiser from a hole in the wall. I'd read of his World War II exploits – the Liberty ship program – but that was all. And I was in the midst of another small car project for Willys-Overland. Robert was a good friend, though, and he thought he had something hot." So off went Brooks to Lotusland.

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