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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.

While our editors traverse the country to find the best content for those magazines, we find other oddities related to the old-car hobby that we really had no place for - until now. With this blog, we're giving you a behind-the-scenes look at what we see and what we do during the course of putting out some of the finest automotive magazines you'll ever read.

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Michelin's Moving Tire Testing Machine

Posted September 22, 2009 12:01 AM by dstrohl

In 1972, Michelin wanted to test truck tires at high speeds, but worried about the disastrous consequences of high-speed blowouts in big rigs, so they built the PLR, a mishmash of Citroën DS parts and two small-block Chevrolet V-8s.

"Michelin's engineers," notes Ran When Parked, "fitted two Chevrolet 350 engines in the back. One drives the car, the other drives a mid-mounted truck wheel that is fitted with a test tire. The rear six wheels power the car while the front four steer it."

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