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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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The Highwayman Truck: TV History For Sale

Posted September 23, 2009 12:01 AM by dstrohl

After creating the first Knight Rider TV series, Glen Larson took the same formula and substituted a futuristic semi truck for a Pontiac Firebird. The result? A pilot movie and nine episodes of a TV show called "The Highwayman," broadcast on NBC in late 1987 and early 1988.

Though it looks like a Luigi Colani creation, the truck actually started out as a 1980 Kenworth cab-over with an 8V92T diesel before it was converted, at a cost of $287,000, into the "futuristic" (the series was set in 1992) truck used in the series. Now it can be yours - for $125,000.

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