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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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Cool Cars: 1955 Flajole Forerunner

Posted October 16, 2009 12:01 AM by dstrohl

William Flajole thought he knew exactly what people wanted to see in future cars in 1955. Then again, so did every other car nut with a pen in his hand, and Flajole's track record (the Nash Metropolitan, among others) proved that, while his ability to think out of the box certainly remained strong, his prognostication abilities left much to be desired.

Then again, maybe he was thinking more long-term than short-term. Everybody says small cars are gonna be the next big thing, safety has been a big thing in new cars for years, and now Hyman, Ltd. has the Flajole Forerunner – the product of Flajole's vision – for sale at $350,000.

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Re: Cool Cars: 1955 Flajole Forerunner

10/18/2009 4:47 PM

...well, he was "right-on" about the "scallops" behind the front wheels (can you say: early Corvettes!)

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