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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: Pontiac Banshee

Posted November 05, 2009 12:01 AM by dstrohl

Oft misstated fact of the day: John DeLorean didn't want to copy the Corvette with the Pontiac Banshee. Yes, he wanted a two-seater sports car, but he didn't want it to be an American-style nose-heavy V-8 sports car; instead, he wanted a European-style lithe small little thing with the OHC six that he championed.

You could see this yourself, in person, if you bought the Banshee prototype currently for sale on Hemmings.com by 2 Shores Classic Cars. From 2 Shores's description . . .

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