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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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Zinc-Rich Motor Oil Formulated Specifically for Classic Cars

Posted September 27, 2012 9:00 AM by dstrohl

One of the biggest worries among car collectors today is what oil they should use in their cars. As the zinc and phosphorous content continues to drop in modern motor oils on the corner parts store shelves, the risk of damaging the engines in our collector cars continues to increase. The resulting wiped-out camshafts and other mayhem can cost a pretty penny, and even destroy irreplaceable pieces of history, which is why we at Hemmings decided to offer a new brand of motor oil formulated specifically for collector cars.

Since the lack of zinc in modern motor oils became a problem, we've seen all sorts of complicated responses; we've even heard of guys crushing up zinc tablets from their pharmacy and putting the zinc powder into their crankcases. The new Hemmings Motor News Motor Oil makes it simple to get the right oil for your classic car, with an SJ rating (meaning it offers more than 1,600 parts per million of zinc and more than 1,500 ppm of phosphorous) and with a formulation that is designed to work with both forced induction and naturally aspirated engines and with engines running on high octane and exotic fuels.

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09/28/2012 10:02 AM

Interesting...

But I might add that my kid brother, a Chemical Engineer, owns and operates a company that sells a ZDDP oil additive product in it's concentrated form, unlike this product. He's been selling it for the past decade.....

If any car collectors out there are interested in an alternative, please visit:

http://www.cam-shield.com/index.html

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09/28/2012 10:25 AM

Oh one more thing I noticed on the Hemmings website regarding this oil is that there is no disclaimer or warning about using it in vehicles that have catalytic converters. Owners of cars and trucks with converters shouldn't use a ZDDP additive or ZDDP-based oil product in their engines....that's a big no no!

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