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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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Power Everything: Bill O'Brien's 1956 De Soto Fireflite Sportsman on Hemmings TV

Posted December 13, 2012 9:00 AM by dstrohl

As a mid-level brand, De Sotos were often well equipped, just as Bill O'Brien's 1956 De Soto Fireflite Sportsman two-door hardtop was when new. With a 255hp four-barrel 330-cu.in. Hemi V-8 and a PowerFlite automatic transmission, the De Soto has power everywhere you look. Videographer Don Ashley caught up with Bill for the story on his car.

Watch the episode on Hemmings Daily.

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12/14/2012 8:59 AM

There is a little store and campground in Aquone, NC on the shore of lake Nantahala.

In the garage next to that store (Todd's) is a factory built whiskey runner (Dodge) from the 1950's. It is exotic and should be mentioned. I believe it is factory supercharged.

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