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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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Captain Martin's Mixed-Up Mini Cars

Posted May 01, 2008 12:01 AM by dstrohl

If somebody were to ever write a tome on the American microcar, they'd best not leave out Captain James Vernon Martin. Sure, his cars never made it to production (unless you count the three Darts of the late 1920s), but his efforts seemed typical of the post-cyclecar, pre-World War II microcar efforts of any American - that is to say, offbeat and essentially doomed from the start.

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05/08/2008 12:43 AM

Interesting.

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