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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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Flashback to the 50s: Engine Transplants and Hot Rods

Posted May 13, 2008 12:01 AM by dstrohl

Today's traditional hot rodders have oft been accused of not considering the wider picture of what constituted hot rodding in their chosen exalted time period of the 1950s. Not every car wore red wheels and primer black paint, for example. So this article, penned by Bill Williams for SIA #22, May-June 1974, should open a few eyes as to what went on in one little corner of hot rodding in the 1950s. And it makes sense, in a way: Why settle for a measly 230-something cubic inches out of a flathead Ford V-8 when you can stuff 450-something inches worth of Cadillac V-16 into a car?

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