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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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Automobile Art in Design Patents

Posted August 18, 2009 12:01 AM by dstrohl

In our recent post on the Alex Tremulis flying saucer hood ornament, we came across its design patent, which led us down the rabbit hole that is Google Patents, via which you can search through more than 7 million patents. Plug in a few keywords and you start to see that patents – especially design patents – were taken out on all sorts of sketchpad doodles that never had a hope of reaching production.

So we started, of course, with Brooks Stevens, not just because he is our favorite industrial designer, but because we'd imagine he would have most likely been familiar with the patent filing procedure. Indeed – he sketched everything from toasters to cabin boats, but we found several interesting automotive design patents from Mr. Stevens, including a teardrop-shaped streamliner, a moving van, the Excalibur J and the Scimitar.

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