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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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Bi-Autogo: One Part Car, One Part Motorcycle

Posted January 25, 2010 10:54 AM by dstrohl

Unless you're an absolute newbie to the old car hobby (in which case, welcome!), you've by now surely seen some sort of mention of the 1913 Bi-Autogo, the two-wheeled "automobile" that James Scripps-Booth built. But you probably haven't read an account of the vehicle quite like the one that his nephew, Steve Booth, wrote for SIA #62, April 1981.

Steve recounts fully how the Bi-Autogo's weight and cumbersome steering prevented it from becoming more than a one-off, but he also enumerated the many technical achievements that his uncle incorporated in it, from the V-8 to the underslung chassis to the all-aluminum body. Sure, the end result didn't set the world on fire, but somebody had to try it, right?

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01/25/2010 10:49 PM

I prefer the modern (15-20 yrs ago) interpretation that some Swiss pilot made, using a BMW engine and fully enclosed two seat cockpit. It had side legs that were powered out for sharp corners and stopping.

I can't remember his name, maybe someone else can....

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01/26/2010 2:30 PM

3200 lbs!!! omg! its a full sized sedan car weight.

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