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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: Gas-Saving Gadgets and Gimmicks (Part 1)

Posted March 11, 2010 12:01 AM by dstrohl

As long as our automobiles run on gasoline, and as long as gasoline remains something that doesn't rain freely from the skies, there will be "entrepreneurs" looking to make a buck by selling gas-saving gadgets. In SIA #64, August 1981, Roy Ames gives us the lowdown on the early history of these gadgets, going all the way back to 1903 for his first example.

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Re: Flashback: Gas-Saving Gadgets and Gimmicks (Part 1)

03/12/2010 10:42 AM

In the 70's my dad bought a water injector for our dodge dart w/a slant 6

Didn't improve the mileage any

but I still have the Stewart Warner vacuum gauge that was to be mounted under the dash, along with a needle valve to regulate the water

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