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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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Cool Cars: 1938 Longhorn

Posted May 07, 2010 12:01 AM by dstrohl

I have a feeling RM Auctions is totally baiting us into featuring this 1938 Longhorn as a Hemmings Find of the Day, but I'm totally taking the bait anyway.

Oliver Albert of Gonzalez, Texas, built this one-off custom roadster, known as the "Longhorn" over a period of approximately 14 years. All body panels were hand-formed from the parts of no fewer than 14 different makes of vehicles and an equally impressive engine, a 1941-vintage Lincoln V12, provides power.

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05/03/2010 10:48 AM

Too bad it didn't come in black and hit the auction block earlier. Johnny Cash may have approved of the "One Piece at a Time" approach. But I'm betting he'd want one in black.

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05/10/2010 2:15 PM

I recall seeing this car a few years back while driving back from the dinosaur track park in TX. It is too bad it was not in a better funded museum, where it could have been brought back to running condition, and kept there. A skilled private owner could have done the same. Sadly, most one-off cars tend to rot and disappear. All the innovation and design goes to waste. Hopefully someone will be inspired to make it a running car again and put it on high-volume display somewhere. I still show folks my photos of it (back in my 35mm days).

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