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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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Would You Buy This Bandini?

Posted June 17, 2010 12:01 AM by dstrohl

It's amazing how such a little car can have such a huge price tag. This 1955 Bandini Siluro twin-cam, which we had a chance to ogle at Amelia Island this year, not only has excellent racing history and a concours-worthy restoration, but it's being sold by Cliff Reuter, the man who seemingly has cornered the market on etceterini knowledge. It's not often you get to buy a car from an expert in that car's field. From Cliff's description:

"This Bandini (#358) is one of 46 known Bandinis in the world today and is the only Siluro (torpedo) with a Series 2 twin cam engine. This engine produces 71 bhp and because the car only weighs 750 pounds, it has amazing acceleration and has been timed at 115 m.p.h. It retains all of its original metal and the engine is original to the car."

So what you buy it if you had a quarter-million dollars laying around?

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06/18/2010 1:34 PM

absolutely.. one of the most beautiful vehicles I've ever seen.

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06/19/2010 7:50 PM

What is the engine displacement?

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