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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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Motorcycle Restoration Project - 1966 BMW R60/2

Posted December 07, 2010 8:30 AM by dstrohl

Max BMW's Heritage Service Department, at their North Hampton, New Hampshire, location, has recently been turning out some simply fantastic vintage bike restorations. We will be featuring one of those bikes, a beautiful R69 in an upcoming issue of Hemmings Motor News.

While doing some research for that article, we ran across this 1966 R60/2 restoration video a few weeks ago. The bike was presented by the owner with a few issues, including some transmission work, and it needed brakes, but otherwise was in pretty good shape for a 45-year-old bike. Touring bags and dual bicycle seats were on the bike when it arrived, but the owner wanted it to look more like its 1966 stock appearance by including a frame-contouring flat plank two-up seat.

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