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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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The Five-Minute Hemmings Car Quiz

Posted December 23, 2010 8:30 AM by dstrohl
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Recently, I ran across this Liberty Mutual ad that appeared in magazines dating from 1961. On the surface, there's nothing special about it; just another insurance company stating their willingness to stand by you no matter the circumstances.

On the flip side, it's a snapshot into the past – staged or not – giving today's observer a view of the safety standards of the day.

Beyond the museum-like approach to the ad, you might also take a couple of minutes – time you would have normally spent shopping online for dear old Uncle Sid and Aunt Mildred – and try to name all of the vehicles in the image.

So how many can you identify?

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12/23/2010 9:02 AM

The third car behind the panel truck appears to be a '56 Henway.

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12/23/2010 9:28 AM

"...Oh, about 5 pounds."

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12/23/2010 9:48 AM

I thought I might catch one of the younger members... An oldie but a goodie.

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12/23/2010 11:29 AM

Yep. Any idea what any of those car actually are? The one with the side bashed in looks like about a '57 Chevy Belair (?)

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12/23/2010 1:00 PM

I would say the T-bone victim is a '59 Belair. The T-boner (can I say that?) appears to be a '59 Buick, but the taillight does not look right. Panel truck looks like a Ford, 1955-57. Car I thought was a Henway now looks to be a '56 Plymouth.

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12/24/2010 2:11 AM

T-boner, 59 Buick, above that, 54 cadillac convertible, T-bonee, 56 chevy, behind the cadillac a 56 buick,next to that a 53-56 ford f500 truck, followed by 53 chevy sedan delivery,55-56 ford , beside the ford a 49-52 chevy suburban, behind the 55-56 ford, a 55 plymouth, then a 47-48 ford pickup, beside him a 49-52 chevy passenger car, behind that I think it's a 49=52 ford pickup........

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12/24/2010 6:59 AM

You're pretty darn close with all the ID's. Good job, Looks like the box truck is a 6 cyl since there's no V under the Ford emblem on the hood. Sure brings back memories !

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12/28/2010 1:03 PM

What? No Studebakers?!? LOL

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