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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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1916 American LaFrance Speedster

Posted January 18, 2012 9:00 AM by dstrohl
Pathfinder Tags: American LaFrance Speedster

Collecting and restoring old fire trucks is tough. First of all, they're big, so finding the space to store and work on them is a hassle, and you're going to need a whole new set of tools to work on them. On top of that, about the only time you really get to exercise them is in local parades, and their selling prices aren't proportional to their size, relative to most collector cars. So what do you do? In the case of the seller of this 1916 American LaFrance for sale on Hemmings.com, you turn your fire truck into a Mercer-like thoroughbred speedster.

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01/19/2012 9:55 AM

There certainly are opportunities to "exercise" fire apparatus beyond parades. Check out SPAAMFAA (Society for the Preservation and Appreciation of Antique Motor Fire Apparatus in America) at www.spaamfaa.org. Many of its Chapters hold musters which many times are held at a lake or pond so the pumping (exercise) can take place.

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