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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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Hewson’s Rotund Rocket

Posted September 06, 2012 9:00 AM by dstrohl

Looking something like Ray Russell's Gadabout, Sherman Hewson's Rocket comes from the same post-war enthusiasm of auto industry outsiders looking to revolutionize the American automobile. The Rocket featured a mid-engine layout, extremely narrow rear track, and a Coachcraft-built body, but financing never came through for Hewson. Richard Kelly had the story for SIA #129, May 1992.

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Re: Hewson’s Rotund Rocket

09/07/2012 11:30 AM

Kinda looks like a bumper car without the electrical whip!! Could be like the Tucker, the big three didn't want any competition, even though advanced for it's time.

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