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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 Simple Argument for Preserving Any Old Car

Posted March 26, 2015 8:30 AM by dstrohl

What makes an old car special? Is it the engine under the hood? Is it the ownership history? Is it the stylistic or mechanical or technological advances that the car embodies? Or is it something else, something far simpler, something much more democratic? We didn't expect to have to confront these topics in our recent story on the stretched Chevrolet station wagon once owned by the Milton Hershey School going to the AACA Museum, but commenter Olddavid questioned exactly what made the wagon - among other vehicles - so special...

What makes a vehicle worth preserving?

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03/27/2015 12:13 AM

The cost of a new one?

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03/27/2015 2:18 AM

Agreed! My old car just keeps running like a new one. If I sold It I couldn't replace it with anything more fit for the service I put it to. My son says to keep it çoz it has swag....muddy and not a single panel without a scratch or ding in it somewhere.

Lane changes are easy to, folk let me in.

A new replacement won't run better and will just depreciate..... but other people will "respect" me.... the "face" thing here in Asia. Lots of lovely new cars here that run like shite even though they're washed at LEAST twice per day.

There were a few Lambo's and some Austin Martins plying the road here for a while....brand new they were. Never see them now...they're broken.

I'm keeping an eye out for a nice sports bike with a blocked fuel filter....

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