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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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Watch: Nothing Against Ed Roth, but There's a Less Kitsch Version of Tweedy Pie. This Guy's Building It

Posted June 16, 2021 5:00 AM by dstrohl
Pathfinder Tags: classic auto restoration

Most hot rodders and Sixties counterculture fans know of the hot rod dubbed Tweedy Pie as an Ed Roth T-bucket, yet another one of the cars he supplied to Revell to turn into a kit, right alongside the Beatnik Bandit, Mysterion, Outlaw and others. But it actually found fame in a prior version long before Ed Roth bought it, and that's the version Piero De Luca of the Mad Fabricators Society has set out to build and to fully document in his latest video series, "The Car That Ate My Brain 2."

As YouTube build series go, this one's refreshingly well produced, eschews drama and cheap thrills, and showcases the talents of multiple fabricators and professionals as Piero goes about building a replica of a specific version of Bob Johnston's award-winning T-bucket. And as the name implies, it also documents an obsession to faithfully replicate a specific car from a specific point in time, a quest that can drive many mortal men - restorers, preservationists and hot rodders alike - mad.

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