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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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Fabulous Ferraris: The 1971 Ferrari 512 M

Posted May 26, 2008 12:01 AM by dstrohl
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In 1968 the rules for sports car racing were changed, limiting Group 6 prototypes to a maximum engine capacity of 3.0 liters. For 1970, Ferrari decided to do what Porsche had done earlier with their 917, and, build 25 examples of a 5.0-liter car to allow homologation into the FIA's Group 5 Sports Car category. Ferrari made the risky investment with the financial help of Fiat, and they intended to sell surplus cars to customers.

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05/28/2008 9:19 PM

If You would like to see something impressive on a Ferrari please visit this site on Youtube You will find it umbeliveable http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeUMDY01uUA As a car guy and a mechanic for the last 35 years in Atlanta I have worked on many Ferraris and ever other type of race cars I still enjoy the sound of the 12s

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05/29/2008 8:48 AM

Thanks, country. And welcome to CR4!

Not sure if you saw the announcement at the top of the home page or not, but CR4 just launched an automotive section yesterday. If you'd ever like to blog about some of your work on those Ferraris, please drop me a line.

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