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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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Half-Hour History of V-8 Engines

Posted June 19, 2008 12:01 AM by dstrohl

SIA's Half-Hour History lessons have so far proven quite illuminating, and the editors turned to Maurice Hendry to write up the history of V-8 engines for SIA #24, September-October 1974. As illustrated by the above photo, much of the later story addresses the revolutionary and the not-so-revolutionary aspects of the Ford flathead V-8, but Hendry also spends a significant amount of time discussing early Cadillac contributions to the V-8's design and evolution.

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06/17/2008 7:14 AM

Editor's Note: SIA stands for Special Interest Autos, the magazine that eventually became Hemmings Classic Cars.

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06/21/2008 5:07 AM

Nice..I like the bit about the crank redesign to reduce vibration...

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