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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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All Aboard! The Rail Rider With a Hemi

Posted July 24, 2008 12:01 AM by dstrohl

If you missed last Saturday's story called Cars That Run on Rails, it's not too late to check out this 1950 Dodge Coronet. According to the description in the ad, not only is it a seven-passenger limousine, but it was specially built for executive transportation on the Boston and Maine railroad, which likely explains the extremely narrow track. A Hemi in a 1950 sounds rather odd, but we've seen crazier stuff built for executives. The engine could also have been tossed in after the car was built.

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07/25/2008 1:18 PM

Dodge and Desoto made various Hemi's for passenger cars in the 50's. The valve covers said things like "Firedome". I'm not sure what year was the first but there were 331's, 392's, 35?'s, and others. Of coarse these engines were all before THE Hemi (426) that came out in 1964 (I think) as part of the ongoing "B" engine family.

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07/28/2008 7:46 AM

Correct. However, the first of those original Hemis came out in 1951, a year after this car was produced.

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