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Hemmings Motor News Blog

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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Post-War Playmates: Playboy Motor Cars

Posted July 31, 2008 12:01 AM by dstrohl

Much like the Preston Tucker, the men behind the Buffalo-based Playboy sought fame and fortune in the post-war automotive boom by introducing a radically different car. However, they also sought to fund their efforts much like Tucker did and thus met a severely limited production run. Then, ironically enough, Preston Tucker tried to help restart Playboy production after his own fiasco. It took Ken Gross 11 pages to recount the grisly details in SIA #26, January-February 1975, and we're feeling generous enough to reprint all 11 pages here for you today.

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Re: Post-War Playmates: Playboy Motor Cars

08/01/2008 8:02 AM

Maybe the inspiration came from the Caddy front bumper bullets?

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