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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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What Happened to the Mars Express?

Posted September 08, 2008 12:01 AM by dstrohl

This startling and rather attractive bullet car was a real rocket ship, according to its creator, Peter Vacca of Buffalo, New York. Powered by both a supercharged V-8 auto engine and a rocket motor, the idea was to use the car engine to propel the Express up to 115 mph, then cut in the booster rocket for its run to maximum top end. Whether that was ever achieved is not reported, but we hope Mr. Vacca changed those bald front tires before the attempt.

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09/09/2008 10:01 AM

It has a license plate and headlights - please tell me this "automobile" was not considered highway-legal!

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09/09/2008 10:41 PM

I don't know it would sure cut down on tail gaters. But unless he added some front canards that were movable, relatively quick, cresting the hill could be interesting.

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