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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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Restoring a 1936 Rolls Royce

Posted February 25, 2009 12:01 AM by dstrohl

This 1936 Rolls Royce (RR GRM 30) was found after "resting peacefully in a cement floor metal garage in Southern Missouri for the past 20 years" when the widow of the owner contacted the Cox family and asked them to view the car and assess its potential for sale. They found engine # L22R in a seven-passenger, four-door saloon with jump seats, divider window and a sunroof, body by Cockshoot of Manchester.

"Since then we have transported it to our shop, drained the fuel and lines, replaced the oil, checked the valves, points and timing," Jim Cox told us. "The brakes are working and only required bleeding and topping up. The fuel pumps have now been re-built and with a new battery make all the right sounds. This morning she fired right up."

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02/26/2009 6:38 AM

WOW Why can't I find something like this in one of my families old garages?

I've never really believed most of these stories about people finding these rare old cars in almost mint condition in an old barn or garage some place. But I guess it does happen once in a while.

I seem to remember there being a story about a really large concrete building that was sealed up so long ago that no one knew what was in it. Someone bought the property and opened up the building and found dozens of different collector cars inside. You would think whom ever was selling the property would look inside the building before selling it.

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02/26/2009 3:05 PM

dang! what a find

I got lucky myself one day in 2000 when i was cleaning out an old house when a lady came by and asked if I wanted to buy a Jaguar xj6 for $300.00 or I could have it if I removed it from her property. After I finished the job I was doing I went home thinking the thing had to be a rust bucket, but the next day I went by her house and lo and behold in the barn was a dusty metallic gray 1986 Jag. I used my sleeve and wiped off at least 8 coats of dust and chicken droppings. The interior was mint condition with 58,000 miles on it. I tried for about 3 weeks to start the thing ( I had to shovel away horse manure that was up to the middle of the body just to open the door) I got wise and dropped a used distributor in the thing and she fired on the first shot of the key. I felt guilty and gave the lady $1200.00 and she gave me $300.00 and the title to get it off her property. She had just purchased 2 new Ford f150's.

I still have the daily driver to this day.....

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