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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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Driving in Antarctica (Part 2)

Posted March 18, 2009 4:50 PM by dstrohl

Mike Eldred to the rescue again! He provided Hemmings with the LARC-60 photos, and also with the photos from Part 1 of this series. Mike's images include a Tucker Sno-Cat and M29 Weasel, as well as a FWD Teracruzer Model 8-320 B.

According to Crismon, the Teracruzers were mainly used for hauling Martin Matador missiles, and they used a PE 200 air-cooled opposed eight-cylinder engine good for 250hp. The engine powered the huge 40×42 Goodyear Terratires, which could be adjusted from 3 to 18 psi from the cab.

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