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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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Flashback: Service with a Smile

Posted June 04, 2009 12:01 AM by dstrohl

The way things are going, 20 years from now, people will read this article and wonder why we even bothered to service vehicles in the first place - not because cars of the future won't require service, rather because people of the future will treat cars like disposable consumer goods.

Which leads us to consider how automotive service used to be - undertaken in well-lit shops, supervised by men in white lab coats - as Ray Scroggins discussed in his article in SIA #46, August 1978. What I wouldn't give to have a space like some of these shops had.

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06/04/2009 9:08 AM

Similar to computers 35 years ago.

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