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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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The Martin Truck Mystery

Posted July 21, 2009 12:01 AM by dstrohl

This may be the sole running prototype ever built of the stillborn Martin truck, as proposed by the Martin Aeroplane Company, then based in Garden City, New York, on Long Island. The documents we received indicate that the truck actually came out of Rochelle Park, New Jersey, just west of New York City, and in the photo, it's wearing a New Jersey license plate from the 1940s.

This tiny rig ran on a wheelbase of just 60 inches, and boasted an "aeroplane-type rubber suspension." Why it never saw production, we can't say, although the Depression's onset probably had something to do with it.

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07/22/2009 9:10 PM

There is some writing on the side of the truck, but I can't make it out.

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07/27/2009 3:14 PM

I think it is ugly looking. Perhaps that contributed too?

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