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SEMA: You want it; they got it
Just got back from Las Vegas and SEMA. Had a ball handing out magazines at the booth, talking to readers, advertisers and just anybody interested enough to stop by. Literally wore out the camera taking...
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Salty or sour?
We get a lot of questions here at Hemmings that run along the lines of either “What did I just find?” “How rare is this (car/truck/bike) I just found?” and “How much is this (car/truck/bike) that I...
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Ab Jenkins, Allis-Chalmers, Excelsiors and Studebakers
Quite coincidentally, fellow editor Jim Donnelly just finished his review of Ab & Marvin Jenkins: the Studebaker Connection and the Mormon Meteors, by Gordon Eliot White. I say coincidentally...
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Found: Original parts of a special Duesenberg
When I wrote about Classic Car Services’ restoration of the Pebble Beach-winning Mormon Meteor for Hemmings Classic Car last year, shop owner Chris Charlton told me that one of the many challenges in...
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Land-speed tractors: Oldfield v. Jenkins
When I read a long time ago in William Nolan’s “Barney Oldfield: The Life and Times of America’s Legendary Speed King,” about Oldfield’s land-speed runs on the back of an Allis-Chalmers tractor, I...
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It may be a little imprecise to call Ab Jenkins an unknown American hero. After all, it’s safe to assume that most car guys know of Ab, his son Marv, and the various Mormon Meteors they used to break...
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Mormon Meteor to appear at Glenmoor Gathering
Photo by David LaChance Considered by some as the most significant American car ever built, the Duesenberg Model SJ, better known as the Mormon Meteor, will make an appearance at this year’s Glenmoor...
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Replica of Ab Jenkins record-setting Pierce-Arrow to cross the block
Photos courtesy Worldwide Auctioneers. Until the 1930s, the international racing community hardly considered the Bonneville Salt Flats a suitable location for high-speed record setting. Montlhery in...
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Racing Heroes – David Abbott “Ab” Jenkins
Ab Jenkins, refueling during a Bonneville pit stop. Still image from video below. Though names like Craig Breedlove, Art Arfons, Walt Arfons and Gary Gabelich are forever associated with land speed...
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