2009 Ypsilanti Orphan Car Show MI

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Check out our blog for coverage of the 2009 Ypsilanti Orphan Car Show.



Be sure to watch the video from the show and check out the photobucket with over 60 Hudson shots from the show.



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Note: Hudson and Rods is now featured on the Classic Car Hudson Car Club website.



Heres to another 100 Hudson!

RL Chilton

Too cool! Really enjoyed navigating around the site . . . another to add to my "favorites".

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The Orphan show is a great opportunity for Hudson owners to showcase their pride and joys. As a 1939 Hudson owner myself, I have been dissapointed with the lack of 1939 representation at the Orphan show. As close as they came this past show was one 1937 Terraplane Coupe (that was beautiful I might add). 35 cars was not too bad of a showing, but for Hudson 100th anniversay and to be featured, I felt there should have been more. I believe Desoto nearly doubled that count when they were featured last year!

Browniepetersen

There are not a lot of 39 Hudson's on the road today. My goal is to get mine finished and take it to every meet I can drive it too. Kinda like Walt? A few friends went to a show a few weeks back and there were two Hudson's there. There were almost 700 cars at the show. But, there was not a single Desoto? Go figure...

[Deleted User]

Brownie,

Do you have a 39 coupe or sedan? Do you have an extra grill by chance?

RL Chilton

I'm not a '39 expert by any stretch of the imagination, but it has seemed to me that quite a few '37's are still around and can pretty easily be found, if that's your favorite. '38's are far rarer and '39's really hard to come by. '40 and '41 again become more plentiful. Some of that has to do with production #'s in the beginning, more '37's were produced than '38 & '39. Some of it also has to do with the styling of the car. Not to knock '38 & '39 fans, but I believe MOST people prefer the look of the '37 over the two following years (author included, although I love them all), which would aid in the survival of more '37's.



Some cars are destined from the beginning to be "haves" on even the average person's list. Production #'s for '42's are extremely small in all brands of automobiles, yet they can be found, simply because even in '42, folks KNEW that it was a car to hold onto and take care of, simply because there weren't that many of them to begin with.



I used to have a '42 Chebby PU, which is rarer than Hen's Teeth, but still managed to come across two others in the short time I had mine.



My thoughts on the matter, anyway.

SamJ

'40's and '41's (and the relatively few '42's made) of many brands, including Hudson, were driven until well after the war, since new cars weren't available. The '40 Hudson was the first H of the "modern era"...IFS, centerpoint steering, sealed beam headlights, electrically controlled od, turn signals, etc. The '40 production run wasn't that big, but because of the above reasons there's still some around.