Grand National Roadster Show 2010

bent metal

I just got back. Great show, as always. Saw two Hudsons there. If anyone else went and saw something I didn't I'd love to see pictures.:)



Notice the one in bare metal has a detail line added on top of the fender to match the head light ring. Super nice work on this chopped brougham. I believe the gentleman who ownes this car (and did the work) refers to himself as Hitch? If I remember right. He's on the forum here once in a while.:)

Lee ODell

Thanks for the pictures Guy. I could not make it. Had a date with my 4 yr. old grandson, for his first time at the snow.



Did you see Rick? I know he was going there.



Lee

bent metal

No, I didn't see Rick. Met a few new people and saw and old friend. The root beer colored James Hetfield car was really nice. Other than that I think I found the original old race cars and fifty style hot rods the most interesting.



Did you notice the bare metal car pictured above has no center post in the windshield? I think I saw somewhere that he used a '54 front glass. Pretty slick.:)

Lee ODell

The 54 windshield looks good. I wonder how much body work is required to fit the curved windshield to earlier stepdowns.



Lee

VicTor Z

BM, did you see "Joe ???" , he worked for Bill A many years ago! He said he was taking a car to the show. I went to the Packard swap meet today, Steve E. & Jason was there also!

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Hudson308 wrote:

Guy; this looks to be the same car "HudsonCustom" posted pictures of last year in post #57 of this thread...



http://classiccar.com/index.php?option=com_jfusion&Itemid=62&jfile=showthread.php&t=16037&page=6



The owner "Von Hitch" replied in post #66.

Yeah, that's the car. Dave Hitch is his name. Beautiful ride.

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VicTor Z wrote:

BM, did you see "Joe ???" , he worked for Bill A many years ago! He said he was taking a car to the show. I went to the Packard swap meet today, Steve E. & Jason was there also!

I know joe took his Model A...but I didn't see any photos of his chopped Hudson there at all.

bent metal

hudsoncustom wrote:

I know joe took his Model A...but I didn't see any photos of his chopped Hudson there at all.

I talked to Joe for just a minute. He had his roadster with the track style nose there in one of the buildings. Cool car. He said he couldn't get the Hudson in because there were too many people. I think he was talking about the streets inside and around the buildings were loaded with people setting up for the day. It was just too late.



I think the owner of the bare metal Hudson is Dave Hitchinson? From northern California.

bent metal

Lee O'Dell wrote:

The 54 windshield looks good. I wonder how much body work is required to fit the curved windshield to earlier stepdowns.



Lee

I don't know either. But I did see pictures of it somewhere. I think on the HAMB. If I remember right he used a triangular piece of the roof maybe a foot deep(in the center) and blended into the roof line there. Imagine cutting across the roof from the top of the wind wing to the other wind wing. I wish he would post some of his work here. It's outstanding and he has a no nonsence way of fabricating. All of his work looks like it's well thought out, clean and neat. Like Hudsoncustom's work is as well.

When I say 'no non-sence' I mean you don't see a hundred pie cuts and a bunch of little pieces spliced in everywhere as an after thought.



So come on "Von Hitch", let's see some pictures!

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bent metal wrote:

I wish he would post some of his work here. It's outstanding and he has a no nonsence way of fabricating. All of his work looks like it's well thought out, clean and neat. Like Hudsoncustom's work is as well.

Dave's work is in a completely different league than mine...I'm a total hack, that guys has some talent!