Jet Prototype Drawing

harry54

Does anyone have a photo of the original version of the Jet. I believe it was the Frank Springs original sketches ... before the roof got raised... it looked like a smaller version of the Hornet...





thanks

hudsontech

I don't have a picture, or drawing, in my files - but, yes, you are correct and one does exist.

It was a beautiful looking little car the way Spring designed it - but the president of the company, mired in 1930's thinking, decreed the roof had to be raised so a "gentleman could wear his hat when sitting inside!!"



I'd love to see somebody, with the talent, do a chop job on a Jet just to show everybody what could have been.



Hudsonly,

Alex Burr

Memphis, TN

http://hetclub.org/burr

harry54

I remember seeing it with the old Bernie Zigfried articles somewhere but cant find it now....

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hudsontech wrote:

I don't have a picture, or drawing, in my files - but, yes, you are correct and one does exist.

It was a beautiful looking little car the way Spring designed it - but the president of the company, mired in 1930's thinking, decreed the roof had to be raised so a "gentleman could wear his hat when sitting inside!!"



I'd love to see somebody, with the talent, do a chop job on a Jet just to show everybody what could have been.



Hudsonly,

Alex Burr

Memphis, TN

http://hetclub.org/burr

Hey Alex isn't that sort of like the story of a horse being designed by a committee and winding up as a camel?

hudsontech

Close, but with the fuzzy thinking going on at Hudson in the early 1950's they'd probably wound up with an elephant.



Hudsonly,

Alex Burr

53jetman

I don't think this is the drawing you all are talking about, however these drawings were included in the July/August 1999 WTN by columnist Richard Polese discussing what the final Jet could have looked like without the three inch high belt line (above the fender line). I does give the car an all-to-gether different look to the car. Copy the URL below and insert in your search engine to see these drawings.

MikeWA

hudsontech wrote:

. . . but the president of the company, mired in 1930's thinking, decreed the roof had to be raised so a "gentleman could wear his hat when sitting inside!!"

I wonder if that had anything to do with the quintessential definition of a "geezer" becoming a little old man driving a Rambler and wearing a hat, with a turn signal on for miles. . .:rolleyes:



I think someone did a full-on photo type rendering of a Jet that was sectioned 3 or 4 inches- I agree, it was a pretty car.

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hudsontech wrote:

I don't have a picture, or drawing, in my files - but, yes, you are correct and one does exist.

It was a beautiful looking little car the way Spring designed it - but the president of the company, mired in 1930's thinking, decreed the roof had to be raised so a "gentleman could wear his hat when sitting inside!!"



I'd love to see somebody, with the talent, do a chop job on a Jet just to show everybody what could have been.



Hudsonly,

Alex Burr

Memphis, TN

http://hetclub.org/burr

This Jet has been posted on the Los Angeles craigslist off and on for the last several months. The chop is a bit radical for my taste, but it looks like a good effort, none the less.



http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/cto/1807758727.html



Don C. Mozynski

Kdancy

Something similar happened with the 53 Studebaker coupe and hdtp.Management raised the roof-line from the original design for hat wearers.