35 sedan weight?

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Would anyone know how much a 1935 2 door sedan weighs? I have found spec sheets with measurements but there is no weight listed. Thanks very much.

Park_W

Deluxe Eight Coach: 3080. Interestingly, more weight on the rear axle than the front ... very unusual for an American car: Front 1445, rear 1635.

Geoff

JHudson wrote:

Would anyone know how much a 1935 2 door sedan weighs? I have found spec sheets with measurements but there is no weight listed. Thanks very much.

Are we talking Hudson or Terraplane, 8 or 6?

[Deleted User]

Sorry, a Husdon 8. Thanks

[Deleted User]

I figure the front axle being so far forward and engine almost behind it puts more weight to the rear? Where did you get weights if you don't mind? Thanks

terraplane8

Park W wrote:

Deluxe Eight Coach: 3080. Interestingly, more weight on the rear axle than the front ... very unusual for an American car: Front 1445, rear 1635.

I weighed my '36 Terraplane 4dr sedan and found there is more weight on the rear than the front by a not too dissimilar proportion. That explains the nice light steering on the move and the good handling, and must surely have been a conscious design element.

Butler's book has all the weights.

hudsontech

http://hetclub.org/burr/lithomepage.htm - click on Other Hudson-Essex-Terraplane Literature at the top of the page. The weight sheets are in the back section of the book - typing in - 1935 - (just as I've put it) will take you to the page.

Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN

Park_W

Even my '47 C8 sedan has about 150 lbs more in the rear than the front. This feat of Hudson's helps to explain why it was so hard to squeak the tires on my Terraplane back in the fifties! But there was the '35 Terraplane coach into which I'd stuffed a very lively 8-cylinder engine ... it would smoke the tires and fishtail the rear end grandly, but I only did that once ... I was paying for the tires, and on an Air Force two-striper's budget !! (And that shorter wheelbase car, with an "eight" shoehorned into it, still had more weight on the rear).

The weight data came from an earlier copy of Alex's very handy book of H-E-T spec's.

hudsontech

Hudson was quite consistant about more weight to the rear all thru the years. Must have had a weight and balance engineer that was a genius. It wasn't until the step-down era that front weight began to exceed rear weight.

Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN

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Thanks very much!