Essex Terraplane climbs Mt. Mansfield

ESSX28-1

Thought it was about time this reappeared. I really like this bit of Hudson history.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlx0Dd_6VQ8

oldhudsons

neat, it's a '32 - the '33 T8s set all kinds of hillclimb records inc. going up Mt. Washington locked in 3rd gear supposedly.

Unknown

Around 1933 there was, like, a team of Essex-Terraplanes (can't remember if there were any Hudsons in the mix) that went from around Birmingham, AL, up into Pennsylvania doing hill climbs. I remember that there was one in Chattanooga, another in Raleigh, VA. If you look at a map the road they followed almost has to be what is now U S 11.

Back in those days they didn't have a bunch of fancy trailers to truck the cars from hill to hill - they just did the hill climb, then drove on to the next one. Probably did some tune-up work, before each hill climb, but probably nothing major - unless something broke.

Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN

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1935 Terraplane special raced in historic racing and hillclimbs in Australia .Owned and driven by Ross Robertson

StillOutThere

Here is the '33 traveling Terraplane team. No Hudsons as they did not adopt the Terraplane principles of unit-body construction until 1934 and were thus too heavy and non-competitive.

For some reason I can't upload pics this a.m. Someone else have the side view of the T6 and T8 roadsters with driver's? If not I'll try again later.

bent metal

Nice little video.

oldhudsons

the E-T in this video a '32 ("bird hood ornament").

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