Amelia Earhart Essex Terraplane?

onerare39
onerare39 Expert Adviser, Member
edited August 2014 in HUDSON
Interesting article in Hemmings.

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  • RL Chilton
    RL Chilton Administrator, Member
    Yep.  Interesting.  
  • hudsontech
    hudsontech Senior Contributor
    John O'Halloran has a collection of photo's of Earhart and the intro of the Essex-Terraplane (or Terraplane if you wish).  Including several photos of Amelia with the car and the parking lot full of new cars ready for the big drive-a-way.  I copied the photo's but have since forgotten where I filed them.  I need a secretary to organize this stuff for me!!!!!!!!!! 

    Hudsonly,
    Alex Burr
    Memphis, TN
  • RL Chilton
    RL Chilton Administrator, Member
    Would like to see those, Alex, if you run across them.  
  • oldhudsons
    oldhudsons Senior Contributor
    I can't count how many times over the numerous years I visited Bill's emporium literally from the time he started doing it as a business when Kaiser Steel in Fontana closed down & he lost his job.
    I never recall seeing a '32 E-T sedan sitting around there, let alone one he claimed was hers.
    He had a '33 T8 coach he got from Bruce Brown & sold to a guy in Az.
    He had a '33 T8 conv. that had been made up (not by him) from a '33 T6 conv. which he had for a long time until he finally sold it.
    Also, look at the head on this car, it should be a flat head & I have no idea what that one is but certainly not any Hudson-product head I've ever seen?!?!?!?!
  • oldhudsons
    oldhudsons Senior Contributor
    image
  • oldhudsons
    oldhudsons Senior Contributor
    car above was supposedly hers too. I convinced owner it wasn't as serial # one of the last & she would have gotten one of the first.
    Guy I got it from had sold her husband a '40 H8 sd. (he was a H dealer before WW 2), they had become friends, so Bob wanted to have it if had been hers. [long story I won't bore you with, LOL]
  • StillOutThere
    StillOutThere Expert Adviser
    edited August 2014
    I can't count how many times over the numerous years I visited Bill's emporium literally from the time he started doing it as a business when Kaiser Steel in Fontana closed down & he lost his job.
    I never recall seeing a '32 E-T sedan sitting around there, let alone one he claimed was hers. [snip]

    I do recall Bill A having a '32 ET but not very long as Jim Sommers purchased it rather soon after Bill acquired it.

  • StillOutThere
    StillOutThere Expert Adviser
    Amelia and (theoretically at least) the '32 ET she was gifted.
  • hudsontech
    hudsontech Senior Contributor
    In the above photo of the 1932 and 1935 cars the 1932 convertible roadster belongs to Dave McWalter - the 1935 Hudson 8, an all original car, belongs to Per Christiansen. 

    Hudsonly,
    Alex Burr
    Memphis, TN
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