Hudsons@Vintage Wheels'n Wings

48Sed

We attended a show on the weekend that had hundreds of vintage cars and a wonderful collection of vintage aircraft.

There were 13 Hudson products parked alongside the aircraft which made a vey nice display.

The other car owners loved seeing all the Hudsons together.

We heard many times from other owners that they never knew Hudson made pick up trucks.

Keeping the Hudson name out there from Hamilton Ontario.

EssexAdv

Where was this event?

PAULARGETYPE

HAMILTON ONTARIO LEW IN THE LAST LINE OF THE TOP POSTING WAKE UP11 WAKE UP !!! ;-)

railknight

Too bad there wasn't a WWII era RCAF twin engine Lockheed Hudson on display.  That would have been the perfect aircraft to photograph your Hudson next to.  Thanks for sharing your photos!

48Sed

Here  is another picture from the show.

hudsontech

Congratulations on the turn-out.  Love the shot of the Mitchell with the 4-gun nose set-up.  Another varient had 4 20mm in 2 blisters on each side under the pilot/co-pilots windows.  Those things were feared by the Japanese - the planes could, and did, take out Japanese ships up to and including destroyers!!!!
Another bright idea was to stick a 75 mm cannon in the nose - the plane literally quit moving fwd from the recoil when the cannon was fired 
Yeah, to bad they didn't have a Lockheed Hudson - probably aren't any left by now.

Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN

48Sed

Alex

We drove around 3 hours round trip in the truck and could not believe in that amount of time the people taking pictures and giving us the thumbs up,sure different than driving brand x lol

hudsontech

Sorry, 48Sed - I should have pointed out the truck really fits in the photo!!!    Next to the R4D's (DC-3) the PBJ (B-25) are my favorite.  Worked on a few when I was in the Navy in the mid-50's - there were a few still around even that late, tho they were being phased out.

Hudsonly,
Alex B

TwinH

Thanks for the pics,looks like a great time. Alex's comment made me check the Lockheed Hudson survivors (14) of 3,172 built and 1 still airworthy. There is an earlier civilian version next door to me in Florida too.

Hudson history/survivors: 


The neighbors Lockheed and a B-29 project behind it:

tigermoth

...small point,I assume Alex is taking a bit of poetic license in his post, but for the less air-minded, the aircraft couldn't literally stop in mid air from the recoil. It would slow down however. This from just over 25,000 flight hours over a 40 year career. Regards, Tom

48Sed

I took a picture from a bomber looking back toward the show.Having this type of combined show pulled in a large crowd.

Talking with some of the visitors I found out many did not know Hudson made cars as long as they did,they know now as a good many years were represented at the show.

The sound of four V12 engines running will stay with me for ever.

48Sed

Have others out there in Hudson land been to a combined air/car show?

ESSX28-1

Not a combined Air/Car show  but I got to swap time in the Rumble seat of my 28 Essex Coupe for a ride in this Catalina

TwinH

Always made the the Roar-n-Soar show next door. Combined Land,Sea,and Airshow.Sadly gone for the last two years But Hudsons won the peoples choice awards the last two years it ran and I got the ride of a lifetime in the backseat of Curtiss TP-40N.

Kermit seen here with a couple of WWII aces.


 
WEeeeeeeee!

Spencer Yarrow

We went to the Amberley RAAF base west of Brisbane Aus. last year to look over their collection of retired aircraft.
The gashes in the nose of the Sabre were caused by power lines it struck blacking out thousands of homes.

48Sed

Last summer at a wings and wheels show I was lucky to take a flight in a WW11 trainer aircraft(Harvard) which I will remember for a long time.Seeing the cars from the air was a whole new prospective.

TwinH

Great stuff! I got my preflight briefing while taxiing out to the end of the runway and it was short and sweet. "That thing you're sitting on is a cushion. I'll be the only one with a parachute for this flight. Feel free to take control if I depart the aircraft." All I could think of was when the gear selector valve blew apart in the cockpit of his other P-40 in 1992...




It was that year also that hurricane Andrew hit his original location at Tamiami.