Posing with a Hudson

48Sed

I have been going to car shows for 35+ years and you just don't see many Hudson built vehicles unless it is a Hudson meet.

If you stay with your car at a show you will be bombarded with questions which isn't a bad thing afterall

keithfullmeryahoocom

Here's me with my ole "T", from a few years back...k

48Sed

Vey nice picture of the two of you.

Are the tires radials?

hudsontech

I remember a story about the late Jim Fortin - he and his son, Dana, went to a Brand-X car show with their Jet.  All went well with the questions - until some nut case asked Jim if the car was an English Ford!!!!  Jim got so ticked he and Dana left the show and he never went to another car show with it, sorry to say.  Jim was a little strange about things like that.  LOL
Another time he had a 60's convertible with a glass rear window.  He and Dana were putting the top down and the glass shattered, with a few pieces cutting Dana - nothing serious.  Jim took it personally - he sold the car for cheap bucks because, in his mind it had attacked and injured Dana.  As I say, Jim was a little left of center at times.  Hell of nice guy and I miss our Saturday nites together when I stayed over at his house before we went to Carl Webers meets on Sundays. He's been gone to many years but I still miss him and his eccentric ways.

Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN

48Sed

Alex

Sometimes at car shows I get a kick just standing back from my car and listening to what others say to their buddies about what they know about the car.

There are a good number that think the stepdown is chopped and say it was a nice chop job lol

Others have said Hudson copied Mercury until I tell them the year of the car and it came 1st.

I often wonder what it must have been like to drive a brand new one back in the day, and to see the publics reaction to the stepdown when they came out.

Browniepetersen

Could not resist the photo of my car in front of a F-16 at the Hill Air Force Base Car Show this past summer.

And the Salt Flats Racer at a car show in Park City with a Russian Mig.

  

Park_W

OK, back to 1955, with my steady girlfriend, now my wife of 58 years.

46HudsonPU

A second photo from Park -

Uncle Josh

Park your Hudson beside another make (Like a 57 Chivy) at a show and watch it suck all the attention away  Make sure to let people sit in it..

48Sed

I dug up this pic taken in Tilbury Ontario close to the old factory where the cars were built.

It would have been a site to see all the new cars leaving the factory brand new on train cars heading to the dealers.

 

 

paulrhd29nz

Now this is posing with a hudson...

 

48Sed

Try and do that pose on the front of a newer car and see the damage.

A neighbour was just leaning on my brand x fender and pushed off to go and dented it in.

Back in the day they were made to last.

dave s

How is this for an oldie

dave s

Or this one

48Sed

Now those are good old shots

Park_W

Park your Hudson beside another make (Like a 57 Chivy) at a show and watch it suck all the attention away  Make sure to let people sit in it..

Josh, I do regularly invite interested folks to check out the rear legroom and the comfort of those seats.  As you would expect, they're always impressed.  Now I need to find a proper venue to show and sell the car.  Hard to justify a premium price to someone who's not seen it.

Uncle Josh

OK, here's my wife in 1955.  Fortunately she wasn't with me in the 2nd pic.

 

 

 

 

 

48Sed

U J

What is the story here,were you ok?

Uncle Josh

Returning to college, went to sleep, hit a girder bridge..  Bumped my nose on the steering  wheel and cut my knee on the overdrive lockout.  Hurt my pride.

keithfullmeryahoocom

Messed up your ride a little, too, UJ!   Did the air bag deploy?...k

Uncle Josh

No, but my ego deflated.  Replaced it by this one a few months later with 72K on it. 'Christianed' Gault chevy down to $100.  Drove it hard for 8 years to 144K mi.  I was called to active duty during Berlin Crisis and it's what Gail had to drive for 11 mo with little money and 2 kids.  We lived on a hill and she coasted to the bottom to save gas then popped the clutch.  The kids knew where to put their feet over the holes in the floor so they wouldn't get splashed, and how to hold the headliner up so we could see out the back.  Tore the innards out of the clutch once, got towed 40 mi home, and changed it without ever getting under the car.  Those overdrive trannys weren't so heavy then.   I gave it to the kids up the road for a field car...with a visor yet after we got the old 52 Hornet coupe with over 200K on it,   Finally the Hornet wouldn't start so replaced that, and sold it to a guy for $50 who took it to Glen Aubrey track and came in 2nd that weekend.  1954.  Didn't know about the Hudson Club or I might have fixed it up.   I wouldn't have another Hudson until 1998..Now I have 8.

48Sed

Uncle Josh

In the 8 years did anything major give you troubles?was it a 262 with or without o/d?

keithfullmeryahoocom

Great story, UJ!   Thanks for sharing...k

Uncle Josh

Yup, 262.  Never had it apart..only minor tune-ups. Clutch was the biggest problem.  Come to think of it, I had replaced the 3 speed with the OD and I don't think I put the 10 inch clutch in it.  That's part of why it went probably.  Also, was over on the fluid change and it got t'chatterin.  Change the clutch oil!

We took it camping, put the rear seat back on the floor and put a mattress in it and slept with our feet in the trunk.