Other Hobbies

faustmb

As I was rebuilding the front shock on my mountain bike today , I was inspired to start this thread;



What are your hobbies and interests other that Hudsons?



My other favorite hobby is mountain biking. It is a fairly new hobby for me. I started about a year and 1/2 ago. I like working on the bikes as much as riding them. It's a blast and helps me to get in better shape.



I even have a Thule roof rack waiting to go on the Hudson...:cool:



Matt

dwardo99

My most favorite other hobby is motorcycling. There isn't enough aggravation in my life so thus far I've stuck with vintage British bikes, specifically Nortons. Hudson aggravation is NOTHING compared to British Bike aggravation. I also have an MGB to rebuild when the spirit moves me. I like to play trivia, too. I feel like I'm filling out an application at a dating service :>)

Uncle Josh

Kayaking, biking and camping right now.

Fred

My other hobby is a 1938 Alden 32 foot wooden sailboat. If you think rust is bad try dry rot. If it's uncomfortable when the Hudson quits and you coast to the margin of the road, try sailing up to the dock when the motor quits. If the Hudson wonders a bit on a curvy road, try sailing overnight on Lake Erie through ten foot waves. My wife says everything in our house is old. The Hudson is 1948, the boat is 1938 and i'm 1932. But the hudson and the boat keep me young at heart.

Fred

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I collect and repair old radios. I have quite a few now all part of my nostalgia kick.

I also like to mountain bike I have a Specialized Hybrid nice bike very lite.

[Deleted User]

I volunteer at a Tourist Railroad and run steam locomotive also do a lot of machine work keeping them is running condition. Can't seem to find parts for them as Schucks anymore:)

[Deleted User]

Off-Roading!!! Right now I'm stuck to pretty mild stuff, not wanting to break my daily driver until the Coupe is running. After the Hud's running, the '88 Range Rover gets an exo cage, lift, and taller tires! dwardo99, I feel your pain, mine's a wonderful Lucas truck! And my first chopper was a rigided framed '65 BSA 650 Twin, run fine for the first 45 minutes, than stall at every light (that's why BSA stands for "bastard stalled again"!)

Jay

SuperDave

Besides messing around with my Model A Ford and touring antique and second hand stores for "good old stuff" I buy, fix up and sell houses. Maybe one a year. Keeps me active and I can "do it my way". I enjoy useing my hands and ingenuity to make things work again. Our house is busting at the seams with everything from a player piano , old radios, Purinton Pottery,to old buggie steps. Can you say "garage sale?" Boy do I need to have one!

Dave W. Fl:D

hudsontech

Taking road trips on the old 2-lane roads and computers are my other interests. In regards to traveling the old U S highways I also collect pre-1950's road maps and tour guids. I also collect, tho not to the degree I once did, die cast cars and trucks.

The computer makes it possible for me to stay in touch with far away family and to collect Hudson literature and scan it into the system, with the idea of helping a fellow Hudsonnut in some small way.

Oh, yes - and getting up in the morning. LOL Now THAT'S an accomplishment!!!



Hudsonly,

Alex Burr

Unknown

I have dabbled in various collectibles, with a passing interest...



For a while I collected records, mainly 60's beatles, and rolling stones, then sold some, and moved on....



I was into sport compact cars for a bit, a Plymouth and dodge neons, but slowly got out of that with the birth of our daughter in late 2001, traded one car in on a new PT cruiser, kept the other one, and continued to build the engine. Last year, before the birth of our son, I sold the other neon, which was a rare car, it was one of 50 built in the color with the option package, for that model year. It was pretty quick, but found out after a late night burnout from the beginning of the year, in front of hudsondad's and hudsonmom's house (which she had to come out in her nightgown and bathrobe to help push the car into the yard/snow) in which I scattered the transmission all over the road for about 75 yards, that it was time for it to go.



Then I collected old wrist watches, mainly Hamilton (local company) and had more fun selling than buying. I managed to keep about 8 to wear, when the mood is right, nothing rare.



Then I dabbled in vintage cameras, which I had some fun with. I enjoyed taking pictures with the vintage equipment, some of it quite old, such as rangefinder Contax from the 30's, which I had a pretty nice collection of. Also, I liked to use SLR's from the 60's manly pentax, but had a few Nikon F's, but never liked the physical dedication to carrying them around. What killed off this hobby, was digital photography. I found that the results with digital were easier to get to, and cheaper, and once I started buyign digital cameras, I kind of parted company with the SLR's and stuff. I'm on my 3rd high end digital camera, actually this is my first DSLR, which I have been able to incorporate some of my vintage lenses.



Not to forget about it, me and hudsondad make it a point to go to several car shows each year, and take a lot of pictures. It used to be measured on rolls of film, but with digital, and the portability of my laptop, the sky is truly the limit. I manage anywhere from 100 to 700 pictures a show. I guess you can see the cost savings, since we don't ever get to printing them out. easier to burn to a 10 cent CD or a 50 cent DVD.



Also, I dabbled in early US large cents for some time. I had a great time assembling a collection from 1793 to 1857, that I was quite proud of, but decided that when it came down to either my family enduring hardships after our little guy was born, or the large cents, that it was preferred to sell some of them off. The prices I realized were unbeleivable, and I did really well on the collection, but it was not an easy decision, that still saddens me today. The decisions like this are the toughest to make. I was able to meet a bunch of great people that appreciated each coin they purchased almost as much as I did assembling the collection. That made me feel good about it. I was able to maintain my knowledge, and I still spend some time each week envolved in study of the series of large cents, mainly to be able to identify rare varieties, just in case I was out somewhere, and came across a few.



My main hobby has been collecting vintage fountain pens. (what?) There is a significant following of early fountain pens, and I have been collecting and using them since around 1990. The hobby has come a long way, and it is a real neat aspect of collecting. They are fun to use, and fairly recently,I have found my focus is on a specific brand. I collect a brand called Chilton (got any?) that are rather hard to find. They made pens from 1922~ till about 1941. They made high quality pens, and were more of a regional manufacturer in the boston, long island areas. My research on the company has pretty much assured my status of being considered the expert on the brand, which is kind of cool, but sometimes with the amount of e-mail I get wiht questions is overwhelming. I also have thinned out my collection, mainly because I have been spending more time with my hudson, and to some degree have been losing some interest in some of the later products.



Hope someone found some entertainment value out of this, pretty much a snapshot of what i have done for the last several years.



I guess I wonder what my next hobby will be....

Unknown

I collect pretty much everything that is old and my house shows it. Old bottles, cigarette lighters, duck and goose calls, antique furniture, cars. I am currently down to only one piece of furniture to restore, a 1920s Victrola console model that was my great Aunts. I fish as much as possible. I also collect guns and have a fairly impressive collection, yet I rarely shoot or hunt anymore. My Dad was a gunsmith that specialized in building custom rifles and I have never shook that love of beautiful firearms. Lucky my wife likes them too.
I have started on a new adventure in the last few weeks. I am going to buy a Corvette. Finally got permission from the wife.

Bob

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I have built and driven race cars, both drag and round track. Just locally, except for a couple of trips to the Spring Nationals in Bristol TN.
Hunted and fished for years and still fish now and then.
Never really collected anything but dust,and junk.
Tried the R/C thing but got tired of putting out the fires from the crashes.
I guess the only thing I really ever loved, (after my family) was old cars. Doesn't have to be a HUDSON although I do prefer them. There is just nothing like the satisfaction of taking something that doesn't run and making it run again.
Don't matter if it is a Hudson, Chevrolet, Ford, Whippet, Autocar, or Diamond Reo. I like em all!
Unfortunately, my health has compromised, my ability to do a lot of the things I used to do, so I have to be content with keeping the Hudsons I have running and going to the chapter meets, and regionals when I can.
Bob:p

Unknown

Used to Nostalgia Drag Race a lot. Built several great cars and had a lot of fun. 1953 Hudson Super Wasp Brougham, 1953 Studebaker and 1967 Ford Fairlane 2dr HT. This was in the 80's when the craze was just getting started and had a blast travelling all over the west coast.



Still have a lot of large format cameral equipment and will be setting up a darkroom soon. Mostly 4X5 Graflex stuff, some 5X7 as well. I started this in the early 70's and just packed it away for a while...



Current project is a house built out of Rock sometime around 1872. In Utah they call them "Pioneer Houses". With the base of the outside walls over 3 feet thick, it's really interesting. It had many renovations over the years and it's interesting to see what people did with it. I'm going back to a 1940's style interior, maybe early 50's just for fun.



No time for anything else:eek:

[Deleted User]

I have two wonderful boys, 8 and 10 and they are my fulltime hobby. They play alot of Soccer and that uses alot of weekends. If I may boast, my older son's tournament team for 2005- 2006 was 44 wins, 1 loss and 2 ties. Seven consecutive tournament championships. This is in So. Cal and there is a huge pool of talent and competition. It is a very special team.

I have always loved cars and have owned and sold many. To name a few, 59 Caddy convert, 57 and 59 chevy converts, 63 Corvair, 66 Sunbeam Tiger, 71 Vette 454 Convert and quite a few others. Still have a 49 Dodge Coronet, a 63 Mercedes Unimog (aurguably the best off-road vehicle EVER made) and five Stepdowns (3 coupe projects). I have been struck by the Stepdown. The Stepdowns (and Unimog) have been my most popular cars / Truck when driving in the public. I dirt bike, off-road, fish, boat, hunted in the past, all when I can.

MikeWA

I used to buy and sell tractors- not real antiques, but tractors from the 60's and 70's that needed a little work, and would be useful for the part-time farmer. Buy cheap at consignment auctions, fix up a bit, and re-sell after using them myself long enough to be sure I could sell with a clear conscience.



Unfortunately, there is a truism that says, "If your wife's hobby is horses, so is yours!". My wife raises Paso Fino horses (Spanish "gaited" breed that is very comfortable to ride, especially in the mountains). Its got a little out of control, and we now have about 15 of them. Lots of hay, lots of pasture, lots of stuff to haul out and spread in the winter. I'm getting a little tired of the level of labor required, and we are starting a push to sell down to a reasonable number. If I can ever finish rebuilding all the fences, etc., hope to have a little more time for the Hudson. Anybody want a horse?

rambos_ride

It's a little tough for me to think of other hobbies outside of the Hudson as it seems to be an ongoing neverending project!

I guess I'd have to break down my other interests like this

Activities I Like That I Have Time($$) For

1. Rambo the Dog
2. Real Estate Searches (searching is free!)
3. 49 Hudson "Rambos Ride" (still looking for a shop...see #2)
4. Computers
5. Coffee
6. Sleep

Activities That I'd Like to Have More Time($$) For

1. Women (do I even need to list this one?:D )
2. Camping
3. Fishing
4. Target Shooting (Bow or Gun)
5. Model Building
6. Playing Music (I played Tenor Sax in school and would still like to learn guitar, keyboard and drums)
7. Writing of any type. Cars/Tech, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Fiction...
8. Route 66. This means planning and taking several road trips a year in the 49 to see this beautiful country rather than fly over it - and meet lots of knew people!
9. More Sleep (hey, I have a problem sleeping ok! )
10. Racing Quarter Mile, OffRoad Cars or ?
11. Cars...Cars...and more Cars!


Activities That I HATE and NEED To Make More Time($$) For

1. House Cleaning
2. Yard Work


Activities That I HATE and NEED To Make LESS Time($$) For

1. House Cleaning
2. Yard Work
3. "Working for the Man" quit programming for others and work for myself again no matter what I do!

bull_islander

Blackie

Where are you? My 8 year old is fascinated with trains (has been since he could say the word 'train'). We've visited Thomas at Strasburg and Baltimore (we have'nt been to Baltimore since they repaired their Rotunda (damaged by snow). This year, we might go to Western Maryland.

Disney has a special behind the scences tour dealing with their steam trains...we hope to do that next time we go there.

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rambos_ride wrote:

8. Route 66. This means planning and taking several road trips a year in the 49 to see this beautiful country rather than fly over it - and meet lots of knew people!

Man Dan, that sounds like a blast! Maybe we can get a group or so of folks to go, if my ride ever gets done! I want lots of miles on ours, so that sounds like a good way to start.

Jay

Aaron D. IL

Other than Hudsons I have two other old cars. 1946 Dodge and a 1947 Chevy.

Other than cars my hobbies are:

-Weight lifting and yoga

-Travel whenever possible (I want to take a Hudson down Route 66 for a month with no plan...just adventure)

-Aviation. Used to go to Oshkosh every summer and my dad flew Cessnas and Piper Warriors but hasn't in some years.

-Sailing our Hobie Cat (catamaran) on Lake Michigan or taking a canoe through local rivers.

- Playing paintball (expensive)

- Target shooting (BB guns mostly)

- Reading and writing

- horseback riding

- fishing and camping

- playing video games

- I'm a big history buff.

- keeping a gold fish pond

- volunteering

- Drawing

Unknown

Well let's see here. Besides fooling with my 29 H, there is a 64 Chevy pickup, 65 Plymouth Sport Fury, 78 Dodge Power Wagon, and 86 Porsche 944 around here somewhere. I enjoy doing weddings and special events in my 29 H on the weekends, which although hardly profitable, is a lot of fun. Have a habit of going to carshows/swap meets in my '97 F150 and camping out under the tonneau cover. (Author's note: The problem with this is, the more parts you accumulate, the less room there is to sleep.) No, I'm not telling you what color it is, or what state it's registered in, lest one of you sneak up on me for kicks! I spend many of my weekday hours at the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of AL at Birmingham (History department mostly). I used to do a lot of work as an electrician and remodeling contractor, and still do that some for extra cash. I started flying at 15 and got my pilot's license before my driver's license. Used to bum rides to the airport after school to fly for the afternoon! One of these days I'll sell off some of this junk and buy a 40s polished aluminum airplane. Have a house full of antique furniture, glass insulators, old trinkets, and framed automotive advertisements from bygone days. And I'm a young guy! Also have a collection of "craft" beer bottles... all of which I drank to get the bottle... some of those were sacrifices!! Played sax with a couple of jazz combos, although not doing anything right now. Also play keyboards, and fool around with the banjo and guitar. Parents breed Arabians and German Shepherds (no, not together) on our 266-acre farm in North Carolina, and I am constantly headed up there to tinker with something. Right now I'm spending the bulk of my time concentrating on my 8 month old daughter.



Wow, so THAT'S why I don't have any spare time... :cool:



Cheers,

James

50C8DAN

I got into audio equipment in the 70s and 80s when megawatt stuff was big. Still like to dabble but most of my buying has stopped my collection in that with what I have. I am a bee keeper, have 5 to 8 hives, depending upon the year and how ambitious I want to be with it. It really is an interesting hobby in that you really can manage a group of insects. My son is 4 and we got him a bee suit last year. He really likes to go out he gets to use the smoker, while I get to pull the frames. Besides Hudsons I am into Studebakers with 2 '64 Hawks, an R1 and R2, a 2 ton flat bed and a '58 pickup I am street rodding. I also collect antique Lawn mowers, mostly Jacobsens from the '20s to the early 70s. It sounds weird but there was a lot of interesting engineering in the early lawn mower designs.

Unknown

I have always been a fan of Studes particularly the prehistoric ones. The guy I bought my Hudson from has been a friend of mine for years and has a '20 Studebaker 7 passenger Touring. I want a '32 Phaeton so bad I can't stand it.



Cheers,

James

Unknown

50C8DAN wrote:

I got into audio equipment in the 70s and 80s when megawatt stuff was big. Still like to dabble but most of my buying has stopped my collection in that with what I have. I am a bee keeper, have 5 to 8 hives, depending upon the year and how ambitious I want to be with it. It really is an interesting hobby in that you really can manage a group of insects. My son is 4 and we got him a bee suit last year. He really likes to go out he gets to use the smoker, while I get to pull the frames. Besides Hudsons I am into Studebakers with 2 '64 Hawks, an R1 and R2, a 2 ton flat bed and a '58 pickup I am street rodding. I also collect antique Lawn mowers, mostly Jacobsens from the '20s to the early 70s. It sounds weird but there was a lot of interesting engineering in the early lawn mower designs.

there's big money in a lot of the 60's and 70's audio equipment, especially McIntosh, I got a friend in Tempe AZ that collects it, and all I can say is WOW.... supposedly the sound is like nothing you ever heard.

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Dang, you guys must have lots of free time! I'm fortunate that my other hobby, music, is also what puts food on the table. I have a 12,000 sq foot music store selling new and used pianos. Restoring old wrecks of pianos for resale is a rewarding part of the business, I currently have 6 pre-WWII era Steinways for sale.

7XPacemaker

Guns- shooting and collecting. I recently bought a Shiloh sharps and plan to go buffalo hunting out west when my sedan is done! For those of you that don't know what a "Sharps" rifle is, It is in the movie "Quigley, Down under"

rambos_ride

7XPacemaker wrote:

Guns- shooting and collecting. I recently bought a Shiloh sharps and plan to go buffalo hunting out west when my sedan is done! For those of you that don't know what a "Sharps" rifle is, It is in the movie "Quigley, Down under"

Not thread or car related...but this is one of my favorite modern western movies.

Set in Australias outback the film is a must see IN WIDESCREEN ONLY! If you see it in the formatted pan-and-scan version you do not get a feel for the incredible scenery of the outback.

Uncle Josh

Oh yeah, I collect Uncle Josh cylinder and 78rpm records by Cal Stewart (1856-1919), learn the hilarious stories and perform in character. Search on 'Cal Stewart' and read and listen to some of them.

[Deleted User]

rambos_ride wrote:

Not thread or car related...but this is one of my favorite modern western movies.

Set in Australias outback the film is a must see IN WIDESCREEN ONLY! If you see it in the formatted pan-and-scan version you do not get a feel for the incredible scenery of the outback.

I agree Dan, though I don't own a widescreen, but I cam believe it.

Sarah Young

Putting my two cents in for the ladies in the club...



When I'm not working or when my 4 year old and two year old allow, I enjoy quilting. Also, my latest interest is Animated Lighting, which is Light Displays controlled by Computer Software. You can coreograph your own lawn display to flash to the beat of whatever song you want passerbys to see, especially fun at Christmas time. (Check out www.lightorama.com or www.animatedlighting.com)



I also paint wood for both indoor and outdoor displays. Here's some pictures of a few things i made for the upcoming holidays.



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hudsontech

7XPacemaker wrote:

Guns- shooting and collecting. I recently bought a Shiloh sharps and plan to go buffalo hunting out west when my sedan is done! For those of you that don't know what a "Sharps" rifle is, It is in the movie "Quigley, Down under"

Sharps?? 45.70 or?? Interesting - Selick must like the brand; there was one featured in "The Shadow Riders", starring Sam Elliott and Tom Selick.



Hudsonly,

Alex B

Unknown

1. I used to have some Porsches. Parts cost to fun ratio was way too high.



2. I have a pile of antique chainsaws. Cool to look at and dangerous to use but they only cost me about $10 each.



3. I have a rack of antique boat motors. These used to be cheap but the prices are getting higher; the higher the price the lower my interest level.



4. I have some old hit and miss engines. See item 3.



5. I just built a wooden rowboat. This will replace that last aluminum boat that was stolen from my farm. I'm thinking the scrap value will be nil which may prevent theft.



6. I have 2 DeSoto's in my permanent car collection. Everything else is tradeable, including the 31 Hudson which I accidentally recieved on trade for a 1919 Templar.



7. I like to fish the Great Lakes and Lake of the Woods in Canada. I try to go a couple times a year.



8. I have a Christmas tree farm which isn't really a hobby but I really enjoy working outside by myself.



Have a nice day

Steve