New ad image posted

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I've just posted to the Files section on Yahoo a scan of a Hudson ad I

bought recently on eBay. I haven't seen this one around previously. It

shows a 29 Standard Sedan in red with black trim. The file is about

350K if you want to download it.



Interestingly, the image appears to be exactly the same as the Standard

Sedan illustration that is used in the big Hudson sales brochure, except

for two things. First, the brochure shows the Standard Sedan in Reseda

Green. Second, the images are left-right reversed. The artist moved

the steering wheel to the other side in which ever image was a mirror of

the original, and added a license plate and stop light on the left rear

on the version where it shows.



But there are a lot of little details...shape of reflections on the

fender, for example, that make me think this was basically the same

image, manipulated probably by flipping film over) rather than two

independently drawn pictures. You can see the green version on my web

site; go to the "What Model Is It" section and then click on the

standard sedan image to see a large scan of the green illustration,

taken from the sales brochure.



Interesting marketing detail, eh?



The ad I just posted was from the April '29 issue of Country Gentleman.





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Lew Phelps

Pasadena, CA

1929 Hudson Town Sedan

http://home.earthlink.net/~hudsontownsedan