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[Deleted User]

Hi---I have a 308 block with the serial #300773. Can someone tell me what year it is? Thanks in advance.

hudsontech

hudson8 wrote:

Hi---I have a 308 block with the serial #300773. Can someone tell me what year it is? Thanks in advance.

One serial number source I dug up gave 1953 serial numbers 202917 to 269059 and 1954 269060 up.



So I might go out on a limb and say with that number it would be a 1954 308.



Hudsonly,

Alex Burr

[Deleted User]

If it is a bare block and you can see the top of the cylinders look at the valve area the 54 308 Block will have the valve relief i.e Super Induction. If you post a pic I can tell you for sure.

frank spring

www.smokymtnhetclub.org/fiftyfour.html Wouldn't it be May of 54 based on this web site?

Hudsy Wudsy

frank spring wrote:

www.smokymtnhetclub.org/fiftyfour.html Wouldn't it be May of 54 based on this web site?

I got a little chuckle out of this site. I know I have some serial number info somewhere, but I can never find it when I need it, so I thought that I'd like to copy and save the list printed there. Even though it gives credit to the source of the info as the White Triangle News (which I'm sure I have around here somewhere), when I highlighted it and tried to right click on it, up came the warning, "Sorry, no snagging!"

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James P

Is this what you want?







Serial Numbers and Months of Manufacture

1954 Hudson Hornet Special Sedan



Manufactured October 1954







The 1954 Hudson production run was the longest in the company's history. Lasting from August 1953 until October 1954. What follows is a break down of serial numbers by months of manufacture and units built. This listing does not include Italias or the Hudson-badged Metropolitans that were introduced in May 1954.



Note: X Denotes Model Number. Total Production: 50,660 MONTH

YEAR

SERIAL NUMBERS

UNITS BUILT



August

1953

x269060 - x272845

3,785



September

1953

x272846 - x278789

5,944



October

1953

x278789 - x282939

4,150



November

1953

x282940 - x288198

5,259



December

1953

x288199 - x291688

3,490



January

1954

x291689 - x293766

2,078



February

1954

x293767 - x295068

1,302



March

1954

x295069 - x298053

2,985



April

1954

x298054 - x299862

1,809



May

1954

x299863 - x302331

2,469



June

1954

x302332 - x306009

3,678



July

1954

x306010 - x308875

2,866



August

1954

x308876 - x312733

3,858



September

1954

x312734 - x316250

3,517



October

1954

x316251 - x319720

3,470

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Starting Serial Numbers MODEL NUMBER

MODEL NAME

STARTING SERIAL NO.



1D

Jet

1269062



1D

Jet Family Sedan

1296953



2D

Super Jet

2269060



3D

Jet-Liner

3269070



4D

Wasp

4269069



5D

Super Wasp

5269075



6D

Hornet Special

6295720



7D

Hornet

7269066





Principal Source: White Triangle News - January/February 1987











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[Deleted User]

Hi to all you Hudson moguls out there & a big "Thank You" to each & every one who answered my post for year information. I was told that it was a 54 block & I thought that I could identify it as such after I removed the head, but alas, I could not remember how much relief showed on the earlier blocks. Thanks again.---Cliff Minard.

hudsontech

James P. wrote:

I got a little chuckle out of this site. I know I have some serial number info somewhere, but I can never find it when I need it, so I thought that I'd like to copy and save the list printed there. Even though it gives credit to the source of the info as the White Triangle News (which I'm sure I have around here somewhere), when I highlighted it and tried to right click on it, up came the warning, "Sorry, no snagging!"

Of course if you had a copy of my General Information Handbook you would find not only 1948-1954 Monthly Model Year Production data, but also production and shipping data 1948 thru 1954 AND 1946-1947 Model Year production numbers. Plus a lot of other data for 1909 thru 1957, including Essex and Terraplane, right at your finger tips.



Hudsonly,

Alex Burr

Hudsy Wudsy

My thanks, as well, to you guys. I've learned more than I know what to do with. Alex, it's only pointless procrastination and absentmindedness that has kept me from ordering your info package. I'll contact you shortly.

hudsontech

James P. wrote:

My thanks, as well, to you guys. I've learned more than I know what to do with. Alex, it's only pointless procrastination and absentmindedness that has kept me from ordering your info package. I'll contact you shortly.

Just a reminder, James P, and anyone else, my snail mail address is changing:



Alex Burr

c/o K. C. Tate

968 Joel Avenue

Memphis,

TN 38127



Thank you all.



Hudsonly,

Alex Burr