Hudson Burn Down

SamJ

Rudy Bennett asked me to post this for him:



Does somebody know the owner or the car ?



This picture was found in an old CARS ILLUSTRATED mag. Title was TOAST OF THE TOWN and the driver is Shirley Tackett (photos by Jerry Aaron) wish i had the mag.or the other pages .

The front plate is Nevada #WRC2J4.

Thanks to all Rudy.

rambos_ride

SamJ wrote:

Rudy Bennett asked me to post this for him:

Does somebody know the owner or the car ?

This picture was found in an old CARS ILLUSTRATED mag. Title was TOAST OF THE TOWN and the driver is Shirley Tackett (photos by Jerry Aaron) wish i had the mag.or the other pages .
The front plate is Nevada #WRC2J4.
Thanks to all Rudy.

How sweet looking is that ~ "I love the smell of burnouts in the morning..."

I want to get a poster of this without the text - think anyone has the original photo still?

Can you get any more information on the Date and/or Volume numbers of the publication?

Thanks for sharing!

Unknown

THIS CAR BELONGED TO MIKE TACKETT OF RENO WHO PASSED AWAY, SUDDENLY JUST A FEW MONTHS AGO, iT WAS RACED BY HIS WIFE AND HAD A 460 FORD ENGINE, THAT MIKE HAD BUILT. I KNEW HIM FOR37 YEARS, HE WAS AT THE RENO NATIONAL AND I SOLD A MALLORY DISTRIB FOR HIM AT MY SWAP SPACE. THEY WERE DIVORCED A YEAR OR SO AGO, MIKE TOLD ME AND THE CAR WAS SOLD, WHERE IT IS NOW, I HAVE NO IDEA, BILL ALBRIGHT

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That is a great pic! I want a copy as well.



Dave W.

Unknown

best picture EVER!



too bad it wasn't a 308 doing that smokey show!



NEXT TIME I DRIVE HUDSONDAD"S WASP, I'LL GET A PICTURE LIKE THIS, OR BREAK IT TRYING.... :cool: :eek:

Unknown

rambos_ride wrote:

How sweet looking is that ~ "I love the smell of burnouts in the morning..."

Have you taken to sleeping with those people again?

Unknown

Rambo, when you're done with yours, you'll be able to take your own picture like this!



Hudsonkid wonders why he doesn't get to drive my cars, HMMM????

Unknown

yeah, I always wondered that.



I don't know if you guys know this but I NEVER really got the chance to drive any of the cars. Probably not until recent.



I'm not sure whether it was something hudsondad had in the back of his head, Oh say, how he drove his father's Oldsmobiles, or such, or the sterling example of roadmanship he set for me in my influential years of driving, or just the idea that a little of both of these rubbed off on me.



not sure. Maybe he could elaborate.



This I do know, my girl, she'll be allowed to drive my cars, my little guy, NO WAY! :cool: :eek:

Unknown

look there is proof that a sun visor wont break off at high speeds! also the hood ornament looks to be a 52 but the front signal lights look to be off of an older car. -john

Unknown

I thought it was a 52 wasp without the inverted grille Vee

Unknown

Sorry but the visor on the front was lost at high freeway speeds (90-100mph) as we were coming back from a nostalgia drag race at Sonoma in 1989. I built the entire back half of this car with Art Morrison rear frame rails and a four link over a Ford 9" rear axle. I knew Mike Tackett since 1970 and we raced together throughout the 80's and 90's on the old WCTA and Good Guys drag racing series.



BTW, Sandy was smoking some old G70/15 recapped snow tires in this photo. Mike always swore that you could get the best smoke out of the old walnut shell snow caps. The proof is in the photo....



This was a 1953 Wasp Brougham with a 460 Ford and C6 trans. I don't know where the car went either, Mike and I had been out of touch for about 3 years in the late 1990's. We reconnected in 1999 and remained friends in Reno until I moved to Utah in 2004.



THEGREENHORNET wrote:

look there is proof that a sun visor wont break off at high speeds! also the hood ornament looks to be a 52 but the front signal lights look to be off of an older car. -john