True story.......

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Yesterday, I wandered into the local NAPA store to pick up a few items including some spark plug wire and ends to replace the brittle, broken ones on my '36. The young gal behind the counter insisted on asking me the make and model of my car, I guess so she could look up the lengths on her computer. I've been through this before, but I just kinda rolled my eyes and said "nineteen thirty six Terraplane".

She flipped a few keys on the keyboard then turned around and walked into the back room and I heard her holler, "Hey Herb, We don't carry anything for 'airplanes' do we?'

Me and the other old guy at the counter just about lost it...:eek:

Jon B

Adding to the mirth, (and this may be an 'apocryphal story yet it's just plausible enough...):



An H-E-T National was being held. The receptionist at the host hotel's front desk took a phone call from someone looking for information about the meet. "Hey!", she yelled into the crowd, "is there anyone here from the Hudson Sex and Airplane Club?"

MikeWA

And then there was the very cute girl at the hardware store where I went to get some bolts when I was building a hotrod in my youth (circa 1965) . Told her the size and number of bolts, and she smiled sweetly and asked, "Cap screws or machine bolts?" Turns out she was the store owner's daughter, and knew more about hardware than I ever would. Didn't get up the nerve to ask her out, unfortunately- which was "the story of my life" at that point. (I eventually got over it, and Mrs. and I welcomed our third grandchild day before yesterday)

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Ahhh...Great Valentines Day story. Congrats...

Unknown

OK HERE"S MINE, my wife regularly does walking excercizes with some old lady cronies. Course they gotta yak , so she tells them about the 37 Terraplane I'm {was now} rebuilding. One old gal all upset says "surely your not gonna fly in that thing with him are you ? " So worried she went home and told her husband to talk us BOTH out of it. Next day she said he like to have died laughin. Yeah Slim, the new breed of parts people is both frustrateing and intertaining, BUD

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Jon B wrote:

Adding to the mirth, (and this may be an 'apocryphal story yet it's just plausible enough...):



An H-E-T National was being held. The receptionist at the host hotel's front desk took a phone call from someone looking for information about the meet. "Hey!", she yelled into the crowd, "is there anyone here from the Hudson Sex and Airplane Club?"

And how do we join the HS&A club?

[Deleted User]

As you can see here they had that club in the 30's

Unknown

Hmmm, Hud Sex Deal. Was that a depression era sales promotion or what?

Ol racer

Todays Auto Stores mentioning Terraplane,



No, I just say Hudson now and even then some counter people ask who made Hudson...



I try going with a part number or ask right off to get their Classic Car Catalog...

LanceB

Great stories guys.



Mine is not as good but here goes. I was driving my truck and a late model work pickup pulled up beside me and the passenger asked me who makes Hudson.

[Deleted User]

I took my '37 to an all-makes show this summer - it was the ONLY pre-war car there that was NOT a rod - and it got sooo much attention! This kid comes up to me (he's probably 20 or so) and he asks if I flew Terraplanes "in the War". Mind you, I'm in my mid-40s, and the car is just a little younger than my Dad, but I sure as hell look younger than I am. i asked the kid "which war?" and he said "Vietnam. Isn't that the one where we nuked Japan?" I wasn't sure whether to cry over the kid's obvious lack of proper history instruction in the government schools, laugh at the content of his verbage, or just set him straight..."No, Terraplanes flew on the land, and they did not make airplanes for any war, but they did build parts of airplanes during WWII, and Japan got nuked at the end of WWII, which quickly ended the war in our favor. Vietnam started 16 years later for the US"...He was embarrassed, but appreciative of the newly-found correct information.

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We had a gentleman come to the garage one time probably in his mid 60s. He noticed the a 50 Pacemaker off to the side and asked what kind of car it was. I was surprised as most of the order folks upon seeing a Hudson remember them and have a story or two to tell about Hudsons . When I told him it was a Hudson he said "Oh the kind of car that can go in water too , like a boat". I said "well yeah sort of " it can put it in the water but it won't float. I have to wonder if he thought my comment meant it the car was broken. Anyway he seemed to have zero interest it it.

Aaron D. IL

I've gotten the "who makes Hudson?" question before too. I just say "Hudson made Hudson." ..... (puzzled look) "Well looks like a Mercury." "Wrong! Mercury looks like a Hudson."

Amazes me that people don't even know such recent history, barely a generation removed (to say nothing of CARS reminding people). Yet here on this side of the globe where I am currently people are still fighting over stuff that happened 400, 500, 2000 years ago!!!

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I run into the same problem with my Crosley's. Everybody thinks they are english, I say no they are hoosier. one time I took my 51' Super wagon to a show and i had a display enging in the back. Well before I had got a chance to take it out a put it on the ground for display a couple walked up and the woman said "How cute, is this car english"? and before I could set them straight, the man said, "Well hell yes! can't you tell, the motor is in the rear!" With that I just said, "Yeah it is."

Then one time I went to napa to get some plugs for one of my crosley's and of course it was some youg pimple faced kid that had to ask, what kind of car? so I said "Crosley" and he said, "what is that, some kind of english lawn mower"? I just said, "No it is a hoosier lawn mower". Then I just said never mind, and left.



Barry Smedley

53' Super Jet

A bunch of english hoosier Crosley lawnmowers.

super651

Checker Auto Parts last week to have a key made for my 51 and he said what kind of car does it fit ? I said, what do you need that for,you have the Master Key, Ok it is for a 51 Hudson. He said that you must mean DOTSUN. I then walked out .

He had a ODD look on hIs Face ?

hudnut1tmr

OK, here's mine... I was late for a meet in Hazel Crest and had gotten dirt on the Hornet. It looked like crap. So I remembered an old fashioned car wash nearby. The kind where you get out, walk along and at the end, several young men wipe it down, inside & out.



Well, this particular young man came from the interior spouting "Man, did you see all that metal??!!!" "This car's made of metal!!" "Mister, where did they make this car?" I told him Detroit, Michigan. All he could answer was "Man, this car's made of metal!!!"



I gave him a big tip...

hudsontech

Not Hudson related, but in 1989 I was driving a 1969 American wagon and went to my NAPA store looking for front ball joints and trunions. Young kid behind the counter spends about 4, 5 min looking thru the parts books, finally asks me if the Rambler was made by Chrysler.

I told him "Not back then, it wasn't."



Hudsonly,

Alex Burr

HudsonTech

Memphis, TN

www.freewebs.com/hudsontech

SamJ

When Bill Eggert unveiled his '48 Hudson "Woodie Wagon" in Auburn (a stunning car) that he and Dick Bell built based only on the prototype drawings in Butler's book, he drew a crowd. It had only been on display for a couple of minutes when I heard a guy saying to three of his friends "Hudson only built a few of these, and there's not many left." I love it at shows when some know-it-all is lecturing his friends/family about HET products and doesn't get one thing right.

ski4life65

I actually had a knowledgable guy at a parts store in Denver on Tuesday. I just picked up some new bathroom fixtures at a supply house, and ran into a really old parts store nearby. I asked the guy at the counter if they had any of the elusive 25877T bearings in stock. His comment was "must be for a Hudson or Willy's, huh?". He said he would take a look on the shelf, since he knew it wouldn't be listed. Believe it or not, he actually had one. And yes, it does have the tappered bore. $40 plus tax. He said the part had been there on the shelf for probably 40 years.

My lucky day.

Once in a while you get the good guy!



Don

4Hud

The recurring odd question I keep getting from some of the people I know in the old car hobby who should be old enough to know better. "How's your old Nash runnin' these days?" I am not insulted by this comment, Nash built some lovely cars as well but in 1937 the Nash/Hudson relationship was a heap o' years away.

Unknown

My Friend Joe Polkus, Who Has Been Driving And Restoreing Hudsons For Longer Than Me And Is 83 Years Old Drives One Of His Hudsons, Every Day, He Has 4 Of Them Now. Ansers The Younger Generation, When Asked What Kind Of A Car Is It And Where Is It Made, Says With A Straight Face It Is A Hudson And Pronounces It Hootssun And It Is Made In Poland,, Warsaw To Be Exact, He Is Polish And Proud Of It Lol Bill Albright

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Ken U-Tx wrote:

Yep, and I think Harry Kraus said that Hudson did durability tests on their Autolite horns by driving the cars in Polish weddings in the Metro Detroit area back in the days......

Yep, and A.E. Barit sat in the back seat eating kielbasa and kraut.

Unknown

My wife wasn't thrilled when I brought home two hudsons, but quickly grew to like them. She said it was a "mans" car and when we would be driving in the car and pulled up next to some guy that didn't look at the Hudson, she would turn to me and say "He's gay". She couldn't stand it when they didn't look at the car.



Well she passed away last year at the age of 44, and I have been seeing someone new. Last weekend we were driving around, and all of a sudden she looked out the window at the car next to us and just said "1952 Hudson Hornet". The guy next to us said "excuse me" ? And she replied "I just answered the question you were afraid to ask!



I think I am in love again!



Terry

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52 kahuna wrote:

Last weekend we were driving around, and all of a sudden she looked out the window at the car next to us and just said "1952 Hudson Hornet". The guy next to us said "excuse me" ? And she replied "I just answered the question you were afraid to ask!



I think I am in love again!



Terry

Terry;she sounds like a keeper to me.



Harry

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Ken U-Tx wrote:

And don't forget the Golubskis, Bigos stew, Pierogies, Schwabovy, etc.....

And don't forget the zimny piwo.

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Ken U-Tx wrote:

Ahh yes, definitely need the piwo! I had been given four bottles of Okocim Piwo (Jesne). good stuff. There's a beer from the Tatra mountains Ive been trying to get called Tatra Mocne Piwo, might have to get it over there someday. Kenneth

Maybe I'll join you. We can drive around in a Hudson, blowing the horn while drinking some real beer.