Check out the car the Kaiser is racing

JasonNC

I know most of you guys don't pay any attention to the Kaiser forum just below this one, but the picture of the Kaiser racer mentioned below is racing a Hudson.

[Deleted User]

Yup, and love the body roll of the Kaiser aswell. Quite a difference between the two... not that I'm biased.

Hudsy Wudsy

Perhaps you mean to say, "Check out the car the Kaiser is finally getting out of the way of!"

Ol racer

In fairness the 'Superchaged Kaisers' may have had some potential

JasonNC

Not really. My Kaiser had a supercharger on it and the 262 in the old 48 Commodore would run circles around it. I hate to think what a 308 with Twin-H power would do to a stock Kaiser.

[Deleted User]

How about if Hudson and McCulloch had partnered up rather than with Kaiser?

[Deleted User]

`Hudsonator wrote:

How about if Hudson and McCulloch had partnered up rather than with Kaiser?

But we don't know anybody doing that do we??????? LOL.

hudsontech

Back in those days it was 'run what you brung' - you were liable to find most anything running around those old tracks. From Nashes, to Hudsons, to Kaisers, to Studebakers - if somebody could have figured out how to cram a big block engine in a Crosley, it would have been out there too. (Hmmm - guess Smoky never thought of that).

Mostly tho, on the NASCAR track, you found Ford, Chevy, Hudson, Plymouth and Dodge because those makes, for the most part, had factory backing. A few independent drivers ran other makes.

Off the NASCAR tracks, on the 1/3rd and 1/4 mile dirt tracks out in your back yard you found mostly Fords (they were available in large numbers) along with a few Chevy's, Plymouth, Dodges and Hudsons. Once in a while you found a Studebaker, but not to many Lincolns and Caddies. Those two makes were really to big for a 1/3rd mile track, IMHO. I think they'd be cramped on a 1/2 mile track as well. Back then you had more cars on the track than you had today - even some of the early NASCAR races ran 50, 55, and in one case, 63 cars. The small local dirt (non-NASCAR) tracks did have some control over the number of entrants - if 50 cars showed up to race (unusual) they were divided up and ran 10, 15 or 20, sometimes 25, lap heats. with the top 10 or 15 going on to the main event that usually ran 50, perhaps 75, laps. So you'd have maybe 15 cars for each heat with 20 or 30, depending on how they assigned main event status, cars running the main event.

Was a lot of fun.



Hudsonly,

Alex Burr

HudsonTech

Memphis, TN

www.freewebs.com/hudsontech

[Deleted User]

Hudzilla wrote:

But we don't know anybody doing that do we??????? LOL.

There are actually two of us now. I think the Pacemaker is gonna beat me to the punchline.



Pity Hudson didn't make a deal with McCulloch back in the day. That "Super" part of Super Six could have been legendary.



Or, a Hornet with "Super Twin-H". They had the groundwork laid, for sure.



Mark