Date of manufacture?

edhamlin

I'm curious when my Hudson was manufactured (sometime in '40, I know). I was wondering if anyone has compiled a list of serial numbers vs. dates of manufacture for various model years?



Incidentally, NY DMV has my '41 registered as a 1940, because they use year of manufacture rather than model year for the older cars. Thus I can use 1940 vintage plates, but not 1941, because they only allow year of manufacture for registering with vintage plates. I could get that changed, but it's really not worth the trouble. (TMI?)



Thanks

Ed

hudsontech

At the moment we don't have serial number breakdown by month for 1940-1941 cars. We do have that info for 1946 thru 1954, tho.



I don't quite understand you DMV's fuzzy thinking on Year of Manufacturing for registration purposes. Cars back in that era were sold pretty much from a Sept or October to Sept (or Oct.) manufacturing schedule. It should be registered as a 1941 vehicle by the model number, which in 1941 began with a "1". 1940's started with a "4". The model is the first two digits - the serial number the remaining.



But, I guess that's bureacracy for you. I do know that there was a big problem during the 1920's when Hudson used the 2-series system. The 1st series was intro'd in Dec or Jan and the 2nd in mid-year, around July. A lot of states required 2nd series cars to be registered in the next year, ie, 1927 2nd series intro'd in July 1927 wound up being registered as 1928 models.



Hudsonly,

Alex Burr

Memphis, TN