1939 Hudson Coupe

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  • hdsn49
    hdsn49 Senior Contributor
    All it will take is a couple of hours work , a few spray cans of paint and the car can look like my brothers:)
  • hudsontech
    hudsontech Senior Contributor
    hdsn49 wrote:
    All it will take is a couple of hours work , a few spray cans of paint and the car can look like my brothers:)



    And a few cases of beer. :D



    Hudsonly,

    Alex Burr
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    edited November 2013
    Probably a minimum of few HUNDRED of each (hours and beers), unless he gets a visit from 'Overhaulin' - after all, he is in California...

    Since it is in California, they will simply put it in the budget and let us taxpayers pay for it (and then charge us alcohol tax while drinking the beer...)
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    Hmmmm..........this car looks familiar. It may have been on ebay before.



    Looks pretty solid. Even the dent in the rear valance is in the same spot as my 112. LOL



    Man, those pics of the front with all the sheet metal off bring back nightmares! :eek:



    Hey Rick! It still has the chrome strip on the grill.



    Kevin C.
  • oldhudsons
    oldhudsons Senior Contributor
    I did a total restoration of a '39 BB PU & as I recall the knob to the right in the dash is the choke wire as the commercial series did not have auto. choke. I believe the knob below the dash is an accessory cigarette lighter.

    I too have some of those small front end stainless parts that were "leftovers" from the restoration - I'll try to remember to throw those in when I go to Pontiac.

    O. D. not avail. in '39.
  • oldhudsons
    oldhudsons Senior Contributor
    After looking at the pics more carefully it seems to have the optional clock in the glovebox door + has column shift whereas floor shift (which my '39 BB PU had) was std.
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    oldhudsons wrote:
    After looking at the pics more carefully it seems to have the optional clock in the glovebox door + has column shift whereas floor shift (which my '39 BB PU had) was std.



    Pete



    Did your truck have the 39 or the 38 style dashboard? Another CBC member has a '39 112 PU and it has the '38 style dash and the floor shift.



    Every '39 112 car that I have seen had a clock in it. Was it standard in the cars and an option in the Commercial vehicles?



    Kevin C.
  • oldhudsons
    oldhudsons Senior Contributor
    yes, the '39 PUs used a '38 dash (had some left over, decided to use them up in a model they sold literally none of?).

    Mine did not have a clock - I found an NOS one somewhere & put it in.

    The biggest single problem I had was the headlamps as they had been converted to sealed beams - spent a LOT of time & $ on them (getting the original reflectors, getting them silvered, re-wiring - got a kit so I could use halogen bulbs).
  • oldhudsons
    oldhudsons Senior Contributor
    my '39 PU was a Big Boy which has the 212 cube engine as std. equip.

    I wouldn't have bought it if it hadn't had the original engine.

    I found it in a farming community in central Calif.
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