Illinois Hudson Dealers in the 1930's
Old Fogey UK
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Does anyone have a list of mid-1930's Hudson dealers in Southern Illinois ?
I'd like to know if there was a dealership in the vicinity of a town called Bluffs.
My car was reputedly first sold in or near Bluffs.
I'd like to know if there was a dealership in the vicinity of a town called Bluffs.
My car was reputedly first sold in or near Bluffs.
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Sheldon Rody just published a book of Hudson dealers. It has a few hundred listed for all 50 states and some foreign countries. $35, I just got mine and highly recommend it. Lots of pictures of the dealers also. He is in the roster in Indiana.0
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Presently I have no listing of a Hudson dealer for Bluff, Il.
Sheldon0 -
37 CTS wrote:Presently I have no listing of a Hudson dealer for Bluff, Il.
Sheldon
Having said that I'll bet one will crawl out of the woodwork shortly!!! LOL
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN0 -
37 CTS wrote:Presently I have no listing of a Hudson dealer for Bluff, Il.
Sheldon
Have you got one listed in that sort of area ? When Norris Smith sold me the car, he told me that it had originally been an unsold '34 car that the dealer (he said in Bluffs) sold $2 draw prize tickets for when the '35s came out.
The car has only had 3 names on the Title. The first was in Peru, Illinois. Maybe Norris got it wrong. Please do you know who sold Hudsons in that part of Illinois ?0 -
hudsontech wrote:37 CTS wrote:Presently I have no listing of a Hudson dealer for Bluff, Il.
Sheldon
Having said that I'll bet one will crawl out of the woodwork shortly!!! LOL
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN
I'm willing to put money on the fact you're going to be right, Alex !0 -
I imagine the Bluffs, Illinois dealer was Luther Vortman. I know he was the dealer there in the 1940's and 1950's. I knew him and purchased some NOS parts from him in the 1960's and 1970's. Luther passed away several years ago. There also was a dealer in Beardstown, just a few miles north of Bluffs. My waning memory cannot remember the dealership name, but I am sure it will come to me one of these days. I do know the dealership name began with "A", and the name "Alton" sounds familiar. My brother works in a nursing facility in Jacksonville, Illinois, and he knows an old gentleman with Alzheimer's there who worked as the Hudson salesman at Beardstown.0
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I remember now that the Beardstown, Illinois, Hudson dealer was Alford. I am not sure how long he was in business, but he definitely sold Hudsons throughout the stepdown years.
Sheldon, I can give you the names and some business years of several central Illinois Hudson dealers if you need them.0 -
Old Fogey UK wrote:hudsontech wrote:37 CTS wrote:Presently I have no listing of a Hudson dealer for Bluff, Il.
Sheldon
Having said that I'll bet one will crawl out of the woodwork shortly!!! LOL
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN
I'm willing to put money on the fact you're going to be right, Alex !
OldHudson8r posted: I imagine the Bluffs, Illinois dealer was Luther Vortman. I know he was the dealer there in the 1940's and 1950's.
BINGO!!!!!!! LOL
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN0
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