Another war story to bore you

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edited August 2012 in HUDSON
I hope this does not offend anyone but, this was something that happened on the way to Docs meet back in the 70s. In those days if you lived where I lived if you wanted to talk Hudsons with anyone outside of the family, you had to travel East. We made it a point to always go to Docs meet at Front Royal. We would work all day Thursday andcome home and the Wife would be all packed and leave. We would drive all night and arrive at Front Royal Friday afternoon, check in to the Motel and go to Doc and Thelmas to say hello and sometimes get involved mixing Docs Super 6 punch in his basement. We would of course sample it to make sure it was OK and then go to the pot luck supper. Sometimes I dont remember much about the supper but I do remember never winning the jar of jelly because my parents traveled 20 miles further. (1100 miles and no sleep since Wed. night. lol) Thats not the story. My parents in their 50 Com.6 convert., My brother and wife in their 52 Wasp, and Linda and I in the 51 HH. We all had CBs and would talk to each other and the truckers as we traveled across the country. Did this for years. It was about 2:00AM on I-74 in the middle of Illinois and the CB talk had quieted down when all of the sudden a trucker came on and said" I just saw a Caddlac, East bound with the dome light on and a naked man and women doing ^&&* in the car. Well, Im East bound but I didnt get the mile marker. Needless to say the CB came alive with "Whats the 20 on that Cad." My wife and kids were asleep and I wasnt going to wake them. lol. This went on for about 1/2 hour and the comments made by the truckers--Well I have never laughed so hard in my life--Finally it had quieted down and this trucker came on with this slow Southern draw and ask the 20 on Cad. When he was told East bound in a almost whisper he said" Damm I am always going the wrong way. I never did see the Cad. and I dont know if it ever existed but, It woke me up and I was able to drive a couple more hours without coffee. And that folks was what is was like on Americas highways and byways in the 70s.LOL

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  • oldhudsons
    oldhudsons Senior Contributor
    I don't know about Cadillacs as "rolling bordellos" but I know Hudsons were!
    Had college buddy who had a really cute early '50s Austin Healey (had o.d. & every time you'd go over a bump it would kick in or out, that's Lucas electrics for you) which I really enjoyed zipping around Tucson in. Anyway we on several occasions traded cars on weekends (I had a '49 S6 coupe, need I say more, LOL!!!!).
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    The story goes that Henry Ford was a straight guy (prude) and made Fords narrower than GM cars to discourage Rocking and Rolling in the back seat. After 1946 Fords became as wide as other cars.
    Ed
  • hudsontech
    hudsontech Senior Contributor
    Henry forgot that it was easy to remove the back seat and put a mattress back there. LOL Lot of little car fans should have been named Ford. hehehe

    I always like the big 30's sedans - the ones with the assist straps above the door. Get your gal's feet................... But I digress. This is a family oriented venue. hehehehehe

    Hudsonly,
    Alex Burr
    Memphis, TN
  • wano1949
    wano1949 Senior Contributor
    I had a 53 Hornet in 1970 in Detroit. A buddy and I were working up there. Just out of Vietnam he was, and I was 4F.

    Both of us were crazy.

    We were from Ky and his father ran a trucking company up there and we were 21 and 24 years old.

    We got to hanging out at a topless bar called "The Waterland" on 8 mile road, on the borderline if you know what I'm talking about.

    Danny became friends with a lady named Vicky who danced there.
    And for obvious reasons, which I, in my youth and ignorance, didn't realize at the time, he asked to borrow the Hornet to "go to the movies" .

    Ok with me and off he went.

    Next evening I started somewhere, got in the car and couldn't see out the back window. "Danny, what happened to the headliner?" "Oh, he said, I guess Vicky got excited."

    It looked like cats had been fighting in there. Front and back.Clawing the ceiling,

    "What the Hell happened Danny?"

    "Well Wayne I asked her to put on those spiked heels she had in her bag when I picked her up at the bar, and you know..."

    Good thing about a Hudson , you saved money on motel rooms.

    Four years later I took my wife to the hospital in the same car to deliver our first child.

    Danny passed three years ago and the car left a long time before he did.

    We always had a good laugh about sewing up the headliner with a curved upholsters needle and thread.
  • PaulButler
    PaulButler Administrator
    The stories these cars could tell :-)
  • ESSX28-1
    ESSX28-1 Senior Contributor
    The Essex 6 gearstick was able to be rotated out of the way by removing 1 very accessible screw
    - most useful & it was even possible to drive the car without that screw in place. Don't ask......
  • hudsontech
    hudsontech Senior Contributor
    Paul Butler - Oh I hope not!!!!!!!!! LOL ROFL

    Hudsonly,
    Alex Burr
    Memphis, TN
  • hudsontech
    hudsontech Senior Contributor
    Young men have their dreams; old men have their memories. :-))

    Hudsonly,
    Alex Burr
    Memphis, TN
  • ESSX28-1
    ESSX28-1 Senior Contributor
    Young men have their dreams; old men have their memories.
    And don't we remember the good bits best!!
  • PAULARGETYPE
    PAULARGETYPE Senior Contributor
    Larry next your going to tell the tale about my 57 Hollywood and the local cops LOL
  • Hudson Grandpa
    Hudson Grandpa Expert Adviser
    Speakiing of MY 57 Hollywood. In 1958 it got inaugurated with the seats down one night. Blanket over the seats. What a great motel room with foggy windows.
  • PAULARGETYPE
    PAULARGETYPE Senior Contributor
    THATS NOT THE TAIL I WAS TALKING ABOUT BUT I MUST ADMIT I TO HAVE USED A AMC MOTEL ROOM LOL
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    Fellows, Im assamed of you people. I didnt do anything like that. Linda and I did nothing but hold hands until we were married. LOL When we started dating there was a classmate with a 57 Pontiac that was also chasing her. On one of are little spats she mention his nice car. I made the statement that ifshe thought it was so neat go ahead and date him. Besides I could always find another girl and it would be alot harder to find a clean 52 Hornet (I was driving at the time). PS I paid many times for that statement through the years but we will celebrate our 49 anniversity in Sept. LOL Paul I have stories about that 57 that will make you faint but thats for next time.LOL
  • Hudson Grandpa
    Hudson Grandpa Expert Adviser
    cmon, cmon,, lets hear you faint, as long as we are in the mode.....At least one!
  • hudsontech
    hudsontech Senior Contributor
    In high school, in the early 50's, I had for a short while a 1939 Dodge coupe with a 53 Dodge 241 hemi, etc etc etc. Thought it was a pretty hot car and it did wipe out a lot of challegers.
    One Sat. evening at the local back road drag strip we were interrupted by the local gendarmes. Naturally we all scattered to the four winds, me with a cop on my butt. Finally I made a corner he didn't. Since Dad didn't say anything to me on Sunday I figured I'd gotten away with it. Remember - this was the 50's. Kids didn't get away with ANYTHING!!!! Monday morning I came down to go to school and Dad was still home. All he said was 'give me you car keys'.
    That night I came home and he handed me something like $500 and told me he'd sold my car - that I didn't deserve it. Then he added the kick in the pants - "we'll go out buy you a car you need to have." Oh, crap.
    It wasn't bad enough that he sold my beloved hot rot; he made me buy a 1949 Nash 600 sedan!!!! A Nashcan!!!!!!!! Oh Lord. Do you realize how hard it is to have a date in one of those things - oh the girls wanted to go out, but their Daddies would only let them in my car if he was sitting in the back seat with a shotgun!!!!!!
    That isn't to say it was a total failure however.
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    hudsontech, ditto,ditto on the 50s. In the 50s it was the parents and the cops against the kids. I had a similiar thing happen. I had 49 super 6 coupe that I had put a straight 8 in out of a wrecked car and was getting pretty good at drag racing. I was chosen to go to Boys State for a week at a Army camp. If your father was a veteran and you had good grades and The American Legion thought you might amount to something (I think I may have disapointed many people) you were chosen. Anyway on Wed. of that week I received a post card from dad telling me he had sold my car.The car was in his name for insurance reasons and I payed him the premions. When I got home he gave me the money and I eventualy bought a 51 Pacemaker that would not go over 70 MPH until I found that SOMEONE had bent the linkage so the carb. would not open clear up. I really feel sorry for anyone that didnt grow up in that period of time.
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    Hudson Grandpa, I do have some stories about Pauls Hudson but, I have know Paul for ever and condsider him a very good friend. I like to rib him when I get the chance and I hope he knows I am just kidding. I did own his black 57 HH and another person bought it from me before Paul got it. Besides in those days if I wanted to do some serious road racing I drove the stepdowns lol
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