37 going home

Kdancy
Kdancy Senior Contributor
edited January 2013 in HUDSON
After a long journey thru the rebuild process, my old friend, the 37 Terraplane PU, is now going home to it's owner, Diane Frock--
http://s294.photobucket.com/albums/mm97/studebaker2/37 Terraplane progress/

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  • BigSky
    BigSky Senior Contributor
    WOW, I can't believe how beautiful your 37 looks! Great job!!!!
  • hudsontech
    hudsontech Senior Contributor
    Link worked for me using Firefox. Beautiful truck.
  • Glowplug
    Glowplug Expert Adviser
    BRAVO Kevin!
  • Jon B
    Jon B Administrator
    An absolutely phenomenal restoration, Kerry. You should be very proud and Diane should be ecstatic. (I sure hope she gets this out to some mixed-make shows, so that the general public can appreciate your handiwork!) The photographic essay is an invaluable chronicle for anyone with a '37 truck (or even just a '37 Hudson anything!). I hope we can give the album some sort of permanent link at the new HET webpage, so that it won't fade off into obscurity. This needs to remain accessible.

    By the way, were you able to salvage the original headlight sockets or did you find an acceptable modern substitute? And what did you end up using for a floor shift boot? Or is that a trade secret? (!!)
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    Sorry, but this is strictly a message to Jon Battle. Jon, please e-mail me at min1909@verizon,net about contacting the horn guy who sells them for the older Hudsons. Thanks---Cliff Minard
  • bent metal
    bent metal Senior Contributor
    Those rear fenders were a bad start, and you made them be a good ending. They, and the whole truck look really nice! :)

    Thanks for showing the pictures.
  • Kdancy
    Kdancy Senior Contributor
    Jon,
    I will have to look it up but if I remember right it was an early Jeep shifter boot, came from Metro Molded company.
    Halogen headlight bulbs from
    http://www.lbcarco.com/cgi-bin/gen5?nextform=/orderinprogress.html&o=6647899.23549121359&p=
    I was able to salvage a set of headlight sockets. I did find some modern substitutes afterwards, will look and see if I can find the source again for others use.
    I had over a thousand pictures total. Most of them are on photobucket links under 37.
    Hope some one else can use the picture info.
    Thanks for the kind words!
  • Kdancy
    Kdancy Senior Contributor
    thanks Bent, the whole PU was a real basket case and all fenders were in pretty bad shape.
    There are always things I would like to tweak here and there but I haven't been able to build a "perfect" vehicle yet! All in all I am fairly happy with this one. Learned a lot that I can put to good use on the next one.
    Never to old to learn!
  • SuperDave
    SuperDave Senior Contributor
    Kerry, Ya think Diane will have it at Plant City Satiurday?
  • Kdancy
    Kdancy Senior Contributor
    I hope so, but don't know.
  • Jon B
    Jon B Administrator
    Kerry, I might have suggested a couple of modern day headlight sockets to you (I listed them over at the AACA forum, hoping to find out if anyone had used them and if so, whether they worked okay).

    I used the same halogen lights in my '37. They fit right in the sockets. Only problem was, one evening (when I was 2 hours from home) I started the car, turned on the lights, and both bulbs blew out simultaneously! I had to find a motel room of course, couldn't drive home in the dark! The problem may have been a faulty voltage regulator but after I replaced it, I was afraid to use halogen bulbs again. At $50 the pair, it's a rather expensive proposition each time they blow out! Someone suggested a "zener diode" wired into the circuit, to absorb possible voltage fluctuations, but I know nothing about electronics so have stuck to the old style incandescents.
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