HET play & touch day out at members garage

ken1962
ken1962 Member
in HUDSON

Last week-end we were really lucky to be invited to view 10 Hudson/Essex stuffed into a large garage owned by a fellow club member (he had 19 originally)

I thought you'd like to see a few pictures.- it was rather hard to step back and take them as they were all jammed close

All the cars are used and were started when we were there. Loved the 1913 Hudson and the Essex racer

cheers Ken

 

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  • ken1962
    ken1962 Member
    some more
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  • ken1962
    ken1962 Member
    sorry all the photos are shown in mirror reverse - all the cars are actually right hand drive - not left
  • Geoff
    Geoff Senior Contributor
     These cars are in Wales?
  • ken1962
    ken1962 Member

    Hi Geoff, You're got good eyes to notice the odd one out - All are Australian (located 2 hours from Melbourne Victoria)  - but yes the red one is an English bodied 4 seat

    Phantom soft top I'm told - love the little engine vent doors on the hood/bonnet. Believe the 1913 is the oldest Hudson in Australia - certainly lovely to hear it crank over and start first go for a 101 year old engine. The 1939 green Hudson is very rare as well with headlights in the fender - side chrome strips . The pinkish Hudson sitting next to the white air-cooler is also a 4 seat Phantom, Other club members will probably jump in and tell the cars stories as I believe most of the cars are very well known to HET members around Australia cheers Ken 





  • PaulButler
    PaulButler Administrator

    Great photos ; thanks for sharing them

    I love the 1939 of course but am interested as to why you say it's very rare? Do you mean generally in Australia or is there something more unique about it?

  • Geoff
    Geoff Senior Contributor
     Ah yes, I should have recognized the yellow '30 Essex as being Australian.  Th reason i asked is that I  viewed a similar connection in Wales in 2013.How come the pics  come out mirror image?
    Geoff 
  • Spencer Yarrow
    Spencer Yarrow Expert Adviser
    The 30 Essex came from my garage around 2008 and relocated to Vic. it was restored in the 1960's and my Father bought it in 1970, great old car.
  • ken1962
    ken1962 Member

    Hi Geoff, when I transferred the photos from iphone to computer they were upside down, when moved them right side they mirrored - all I can say is "computers only do what you tell them - not what you think they'll do"

    Hi Paul, I believe the Australian 1939's here are rare as the 1939 production cycle was cut short and stopped suddenly when our Commonwealth Empire declared war on the big 3 - Germany/Japan/Italy towards the end of Aug 1939 and we  went into "total war survival" mode  - unlike the USA which had a full 1939,,40 and most of 41 to make cars and sell. Remember Australia only had 6.9 million people in 1939 and just under the same land mass as the USA to defend :-) even now we're only some 22 million compared to USA's 318 million on the roughly same land mass  :-)

  • PaulButler
    PaulButler Administrator

    Hi Ken,

    Thanks for that ; I thougt that might be the case - the war getting in the way. I had a 1939 Big Six which wasn't actually registered until 1946 over here in the UK.

    My 112 was registered on the 1st February 1939 as FLA 87. The number was sold before I got the car unfortunately back in 2006 however I am led to believe that it is still on the market and since I first looked the price seems to have dropped quite a lot so I'm hoping that at some stage soon I may be able to reunite the two

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