Never know whether to be Offended or Complimented

50C8DAN wrote:

A guy showed up at the shop helping me with my '50C8 and saw it setting there without the grill. He said to one of the guys, wow what a cool old chopped Merc! If people only realized that Hudson predated the Merc-look before Mercury did they would be surprised. Of course I get similar comments with my Studebaker Hawk. Guys will insist that Ford made the engines (The Studebaker 289 V8 predated any Ford 289 V8 by several years!), that you could order a factory Chrysler Hemi in Studebakers new. It just never stops. Independents sometimes just don't get the credit they deserve!

Yep the way people talk you'd think the big 3 were the only ones who ever made cars. Even people who are fairy knowledgable about cars otherwise don't know much about em... some think they know, but they really don't know. You have to do some homework. It's up to us HET owners to do the educating that's part of why we should show our cars at more multi-make meets.

Hudson's do not look like Mercs, Mercs look like Hudsons...and they are more cheaply constructed versions of Hudsons I might add. People chop Mercs to get them to look like Hudsons which came from the factory with 11" windows and smoother body panels.

Nevada Hudson wrote:

AMC made the 327 v8 in 1957 ( Their own) , years before chevrolet.

And there are STILL people who swear AMC "stole" the 327 from Chevy. heheheeh



Hudsonly,

Alex B