Great Example Of An EBay Ad

"I saw this ad and thought that the pictures of all the angles and undercarriage of this car were excellent."



I thought the same thing. I'm amazed by how photographing it down low gave the car a broader stance and a more substantial aspect than it really has. I've always thought that '49 - '51 Nashs were rather humble looking. I know these cars fairly well. My older brother used to own Nashs back when we were teens. He loved the fold down seats for drive-ins, etc. Shortly after I bought my second car (and first Hudson - a '52 Hornet sedan) he needed to replace another transmission in one of his Nashs. The junk yard that had one was about an hours drive out of town, so I loaned him my Hornet. He made the trip with one of his buddies who also owned a similar Nash. (Neither of them had ever ridden in a Hudson). When they returned, they were both gushing about the Hudson - it's ride, power and handling. A compliment from my brother was a particularly rare thing at that age. I was beaming.

There were many things about these under-powered vehicles that I recall disliking, but my most vivid recollection was how they cornered. We lived on a corner, and I can recall getting in the car on the passenger side, his diving about thirty feet to the corner and then turning right. In an instant, the poor Nash would roll around the corner and I'd be thrust way up in the air while it looked like my brother driving it was sitting on the ground. I'm not kidding you, even at the slowest of speeds these cars felt liike they were going to capsize when turning corners. It's never, ever been lost on me that this was the sort of engineering that would, starting in 1955, hold the Hornet engine and carry the name Hudson. Hudson never had a chance to survive that merger.