1957 Hornet 6

hudsontech wrote:

Recently, on one of my egroups, someone was inquring about a 308 powered '57 Hornet, in Austraila.

Is it possible some of these were actually produced for export only?? Would be an interesting item to have in the garage for sure.

Anybody got any clues - we must have some Aussie friends wandering around this forum.



Hudsonly,

Alex B

I was told by a friend of mine who was a Nash/Hudson dealer during 1957 that six cylinder production was normally only for the Austrailian market, but he was able to get an American verision to satisfy a customer that had ordered a 1956 Custom Hollywood late in the season, and somehow the order had been lost. So, AMC produced at least one American six cylinder Hornet - A Custom Hollywood with most of the bells and whistles of the time.



I tried to locate the car in 1974, because my friend (the now retired dealer) had told me the customer still had the car, and was looking to get rid of it.

As it turned out, it had become a rust bucket in the worst way, and I was no longer interested.



53jetman

Jerry Bean

In Australia we got 2 varieties of 57 Hudson sedan. Don't know that any Hollywoods ever came here.



There was the old high roof 56 shell with 57 trim (with 56 trim holes filled in where necessary) and 308, which was assembled in Australia as were the earlier cars.



Then there was the 'proper' low roof 57 with the AMC V8, not sure if they were assembled here or came in fully built up.



And of course you all know about the 58 Hudsons sold in Australia.