Rudy Bennett's '46 Hudson grille

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edited November -1 in HUDSON
Rudy sent me this picture in response to my inquiry about how his modified Hudson grille looked.



I had always wanted to see an early stepdown grille and the '46-47 body style intermingled.



This is the result of Rudy's work

Rudy_sGrille.jpg



I love it. This makes me want a 46/47 Hudson. This grille and a nice looking coupe I spotted at the Hudson's in the Heartland meet - have turned me around in my opinion of these cars.



Mark Hudson

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  • Huddy42
    Huddy42 Senior Contributor
    Looks a lot like the 1942 Hudson grill, I realise it is not but very similar
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Looks like a '50 grille. I think it's an improvement, sorta cleans up the front end. Good idea.
  • Jon B
    Jon B Administrator
    From my earliest years I was a car buff. In a letter to her mother, my mom marvelled at how her 4-year-old son could identify most cars on the highway. I knew Grandma's car was a '48 Hudson and could differentiate between that and the earlier models, but for some reason I called the 1946-7 models 'broken Hudsons". I'm not sure why I did that -- possibly I'd seen one in an accident somewhere, and assumed that all Hudsons of that era were damaged. However, I think it's because of the fact that the center part of the grille seemed 'missing', or perhaps "broken" to my young eyes. I'll bet I wasn't alone in looking at that indentation at the center of a '46-7 grille and wondering....."why?"
  • Aaron D. IL
    Aaron D. IL Senior Contributor
    That '46 '47 Grille is pretty distinctive though. called a "tunnel grille" most people who own them have put fog lights in that space as if the general concensus is that those accessories complete the grille. In Langworth's book someone he interviews credit's it as one of the first modern grilles because it was painted black behind the bars. Design credit was given to Art Kibiger described in the book as "a hippie". If you want basically that car without that grille you might as well buy a '42 model Hudson or maybe a '40-'41 model. Personally I like the '46-47's yeah they're a little gaudy but they're classy too you could sit in the big back seat and have a martini and feel like the king of England. LOL
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    Aaron D. IL wrote:
    That '46 '47 Grille is pretty distinctive though. called a "tunnel grille" most people who own them have put fog lights in that space as if the general concensus is that those accessories complete the grille. In Langworth's book someone he interviews credit's it as one of the first modern grilles because it was painted black behind the bars. Design credit was given to Art Kibiger described in the book as "a hippie". If you want basically that car without that grille you might as well buy a '42 model Hudson or maybe a '40-'41 model. Personally I like the '46-47's yeah they're a little gaudy but they're classy too you could sit in the big back seat and have a martini and feel like the king of England. LOL



    i would certainly agree with art. with out the "tunnel" effect all you have is a 41-42. the one in the above pix resembles a 46-48 chev if you just glance at it. . .
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    I like the way this grille looks! Nice and clean all the way across. Now, how do you get rid of that "bottlenose dolphin" hood nose? lol
  • Aaron D. IL
    Aaron D. IL Senior Contributor
    Gus Souza has a Barris Custom roadster where that was done to the hood, check it out on the MSN picture site.

    IT also has a hole cut in the hood to fit the twin H setup because the extra height in the hood was designed in originally for a mechanical reason beside the fact that it blended to the height of the cowl.
  • Geoff
    Geoff Senior Contributor
    I agree, it looks too much like a '46 -'47 Chevy. But then beauty is in the eye of the beholder as they say. Personally, I like the 'niche' grille in the '46-'47 Hudsons. Gave them a bit of characther.

    Geoff.
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    Nice look with what appears to be a '48 or '49 grille. My '50 Pacemaker had the '49 grille, and that made that car a lot better looking, as well. You'd have to really cross your eyes to see a '47 Chevy in that picture, IMO. Close, maybe, but not that close.
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    66patrick66 wrote:
    My '50 Pacemaker had the '49 grille, and that made that car a lot better looking, as well. You'd have to really cross your eyes to see a '47 Chevy in that picture, IMO. Close, maybe, but not that close.

    That 49 grille would look better on a '50 I agree. I think the 46-47 hoods look fine on the pickups, kinda gives them a big truck look, but I think the hood is too tall on the cars.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    My Dad and I were looking at the front of his restored 47 Hudson truck the other day, and he said... "You know, these things kinda look like Miss America with her two front teeth knocked out."



    Dany

    Hudsons get pleasure with KGAP rubbers
  • super651
    super651 Senior Contributor
    springspeeddemon wrote:
    My Dad and I were looking at the front of his restored 47 Hudson truck the other day, and he said... "You know, these things kinda look like Miss America with her two front teeth knocked out."



    Dany

    Hudsons get pleasure with KGAP rubbers



    Dany, I will try to install the Hood Nose Chrome strip from a 1941 Commadore as it will just touch the top of the 46 emblem crome.

    To Defuse the BIG-HUMP-NOSE-HOOD.



    But then it wont be a 46 right? And then the dash is getting the 49 gauges, And then under the hood will be the Most-Radical -308 Engine that i have ever built, A TURBOCHARGED -308 with a few inside Mods.+ MSD ign.System with boost retard control.

    Your Dad Spring is Right as mine was.

    Hudsonly to All Rudy.

    ( LETS ALL HAVE A GOOD TIME WITH THE HUDSONS THAT WE DRIVE AND SHOW,WE CUSTOMIZED THEM IN THE 1950s--60s-70s and doing it today)



    My Motto is, -I Would Rather Fix Than Switch- (man do i does a lot of dat)
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    super651 wrote:
    And then under the hood will be the Most-Radical -308 Engine that i have ever built, A TURBOCHARGED -308 with a few inside Mods.+ MSD ign.System with boost retard control.



    A WHAT??????
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    super651 wrote:
    Dany, I will try to install the Hood Nose Chrome strip from a 1941 Commadore as it will just touch the top of the 46 emblem crome.

    To Defuse the BIG-HUMP-NOSE-HOOD.



    But then it wont be a 46 right? And then the dash is getting the 49 gauges, And then under the hood will be the Most-Radical -308 Engine that i have ever built, A TURBOCHARGED -308 with a few inside Mods.+ MSD ign.System with boost retard control.

    Your Dad Spring is Right as mine was.

    Hudsonly to All Rudy.

    ( LETS ALL HAVE A GOOD TIME WITH THE HUDSONS THAT WE DRIVE AND SHOW,WE CUSTOMIZED THEM IN THE 1950s--60s-70s and doing it today)



    My Motto is, -I Would Rather Fix Than Switch- (man do i does a lot of dat)



    Rudy is my hero.



    I wanna be just like him when I grow up.



    Mark
  • Aaron D. IL
    Aaron D. IL Senior Contributor
    super651 wrote:
    And then under the hood will be the Most-Radical -308 Engine that i have ever built, A TURBOCHARGED -308 with a few inside Mods.+ MSD ign.System with boost retard control.

    )



    I knew a few kids in highschool that had that.
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