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Some dim bulb walked up to the late Jim Fortin at a cruise night in MA and asked Jim if the Hudson Jet Jim and his son Dana had brought to the cruise was an "English Ford!!"
Well, upon reflection, it does bear a slight resemblence to the Opels of that era. And some of the Anglias also.
Hudsonly,
Alex burr0 -
mrsbojigger wrote:Come on Jay, it depends on where you have your feet. A-h-h you young whippersnappers! Toe prints on the headliner.
Peace,
Chaz
And in those 30's Hudsons (and other cars) what were those straps on either side by the back doors for???
Hudsonly,
Alex B0 -
faustmb wrote:Is this another reference to the roomy back seat?:D This other club sounds pretty good, not too interested in airplanes though. Hopefully the HSA has a lot more young females than the HET.
Matt
This has to be my favorite answer to my favorite post. I still laugh when I read them.
For a very long time, I couldn't pull up the HET website on my work computer due the "sex" in "essex". The porno filter kept me out.
Mark0 -
I call those straps, ankle straps, and the women laugh when I tell them
I've been told several times at car shows that my 54 wasp has been lowered and that no way were they that low stock.
I've been asked many times "who made Hudson?
another comment I get is that my car must be really heavy, when I tell them its 3800 lbs they don't believe it.
But my favorite thing is to invite people to sit in the car, I always get smiles when they do.0 -
How 'bout all the people you run into, as I have-- young AND old, for Pete's sake-- that think "Doc Hudson" was just a car made up for the movie and not based on an actual automobile?
I heard a duesy on the radio the other day-- a couple of morning radio DJs (a group of people with virtually no intelligence to begin with) were discussing the "Cars" movie and made the asinine comment: "Wasn't the Hudson Hornet only made for one year and then vanished?" AAAAAAUGH!!!! Crap like this is why so many people make stupid comments like this about Hudsons and other marques in the first place... idiots teaching idiots how to be idiots.....:mad: :mad: :mad:0 -
here in australia holden made a 308ci V8, it can take a long time to explain that hudson made a 308 15 years before holden did. even my friends dad, who has been a rodder since forever (60s?) gets confused and tries to tell me i must have a holden engine. "no its a straight 6 flathead" the looks are priceless0
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I always get a kick out of people asking "what year is it" when the licence plate, licence plate frame and a sign in the window clearly state the year. Plates like "1953HUD" "50HUDSN" you'd think would be fairly obvious. A YOM plate makes it pretty clear, too. I have a YOM plate on the front of my '40, and the rear plate is "40QTPI" which nobody gets, either. What can I say? My wife bought it for me for my 40th birthday, apparently (at least back then) she thought I was a cutie pie.0
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Interesting about the DJ comment of "One Year Production" for Hornets, as even in the movie they mention something about several years of racing championships.
For many years my '29 had a custom plate on the front that said "1929 Hudson". People would walk right past the front of the car, then ask what year. I have a YOM plate on the back, and they still ask. Now, I'm not necessarily irritated by that, but use your head. When someone comes up with questions, I'm more than happy to answer. But to come up with a comment that is wrong and believed factual irritates me. I believe it was George Santyana that said, "It's not what you don't know, but what you do know that isn't so that scares me."0 -
Don't get angry---->:mad:, get even---->:D Just reach out and slap someone. You'll feel better. :rolleyes:0
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jamcoats wrote:But to come up with a comment that is wrong and believed factual irritates me. I believe it was George Santyana that said, "It's not what you don't know, but what you do know that isn't so that scares me."
Absolutely. "Hudson never made trucks," "This car is chopped/channelled/lowered," etc. etc. I have heard guys stand beside my car (or another Hudson) and tell his friends all about them...without getting one thing correct. The head of the automotive department of our local community college told a group that splasher engines were short-lived and couldn't ever be revved above 3,000. I felt like jumping up and arguing, but what's the point? Ignorance is its own reward...:rolleyes:0 -
jamcoats wrote:Interesting about the DJ comment of "One Year Production" for Hornets, as even in the movie they mention something about several years of racing championships.
For many years my '29 had a custom plate on the front that said "1929 Hudson". People would walk right past the front of the car, then ask what year. I have a YOM plate on the back, and they still ask. Now, I'm not necessarily irritated by that, but use your head. When someone comes up with questions, I'm more than happy to answer. But to come up with a comment that is wrong and believed factual irritates me. I believe it was George Santyana that said, "It's not what you don't know, but what you do know that isn't so that scares me."
But then occasionally you get a smart one. I have a '48 with "year of manufacture" plate- but the plate is a '47! Reason- Washington didn't make new plates in 1948, just continued to use the '47 plate with a window sticker for '48. (They never did it again, as the State Patrol complained that they couldn't tell who had renewed their plates and who had not). Guy at a meet looked at the plate, then at the car, then back at the plate- you could see the "wheels were turning." I told him the story, and he was relieved that he hadn't been crazy after all. Coincidentally, I parked at one show next to a '46 Ford with a '45 plate- same deal. We were both a little irritated that we couldn't get the proper year.
Of course, I get the normal Merc comments and all the others- including a guy who criticized the car because it didn't have the "vacuum shifter"- They all came out with it, what happened to mine? :mad:0 -
Yesterday at a local parts shop in my '28 Essex Coach this old gentleman comes over - "I had a 31 Model A like that"
Another common one is - "English are they?"
Alistair0 -
I get my share of "Who made it" and "What is it" questions as well, regarding our '54 Kaiser Manhattan. You'd think people can't read fender script or YOM plates. The majority of people who see the factory-stock McCulloch blower on the '54's flathead six can't believe it and think right away it's a customization, despite the fact that the solenoid badge atop it clearly reads, "KAISER Supercharger" (in place of "McCulloch"). Well, it is customized--from the factory!
Even the Jeep lovers can't put two-and-two together when they read the firewall plate and see "Kaiser Motors Corp., Toledo, Ohio." I then have to explain to them about Kaiser buying Willys in '53, keeping the Willys name for ten years, then changing to "Kaiser Jeep Corporation" in '63 until the AMC buyout in '69. You'd think most Jeepers should already know that.
Which leads me into the whole "Willys" thing. I have seen many people who own Willys vehicles, Jeeps or otherwise, write on their own car-show window ID card, "Willy's." Now this may simply be the result of doing poorly in school, but again you'd think they would at least read the script/manufacturer tag on their own vehicle! Yes, I get mad over a lousy apostrophe!
Also, I think most people don't realize that it's actually pronounced "Willis" and not "Willies." (There's a '54 Aero-Willys radio commercial by Eve Arden on http://www.torq-o.com.) I've also heard a story (probably apocryphal) that one thing John North Willys liked about being the U.S. Ambassador to Poland is that people over there could pronounce his name correctly. Being Polish, I can tell you that the Polish "y" is pronounced with a short "i" sound as in "bit" and "pitch." (Although their "w" is pronounced as our "v," and "i" is the English long "e" so his name would've come out "Veelis"....)
I could prattle on and on... just thought I'd share some of my own frustrating experiences with the ignorance of the masses.0
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