Intergenerational HET
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Dad bought a '46 S6 sd., used, probably in '46-7, from the Hudson dealer.
He traded it in about '50 for a used '48 C8 sd. I got my drivers license in '52 & in '53 loosened a rod in the '48 trying to get it to go 90 mph (with no o.d., a STRAIN, LOL). In '53, while in H. S., got a part time job working at the Hudson dealer (have clock from the dealership!) & dad traded in the '48, now needing engine work, for a new '53 H sd. (light grey lower, black top, no Twin H). I bought my 1st Hudson, a '49 S6 cp., in '55 & drove it to college for several years.0 -
:)I remember as a small child that my uncle had a two tone green '46 Hudson Super 8 tudor sedan that he bought in California and drove up to Seattle when I first saw it, that was probably in 1947-48. He and his family travelled all over the western united states with that Hudson, quite often towing a big heavy long{for the time} Sparton House trailer. They lved the Hudson but the trailer was to much for it as my uncle replaced the clutch several times and the engine at least once in the six or seven years that he had it. In the early fifties, he traded it in on a new brnad x that was used as a family car. Never towed a trailer of any kind with it. My aunt used to talk what a great car that Hudson was.My first Hudson was a '50 super "6" sedan and eventually bought a '53 Hornet sedan. After letting people talk me into having Fords and Chevies, I soon found another Hudson, a '49 Commodore "6" sedan that I drove all over the country and owned for several years. There has been several Hudsons sunce. My younger son is into Hudsons, so the Hudson brand will be in the family for quite some time.0
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My dad had a 35 Hudson 8 back in the late 40's, (before I was born) and always bragged about it's feats of power. We are from Marion, Wythville area of Virginia, and claimed he could top any hill in the area in high gear. My Brother in the 50's, had a 29 Essex coupe that he claimed would do 90, mech brakes and all. Then in 1960, my brother bought my uncles 52 hollywood. I was only 5 but I remembered the dash, both gauges looking like clocks, thought it was cool as the dickens. I also got to hear my first "Rock" song in it, "Michael row the boat ashore". Lots of memories from childhood to today. Got to love em'0
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This is our family car in 1954, Ontario, Canada. Us kids had lots of room in the back seat...:cool:0
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Don't know if this counts much..but my parents joined the club in '84 and restored their '52 wasp hollywood. We did a lot of travling in it when i was younger and in other hudson products too.
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My Dad had a 1925 Hudson coach in the mid-30's - it brought me home from the hospital when I was born.
Cute story about that - it was time for Mother to go have me - the Hudson had a flat tire in the driveway of our home. I've been told Dad skinned at least 12 knuckles trying to change that tire. LOL
He and his Dad also had a 1937 Terraplane Utility Coupe they used in Grand-dad's florist business in the late 1930's - I don't know if it had the sliding box in it, tho.
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
HudsonTech
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My first ride just over 79 years ago was in a 1927 Essex roadster. I was 2 weeks old and moved into our new home. My Dad always had Hudson built cars. A 29 Super six he built into a wrecker to use in his Garage business. My first car was a 32 Essex coupe. After school one day when I got to the shop Dad told me there was a car for me but it had a dead miss. I run it awhile on five cylinders before we found another engine. Tore my old engine apart and some one had put a piece of wood turned to fit in one of the cylinders where the bore had a hole knocked in it from running it with the piston bursted and the rod had beat the hole. My next was was another 32 Essex Terraplane coupe next a 41 Traveler 2 door. Next was a 46 Super 8 sedan which I traded for a 49 Com 8 sedan. Traded it for a 52 Hornet sedan in 54. Still have it along with my 54 Jet liner. 47 pickup, 54 Hornet and 51 super 6 my Dad built into a pickup. So in my 79 years there has always been a HET around. From my first 32 in 43 or 44 I have not been without a Hudson0
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I'm only a young fellah in the following picture taken about 1964. The other was taken out front of our house about the same time. So that's where I got the bug from. 0 -
Billy K.TN. wrote:
NOW that someone who's been around Hudsons' Plus the fact he is older than me. Other than that my 1933 Terp 8 Coupe pictured in my avatar was bought new by my uncle. Now I have turned it over to my youngest son to use and enjoy. Both my sons drove Hudson to High School.My first ride just over 79 years ago was in a 1927 Essex roadster. I was 2 weeks old and moved into our new home. My Dad always had Hudson built cars. A 29 Super six he built into a wrecker to use in his Garage business. My first car was a 32 Essex coupe. After school one day when I got to the shop Dad told me there was a car for me but it had a dead miss. I run it awhile on five cylinders before we found another engine. Tore my old engine apart and some one had put a piece of wood turned to fit in one of the cylinders where the bore had a hole knocked in it from running it with the piston bursted and the rod had beat the hole. My next was was another 32 Essex Terraplane coupe next a 41 Traveler 2 door. Next was a 46 Super 8 sedan which I traded for a 49 Com 8 sedan. Traded it for a 52 Hornet sedan in 54. Still have it along with my 54 Jet liner. 47 pickup, 54 Hornet and 51 super 6 my Dad built into a pickup. So in my 79 years there has always been a HET around. From my first 32 in 43 or 44 I have not been without a Hudson0 -
I'll probably get some reactions from this but it's all in fun! I grew up in the fifties and early sixties. My family always had OLDSMOBILE 88's because they were the FASTEST!!!! We actually made FUN of Hudsons (Not as much as Nashes though!). My Dad did buy My Mom a '55 Studebaker Speedster as a second car, which was really neat. My first car was a 53 Olds 88. We're still an Oldsmobile family (I have 2 50 88's, 2 53 Holiday 88's, 2 56 88's and 2 65s, a Cutlass post coupe and a 442 Conv) I had a friend in the ealy 80's that had a 50 Hudson Brougham. I liked the coupes better and bought one (52 wasp coupe) by the mid 80's. I was really looking for a Hornet coupe at the time and found one down in Lexington Ky, a 53 coupe that came home in the early 90's. Another 52 hornet coupe came in 2003 while I was looking for something to street rod, but I couldn't bring myself to rod it. I guess "Hudsonkid" grew up with the Hudsons in the family and we bought him one for a XMas present when he was 15 or so.0
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My Dad's first Hudson was a '49 Super 6 coupe. The first photo is myself and his '51 Super 6 coupe in 1955. The next photo is my '54 Hornet in 1965. The recent photo is from 2007.
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Back in the '60s I used to drive a '28 Essex around the farm etc and that was when I was bitten by the bug. It wasn't road worthy but I had a lot of fun. Now, 30 years later, I have that car back (the one on the left on my avatar) - in slightly better condition now than back then!!
Alistair, NZ0 -
I was told my grandfather had a 1940 Hudson. My father Dick Royer bought a 1952 Hornet convertible shortly after I was born, but sold it to buy a rambler station wagon to haul us three kids around. He did later track it down and bought it back in the late 1960's. He was in the process of restoring it when he died in 1992. Dad also had a 1957 Hornet coupe when I was in elementary school. He later purchased a 1947 sedan when I was in high school. In the 80's he bought a 1930 Essex. And to my mother's dismay, he had for a very short time a Pacemaker sedan and a couple of parts cars! When my brother, sister and I got our first cars they were are Hornets. Though none of those Hudsons are in the family now, I still have a soft spot for Hudsons. My nephew, "Royer" on this forum, has got two Hudsons and each time I visit him I get the urge to get one again.0
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Ok Uncle Bill, I just got off the phone with my Dad, and he's positive that the Hash was a '56 Hollywood with the big Packard V-8. They also had the Terraplane that burnt up in Wayne Corle's body shop fire.0
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My Dad was telling me his two Hornets were the second most unreliable cars he's owned (his Fiat 850 gets the number one unreliable spot). Three or four blown 308's, two trashed Hydramatics, and many blown head gaskets, not to mention the broken axles.
I think it was just the way he drove them.:D0 -
My dad had a 1937 Terraplane Model 70 Utility Coupe that we used to haul milk to my uncle's dairy. We kept it during WW2 since it was classed as a truck and we were able to get tires and gas during the rationing.
I picked up a 1946 Super Six 4 dr sedan for the college years.
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royer wrote:My Dad was telling me his two Hornets were the second most unreliable cars he's owned (his Fiat 850 gets the number one unreliable spot). Three or four blown 308's, two trashed Hydramatics, and many blown head gaskets, not to mention the broken axles.
I think it was just the way he drove them.:D
Royer, you are correct in that my father had a 56 and not a 57 Hudson. And just like your dad, my father had transmission problems with his 57. If I remember correctly, it had only one gear working when he traded it on a new 1965 Impala SS convertible. Dad only had the SS a year, for he had to replace the clutch several times! He then traded it on a new 1966 Impala convertible with an automatic. Seems to me that your father drove that 65 SS a lot as a teenager! Maybe it wasn't the Hornets or the Impala SS. It just may have been your dad. LOL0 -
I bought the red one in June of 55 and wrecked it 3 mo later. Thankfully the girl, (we'll be married 52 yrs next mo.) wasn't with me.
The black one I bought 6 mo later for $100 and drove it for 8 years.
3 of our kids grew up in it. This pic was after a trip to the tourist traps in the Adirondacks, around 1958
My grandfather, Ernie, had an Essex in the early 40s.0 -
We usually had 3 Hudsons around - a Pickup , club coupe , and a 4dr0
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Dad had a gas station from the early 40's through the late 60's, along side he sold used cars. I remember a number of Hudson's that he bought in the early 50's and sold. The one that he had the longest was a 47 Truck that he put the business name on and beat to death. Do not know what happened to any of them. But on a lighter side. We have a member (late 50's) who bought a Hudson truck just before he got his drivers licence. he still drives it today--every now and then.0
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broyer wrote:If I remember correctly, it had only one gear working when he traded it on a new 1965 Impala SS convertible. Dad only had the SS a year, for he had to replace the clutch several times! He then traded it on a new 1966 Impala convertible with an automatic. Seems to me that your father drove that 65 SS a lot as a teenager! Maybe it wasn't the Hornets or the Impala SS. It just may have been your dad. LOL
He blames the Chevy clutch problems on Aunt Jackie, not because of her clutch skills, but her drag racing. Dad also wanted to clarify that he only had one broken axle, Aunt Jackie had 3 or 4 broken axles.:D
I wonder if genetics had anything to do with the 4 transmissions I went through on the '78 Olds I had in college.:cool:0 -
super-six wrote:My Dad's first Hudson was a '49 Super 6 coupe. The first photo is myself and his '51 Super 6 coupe in 1955. The next photo is my '54 Hornet in 1965. The recent photo is from 2007.
I know your 54 coupe, nice car, one of my favorites.0 -
hudsondad wrote:I'll probably get some reactions from this but it's all in fun! I grew up in the fifties and early sixties. My family always had OLDSMOBILE 88's because they were the FASTEST!!!! We actually made FUN of Hudsons (Not as much as Nashes though!). My Dad did buy My Mom a '55 Studebaker Speedster as a second car, which was really neat. My first car was a 53 Olds 88. We're still an Oldsmobile family (I have 2 50 88's, 2 53 Holiday 88's, 2 56 88's and 2 65s, a Cutlass post coupe and a 442 Conv) I had a friend in the ealy 80's that had a 50 Hudson Brougham. I liked the coupes better and bought one (52 wasp coupe) by the mid 80's. I was really looking for a Hornet coupe at the time and found one down in Lexington Ky, a 53 coupe that came home in the early 90's. Another 52 hornet coupe came in 2003 while I was looking for something to street rod, but I couldn't bring myself to rod it. I guess "Hudsonkid" grew up with the Hudsons in the family and we bought him one for a XMas present when he was 15 or so.
I grew up in an Oldsmobile family. We had those because my dad wanted to get all the cars he had in high school. One day, around 1985, we got our first stepdown hudson. It was a 52 wasp coupe. Oh my dad drove that car, drove it so hard he blew it up, and had to rebuild the motor. Anyway, we were bitten with the hudson bug. We ended up buying many more, mostly for parts, but a few of the coupes that came along were saved. I got my first car along in 1990 or so, for christmas. It's my 50 C-6 I still have after 17 years. Funny, I guess I have been around hudsons for quite a long time, as well. I still think the oldsmobiles are there, but they don't seem to get a lot of attention from dad. I think he knows the hudsons are way cooler, maybe not as fast as a rocket 88, but still look cool!0
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