Take a ride in Liberace's Hudson????

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what kind of Hudson do you think Liberace would own????



Here you go, let's take it around the block!!!!



Liberace's Hudson

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  • frank spring
    frank spring Expert Adviser
    hudsonkid wrote:
    what kind of Hudson do you think Liberace would own????



    Here you go, let's take it around the block!!!!



    Liberace's Hudson
    Please, lets not all get sucked in by this. If you believe the Liberace story then you will also beleive the owner when he says there are only 5 Italias left. I guess if you put it on youtube, it must be right.
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    frank spring wrote:
    Please, lets not all get sucked in by this. If you believe the Liberace story then you will also beleive the owner when he says there are only 5 Italias left. I guess if you put it on youtube, it must be right.





    OK. I'll ask the question.........How many Italia's were produced and how many remain that we know of?



    Nice looking car, however.
  • SamJ
    SamJ Senior Contributor
    From the Jan/Feb 2004 WTN...
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    Yeah, that Ed Souers guy should get together with Frank Spring, and teach him a thing or two about italias.... ;)



    Anyway, I found the video, and thought I would forward it. So what you are saying there is no documentation to support that Liberace ever owned the italia? I figure you know more than we do about these, frank spring.



    I don't know, I just thought it was a cool clip.



    further, did anyone notice the speaker grates in the back? They got music notes on them.



    I so wanted to include in there, somewhere, "How Liberace Rolls...." that would have been so cool.
  • Unknown
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    I'd say more, but I'm busy putting piano key motifs in all my (Liberace owned) cars.
  • frank spring
    frank spring Expert Adviser
    Dave53-7C wrote:
    I'd say more, but I'm busy putting piano key motifs in all my (Liberace owned) cars.
    Perfect. The history of this car can be traced back to 1963. And there is not one shread of paper or anything else pointing this car to any famous piano player. This is the car that recenly fetched a bid in Arizona of $250,000 but did not meet the reserve. In the program book from the sale it says, there is no evidence that he owned it, but he could have. I love that. The research I have done has show that he was a Ford man. He loved his T-birds. In fact the Ford dealers were pretty much obligated to give him one when he rolled into town, and they prayed they got it back. I am with you, where do we get more of those speaker grills manufactured? But really HudsonKid, I do apprecitate you putting this out there, its always good to see an Italia, even if it is the wrong color, has the wrong interior and is rolling on the wrong wheels.
  • frank spring
    frank spring Expert Adviser
    SamJ wrote:
    From the Jan/Feb 2004 WTN...
    Five of the cars have changed hands since this list was published.
  • SamJ
    SamJ Senior Contributor
    frank spring wrote:
    Five of the cars have changed hands since this list was published.



    I just wanted to show that more than 5 were accounted for. I'd like to print a new list in WTN soon, Frank...:o
  • frank spring
    frank spring Expert Adviser
    SamJ wrote:
    I just wanted to show that more than 5 were accounted for. I'd like to print a new list in WTN soon, Frank...:o
    Sam, I have just taken over the registry from Carl Laska, so I will bringing the list up to date after tax season. I am also going to be working on a reunion at the 2009 National for the Italias and see how many we can bring together. That should be fun.
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    frank spring, we could do video of yours, if oyu want to bring it to doc's meet. I must say, i will expect at least one smoky burnout!!! (okay, just kidding)



    One thing, i hate to admit, is watching th evideo of this one, i kind of fell for the window line of the car. The stance looks too high, perhaps the wheels? but I like it.
  • Unknown
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    frank spring wrote:
    Perfect. The history of this car can be traced back to 1963. And there is not one shread of paper or anything else pointing this car to any famous piano player. This is the car that recenly fetched a bid in Arizona of $250,000 but did not meet the reserve. In the program book from the sale it says, there is no evidence that he owned it, but he could have. I love that. The research I have done has show that he was a Ford man. He loved his T-birds. In fact the Ford dealers were pretty much obligated to give him one when he rolled into town, and they prayed they got it back. I am with you, where do we get more of those speaker grills manufactured? But really HudsonKid, I do apprecitate you putting this out there, its always good to see an Italia, even if it is the wrong color, has the wrong interior and is rolling on the wrong wheels.



    This reminds me of a story concerning a friend of a friend who owns an upholstery shop in TX. He is a Cadillac guy who took a 1976 Eldorado convertible and cloned it into what a 1978 Eldorado convertible would have looked like, should Cadillac have ever built them. He transplanted the front clip and rear end treatment to make the 76 into a 78. Then, he transplanted a 1978 coupe exclusive interior and painted the car in a 1978 Cadillac color. He sold the car on eBay. Within a month of the sale, it reappeared on eBay as having been custom built for Frank Sinatra...for double the money!
  • Browniepetersen
    Browniepetersen Senior Contributor
    Frank,

    It will be good to see a display of the Italias at the National. I remember seeing one once, and I think it was in Reno in Bill's collection, but I am not sure I might be thinking about the Tucker?



    Not that this means much but during the 70's and 80's I worked for a one man restoration shop here in Utah that did a bunch of cars for Las Vegas folks and Liberace was one of his customers. I visited his collection several times during that time and do not remember seeing any Italias. Bunch of Packards, Lincolns, Cad's and one RR, but not a single Italia? Folklore is a fun medium but never seems to relate to the facts?

    Brownie
  • frank spring
    frank spring Expert Adviser
    Browniepetersen wrote:
    Frank,

    It will be good to see a display of the Italias at the National. I remember seeing one once, and I think it was in Reno in Bill's collection, but I am not sure I might be thinking about the Tucker?



    Not that this means much but during the 70's and 80's I worked for a one man restoration shop here in Utah that did a bunch of cars for Las Vegas folks and Liberace was one of his customers. I visited his collection several times during that time and do not remember seeing any Italias. Bunch of Packards, Lincolns, Cad's and one RR, but not a single Italia? Folklore is a fun medium but never seems to relate to the facts?

    Brownie

    Brownie, Ironically, the car we are talking about here, is the one that came out of the Harrah collection many years ago. So now you can say you saw THE car.
  • hudsontech
    hudsontech Senior Contributor
    frank spring wrote:
    Sam, I have just taken over the registry from Carl Laska, so I will bringing the list up to date after tax season. I am also going to be working on a reunion at the 2009 National for the Italias and see how many we can bring together. That should be fun.



    I'd like to see a bag full of Italias at the 2009 National - I thought 3 at Nashville in 1999 was really something.



    Hudsonly,

    Alex Burr
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