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There was a story in the Hudson Essex Terraplane Club's magazine a few years back about a 1947 Hudson Commodore that was spotted by some American...
I know one thing that would destroy Hydramatics was towing a dead car on its wheels. The Hydramatic had a front fluid pump driven off the engine...
My dad ran construction equipment in the states during WWII, building runways and roads mostly. Remember that gas, tires, and other car...
That looks like typical 308 cracking from what I've seen. If you're going to that much trouble, relieving the block would be worth the trouble....
I'll be interested to see what kind of replies you get to this. Judging from old auto shop books, this used to be a fairly standard procedure....
It looks self-energizing to me. That appears to be the right front brake. The drum would rotate clockwise, so the action of the brake shoes...
I found a couple of small photos of chopped Jet: [IMG] [IMG]
Surely somebody's done a custom Jet with a chopped roof- that'd be interesting to see.
Here's the pre-Nash merger prototype full-size 1955 Hudson, the "X-161". It was basically a 4-door Italia on the larger stepdown chassis: [IMG]...
Supposedly the Jet was originally styled by Hudson stylist Frank Spring with a much lower roofline which made it a much nicer looking car. One of...
^^ 327 with 283 crank = 302 (big bore, short stroke) 283 with 327 crank = 307 (small bore, long stroke)
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