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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)
Welcome to the group; glad to see another Hudson here. I think the widget in the photo is an aftermarket "top end" lubricator. It injected oil...
[IMG] Here's my neglected 53 Hornet. I've been reading the HAMB for the last few days and got inspired to de-tarp it, pull it forward a few...
"Step down" is the style of Hudson. All Hudsons from 1948-1954 were called "step downs" because the floor pan sits inside the frame, flush with...
It's definitely a Hudson stepdown speedo. I checked the one in my '53 Hornet for comparison: [IMG]
Diamond T's are awesome. My Dad was a dragline operator and his employer used one similar to this to move his equipment in the 1970's: [IMG]
"Mouse Piss Smell on My New Seat" sounds like a really good name for a rock-and-roll band...
One thing I've heard and done (on a Hudson flathead) that I've not seen mentioned above is to slightly countersink all the headbolt holes, both on...
The only Tuckers were 1948 models and they only made 51 of them. Go to the video store or Netflix and get "Tucker: the Man and His Dream" with...
Watch it turn out to be a lost Tucker....
Cool photos. You could definitely improve things near the outlet with some hand grinding. I wonder if anyone's ever tried to Extrude-Hone these...
If you can take them the pieces, a machine shop should be able to make you a new throttle shaft without too much trouble.
I remember reading about Smokey's work on that in the early 80's (?). Some magazine I had interviewed him about one of the cars and even took it...
Gebhard- I think that's a cool snag. I had read about George Kudasch not long ago and how he had no idea of the fame of Ardun heads until a few...
Yea, no kidding. I saw it when it was here in Charleston and you could tell it had been a cool ship in the day. I remember a friend of mine back...
Smokey also said that while he was best known for his ingenious ways of circumventing the rules, he much preferred building race cars with a...
ZZ- the way I remember the story he had the starter ring gear pressed off first, drilled the holes, then pressed the ring gear back on which...
CV- the nuclear powered ship, NS Savannah, was there from 1981 until 1994 but it's gone now. According to Wikipedia, it's presently in Norfolk...
LOWFOMOCO- Great story. Nice to see some old SC iron get saved. The 40 looks very good from what the photos show. OTOH from what I've seen pine...
Given the weather forecast (50% chance of SNOW tomorrow), you'll probably want to do inside stuff. Definitely see the Hunley- it's an amazing...
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