The Talepipe December 2018 Fallbrook Vintage Car Club
The Talepipe December 2018 Fallbrook Vintage Car Club A Region of the Antique Automobile Club of America About This Month’s Cover – by Don McCormick Prior to the Nash merger, Hudson had a great A DASH OF HASH reputation, and was early into new models The last year Hudsons were produced, 1957, they following WWII with their famous “step down” were commonly called “Hashs” because they were frame design, launched in 1948. The passenger really a Nash underneath, with Hudson badging compartment was down inside the perimeter of and name plates. So here’s the DASH of a 1957 the frame. The result was a safer car, and more Hudson. You importantly, lowered the center of gravity might re- providing member that in extremely 1954 Hudson good merged with handling. the Nash-Kel- The dash vinator Corp, was also the parent of well done the Nash auto and ahead manufacturer. As with several smaller auto man- of the competition at that time. Hudson’s strong, ufacturers, it was difficult to compete with Big 3’s light weight body and styling departments and cash reserves in the 50’s. engine design made So the 1957’s were built on the Nash platform and these Hornets of ’50- body in the Kenosha WI AMC factory. The ’57 was ’54 champions on the really quite good looking, and starting in ’55 a race circuit. Here’s Packard built V-8 some more of these with Ultramatic step down models. was offered as This is a 1951 model, a favorite of many. well as the standard Hudson 5.0 L Six, although the dual carb Twin-H power option was dropped by 1956.
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