Hudson Hornet

And, you know, back then I, I still remember...

I would say it was probably about like 2019, I wou- I would say when I was like, I got the courage to be like, "All right, I'm gonna, I'm gonna attempt to chop the roof on this car," right? And it was a Hudson Hornet.

Uh, I believe it was a 53 and I had an extra just body because I had used, uh, a resin, uh, wagon which is the Heart of Gold model that I have on the kit.

So the kit was the donor but at the end I was left with just the body itself.

And then finally, like, I would sand it smooth and all that.

So then I went from the, from the Merc, I later chopped off, uh, uh...

Oh, no, no, not the Merc, the Hudson Hornet, right? '53 Hudson Hornet.

The next one was, like, a '49 Shoebox Ford.

51.

The Hudson Hornet, the last of the great inline sixes.

52.

The Nash Healey with a body by Pininfarina, a great marriage of European design and American engineering.

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favorite story is my 51 hudson hornet i had a 53 hudson and this lady calls me 94 years old

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You can see the video.

He had a 51 Hudson Hornet convertible.

$700,000 in the restaurant.

Racing has developed a beautiful C-type Jaguar.

The 1957 Hudson Hornet, now made famous by the Pixar Cars movie, but one perhaps that didn't, the 1953 Nash-Healey Le Mans Coupe.

I thought the back of it looked quite nice, but the front had inset lights that weren't on the mud guards, but were at the either end of a rather small grill.

I think they made 162, of which only 62 were the Le Mans Coupe.

Now, this was really part of what influenced and helped establish the methods used to design pavement thickness and durability for the interstate highways.

October the 16th, 1950, the Hudson Hornet.

If nothing else, you gotta love the name, the Hudson Hornet.

Unusual step-down construction, because what it did was, the, it was, uh, we used to call it channeling.

The body kinda sit down over the frame.

Now, it had a 308 cubic inch inline six, and it really became one of the most successful machines in early stock car racing.

This is back whenever they had win on Sunday, sell on Monday-type mentality.

This car became the fabulous Hudson Hornet.

this is-

This is, this is the Hudson Hornet, which would become a character in the movie Cars.

Right.

Uh, it's an actual car, uh, with the most powerful inline six that, um, the American auto industry had ever or would ever manufacture.

In 1952, the, uh, the 1952 Lincoln is also a very beautiful car, the Ford Motor Company's top-of-the-line model.

The '52 Lincoln took part in a 2,000-mile race called the Carrera Panamericana and beat all the other cars, including all the other European contestants.

It, it beat the Hudson Hornet, it beat Chrysler, and it beat Ferrari.

In all, I think there were four Lincolns in the r- race, and they finished in the top four spots or something like that.

I mean, he had Porsches, Mustangs, Falcons, all V8 stuff.

He had a Hudson Hornet, original engine, turbocharged, five-speed manual gearbox.

I mean, he was a crazy man.

And as we were leaving, I saw this yellow Model T. I just happened to mention to this guy I had just met, you know, I've always wanted to drive a Model T across the United States.

Hmm.

And some actual like, like, um, props from different locations, like the, uh, Hudson Hornet.

There's a actual badge from a car called The Hornet-

Oh, cool