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New book "Your Hometown Hudson Dealer"
  • 37 CTS37 CTS
    Posts: 510Platinum Member
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    The new book, "Your Hometown Hudson Dealer" will be offered at the Oklahoma City National HET Meet. This book will feature 7000 Hudson dealer listings. Also, there are Hudson dealership stories and 20 pages of dealership photos. The price will be $29.95.
    See Sheldon Rody to purchase your copy.

    After I return from the National I will notify on the Forum when I have copies available for shipping through US Postal Service.
  • 37 CTS37 CTS
    Posts: 510Platinum Member
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    The rear cover is the 1949 map of dealerships from the large sales brochure

    Standard Printing did an outstanding job of makeing the book look so good.
    They are the printers of the WTN.
  • frank springfrank spring
    Posts: 327Gold Member
    Sheldon, I am looking forward to getting a copy of the book. The story goes that my Italia was sold by a company by the name of Pacific Sales in California. Looking forward to seeing if it is the book. Ed
  • 37 CTS37 CTS
    Posts: 510Platinum Member
    Pacific Sales is listed with an address and the year 1955 was verified

    SR
  • bignick46733bignick46733
    Posts: 2Hitchhiker
    LOOKIN' FORWARD TO OUR COPY ON THE COFFEE TABLE. OH, WAIT.......WE AIN'T GOT A COFFEE TABLE! LEMME KNOW WHEN THE NEW SHIPMENT ARRIVES!
  • hudsontechhudsontech
    Posts: 4,047Platinum Member
    Great book to have on the shelf. Sheldon went overboard in trying to get it right. And the nice thing about it is if you find any errors he won't get mad if you tell him about the errors. He will get mad if you DON'T tell him, tho. He even has a page you can make corrections on and then send it to him.

    Well, maybe a little huffy. LOL

    Hudsonly,
    Alex Burr
    Memphis, TN
  • Aaron D. IL
    Posts: 1,648Platinum Member
    I wanted to take the roster data and make a dot-map similar to that dealership map. I wanted a copy of both actually so I could do an overlay and you could see visually where the dealerships were vs. where the surviving Hudsons/owners are located now. Not only would it be a neat chart but also would give you an idea of the geographic center of the club / different regions and that would also be helpful in determining the boundaries of any new chapter HET might form.

    I couldn't find any simple programs online that simply let you stick dots on a map though. They're all overly complex "geographic information systems" programs.
  • EssexAdvEssexAdv
    Posts: 515Moderator