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37 CTS wrote:

Presently I have no listing of a Hudson dealer for Bluff, Il.

Sheldon

Have you got one listed in that sort of area ? When Norris Smith sold me the car, he told me that it had originally been an unsold '34 car that the dealer (he said in Bluffs) sold $2 draw prize tickets for when the '35s came out.
The car has only had 3 names on the Title. The first was in Peru, Illinois. Maybe Norris got it wrong. Please do you know who sold Hudsons in that part of Illinois ?

I imagine the Bluffs, Illinois dealer was Luther Vortman. I know he was the dealer there in the 1940's and 1950's. I knew him and purchased some NOS parts from him in the 1960's and 1970's. Luther passed away several years ago. There also was a dealer in Beardstown, just a few miles north of Bluffs. My waning memory cannot remember the dealership name, but I am sure it will come to me one of these days. I do know the dealership name began with "A", and the name "Alton" sounds familiar. My brother works in a nursing facility in Jacksonville, Illinois, and he knows an old gentleman with Alzheimer's there who worked as the Hudson salesman at Beardstown.