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- 1049superg April 2008
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Interesting method of finding old cars.
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Reading an article about Prince William's recent escapade with a Chinook helicopter, I came upon this little passage: "Charles Heyman, a former officer who edits "The Armed Forces of the United Kingdom," said helicopter pilots have always bent the rules. He said he used to fly with a U.S. airman who used his military helicopter to scour the countryside for vintage cars he could buy for bargain prices. When he saw something he liked, he would swoop down, land and make an offer. " Now would any of you do that if you could fly one of them whirly birds and had one at your disposal? Ken U- Tx
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You betcha. There's still alot of old iron laying around out there, despite the crazy steel prices right now, although that can't last forever. A fellow Hudson club memeber who works in a metal salvage yard in St. Paul just had a load come in with a complete '50 Pacemaker sedan. :eek:Workin Stiff
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If I had the funds I would do it in a heart beat!
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I always used to think it would be cool if you fly around looking for old junkyards! i guess i am not the only one that thinks that way!
Barry Smedley -
There is a Hudson Club Member who had a long career as a county employee inspecting septic tanks in a very large, very rural desert county. In the course of his travels he saw behind every barn, and to quote the Tommy Lee Jones character in the movie "The Fugitive", every henhouse, outhouse and *****house in an area which included hundreds of square miles. He found a lot of rust-free Hudsons over the years, and bought most of them. Maybe it made a sh***y job worthwhile. Hoo nose?
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For many years Spencer Blake traveled all over the southwestern USA. His travels were by truck and he regularly visited every out of the way garage and repair shop. As a result he discovered Hudsons, many of which he bought and hauled home on a trailer he carried behind his work truck. Dave Sollen's 52 Hornet Convertible is one of those cars. Most of the cars ended up in the back yard of a friend's a north Amarillo Texas home. Like John Sonoff and others who ammassed a large collection of cars ... Spencer's lot was quite a place to visit in the late 70s.
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I use to operate an ultra sound rail test truck for the Chicago and NorthWestern railroad (operating mostly in Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois and Minnesota) back in the 1980's. We used this truck, that also rode on the tracks, to locate defects and flaws in the rails using ultrasonic sound waves. Anyway, not only did I get to locate Hudsons via my work while traveling the roads and back roads of the upper Midwest, but also while traveling the mainlines and the spur lines of the upper Midwest. Some of the stepdowns I ran across, generally derelict, could only be seen from the tracks. Got some nice parts this way including a Hudson Kleenex dispenser.
