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duncan

I would love to see some pictures of any 54 Hornet Hollywoods at this years national meet Hudsonly Ray:D

Richie

Russell, thank you very much for taking the time to show the folks that couldn't make it there, all the great cars that did make it. Un-believeable !!What a sight !!! Richie.

willy74

Russell, thanks a million! You're great. Wonderful pics!

ESSX28-1 · ESSX28-1 July 2009 Posts: 995Platinum Member

Hi Russell (& any other photographers)

I'm really enjoying your HET photos at the Nats. I'm particularly interested in photos of any 1928 Essex RS Coupes you come accross.

Thanks Dave Young

HETDavid@websters.co.nz (Drop the HET etc)

hudnut1tmr

Love the Jet convertible! Thanks Russ for all of us that couldn't be there...

Browniepetersen

The jet convertible is fantastic. It is easy to see that if this were built as a production Hudson it would be very popular. Fabulious car.... And, by the way, great photo....

Hud1105

The past three days have been great. Everyday after work I have been able to stop by for a few hours and walk the lots. The wife and I ran into Walt M. a very nice gentleman (with whom I think we are all familiar) and a friendly couple from Kansas who was more than happy to share their Hudson stories with us. They even contacted a friend of theirs who was selling 50 Pacemaker for me. Wont be able to make it back until Friday hopefully there are some diehards still around.

Thanks for the coverage Russell, I should be able to get me stuff on the net tonight, took some great video and snaps last night.

WildWasp

Russell, there is a 52 Wasp Convertible black car with a white top that was purchased from Charlie Harris several decades ago. The son of the man who purchased that car is now the owner. The car is original and I have never seen another. A recent posting by Glenn of pictures from the Yipsillanti Orphan meet contained a picture of that car. Last time I actually saw the car in person was at the HET nationals in Golden Colorado.

66patrick66

RL Chilton wrote:

Except Kelly's was a '38, year of his birth.

Notice, I said "LOOKS LIKE", not "IS". I know Kelly's is a '38. Whomever the car belongs, or belonged, to, it's nice.

I like the way the Jet came out. Lots of work in that one, without a doubt. That's a car Hudson screwed up in not building to sell. I think it's a far more interesting car than the X-car or the Italia!

Sounds like everyone is having a good time! Any pictures yet of any of the Hudson facilities?

delfast

RL Chilton wrote:

I'll get to the e-mailing special requests when I get back home.

Fantastic job on the pictures for us po' folk that live 1300+ miles away!! Wish I could have made it this year. Any pictures of the 1928-1932 age group? Doesn't look like many made it as mostly 1933 and newer show on the pictures.

Keep up the good work!

Del fast

RL Chilton

WildWasp wrote:

Russell, there is a 52 Wasp Convertible black car with a white top that was purchased from Charlie Harris several decades ago. The son of the man who purchased that car is now the owner. The car is original and I have never seen another. A recent posting by Glenn of pictures from the Yipsillanti Orphan meet contained a picture of that car. Last time I actually saw the car in person was at the HET nationals in Golden Colorado.

Wildwasp-

That car showed up for part of Tuesday, and never saw it. I asked around and Nick S. told me that it indeed was here, but had not come back today. We are leaving in the morning and I probably will not see it. Trust me, once I heard it was around, I scoured the lots, but to no avail. I figured it very well could be the only one like it left.

RL Chilton

66patrick66 wrote:

Notice, I said "LOOKS LIKE", not "IS". I know Kelly's is a '38. Whomever the car belongs, or belonged, to, it's nice.

I like the way the Jet came out. Lots of work in that one, without a doubt. That's a car Hudson screwed up in not building to sell. I think it's a far more interesting car than the X-car or the Italia!

Sounds like everyone is having a good time! Any pictures yet of any of the Hudson facilities?

66patrick66-

Sorry, 'bout that, didn't catch on the distinction.

nhp1127

WildWasp wrote:

Russell, there is a 52 Wasp Convertible black car with a white top that was purchased from Charlie Harris several decades ago. The son of the man who purchased that car is now the owner. The car is original and I have never seen another. A recent posting by Glenn of pictures from the Yipsillanti Orphan meet contained a picture of that car. Last time I actually saw the car in person was at the HET nationals in Golden Colorado.

Can't remember what color it was but I have seen some info on a Wasp convert that was for sale that was previously owned buy an airline pilot. This was a few years back so I don't remember the details. I'm thinking that John Soneff in DEN had sold it.

RL Chilton

delfast wrote:

Fantastic job on the pictures for us po' folk that live 1300+ miles away!! Wish I could have made it this year. Any pictures of the 1928-1932 age group? Doesn't look like many made it as mostly 1933 and newer show on the pictures.

Keep up the good work!

Del fast

delfast-

Not many '28-'32's. I think there was one '30, a '31, a couple '29's for sure and probably, oh, I think three or so '32's. I've got some more pics and will see about getting some of those up as soon as I can. There's an unbelievable '29 boattail in the Hostetler Museum that I took pictures of and will post that as well. B-E-A-UUUtiful car!!

delfast

RL Chilton wrote:

delfast-

Not many '28-'32's. I think there was one '30, a '31, a couple '29's for sure and probably, oh, I think three or so '32's. I've got some more pics and will see about getting some of those up as soon as I can. There's an unbelievable '29 boattail in the Hostetler Museum that I took pictures of and will post that as well. B-E-A-UUUtiful car!!

Thanks! I saw there were two '31 Hudson boattail speedsters for sale in last months Hemmings. They are beautiful!!

Have fun

Del

5433HET

Looks like a great meet! Any 1933 Major 8s show up? Extremely rare, and good looking, too!

oldhudsons

As to '28's, Chris Davis brought his '28 H rd. + another showed up yesterday via a huge semi, the one with the supposed Le Baron body, that was displayed & discussed in here a month or so ago.

Hedley Bennett brought his beautifully restored '29 long w.b. 7-pass. H sd. There is at least 1 '30, several E of the early '30s period, a '33 H std. sedan, Ed Souers brought my old '32 H brougham (long w.b. 5 window sedan) which he has beautifully restored - took me for a ride in it yesterday [Ed also has his Italia, X-161, the just restored '54 Jetliner prototype conv., the previously mentioned '33 H std. sd., and his '48 C8 Derham limousine].

There are a LOT of early Hudsons, several '09s, at least one '10, the recently purchased '13 Mile a Minute rd. - quite an array!

oldhudsons

A few other "raries": Dick Riggs brought a '16 "center door" sedan from Ore. The door posts are removable in this super-rare alum. bodied model - he has it for sale.

The previously mentioned '48 Derham limousine (only 3 built, saw the '53 made for Barit last night at museum tour to Jack Miller's).

Many trucks in pre-war. Gobs of stepdown conv. Eldon's Dover mail truck, etc.

Hud1105

Originally Posted by WildWasp

Russell, there is a 52 Wasp Convertible black car with a white top that was purchased from Charlie Harris several decades ago. The son of the man who purchased that car is now the owner. The car is original and I have never seen another. A recent posting by Glenn of pictures from the Yipsillanti Orphan meet contained a picture of that car. Last time I actually saw the car in person was at the HET nationals in Golden Colorado.

Here is a picture of the Wasp Conv. at the orphan show. I too missed it at the national.

Nevada Hudson

Charlie Ackel has a '52 Wasp convertable sitting in his back yard in San Jose for the last 30 years filling up with leaves.

WildWasp

2 pm and looking at the list of folks who are lurking here... obvious the number of folks who are at the NATIONALS... this is a GHOST TOWN... maybe the picture traffic will be better tonite.... then again maybe not. :rolleyes:

66patrick66

I'm sure more will be posted this weekend, since the Nats end Friday night. I'm hoping to see some more pics of that Jet ragtop and the Hudson plant!

That black Wasp ragtop looks to be quite the car, too.

Hud1105

As promissed follow the below link to my photobucket for Pictures From Sunday afternoon at the Nationals. Also be sure to visit my blog for a write up on the event in the near future.

http://s657.photobucket.com/albums/uu297/Hud1105/2009%20Hudson%20Nationals%20Sunday/

51hornetA

Nice article and video.

http://www.theoaklandpress.com/articles/2009/07/15/news/doc4a5d9d81e7356079109970.txt

VicTor Z

Glen ! Thanks for posting the link to your album. The Air Stream (??Looks Like?) was it towed there with the red sedan parked in front trailer? Thanks Again! VicTor Z :eek:

Hud1105 wrote:

As promissed follow the below link to my photobucket for Pictures From Sunday afternoon at the Nationals. Also be sure to visit my blog for a write up on the event in the near future.

http://s657.photobucket.com/albums/uu297/Hud1105/2009%20Hudson%20Nationals%20Sunday/

Nevada Hudson

Well, for all of us who were not able to attend the National meet in Pontiac, I'm looking forward to John Fromm's video. My wife knows what to put in my Christmas stocking!

RL Chilton

We left the Nationals this morning. Whoever it was that asked about Jon Battle, he was working and didn't leave until yesterday morning (Wednesday) and was due in about 1AM Thursday morning. Subsequently, we didn't get caught up with him as he was probably sleeping when we left.

We are in Western Kentucky for the night. Here's a few more pics that I didn't get posted:

RL Chilton

And some more:

RL Chilton

Black '53 is Russ Maas' recently completed convertible, it's gorgeous.

Surprisingly, to me anyway, there were 8? or maybe 9 '54 Convertibles. The green one you see was interesting. It is a 15,000-original-mile car. I talked to the owner for a while. The owner had it stored in the garage for about 35 years. They had added onto the front of the garage, and where the '54 was stored, they built a wall in front of it out of 2 x 2's and sheetrock and walled it off shortly after it was parked (I saw the pictures). There was a dent in the driver quarter that had to be repaired, gas was drained, tank was cleaned, oil was changed. The original air is still in the original tires! After the fluid change and a fresh battery, the Hudson fired right up and sounds teriffic now. Amazing.

Can't recall who the red one belongs to, but was a very nice Hudson.

RL Chilton

And here's a shot of the airstream. The Hudson in front of it pulled it to Pontiac from CA. Didn't write down the owner's name and didn't get a chance to talk to them, either. Don't know if it was Hudson-powered or not.

RL Chilton

And that just about wraps up the pics from the Nat's. I'm gonna share on the forum, I think. I saved a really good one for last. Lots of personal revelations for me on this trip. One was, I spent an inordinate amount of time in the "early" lot, which included '09-'47 H-E-T's. The "later" lot was basically the stepdown lot, but there were so many cars, there was some over-flow between the two, but not much. Someone told me a figure of 387 cars, but not sure about the validity, although I wouldn't doubt it. I'm sure I spent twice the amount of time in the "early" lot. As far as Hudsons go, I'm basically a step-down person, or so I thought. I've found that I've got an equal amount of passion for the earlier cars and am pretty sure, that barring some kind of disaster, there is an early Hudson in my future. And, if one similar to the one in the picture were it, I do believe I'd be one very happy camper. Add one of these to a stable of step-downs, and I'd say I was done.

RL Chilton

The '29 boattail was taken at Hostetler's Museum in Shipshewana (sp?), IN. Highly, highly recommended to all Hudson fans. I was in there for 2 hours and could easily have been there for 2 more.

faustmb

Yup, I got bitten with the "early" bug too. The fast few years I've been spending more & more time looking at those.

Thanks again for all of the great pics...

Hud1105

Spoke to the owner of the airstream shortly after he docked that yaht. The Hudson pulling it is Chevy powered. He drove it out from the west coast catching some of the sights along the way, Grand canyon and yellow stone etc. Brought the whole rig across lake Michigan on the ferry, they charge by the foot, ouch!

RL Chilton

Hud1105 wrote:

Spoke to the owner of the airstream shortly after he docked that yaht. The Hudson pulling it is Chevy powered. He drove it out from the west coast catching some of the sights along the way, Grand canyon and yellow stone etc. Brought the whole rig across lake Michigan on the ferry, they charge by the foot, ouch!

Ouch is right! But then again, maybe it was cheaper than "driving around" the Lake. It was probably faster, anyway, and the amount of time those folks spent on the road, maybe they were a little excited to get to the Nats.

rod_n_hudson

Does anyone have any idea how the turnout is going to be tonight?

This evening is the banquet right? Will people stay around for that?

nhp1127

Anything interesting or cool at the swap meet?

39CCl8

The swap-meet was mind-boggling. I had to keep leaving to go to the ATM. I found '40 taillights (NOS), spare tires and tubes, and more water jackets than I knew what to do with.

Nevada Hudson

Everyone have a safe drive home!

Sarah Young

Hud1105 wrote:

Spoke to the owner of the airstream shortly after he docked that yaht. The Hudson pulling it is Chevy powered. He drove it out from the west coast catching some of the sights along the way, Grand canyon and yellow stone etc. Brought the whole rig across lake Michigan on the ferry, they charge by the foot, ouch!

Richard E on the forum here rode shotgun with him on the trip, he'll know. I want to say the owners name was Larry, but my brain is overwhelmed by all the names and faces I was tying together. I love vintage trailers and hope to get a canned ham to tow behind my Jet one of these days, so I was thrilled so see this here.

Sarah Young

oldhudsons wrote:

A few other "raries": Dick Riggs brought a '16 "center door" sedan from Ore. The door posts are removable in this super-rare alum. bodied model - he has it for sale.

The previously mentioned '48 Derham limousine (only 3 built, saw the '53 made for Barit last night at museum tour to Jack Miller's).

Many trucks in pre-war. Gobs of stepdown conv. Eldon's Dover mail truck, etc.

Here are a couple shots of the 1916 Touring Sedan by Biddle & Smart (custom coach builder), door pillars removed for the early "hardtop" look.

RL Chilton

That limo was really a bizarre car. No front doors, driver had to enter from rear doors and then squeeze between to front seats no more than 6" apart to get behind the wheel. In other words, after driver let in passengers in back, had to get in with them and then move to the front. I've never seen anything like that, regardless of make.

Sarah, it sure was nice meeting you . . . I wish we had had more time to chat. Maybe next time.

RL Chilton

Niels-

The swap meet was mind-boggling. The "space" that they set aside for the vendors was quite large, but the vendors out-grew the space. It looked like a swap meet at a medium-sized street rod venue, 'cept it was all HUDSON parts! Heaven, just heaven.

It was just the opposite of going to the street rod meet and scouring EVERYTHING looking for the one Hudson part you come across

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