ClassicCar

The national, I believe 1977, at the Indianpolis speedway there was a Hudson 8 racer on display in the museum. It did race in the 500 but two many years have past for me to remember any details. It did look something like this one.This is not it.

That one on the streets of Pittsburg is bogus too. Has a Hornet engine in it.

Attached is the real deal that was at the Indy National in the 70's. It is now in a private museum in Europe owned by a Dutchman named Evert Louman, and it has not run--has a cracked head--since he bought it at the Gould auction near Pocono Speedway. I tried very hard to buy it from him to bring it back to life.

Spencer,
The blue car is what exists today--two cars like the one pictured with the Hudson road car that qualified and raced in 32 and 33 at Indy were sold to a man, Rudolph Wehr, who rebuilt them with a rotary valve supercharged engine of his own design, new grille shell, and I am sure, many other changes. His attempts to qualify failed. Attached is a photo of the 1937 car that failed to make the race. You can see the Hudson roots. How the blue car was rebuilt is unknown to me, but someone got the cars and at least the blue one was returned to early form if not correct in every detail by 1970. And there is one missing! Maybe gone. I have many photos of the blue car in the museum in the Netherlands.
Ivan