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LOOKING FOR LOCATION OF HENCIR MOTORS INC.
  • HornetSpecialHornetSpecial
    Posts: 185Gold Member
    I have a dealership sign from Hencir motors Inc. Would like to know were it was located. The sign was found in Minnesota near the Twin Cities. Hope someone has some knowledge of this dealership.
  • superwlb
    Posts: 1Hitchhiker
    We have a 1959 Minneapolis, MN telephone book sitting on a bookshelf, so I checked the yellow pages section and found the listing under Rambler Sales & Service: Hencir Motors, Inc., 2616 West Broadway, Minneapolis, MN. Telephone JAksn 2-3349. The only Hudson listing was for a dealer on Lyndale Avenue South. Bill
  • HornetSpecialHornetSpecial
    Posts: 185Gold Member
    Thank you much for looking in that phone book By 1959 a lot of the Hudson dealerships had started selling Ramblers. That's who Hudson merged with. Anyway thanks for the info !!
    Paul
  • cargray
    Posts: 178Expert Adviser
    Can you post a picture of the sign? always love seeing those old signs...
  • HornetSpecialHornetSpecial
    Posts: 185Gold Member
    The sign was cracked and is being repaired. I will when I get it back.
  • HornetSpecialHornetSpecial
    Posts: 185Gold Member
    O K Here goes a try with a photo. Cool Hudson history.
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  • Sarah YoungSarah Young
    Posts: 511Platinum Member
    That's a cool sign! They were in business as a Hudson dealership per this 1948 pamphlet.
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  • HornetSpecialHornetSpecial
    Posts: 185Gold Member
    That pamphlet is so neat !! Would you be interested in selling it. It would make a nice addition to the sigh for display. I thought I saw that pamphlet selling on E Bay from Spain. Are you the one who bought it ?? Thanks Sara for listing it !!
    Paul
  • Sarah YoungSarah Young
    Posts: 511Platinum Member
    I swiped the pictures off that auction for my dealership website. :) Here's the rest of the brochure...
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  • James P.
    Posts: 444Platinum Member
    My '50 Commodore was from Hencir Motors In North Minneapolis. They later merged and became Hencir-Nicholls and went on to sell American Motors Products for a while. I can recall buying Hudsonite from them.
  • Hudson308Hudson308
    Posts: 1,405Platinum Member
    James P. wrote:
    My '50 Commodore was from Hencir Motors In North Minneapolis. They later merged and became Hencir-Nicholls and went on to sell American Motors Products for a while. I can recall buying Hudsonite from them.

    Interesting stuff. While talking with Hornet Special about this last week, he shared an invoice from a dealership called "Hudson Minneapolis, Inc" was located at 1416 Harmon Place in downtown Minneapolis. I've been hoping to find the location of that dealership since spotting this trunk badge on a '51 Wasp coupe rotting away in the woods in central Minnesota.
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    I'm pretty sure the 14th & Harmon location eventually became Downtown Chevytown in the early 60's, billed then as the largest Chevrolet dealer in Minnesota.
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  • Sarah YoungSarah Young
    Posts: 511Platinum Member
    Hudson308 wrote:
    While talking with Hornet Special about this last week, he shared an invoice from a dealership called "Hudson Minneapolis, Inc" was located at 1412 Harmon Place in downtown Minneapolis. I've been hoping to find the location of that dealership since spotting this trunk badge on a '51 Wasp coupe rotting away in the woods in central Minnesota.

    I have a 1937 photo on my website of the O'Donnel Motor Company at 1416-1420 Harmon Place showing Terraplanes ready to be delivered to the St. Paul Police Dept. This section of street was long ago demolished to become part of the campus for Minneapolis Community & Technical College.

    Click here to go directly to the Minnesota section of my Hudson Dealership Listings.
    Take a Ride in a Hudson Jet!
  • HornetSpecialHornetSpecial
    Posts: 185Gold Member
    I have an invoice thst is from Hudson Minneapolis Inc at 1416- 1420 Harmon Place.
    Maybe they changed dealerships names. This is from 1949. I did a satellite search on location. It did not look like it was part of the U of M. Mystery!!
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  • HornetSpecialHornetSpecial
    Posts: 185Gold Member
    Sarah, I think maybe the Hudson Sales Corp. 4100 Washington Ave might have been overtaken by U of M. 1416-1420 Harmon Place is down town. Possibly you have names at wrong addresses on dealerships??
  • Hudson308Hudson308
    Posts: 1,405Platinum Member
    HornetSpecial wrote:
    Sarah, I think maybe the Hudson Sales Corp. 4100 Washington Ave might have been overtaken by U of M. 1416-1420 Harmon Place is down town. Possibly you have names at wrong addresses on dealerships??

    The 1400 block of Harmon Place was demolished for the Minneapolis Community & Technical College Paul, not the U of M. I'd be willing to bet that the O'Donnel dealership became Hudson Minneapolis at a later date. Your invoice certainly seems to verify that. A Minneapolis telephone directory from the early 50's would shed more light on other dealerships. I've got one from '64, and it shows Downtown Chevrolet in a huge building at 13th & Harmon.
    Workin Stiff
  • hudsontechhudsontech
    Posts: 4,043Platinum Member
    Sure do wish the science weenies would hurry up and perfect the holo-deck (from Star Trek) - then we could replicate these old dealerships, walk thru them, even buy and sell Hudsons, just like they did back-in-the-day!!!!!!!!

    Hudsonly,
    Alex Burr
    Memphis, TN
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  • Sarah YoungSarah Young
    Posts: 511Platinum Member
    Sarah Young wrote:
    I have a 1937 photo on my website of the O'Donnel Motor Company at 1416-1420 Harmon Place showing Terraplanes ready to be delivered to the St. Paul Police Dept. This section of street was long ago demolished to become part of the campus for Minneapolis Community & Technical College.

    I don't know any history on the U of M campus. I never mentioned that.
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  • Sarah YoungSarah Young
    Posts: 511Platinum Member
    It seems that the Hudson Sales Corp building at 4100 Washington Ave. N. is now home to Industrial Lumber and Supply.

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