Reading for enjoyment
Additional stories from
HUDSON SPOKEN HERE
Below are Hard Luck Stories, Car Histories, and other articles. If you go on a vacation and nothing memorable happens then what in the heck do you have to talk about? Sometimes these events can be quite frustrating at the time, ...but later... HET owners love an audience and get every mile they can out of telling their stories over and over and over again. You kind of want to count your blessings after reading the hard luck stories.
Hard Luck Stories
You think you have bad luck, Ha! My boss once told me if he ever went golfing in a lightning storm he would take me with him, as a lightning rod.
Road trip to...: Honey I lost my son! As you read this article try to keep count of everything else that goes wrong.
Forget the Jeep, save the Hudson: How many people, vehicles, and trips does it take to tow your Hudson home?
Car's histories, and other stories
If you know your car's history, document it! If you don't know the history you might still be able to research your car's history.
This newsletter contains a tribute to Glen Johnson with the story of his 1946 Golden Hudson, a car Hudson gave away during the Detroit Golden Jamboree. This car was once sold for a basket of peaches.
The story of my Grandfather's 1933 Essex Terraplane. Read how the WW1 Compensation Act, also known as the Tombstone Bonus, helped my grandfather buy this car. Other trivia - I remember Dad once telling us about putting a bunch of large snails in a small coffee can, and hiding the can in the back of the car. He said the car really started stinking as the family returned from CA through Baker, CA. Baker is in the Mojave Desert.
The story of how Scott's Father's Essex led him to buy an Essex of his own.
Bill was able to track down the history of his 1927 Essex.
What was written on my car door 80 years ago?