Hudsy Wudsy

This particular "beige" color is often called "Champagne". I don't think that it lends itself to this particular two-toning all that well, but it is nice size body and would likely make a nice road car.

Also, beware of the variable venturi carb.

I think I was about fourteen years old when I learned where number one was on a Chevy distributor, after that the firing order is printed on the intake manifold. I'm afraid that I would find all of that masking tape pretty embarrassing.

Ironically, I saw a rare Plymouth tailgate for sale somewhere in the last year.

The only '36 Dodges that I've ever encountered were D2s. Is D3 Canadian?

That strikes a familiar chord. I'm pretty sure that they might have been Australian.

I tell guys this whenever the opportunity presents itself--the green on the underside of sun visors is called aircraft green primer.

Thanks for your thoughts on the subject, Jim.

It truly is a beautiful car. I love the colors. Are you guys surprised that it does not have a leather interior? More importantly, isn't that a bit of wear on both the brake and clutch pedals for 21,000 miles?

Yes! The Maserati part should be a good thing, but it's not in this case.

The woodgraining that we are talking about was Dinoc. 3M's appliable film. It would have been very difficult, if not impossible, to apply DiNoc to a dash once it was installed. So, at some point, dashboards simply had to be bolt in. I was making reference to earlier convertibles.

I've mentioned this before on occasion, so please forgive me for being repetitious--Convertible bodies are far more likely to flex than other bodies because they lack the reinforcement that roofs provide. As a consequence, dashboards are welded into position when the body is first assembled, rather than bolted in place, to provide additional strengthening around the cowl area.. This is why you will often see convertibles with painted dashboards and not woodgrained.

Not all browns look like crap. Here's a Hudson with a warm, rich brown of unknown origin (not Hudson, I'm fairly sure):

Back to this Lincoln for a moment, I find it interesting that having too many vertical elements, and thus, too many segments, adds great length to the overall. I suppose that is the nature of optical illusion. Do any of you agree?

I've seen this Hudson around up here in Minnesota for a long time. I always sort of wince when I see it, though, because somebody thought it would be perfectly acceptable to install the smaller '48-'49 rear venetian blind in the larger '50 and later back window.