Hudsy Wudsy
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Well, judging by all of the other '58 Oldsmobiles in the background, it's being sold by someone who clearly knows '58 Oldsmobiles. If he can't turn it into something, what are the chances we can?
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On 10/8/2022 at 11:17 AM, The 55er said:
A Corvette grille inside a 1956 Olds front bumper.
My very first impression was Oldsmobile, but then I searched and searched for the reason why. Thank you for your insight.
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Here's a link to a Facebook ad for a '40 New Yorker parts car that's for sale in New Prague, MN, which is a little ways SW of Mpls. There's not a lot of details. I wrote and asked the seller if it had an overdrive. He replied that he didn't know.
More pics in ad.
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Are Fulton visors designed to be expanded lengthwise for different applications? They appear to have a broad center section for that purpose.
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It's a shame about the staining on the roof. It's probably there to stay. It's kind of a pretty green, but I bet that it's not a factory color. Vinyl interior, I presume?
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I can recall the old timers that hung my older brother's gas station talking about postwar Chryslers having some difficulty with valve guide clearance, especially in cold weather. They said that it was common to have to pull the head and ream the guides in order to keep the valves from hanging up in an open position. I had forgot about that until now. I wonder if there is any truth to it.
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I think that this beauty was just posted a while back. Maybe a month ago? I recall remarking about the tennite dash plastic and someone else said something about the cool taillights. Any way, it's still very desirable.
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For reasons that involved a rear seat that converted to a bed, my older brother always had '49 - '51 Nashs. I can remember vividly sitting next to him in the front passenger seat when he would turn right at a corner. I was always amazed at how much higher than him I suddenly was. Those Nashs would roll so much that I found myself still sitting next to him, but at the same time, above him. And, all of the time, we're going less than ten miles per hour.
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I don't know if this will be any help at all, but you might try to look at this assortment of "1932 convertibles" that I Google Imaged:
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8 hours ago, TAKerry said:
I suppose this system is ok going North to South, vice versa, but how about East West? 😮
Sorry, you can't get there from here.
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2 hours ago, Sal Hepatica said:
If George Mason hadn't insisted on the skirted wheelhouse on the Nash, maybe it would have sold better. The Hudson "Hash" cars look significantly better than their contemporary Nash stablemates, because of the open wheelhouses.
I think that the number one objection to the Nashes and Hudsons of this era was their deplorable handling characteristics.
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There wasn't a factory made visor for these models. Peckat made the majority of solid metal ones that you see. This visor, as it's configured, will fit '48 and '49 Cadillacs, '48 and '49 Olds 98s and '49 Buicks. In '50 they introduced the one piece windsheild. I know that's a little limiting, but somewhere there is a lowered '49 Cad sedanet owner who would pay $1,500or more for this.
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Years ago I found myself reading an article about "A 400". I didn't get far into it before I realized that I was lost. You see, "A 400" not only refers to the convertible version of the Ford Model A "Victoria", but also to the herz (cycles per second) at which an ensemble tunes their instruments. If you agree upon a particular "sound" for the note "A", then all other notes are tuned relative to that. Long ago, perhaps in Bach's time, the "A" was tuned to a lower pitch than it is today. These days, "A" is most often tuned to 440 hz, although I read that some ensembles prefer to tune the "A" to 432 cycles per second. There are some groups that still tune their "A"s to 400, but they are almost always playing period instruments and do so to obtain a "vintage" sound. Digital instruments, like modern organs, can offer the ability to adjust their pitch. I'm sorry to take all of you on this little side trip, but now you have a little A 400 trivia that you can share with Model A guys.
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5 hours ago, neil morse said:
Does it say anywhere that the interior is original?
No, but it doesn't say that it's new, either. You might think that they would mention it one way or the other.
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I don't know if any of you are musicians or not, but "A 400" has an entirely different meaning in music. Do any of you know?
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48 minutes ago, jukejunkie1015 said:
The Classic Auto Mall likes their own desriptions they have used it before.
https://www.classicautomall.com/vehicles/2466/1950-hudson-commodore-sedan
Hilarious! Well, I'm glad that they are impressed with their own eloquence. It's a certainty that no one else is!
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The Ford "A 400" was introduced in May of '31:
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I'm a little puzzled by the near perfect condition of the upholstery. 83,000 miles? Wow!
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By "wedding car", do you mean the next owner should paint it white?
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29 minutes ago, neil morse said:
Let me see if I can mimic his style, but make the ad copy more accurate:
"This spectacularly over-priced Hudson has been graced with an astonishingly inappropriate interior, the seats draped with dramatically incorrect vinyl and topped off by a truly awful plastic headliner that will brings tears to the eyes of any experienced Hudson collector. The fabulously mediocre paint job is similarly incorrect. The inattention to detail under the hood is everything that could be expected of this horrendously botched restoration, complete with modern hoses and a superlatively out-of-place plastic radiator overflow reservoir. Nowhere in the world could you find a car that has been treated with such meticulous lack of concern and overwhelmingly poor workmanship. This car is beyond question unique in every respect!"
Wonderful spoof, Neil.
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From Google Images:
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Someone tell me what the proper name is for this body style. Two-door phaeton doesn't sound right to me.
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I'll take the engine, you guys can have the Nash!
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1940 New Yorker Parts Car
in Chrysler Automobiles and Parts - Buy/Sell
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The seller can't seem to tell if this New Yorker has an overdrive. I'm sorry, I tried. I'm not going to drive down to there to find out.