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AdamInNH

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  1. Interesting car and original specimens are nice to find. I don’t think that this is a $50K car given unknowns. An engine rebuild would relegate the value of this car, at the asking price, to near zero. 
     

    While I love original cars, this example that has been on offer for a year is a far better, needs almost nothing option, that could likely be bought for near the same money, https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/589003689264347/  Yes, Standard 8, but way ahead in the money and effort department. 

  2. I’ve been looking at Airflows for several years, thinking about whether I’d own one, or not. This is an interesting one and ‘34’s have the wildest styling of the lot. From what I’ve seen, a stellar, utterly stupendous, correct in every aspect, ‘34 Imperial Airflow sedan would top out at $75K to be generous.

     

    I don’t think this one will bring anywhere near $150K, not even if the three +Chrysler Airflow Musketeers+ were propped-up in the back seat.

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  3. Perhaps I’m crazy, but I like Airflows. This one’s been for sale at least two years now, perhaps three. I had enquired about it but didn’t take it further. Has a decent interior. The rest is unappealing. 
     

    $38K buys a truly stellar Imperial Airflow sedan, which this is not. I’d be a buyer at half this price, just to say I’ve had one. The audience for Airflows is minuscule and any potential buyer has already seen this one. At this seller’s Fantasyland price, it’s not going anywhere. 

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  4. Nice car - sharp color - and I love Hudson’s - they’re great cars. The 308 engine is a big plus instead of the splash lubed straight-eight or smaller six that it woulda had. Mostly, ya’ see sedans which to me look kinda frumpy. The coupe is actually decent looking. 
     

    Price-wise? Hard to say. With the upgrades this one has maybe $28-30K would be all the money? The seller’s gotta have way more than that in it. Sadly, not a big demand for Hudsons outside of the Hudson Club folk unless it’s an early Brass car, a Hornet coupe or Hollywood. 
     

    I like it!

  5. Not a bad looking car. ‘36 is an oddball year for Cadillac and LaSalle, especially, as it used a LaSalle-ized Oldsmobile straight-eight engine. $20K would be all the money for this car, if it needed absolutely nothing, anywhere. $15K-16K is probably more realistic. $39.5K isn’t happening in this millennia. 

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  6. 14 hours ago, zepher said:

    I hauled this car 1,200 miles last year from Calif to Wyoming.

    What you can't see is my cousin's F350 in front of the trailer.

    When he purchased this trailer he made sure it would be tall enough and stout enough to also haul any of our antique cars, including my Pierce Arrow.

    Now that's he's got about 6,000 miles on this trailer he is ready to get rid of it and get a gooseneck, enclosed trailer after seeing how much better his gooseneck horse trailer tows compared to this bumper pull car trailer.

     

     

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    Nothing wrong with a bumper pull trailer. I had a gooseneck and a Duramax 2500. Got out of the car thing for some time. Then I bought a newer F150 and a Featherlite 24’ enclosed trailer. Had a typical load equalizing hitch. It was scary AF! Thought I would have to get a gooseneck. The solution - and I have installed several for folks with big RVs since I bought mine, is the ProPride hitch, ProPrideHitch.com. It’s in a different galaxy the sway control hitch garbage that’s out there. 10000 lbs tows like a dream with the ProPride. 

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  7. @auburnseeker,

    Unreal, Randy. I had seriously considered putting the Hudson in my garage while I was up your way again the other week. My +conscience+ (wife) reminded me that I am already beyond capacity for car storage and any additions must be truly remarkable ones. I so appreciate your graciousness and generosity of time when I previewed the Hudson a few weeks back.  
     

    People have no clue about towing safely. For some years I had a motorcycle shop. I worked on a lot of big touring bikes, Harleys, Gold Wings, BMWs and such. I’d have folks come from as far as Arkansas for the specialized work I did. It was not uncommon for an owner to arrive with their 1000+ pound bike on a POS garden trailer, no front wheel chock, with loose cheap-ass Wal-mart ratchet straps.

     

    So many times, I would loan them a $300 wheel chock, and sell or loan proper American made ratchet straps, and show them how to properly secure the bike.

     

    If the purchaser actually makes it in one piece, back to a Florida, send him a lottery ticket. 

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  8. 1 minute ago, John Bloom said:

    I just did some simulation on the multi million dollar main frame computer I keep in the back of my garage. I wanted to calculate what percentage of cars in 1927, with a straight eight, that run, can be bought for $10,000 or less. The computer analysis generated the following result...... 

     

    “not many”

     

     

    Yeah, but the percentage of 1927 cars with a straight eight, that run and can be bought for $10,000 or less +IN 2023+ may be greater, although straight 6’s may be more plentiful.

     

    In 1927, you could buy darn near anything that had wheels and an engine if you had $10,000 or even a tiny fraction. 

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