58L-Y8 Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 For Sale: 1939 Hudson 112 2dr Coach - $15,000 - Bangor, ME 1939 Hudson 112 Coupe Antique Car - cars & trucks - by owner -... (craigslist.org) Seller's Description: A unique 1939 Hudson 112 Coupe that has been restored with 40,500 original miles. Offers a 6-cylinder automatic (three-speed manual) transmission. Sweet car that has been in the family since 1971. $15,000 or best offer. Contact: no phone listed Copy and paste in your email: 64d0baf0234f39638ba2cee88b62e503@sale.craigslist.org I have no personal interest or stake in the eventual sale of this 1939 Hudson 112 2dr Coach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brooklyn Beer Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 That has to be the worst temp gauge and "cluster" I have ever seen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5219 Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 I don't believe I have ever seen one of these. Notice the "idiot lights" for oil pressure and amps to either side of the radio delete plate. I wonder if this was the first car with warning lamps. I always thought of them as a fifties thing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
58L-Y8 Posted March 28, 2022 Author Share Posted March 28, 2022 9 hours ago, 5219 said: I don't believe I have ever seen one of these. Notice the "idiot lights" for oil pressure and amps to either side of the radio delete plate. I wonder if this was the first car with warning lamps. I always thought of them as a fifties thing. If I recall correctly, Hudson got the 'bright idea' of "idiot lights" for oil pressure and amps in the mid-'30's, possibly the 1936 model year. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m-mman Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 6 hours ago, 58L-Y8 said: If I recall correctly, Hudson got the 'bright idea' of "idiot lights" for oil pressure and amps in the mid-'30's Called them "Tele-flash". It makes the voltage regulator unique because it needs a circuit for the light that nobody else used. On a splasher type engine, the oil light is probably no better or worse than having a pressure gauge. There isnt much flow going on anyway. I will say one thing. A bright red light on the dash will get your attention in a critical situation long before you ever notice; a stationary needle in a amp gauge, a low voltage indication in a volt meter (talk about being too late) or a low oil pressure reading on a gauge. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brooklyn Beer Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 I more commenting on the placement. You seem to be needing to look everywhere but where you're going. I did not know this was a splasher engine. New to me. Did this just monitor the amount then ? Yes, the red light for the average driver screams "check me" unless your the normal driver of today where the "check engine" light just means to pull over at your convenience when the rod knock gets too loud to be drowned out by the radio. 20 something year old at the shop with a locked up motor. " Well the add oil light never came on and since it was still running why check the engine, it's not broke" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossil Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 That car's front end is so ugly in a "gotta have it" way. Can't ever recall seeing one before. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerryB Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 5 hours ago, Fossil said: That car's front end is so ugly in a "gotta have it" way. Can't ever recall seeing one before. Exactly! I like the oddity of the car and it’s unique interior. Does it really have a factory stock automatic transmission? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alsancle Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 1 hour ago, TerryB said: Exactly! I like the oddity of the car and it’s unique interior. Does it really have a factory stock automatic transmission? I count three pedals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
58L-Y8 Posted March 29, 2022 Author Share Posted March 29, 2022 6 hours ago, Fossil said: That car's front end is so ugly in a "gotta have it" way. Can't ever recall seeing one before. The 1938 and 1939 Hudson 112's were the lowest-priced series developed in hopes of tapping into the sales volume of the "Low-Price-Three" Chevrolet/Ford/Plymouth. Always a company to mix and match parts and assemblies between Hudsons and Terraplanes for a purpose, the 112" wb was five inches shorter than the 117" wb Terraplane, taken out from the cowl forward. The engine was de-stroked from 5" to 4.125", same 3" bore to yield 175 ci versus the 212 ci in other six-cylinder Hudsons and Terraplanes. Of course, to further reduce unit cost, the simplified styling was shared with the Commercial line models. Oddly enough, a '38 112 Standard convertible coupe was catalogued for $835; a '39 for $886. If one didn't mind his new convertible looking suspiciously like a Commercial Line utility coach, pick-up or panel delivery... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerryB Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 47 minutes ago, alsancle said: I count three pedals. I did too but clist ad said 6 cyl and automatic trans. I would like to see a car like this in person. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roysboystoys Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 If you ever owned or drove a 1937 Terraplane , you would be very disappointed in this cars performance. They called them Jipper 6 when I was in the Hudson club in the 60's/70's Not much love for them. Nice car , probably better then many other Low Price cars of the era. Willys and Studebaker as example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerryB Posted March 30, 2022 Share Posted March 30, 2022 Is it the 174ci engine in this one? Could you fit a bigger Hudson six in it? I guess it would be ok around town, sort of like my 125cc 5hp Vespa. Must have been a fuel economy bragging rights war in the low price field back then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
58L-Y8 Posted March 30, 2022 Author Share Posted March 30, 2022 15 minutes ago, TerryB said: Is it the 174ci engine in this one? Could you fit a bigger Hudson six in it? I guess it would be ok around town, sort of like my 125cc 5hp Vespa. Must have been a fuel economy bragging rights war in the low price field back then. Apparently since the 3" bore is the same as the 212 ci six, only de-stroked, the block length is the same. A Hudson man could give a definitive answer but I would surmise the 212 ci engines would interchange. Small displacement engines in a car with the spaciousness of the upper series models with which it shared bodies was all about fuel economy in a five-six passenger family sedan for a low, low price. What the buyer gave up was any semblance of performance: these are real 'flatlander' cars. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hudsy Wudsy Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 These smallish engines started getting replaced with larger ones almost immediately. What always bugged me about these is that Hudson still used "pod" headlights when everyone else had modernized. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supercub Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 I like the looks of this car in every feature, and its simplicity. The headlights and grill are simple and stylish. It's cool that it doesnt have a radio, that makes the dash more simple, and 99% of them dont work anyway and if they do, 99% of the programming is commercials. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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