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Guest De Soto Frank

Now that Hudson is mentioned, I gave myself a smack in the head: the oil pressure gauge should have been a big clue there: the high mark being 5 lbs...

Hudson was one of the few companies with pressurized oiling to run such low pressures...

At any rate, it's a pretty dash and looks like it's in great shape !

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For those of you who were in Asheville last month, there was a Dover truck on display that had a dash as beautiful as this one. I can see why the guess for the Essex connection was made by Wes. I did not get a photo of that dash, but the door handles and window cranks had the same wonderful details. Wes did you get any photos of that truck? Karl

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Sorry. Missed that one. And I haven't yet gone through the show-coverage photos that were provided for the magazine story. I'll keep my eye out for it and let you know. (I'd place one of those "Instant Graemlins" with an eye out, but there doesn't seem to be one. I'll just use this one <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" />. It looks like it has two eyes out!!)

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My gosh that's nice. I haven't seen a whole lot of dash work from the twenties but I would have expected something like that on a Cadillac or higher end make. That's a rather complicated pattern/die for a mainline make, isn't it? I've seen Buicks and Buicks are far more pedestrian then that.

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It's as if they wanted to make a focal point and give an otherwise plain area of the car some personal attention. But I would have thought that those pieces required a dye or some complicated press to produce them and the more detail, the more cost - on cars that sold for only hundreds of dollars not thousands? Maybe I am wrong but they works of art in themselves.

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Guest De Soto Frank

I think Hudson Motor Car Co. wanted to make it clear that even when buying one of their "lower-priced" offerings such as the Essex, the purchaser was still getting a quality product...

I believe it was the Essex Coach of 1922 that was the first enclosed car offered in the low-price Ford/Chevy/Overland bracket... ( although Ford offered the "Centerdoor" sedan since the Teens...?).

Even the '29 Chevy had a "nice dash", though simpler than this, with its three oval-rimmed sets of gauges... the '30 Chevy dash was pretty severe by comparision: just a series of round gauges set in a flat black panel...

Maybe the pretty dash took one's attention away from the 170 cid Essex six screaming away, coupled to a 5:1 rear... <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I would have expected something like that on a Cadillac or higher end make. That's a rather complicated pattern/die for a mainline make, isn't it? I've seen Buicks and Buicks are far more pedestrian then that. </div></div>

There are many, many luxury cars of that time that do not have a dashboard near as nice as the Essex.

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