On its way! This is the first picture of the new Hudson Super-Six racing special which except for the body design and a few adjustments of the chassis, is practically a stock Super-Six. The Hudson people claim that the Super-Six stock card develops such enormous power that it was unnecessary to build a special racer to represent Hudson in racing, as a few changes and a special body would adapt the stock car for terrific speed efforts. The Hudson built five of these racers, all except one of the same type as this handsome flyer. The racer is being loaded into the specially equipped railway coach who will transport the Hudson fleet to all the big races this year. Grouped around the care are many of the Hudson team, including Arthur J. Hill, Manager, his lieutenant Billy Chandler, Ralph Kriplen and Jack Gable, reserve drivers who will replace Ralph Mulford or Ira Vail, the Hudson’s crack first wheel drivers, should it prove necessary.
I grew up in Orlando, FL in the late 50s through the 60s. My parent's best friends had a 1953 Hudson. It was enormous. There were 4 people in my family, 3 in theirs. We would all go to Daytona Beach for a week before Labor Day and school started again. You could fit all 7 of us inside and all of our luggage in the trunk and had room to spare in both.
ReplyDeleteIf they put the pointy end in the front they would go REALLY fast!
ReplyDelete...and the engine would seize due to no air through the radiator.
DeleteSo, unless it's a one-lap race..........
...and then they invented, wait for it, louvers! Yayyyy!
DeleteYou know, kinda like they have done rear engine vehicles ever since.
I see all the scraps of lumber lying on ground next to these guys and I'm thinking that packing that race car into that railroad car for transport to another city would have been a heck of a project. I wouldn't think you would need a bunch of lumber to secure the car, but maybe they did. Or maybe all that wood is left over from someone else's packing (or unpacking) endeavor.
ReplyDeleteNotice the wheel ramps? Look like extruded aluminum. High tech in those days.
ReplyDeleteRacecar?
ReplyDeleteDidn't these guys know there was a war on?