Amazing Photo thread

51hornet · Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 4:50 pm Post subject: Amazing Photo thread

First Up!

Oh my the parking is tight here.... extra points if you can identify the cars...

51hornet · Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 4:55 pm Post subject: Re: Amazing Photo thread

Why it was a good idea to get an oil bath aircleaner.

Dust storm in Texas panhandle

Dave53-7C · Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 6:36 pm Post subject: Re: Amazing Photo thread

What photos?

51hornet · Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 6:51 pm Post subject: Re: Amazing Photo thread

fixed that hiccup can you see them now?

Dave53-7C · Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 7:03 pm Post subject: Re: Amazing Photo thread

Can you hear me now?

I see Hudsons in the first picture. Must be a dealer lot. Sort of confusing, the old and new cars all smashed together.

You'd need more than an oil bath filter after the dust storm blasted the paint off the car. Come to think of it, that's not a dust stom at all. Rather, it looks like the car in the picture was just blowing out some carbon. Laughing

51hornet · Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 7:07 pm Post subject: Re: Amazing Photo thread

I will put in more pics as I go thought it better to create one thread we could add pics to and roll the fun banter instead of separate threads too hard to track. Feel free to add stuff as well...

51hornet · Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 8:04 pm Post subject: Re: Amazing Photo thread

Here is a pic of a Hudson invoice for a 52 sedan. Check out the cost of Twin H versus the new radio.

Dave53-7C · Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 9:00 pm Post subject: Re: Amazing Photo thread

I love these. I'd better, I have a huge box full of buyer files which include them along with built sheets and other stuff. I see that the Twin-H was cheaper than the radio, but look at the bottom line for this car. WOW, that was big money in the 50's.

Wasn't the double action fuel pump standard on our Hornets?

Zephyrmec · Hornet Joined: Aug 19, 2007 Posts: 623

That picture is great! there are 2 Terraplanes in the bottom row, the first one, bottom left has strange heatlights that are conical fender mounts, like an old Pierce Arrow, I've seen lights like that added onto early Zephyrs that were shipped to England in order to install sealed beams on cars that came with bulbs and reflectors. The two white or very light ones appear to be the same model, maybe 40-41 Super Six Sedans, top right maybe a 28-30 Essex......
in re: the invoice.... Dig deep boys 40% added on in extras, tax, etc over base price. Nearly 60 years of car dealers piling on! Nothing new on that front is there? In Seattle, you'd better get the D/A pump, heater and defroster. It rains 350 days a year out there doesn't it?

Dave53-7C · Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 1:25 am Post subject: Re: Amazing Photo thread

Now if we could just find that car lot, with the cars still there of course.

On the invoice for the Hudson, there's a whopping $504.00 charge for factory options. I'm surprised the dealer didn't try to load more options on, like visors, tissue dispensor, back-up lights, and those sort of things. Then again, they probably sold some of those to the buyer everytime he came in for service. If people don't want to pay for options they don't want, they should order a vehicle or wait for the end of the year sale. At clearance time, the dealers are scrambling to dump the stock vehicles they ordered that were loaded with options nobody wanted. Yep, Seattle is quite the damp place. Further inland, the weather is far more normal.

51hornet · Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 3:23 am Post subject: Re: Amazing Photo thread

Nope booster pump was an option.

Man that radio was expensive considering you could buy a top of the line home unit for that money. But the Hudson radios were good radio's I have had enough of them apart. Top notch stuff.

Dave53-7C · Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 10:59 am Post subject: Re: Amazing Photo thread

Are you sure about the pump? Are we talking about the dual action fuel/vacuum pump or something else?

Well, the radio did included the price of the unit, speaker, antenna and labor to install it. Still, $90.00 was big money in 1952, especially for one option.

51hornet · Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 2:58 pm Post subject: Re: Amazing Photo thread

Yup single stage fuel pump was standard, two stage was optional. And as experience will tell you the single stage was the better pump.

Dave53-7C · Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 3:18 pm Post subject: Re: Amazing Photo thread

For some reason, I thought the dual action pump was standard on the top of the line models. So, are you telling us that you have the standard fuel pump and suck hard on a vacuum hose while driving in the rain? Laughing

51hornet · Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 8:08 pm Post subject: Re: Amazing Photo thread

I have standard pump and the wipers work fine. Never saw all the fuss I drove through rain mine worked fine. I keep the pump lubed and the cables seems to work ok.