HUDSON 112 assembled from CKD in UK in July 1938

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I'm now the proud owner of this magnificient 82 year old vehicle, which is very rare in the UK, possibly unique, and which bears the UK number plate ESR430.
There are plenty of pics and lots of words in The Automobile magazine issue of April 2020, pages 40 to 45 about my car, before I bought it a week or so ago.
Does anyone else have a Hudson 112 from 1938 in the USA: there don't seem to be any in the UK?
There are plenty of pics and lots of words in The Automobile magazine issue of April 2020, pages 40 to 45 about my car, before I bought it a week or so ago.
Does anyone else have a Hudson 112 from 1938 in the USA: there don't seem to be any in the UK?
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I'm also UK based and used to have a 1939 112. Have you joined or are you contemplating joining the club www.hetclub.org. We'd love to have you and your car.
I'll search out The Automobile as well
It has an excellent members' spare parts scheme.
So the parts may have been shipped "South" to Canada via the rail tunnel under the Ambassador bridge.
Or shipped to the "East" over the Blue Water bridge and then to Tilbury Canada.
Not many realize Canada does have a penisula that curves to the South and then West, putting part of Canada "South" of Detroit
There is a 1930 RHD Hudson Terraplane for sale on the Car and Classic website
John,
Our very own Alex Burr (@hudsontech) answered this a while back:
Unfortunately Hudson did not leave us with production numbers for years prior to 1946.
Now, that said, I've been rooting around this stuff for over 30 years and it was only within the past few years I came across production figures from 1946 to 1954. So, somewhere in someone's collection earlier figures may be available - they just havn't turned up yet.
Among the production numbers we've found are a 1948-1954 breakdown my model, ie, Super 6, Super 8, Hornet, etc, by year.
However if you look here : http://hudsonterraplane.com/tech/other/1909-1957serialnumbers.pdf you will see a list of serial numbers.
An extract from there shows you this:
I can also tell you that as 2014 (I must get some later figures) that in the UK the number of 1939 Hudson's known were these:
I actually got in touch with the DVLA and there is a department there that deals with all these odd-ball requests. Somewhere in my filing system I produced a list of "known" Hudsons from 1930 - 1957 based on serial numbers (VIN).
I'm tempted now to redo that work
As regards 1934 and 1935 Hudsons and Terraplanes in Britain, I only know of around 15.
What does your list say about those years ?
As soon as I find where I've filed it I'll post them up. When I was working with the chap from the DVLA I specified some quite detailed search parameters but as he said (and I agree of course
It is quite possible that there is a reasonable error of margin for these but even so I was pleasantly surprised to see some high numbers.
I will try and get back in touch with the DVLA in the next few weeks and see if I can get the exercise re-run.
On the 112 side there have been a couple "surface" over the last couple of years that I'd never heard of, for example the one that was for sale a few months back done the road from me in Shropshire that had been somewhat butchered.
The asking price of that was , to me, at least double what it was worth however it would seem that someone who wanted to rat-rod it picked it up. A shame to the purist in me however if it gets a Hudson back on the road for people to go "what's that" then I'm not going to complain.
It always used to amaze me when I had a working Hudson i could play with how many people at shows used to stroll up and say "My father , grandfather , uncle used to have a Hudson years ago" and I KNOW there are still cars out there waiting to be found
I just need to find the one that fits in my budget (somewhere south of naff all at the moment unfortunately!) that needs the TLC I can give it!
One day I will have a car again .....
Changing the subject, aAt a small show a few weeks ago, I was told that Monty had a Hudson one as a staff car in the war. The old boy was adamant. I didn't care to point out that Monty's staff car was in fact a Humber.
On spoiling the appearance of my two tone grey 112, I wondered if anyone would mind if I had the wings painted darkish - not quite navy - blue to match the upholstery and carpets. That would in my view, enhance the appearance and somehow sort of match what is often seen on eg Cadillacs of the same vintage.
I'm still wondering whether to have the wings/fenders repainted a mid blue, and I'd welcome advice.