'56 Hornet Same owner 40 years

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  • Nevada Hudson
    Nevada Hudson Senior Contributor
    That is a 1956 Hornet Special  short wheelbase, with the AMC 250 v8.
    All Specials came as a Super, but that has the custom Interior. Might be a special order.
  • BigSky
    BigSky Senior Contributor
    How did they ever think that was a car people would want to buy?  Reminds me of things that were made in Russia!
  • 50C8DAN
    50C8DAN Senior Contributor
    Well, as they say, obviously they weren't thinking.  IMHO the '56/'57 design was far worse than the Jet debacle that finally took down Hudson.  Richard Arbib designed this mess and I am sure was paid handsomely for it.  At least the '55 Hudsons had some character and were a fairly decent car, although not a real Hudson.  The latest edition of the WTN has a great article on what should have been.
  • Here's the craigslist ad: https://denver.craigslist.org/ctd/d/denver-1956-hudson-hornet/7404020463.html
    Interesting they think that's the Packard engine and claim to be experts in Hudson.
  • 50C8DAN
    50C8DAN Senior Contributor
    Here are the concepts that were designed by a guy that was contacted by a number of forum members but he never followed up, too bad as his concepts were at least better than the '56'/'57 real ones.


  • BigSky
    BigSky Senior Contributor
    “squirrel View”….. :D