Hudson Hornets: When I was nine I started playing baseball in Pontiac, MI for a coach named Les Hudson. The name for our team was the Hudson Hornets. I did not realize until a friend...

SteveR Loc: Michigan

When I was nine I started playing baseball in Pontiac, MI for a coach named Les Hudson. The name for our team was the Hudson Hornets. I did not realize until a friend went to the Gilmore Car Museum in Michigan and I confirmed it with a friend in Pontiac, that the team was actually named for a car called the Hudson Hornet. I just thought it was alliteration with the coach's name. I guess I was the only one that didn't know. The Hudson, btw, was made in Pontiac.

JSPIRAKIS Loc: Florida

It made a comeback in the movie "Cars." Great kids movie that most adults enjoyed.

SteveR Loc: Michigan

JSPIRAKIS wrote:

It made a comeback in the movie "Cars." Great kids movie that most adults enjoyed.

I'll have to watch it. I know my grandson loves it.

fuminous Loc: Luling, LA... for now...

Yup, my folks had a Hudson Hornet and I got in trouble too many times for sneaking into the garage to spend hours laying in the front seat reading and listening to the radio. My father was never happy to find a dead battery.

SteveR wrote:

When I was nine I started playing baseball in Pontiac, MI for a coach named Les Hudson. The name for our team was the Hudson Hornets. I did not realize until a friend went to the Gilmore Car Museum in Michigan and I confirmed it with a friend in Pontiac, that the team was actually named for a car called the Hudson Hornet. I just thought it was alliteration with the coach's name. I guess I was the only one that didn't know. The Hudson, btw, was made in Pontiac.

Carl D Loc: Albemarle, NC.

This is the car I learned to drive in. It was my dad's. That old flathead eight could really scream.

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

I remember those. They were the rage! Whoops - guess I'm pretty old!
Mark

SteveR wrote:

When I was nine I started playing baseball in Pontiac, MI for a coach named Les Hudson. The name for our team was the Hudson Hornets. I did not realize until a friend went to the Gilmore Car Museum in Michigan and I confirmed it with a friend in Pontiac, that the team was actually named for a car called the Hudson Hornet. I just thought it was alliteration with the coach's name. I guess I was the only one that didn't know. The Hudson, btw, was made in Pontiac.

ronz Loc: Florida

I had the Hudson Wasp. Man that sure was a tank. I remember sliding into a telephone pole pulling some buddies on a street covered with ice. We just go out and used our hand to pop the dent out of the front fender and it looked perfect. They really put real metal in those cars. Was a rather ugly car but could stack a lot of people in for the drive-in movie.

Nikon6091 Loc: 90210

Carl D wrote:

This is the car I learned to drive in. It was my dad's. That old flathead eight could really scream.

The Hudson Hornet was a six-cylinder car. Never an eight.

KTJohnson Loc: Northern Michigan

The "2nd Generation" (1955-57) were available with a V8. At this point, Hudson had merged with Nash-Kelvinator to form the American Motors Corporation and they were then being built in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

1955-56 320 cu in Packard V8
Late 56 250 cu in AMC V8
1957 327 cu in AMC V8

1952 Hudson Hornet

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SteveR Loc: Michigan

KTJohnson wrote:

The "2nd Generation" (1955-57) were available with a V8. At this point, Hudson had merged with Nash-Kelvinator to form the American Motors Corporation and they were then being built in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

1955-56 320 cu in Packard V8
Late 56 250 cu in AMC V8
1957 327 cu in AMC V8

I was mistaken about them being built in Pontiac. After doing some reading, the Hudson of Hudson Department Stores bankrolled the company around 1909, so it took his name. It was built in Detroit at least until its merger.

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

JSPIRAKIS wrote:

It made a comeback in the movie "Cars." Great kids movie that most adults enjoyed.

And voiced by the great Paul Newman. the filmmakers asked him because of his love for auto racing, and were thrilled when he accepted. And he was brilliant in the part. He actually brought his knowledge of racing to the film.

hannaco Loc: People's Republic of California

Ah, the memories of the 308 twin power (twin carbs and 'big' cam). That big ole tank could get up and go.