big"D"®
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Hi, I'm just an older dude who couldn't ever afford to buy fancy cars and have always been interested in them. I built many model cars as a kid and have always liked doing mechanical things with my hands including minibikes, motorcycles and guitar playing.
I have physical limitations and back issues but still wish for a unique ride to wheel about in. So me and my son have been working on this project of a 1920 Hudson I found many years ago. It started out as a top quality front of some vintage tin that has been revised and recomputed several times over the years.
So we've collected, gathered and accumulated a convoluted mass of dreamy memorizing fantasy of what someone could do with not much money. Wheeling and dealing, believe it or not, this protect has cost not one actual penny as we've bought, sold, traded and mustered up whatever we can find and now have just about enough to finish this beast.
It is a 1920 Hudson Roadster. With a Super-bell 4" drop, mono leaf "suicide style" front end. A factory quadrajet on a 305 high output GMC truck motor with matching 700r4 trans. S~10 rear end mounted within a triangular 4~bar. The steering wheel and column came out of a 52 Hudson and is perfect for this automatic situation. Even though the steering column was originally set up for 3 speed standard on the column, it was easily modified here.
We used a vega style cross steer and intend on having a pan~hard AND a stabilizer bar on the front suspension. Using the old Lovejoy lever action shocks on the front with coil~over shocks on the rear. The rear quarters, trunk and frame are all from a 1930 Chevrolet 3 window coupe. The front of the frame has been pinched to allow the nose to slip neatly down over everything. We also dropped the frame 1.5 inches, cut off the frame horns and installed a tube for the front perch... Hope you all enjoy and am excited to have this new forum as a resource for fabbin' questions...
I have physical limitations and back issues but still wish for a unique ride to wheel about in. So me and my son have been working on this project of a 1920 Hudson I found many years ago. It started out as a top quality front of some vintage tin that has been revised and recomputed several times over the years.
So we've collected, gathered and accumulated a convoluted mass of dreamy memorizing fantasy of what someone could do with not much money. Wheeling and dealing, believe it or not, this protect has cost not one actual penny as we've bought, sold, traded and mustered up whatever we can find and now have just about enough to finish this beast.
It is a 1920 Hudson Roadster. With a Super-bell 4" drop, mono leaf "suicide style" front end. A factory quadrajet on a 305 high output GMC truck motor with matching 700r4 trans. S~10 rear end mounted within a triangular 4~bar. The steering wheel and column came out of a 52 Hudson and is perfect for this automatic situation. Even though the steering column was originally set up for 3 speed standard on the column, it was easily modified here.
We used a vega style cross steer and intend on having a pan~hard AND a stabilizer bar on the front suspension. Using the old Lovejoy lever action shocks on the front with coil~over shocks on the rear. The rear quarters, trunk and frame are all from a 1930 Chevrolet 3 window coupe. The front of the frame has been pinched to allow the nose to slip neatly down over everything. We also dropped the frame 1.5 inches, cut off the frame horns and installed a tube for the front perch... Hope you all enjoy and am excited to have this new forum as a resource for fabbin' questions...
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