It is 1951, you’re driving a Cadillac Series 62. You’re tearing down a street yet you see something in your rear view mirror…it’s picking up on you. Before long it gets up to speed and brushes past you with ease. It’s a Hudson Hornet, and it’s the speediest American auto of that year.

That tidbit of history originates from of Dave Bonbright. He’s ventured over to Jay Leno’s Garage to talk about the historical Hudson. Truth be told, Dave knows such a great amount about these autos that the Pixar group tapped him for help while making the first “Cars” film. One of the primary characters is Doc Hudson, which was played by Paul Newman.

Hudson was the primary organization to support stock car racing a few decades ago. Their vehicles dealt amazingly well all around when compared with different vehicles of the time, and a considerable measure of that is thanks to the Hudson step-down chassis. This plan made a lower focus of gravity and less body roll contrasted with the competition. In the engine, Hudson fitted a monstrous 5.0-liter inline-6.

Jay and Dave opine that Hudson should’ve presented a V-8 sooner or later in the life of the Hornet. Chevy and Ford could do that and see their own particular models develop and grow with the requests of purchasing clients. Hudson, tragically, never went that course. The automaker was bankrupt by 1954. Nash bought them out and fabricated some more Hornets until the point that the car line was finished in 1957.

In the end, Jay and Dave jump into the 1951 Hudson Hornet and take off out and about. The two keep on talking about the Hudson and in addition Dave’s own mechanical capacity and past. Everything feels especially like a couple of two car-adoring friends out for a journey in a dazzling old invention. Dave and Jay plainly appreciate discussing a scope of subjects, and this 1951 Hudson Hornet makes one extraordinary subject.

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