The glass tubs have challenge buggy written all over them - lot lizard 2.0?
The glass tubs have challenge buggy written all over them - lot lizard 2.0?
Curtis73 (Forum Supporter) said:Same place I found this one back in August.
Is that an Divco? I've had an irrational lust for one of those (or similar over sytlized delivery vehicles) ever sense I learned of their existence.
It didn't have any badges, but Divco was my assessment as well.
Woody (Forum Supportum) said:In reply to Stefan (Forum Supporter) :
Not a turbo. Wrong wheels and no rear spoiler.
Early Turbo's came with 4-lug wheels and considering the frequency of hatch delaminations, original hatches are often suspect.
I mean you're likely right though and the combination of Bosch CIS and electrical connector issues have caused so many of these cars to sit and rot.
Curtis73 (Forum Supporter) said:DING DING. Hudson Commodore. Year will be hard to guess with all the weeds, but there are some clues if anyone can find them.
The thing that got me was the submodel. I'm no Hudson expert, but I knew of the Commodore 6 and 8 (named for straight 6 or straight 8), but this one had a side badge that said Commodore 67. Not familiar with that and google doesn't bring anything up.
Not sure about the "67" part, but I want to say it's a '49. Funny enough, there's a guy only a few miles from my home who turned out to be a MASSIVE Hudson fan but I only learned when he was junking his stock. I was too late to save much. If you really want to try, you need to pull it PRONTO- Hudson "used 3 rivets where 1 would do" and rust repair, if it can set in, is extremely difficult because they overbuilt everything.
The Hudson 6 and 8 motors could not be more different. The ~308 Flat 6 is probably the Apex of Side-valves as a technology and Hudson pulled every stop to make them competitive against the rise of the OHV V8, whereas the Flat 8 was still splash-lubricated instead of pressurized even in it's last year of 1949-1950. Made less power too. It was really a 1920s engine in a 1940s car.
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