a Terraplane that is on the job!

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/vintage-shots-from-days-gone-by-part-2.1154030/page-925#post-13868502

I've never seen anything like it

cool photo

http://www.overdrive.fi/forum/threads/vanhoja-valokuvia-ameriikan-raitilta.267070/page-1386#post-3711042

a mighty fine Hudson panel delivery

https://www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/old-gas-stations.75124/page-105#post-2325450

I wonder if a Hudson Terraplane has ever been to SEMA before

I dig this idea where the grill and hood are 1940, this one looks like a mix up between a Zephyr and a Terraplane

http://truquetructruk.tumblr.com/post/173495665964#notes  stolen from http://www.curbsideclassic.com/blog/the-curbside-classics-of-final-fantasy-xv/  but not giving them credit, as we've come to expect from the asshole who posts truquetructruk

Would you look at this car, and guess that it's powered by a Hudson Terraplane?

http://www.mossgreen.com.au/m/lot-details/index/catalog/424/lot/125552/1938-HUDSON-TERRAPLANE-SPECIAL

1952 Los Angeles flood left some cars buried past their tires

https://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelryerson/24769470246/

36 Hudson Terraplane...

Found on https://www.facebook.com/anibal134

the 1937 Brauks 8, front end is a Terraplane, the rear is a DeSoto

crazy looking little thing huh?

Thanks to Vector! http://vectorville.blogspot.com/2015/03/1937-brauks-8.html

wow, a 34 Hudson Terraplane garage made truck from a car, because during WW2, trucks were given more gas rations (and a lot more useful to working guys than a car)

Commentor "Stll Out There" asks why "they" call this a garage made/ home made conversion. Because it looks like one. And because I have seen no evidence of a 1934 Terraplane truck from the factory. (at the end of this post is the 1938 factory Terraplane advertisement )  http://www.hetclub.org/burr/other/technical_service_bulletins_vol4-ts34-001-ts46-001.pdf

I know it's a Terraplane from the speedometer

Firstly,  to address "Still Out There" there is no "they" here at this blog, it's just me, Jesse, and I am Just A Car Guy, not an expert, and the back of the cab has a square and un conventional non factory termination look. The graceful curves of the fenders and under the pick up box represent the design quality that Hudson made cars with, and the flat-straight lines of the back of the cab don't. Seriously, look at the bottom of the rear of the doors.

No car company made such a bad transition to the back of the cab from the doors by adding a square bottom inches away from the bottom of the doorline. They would have been shot for that.

In the past couple of hours a family member (Bent metal) of the owner confirms that this exact vehicle IS a garage conversion, not a factory job. http://www.classiccar.com/forum/discussion/160636/green-34-t-pu That rear pan that goes between the back fenders is on cars only.  Trucks didn't have that.

compare a 1936 factory Terraplane truck:

Far out! This little socket set is an unusual hex head instead of the common square drive of 1/4, 3/8, or 1/2 inch... and is mounted above the rear window

see under the tail gate? not how trucks are made. That was my 3rd indicator that this was a garage conversion.

below is a look at what this looked like before the truck conversion

In 1934 the word "Essex" was dropped and the car became the Terraplane. The cars were slightly heavier and rarely joined competitive events, particularly as they now lacked the eight-cylinder powerplant. The name Terraplane remained constant through the 1937 model year. By 1936 Terraplane commercial cars were produced in fair number.

 In 1938, knowing they were going to drop the Terraplane, Hudson management chose to phase out the Terraplane name similarly to how it had been introduced, and the 1938 cars were named Hudson-Terraplanes. 

The Terraplane contributed greatly to Hudson Motor Car Co. sales during the Depression 1930s. Sales of the Terraplane outpaced Hudson vehicles in the late mid-30s and it is said that Hudson management was not fond of that fact and that was partly why they chose to eliminate the car as a make. One unique feature was "Duo-Automatic" brakes. Terraplanes had two brake systems—hydraulic and mechanical. Should the hydraulic brakes fail (i.e. the brake line had a leak in it), the mechanical brakes would be used to stop the car.

Perhaps the most memorable sales slogan of the Terraplane years came from 1933: "On the sea that's aquaplaning, in the air that's aeroplaning, but on the land, in the traffic, on the hills, hot diggity dog, THAT'S TERRAPLANING".

Info and bottom photo from http://www.flickr.com/photos/homer----simpson/6931919281/

hodge podge of autos that caught my attention

 I missed noting on this photo what this car is. But Greg identified it as a 'Duesenberg Model J'

 Billie Burke in San Francisco's Presidio Park drving her Studebaker

 Century

 Dodge... with a chauffer? In a Dodge? Really?

 Henry Ford in his first automobile

 Franklin

 1927 Holland Tunnel in New York

 New York hot dog stand 1935 in Manhattan

 a safety idea that didn't stick

 1909 flight of the Wright brothers... but look at the elegant horse carriage

 Lady Astor, a parliament member in  England and her Terraplane

 a Packard 12, 7 passenger limo

 Panhard and Levassor

 Regal

 This Supercharged Graham 120 won over 4 other v8 autos in a contest to win the favor of this fire dept chief

 REO Flying Cloud

 The first Oldsmobile, 1896

A Winton stripped down for racing

all found while browsing through http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/

Hudson Terraplane dash and speedometer instrument gauge, unique in being in the center of the top of the dash

good looking design

and the shifter stalk, about the size of a normal flashlight... good looking elegant design for the 1930's. The Tucker had the same shifter

More unusual stuff from the HAMB thread "Vintage shots from days gone by"

Annette on a scooter

Amelia Earhart with the scooter

General Eisenhower chats with Omar Bradley leaning against his '41 Clipper staff car

The outback mailman, on an enormous rig http://aso.gov.au/titles/documentaries/last-mail-birdsville/clip1/

Aerodynamic trucks and trailers

a Sydney R1-class tram getting relocated (Thanks Graham!)

Sept 1949 Popular mechanics

Not sure what the above vehicle is

Kaiser factory that made aircraft

Ever see any racing Hudson Terraplanes before?

What a great steering wheel, look slike it'a at a car show (from the I.D. board in the window)