Re: SP merger

Posted by Mahoning63 On 2015/3/20 19:34:40

Another thought comes to mind: post-war Europe was well along in rebuilding itself by the mid-50s and the Jet might have been well received as an export. Would not have been too great an expense to create a right-hand drive version. There might have been 5-10K sales on the table and a bright future for Hudson, and Packard too since Europe had long been a destination for its cars.

Revisiting the Six, Hudson engineers by all accounts liked this configuration and were supposedly indifferent to V8s. Nance would have done well to tap their passion and act on his own instincts for an overhead cam engine, tasking Hudson's engineers to create a new OHC Six that was smaller, lighter, more fuel efficient and more powerful than the old ones, to power all future Jet-based cars including a cleaned up, mass produced Italia. It wouldn't have necessarily meant an expensive new plant, just retooling of the old one. (am of course forgetting about my earlier Studebaker proposal... ah how the mind wanders)