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Rare Hudson Super Eight With British Custom Body Up For Grabs
Filed in archive American Independents by Philip Powell on February 15, 2007
1936 British Hudson Eight

Take a well-engineered but not very exciting middle-class Detroit sedan from 1936, give the chassis and running gear to British bodywork builder Coachcraft of London, and here's what you get. An elegant Hudson Super Eight with continental good looks. Like it? The car can be yours with the high bid at H&H Classic Auctions' upcoming sale on February 28 and March 1. Be sure to include a plane ticket and hotel expenses, for the auction takes place in the Centaur Complex at Cheltenham, UK Racecourse. The Hudson Super Eight featured a redesigned chassis hailed by Sir Malcolm Campbell in the marque's British advertising campaign as "a really great engineering advancement." The straight-eight engine, developing 120 hp, was fitted with fully-balanced crankshaft, oil cooler, high chrome alloy cylinder block, silicon aluminum alloy pistons and cam roller tappets. A Hudson Super Eight averaged 87.68mph for 24 hours over the Bonneville Salt Flats in October 1936. The sale car, the only one of its type in existence, is said to be in excellent condition; learn more by clicking here.

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