Please help identify this car

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  • Unknown
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    Like I said, I'm pretty sure the condition of the car can be attributed to the fact that it never saw road salt in its life. We didn't have paved roads up here back when the car was driven and no one ever salted gravel or dirt.



    The tree right beside it isn't actually touching the car, but I'd still be scared to try to move it past. I'm going to have to get a shovel and dig to get anywhere near the bottom of the back. One side is buried pretty good.



    Through the empty engine compartment in the front you can see a lot of the bottom of the front of the car and it doesn't look too bad. Had a flashlight in there this afternoon for a peek, but the more buried back is anyone's guess. At any rate, I want to get it out of there just to see how well it's survived the last 51 years. What amazes me now that I've had a good close inspection is the fact that the windows seem to be perfect. Not one bloody tree in 50 years dropped a branch on any one of them.



    Anyway, my brother is a heavy duty mechanic, and he's got lots of toys for moving and jacking up cars, I'm going to see if I can get him to lend me a hand and soon as we get a chance, I'll post some updated pictures and stuff. We'll just leave the tractor out of it for now, we've had far too many tractor related mishaps on this place. Not a machine of finesse. LOL.



    Thanks everyone for helping me solve the mystery.
  • Unknown
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    It would be cool that this thing could have survived the elements that long, unprotected, and still remain solid. I can't believe the frame would be structurally solid, but I really hope you find a good starting point there. It would be defintiely cool, even if you got a little patchwork to do on it, the testament of the construction would be a great story, indeed.
  • Unknown
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    Hi again. Little update. I talked to my brother about the car today. Apparently back when he was learning his trade he'd decided he was going to restore the car, but eventually changed his mind. He says when he went to look at it, it was up off the ground sitting on something. That was a bit over 20 years ago, so, being that no one has checked on it in a very long time, it might have spent a lot less than that 20 years sitting in the dirt.



    He said when last he checked on it back then, the underside of the car was in really good shape.



    This might not be so bad as everyone would expect.
  • Unknown
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    Unless the laws of physics have ceased to exist beneath this car, metal + oxygen + moisture = Corrosion.
  • Unknown
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    Well, this guy has proven he can take a fair enough picture, time will tell us soon if our hypothesis is correct....



    anyway, isn't rust a "chemical reaction" not a physical event?
  • Unknown
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    The Laws of Physics are scientific generalizations based upon emperical observations. A chemical reaction is a physical event.
  • Unknown
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    Dave53-7C wrote:
    Unless the laws of physics have ceased to exist beneath this car, metal + oxygen + moisture = Corrosion.



    Well you seem pretty certain, no point in me persuing this any further.
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    Dave is saying there is going to be rust no two ways about it. The question that remains to be answered is how much. You will find that out when you lift the car. If I had time I would come up and lift it for you I am very strong.....
  • Unknown
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    Exactly my point 51h. Stiney, don't give up hope on that old Hudson. Before some of the best looking Hudsons I've ever seen were restored, they looked much worse than yours. What have you got to loose? Lift that car up and take a peek. Even if it sat in the earth, if little moisture or oxygen got to the metal, it might be better preserved than anyone thinks.
  • Unknown
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    hey stiney dont loose hope. just prepare for the worst and hope for the best. and hey if the car breaks in two when you lift it you will have a really funny story to tell.
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    THEGREENHORNET wrote:
    hey stiney dont loose hope. just prepare for the worst and hope for the best. and hey if the car breaks in two when you lift it you will have a really funny story to tell.



    And spare parts, too.
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