Mystery Friday Foto #18 Solved: The1948 Hudson Pick-Up Truck Prototype
Ian Zwerdling challenged you to solve this weekend's Mystery Foto of his new collectible.
Answers to the Mystery Foto questions:
Identify:
- The year and manufacturer
1948 Hudson Truck
- The location of the Mystery Foto
Waterfront at Roslyn garage
What makes this truck unique?
This was the prototype for a Hudson pickup truck. The pick-up truck never went into production.
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Congrats and Kudos to Hunter Z, Steve Lucas, Al Prete, Hugh Nutting, and Dick Gorman who correctly identified the 1948 Hudson Pick-Up Prototype shot at the Waterfront at Roslyn Garage.
Enjoy,
Howard Kroplick
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1948 Hudson Motor co Pickup prototype
Lumber Rd Roslyn NY
That’s a 1948 Hudson Prototype Pickup Truck. I could be wrong but I think the location is a certain garage on Lumber Road in Roslyn. For a little history and significance of the truck, please see the attached photo that I found while searching online.
The truck is a Hudson. It says so right on the front fender. Location looks like Howard’s garage in Roslyn. My guess is it’s from ‘54 and it’s unique because it’s the only existing one and production was stopped with the Nash merger. The front end is different from the Hudson trucks made in the late ‘40s. It’s a beauty!
Its the 1948 Hudson prototype pick up [one off] Copies have been made. at your place
just a guess.
1946 hudson pickup prototype
first produced after world war 2
I have even less of an idea of where the photo is taken than I do what kind of car it is.
Mystery Foto#18… The car in the Foto is a 1948 Hudson Commodore pick-up truck prototype. The photo was taken at Howard K’s Waterfront garage on Lumber Road in Roslyn. (hmm, why wasn’t I there for that?).
The manufacturer took a regular Hudson Commodore and removed cabin behind the front seats leaving the sides and then putting a bed between the rear panels… a never before approach to shaping a pick-up truck. The vehicle was never put into production.
It does, however, bring to mind the Ford Ranchero and the Chevy El Camino car/truck things sold many years later.
Hudson
One-off Hudson prototype pickup built in1948.
Here’s a few more photos my uncle sent me when he took delivery of it last week! Can’t wait to see it in person!!!
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Wonderful, so happy it is now at home on long island. Love the color!
Love the long wheelbase and skirted fenders!
The original Chevrolet Camino, and Ford Ranchero, twenty years earlier.