Greg Myers Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 (edited) Edited May 4, 2015 by Greg Myers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deathgoblin Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 Really not surprising. They were attractive cars and won races. Plus, it's something DIFFERENT from the cars everyone else makes. I bet someone could pop out a Nash, Kaiser, Hupmobile or something else and it would do decently well. But except for the Doc Hudson one, they're all by the same company. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Handley Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 (edited) I know Art has said any company would be a fool to make one, but I'd still love to see a Tucker kit too. Edited May 3, 2015 by Joe Handley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnU Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 I don't get it, what's wrong with the Tucker? It's an historically significant car. Not to mention cool looking! Would love to see a fully detailed one kitted! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1930fordpickup Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 I know Art has said any company would be a fool to make one, but I'd still love to see a Tucker kit too. I don't get it, what's wrong with the Tucker? It's an historically significant car. Not to mention cool looking! Would love to see a fully detailed one kitted! I agree with both of these comments and I also agree with Art. Sure Art would love to have one in 1/25 scale plastic like a few hundred of us. The problem is that they would have to sell enough to cover the cost of the tooling. That is where the problem ls. Now if one of us hit the lottery and wanted to pay for the tooling, we would see one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Anderson Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 For perhaps the majority of members of this forum (and all of us with more white than color in what hair we still have on top of our heads), a step-down Hudson model kit would have been one of the last subjects we'd have bought as kids 50-60 yrs ago. Face it: Most of us older modelers would have dreaded being seen in a Hudson back then (It took a classmate of mine, when we were in 7th grade to open my eyes--HE know what a Hornet, with the 7X Twin H-Power 308cid flathead 6 would do--and my mother proceeded to confirm that, and showed the two of us! VROOOMMMMMM!). Even as late as say, 15-20 yrs ago, it probably would not have been a salable model car subject, certainly not in the eyes and minds of those making buying decisions as wholesalers or retailers in the hobby business (witness the still-born AMT/Ertl '50 Olds 88 Club Coupe, announced at RCHTA in October 1999!). But, time seems to have a way of letting us warm up to the idea of such cars today. Many of us remember them as cars from our youth, and we tend to wax nostalgic as we've gotten older--just as our parents became nostalgic about the cars of their younger years. Art Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Hall Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 (edited) I don't get it, what's wrong with the Tucker? It's an historically significant car. Not to mention cool looking! Would love to see a fully detailed one kitted! Problem is its only a one version subject , obscure, ugly (IMO) and would have very limited appeal. Edited May 4, 2015 by Rob Hall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Hall Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 (edited) The Hudsons are too old and obscure to appeal to me, maybe in 20 years when I'm in my 60s the model companies will tool up some 70s vintage land yachts... cars I remember fondly from childhood..... Edited May 4, 2015 by Rob Hall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry P. Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 Back when SAE was doing their annual "most wanted" list, Hudson would appear on the list more often than not, year after year. So no surprise at all that the Moebius Hudsons are popular; builders had been asking for one for ages. BTW... it's who would have thought... not who would of thought. Who would of thought makes no sense. Your free Grammar 101 lesson for the day... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Anderson Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 Problem is its only a one version subject , obscure, ugly (IMO) and would have very limited appeal. Yes, And anymore, "one hit wonder" model car kits can have a very uncertain future in today's hobby. Art Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tim boyd Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 (edited) Guys...I can admit when I'm wrong. I never ever in a million years would have picked a Hudson as a 1/25th scale kit topic, nor would I have predicted that the Moebius Hudson kits would have enjoyed the success that they have seen since the first release. Certainly the appeal of the topic is in part due to a ground-breaking kit design (including the approach with the instruction sheet) from the Moebius team), but even still.... Just goes to shown that few of us have a 100% lock on "what sells vs. what doesn't sell", even those of us with in-depth knowledge of the behind the scenes goings on at the model companies. TIM Edited May 4, 2015 by tim boyd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Wann Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 Hudson trucks might make for some nice subjects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slusher Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 I know Art has said any company would be a fool to make one, but I'd still love to see a Tucker kit too. I don't get it, what's wrong with the Tucker? It's an historically significant car. Not to mention cool looking! Would love to see a fully detailed one kitted! I also would love to see a Tucker kitted.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Handley Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 The Hudsons are too old and obscure to appeal to me, maybe in 20 years when I'm in my 60s the model companies will tool up some 70s vintage land yachts... cars I remember fondly from childhood..... That's the funny thing about opinions, the only vehicle from that era I have much interest in is the Dodge Monoco/Plymouth Grand Fury like was kitted for Roscoe's Police Cruiser, I really have no interest in the rest. I'd prefer to see more modern cars and trucks kitted or reissued that the kits of those cars reissued or kitted new. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDO Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 Just because they have issued it in several different boxes doesn't mean it has sold better than a '57 Chevy or '32 Ford. If someone has numbers to prove otherwise, well hey that's cool. Having said that, I'm glad it is selling. I really like their Chryslers and hope to see more cool old cars from them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Handley Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 All said though, some of the '32 and '57 kits had a 50 year head start and until the Revell Black Widow kit dropped, were mostly 2dr Hardtops, at least with the Hornet we're getting variations like those of the Revell Deuces, only much more quickly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Myers Posted May 5, 2015 Author Share Posted May 5, 2015 (edited) http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2012/09/18/trio-of-twin-h-hudson-hornets-heads-to-auction/Hudson trucks might make for some nice subjects. Yep. https://www.google.com/search?q=hudson+trucks&espv=2&biw=766&bih=702&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=lutIVdLHGcWvggSQpYGYCw&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAg take yer pick. http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2012/09/18/trio-of-twin-h-hudson-hornets-heads-to-auction/ Edited May 5, 2015 by Greg Myers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Anderson Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 Hudson trucks might make for some nice subjects. Hudson built pickup trucks starting in 1933, on the Terraplane chassis and body. Those gave way to pickups built from regular Hudson passenger car bodies/chassis (used the name "Dover" for a couple of years), and then became a staple of the Hudson lineup through 1948. The company did build a prototype pickup on the 1949 "Stepdown", but never put that into production. That pickup was retained by Hudson, used as a factory "Go-Fer" until Hudson ceased operations in Detroit. Now preserved in a Hudson Museum in Ypsilanti MI, last I knew. Art Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrknowetall Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 I'm still waiting for the bullet nose Studebaker AMT/ERTL announced about fifteen years ago. In plastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjordan2 Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 (edited) Back when SAE was doing their annual "most wanted" list, Hudson would appear on the list more often than not, year after year. So no surprise at all that the Moebius Hudsons are popular; builders had been asking for one for ages. BTW... it's who would have thought... not who would of thought. Who would of thought makes no sense. Your free Grammar 101 lesson for the day... You're misquoting. It should be "who'd have THUNK it," or "who'd'a thunk it," an old colloquial phrase popularized by Mary McCarthy in "The Group." You shoulda went with the intent. ? Edited May 5, 2015 by sjordan2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry P. Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 A Hudson PU doesn't look like it would be hard to scratchbuild. It looks like they just took a stock body and added the PU bed. Looks to me like some simple cutting on the body and a few pieces of sheet styrene, and there ya go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Anderson Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 A Hudson PU doesn't look like it would be hard to scratchbuild. It looks like they just took a stock body and added the PU bed. Looks to me like some simple cutting on the body and a few pieces of sheet styrene, and there ya go. Exactly! Hudson built their pickup trucks (including the one and only '49 prototype I mentioned) from 4dr sedan bodies. They simply cut the body just aft of the B-;pillar, and made a back panel to create the "cab". On the Stepdown prototype, the pickup box fits just inside the body-side "bulge", and is a VERY wide pickup bed, IIRC, it's at least 5', if not nearly 6' wide. Here's a link to the only one ever built: http://www.fotosdecarros.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/25/10/1949-Hudson-Pickup-Prototype-01.jpg Art Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordairgtar Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 (edited) I goofed Edited May 5, 2015 by lordairgtar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Most Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 I'm still waiting for the bullet nose Studebaker AMT/ERTL announced about fifteen years ago. In plastic. Bingo. That's the last full-detail plastic kit I "need", since the Hudsons arrived. Anything anyone released after that would just be a nice bonus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnt671 Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 For those that would like to see a Tucker kit, Here's a few pictures of a real one. # 1022 # 1026 # 1001, the first Tucker off the assembly line. Hope you enjoy them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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