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Originally Posted by Tony Janes
Paul do you know who owned the Hudson and where the picture was taken? Just checking
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I'm guessing that the car was owned, or at least engineered by Ike Smith. He was responsible for most of the Hudson Stockers in Southern California. The track was almost certainly Carlsbad.
Regarding the "legal" hood bubble. This picture was the rough chronological contemporary of the earlier post of Larry Walker's '57 blown Ford with a '58 hood. "Minor customizing" was permitted. These little twists seem to really stand out but they were the outgrowth of anomalies in the rules that also permitted experiments such as gutted grills, tilted, "snow plow" license plate brackets, sedan delivery hydros and the 4-speed '57 Chevy combination. Farmer Dismuke slammed the door on these shenanigans fairly quickly.
Just another hiccup in the development of the sport!
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