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Our journey through the world of old pickup trucks brought into the spotlight dozens of mainstream Chevrolet C10s or Ford F-100s these past few months. It also revealed a few niche, incredibly rare or funky machines like the International Harvester or even a Beetle-based pickup.
We’ve even featured a couple of Hudson Super Six pickups, so restored, refreshed, and bettered they became modern-day head turners. But it appears there are other Hudson trucks out there, looking pretty much like they did back when the assembly lines rolled them off decades ago.
We managed to dig this one up as it awaits a buyer willing to pay close to $29,000 for it. And unlike the others, it brings a much more classic look to the table.
We’re dealing with a 1948 model year Hudson pickup. Based on the carmaker’s Super Six and part of a bloodline that is known as the Big Boy, the workhorse underwent a major restoration a couple of decades ago but retained much of the original appearance.
Painted in two-tone Quaker Gray and Gunmetal Gray, it shows the classic lines of the late 1940s sedan, only with a vintage-looking bed at the rear - an image enhanced with the help of the wood fitted both on the bed itself and to its sides. Sitting much closer to the ground than the pickups we are used to, the Big Boy looks sleek, nimble, and fast.
It’s probably not that fast, though, given how under its forward-tilt hood sits the original and very old 212-ci (3.5-liter) engine, but in the collectors’ world, that is far from being a disadvantage.
As for the interior, open those rather tiny doors, and you are greeted by the same symmetrical dashboard deployed on the Super Six, a bench wrapped in cloth, and none of the gadgets we believe we can’t live without today.
We managed to dig this one up as it awaits a buyer willing to pay close to $29,000 for it. And unlike the others, it brings a much more classic look to the table.
We’re dealing with a 1948 model year Hudson pickup. Based on the carmaker’s Super Six and part of a bloodline that is known as the Big Boy, the workhorse underwent a major restoration a couple of decades ago but retained much of the original appearance.
Painted in two-tone Quaker Gray and Gunmetal Gray, it shows the classic lines of the late 1940s sedan, only with a vintage-looking bed at the rear - an image enhanced with the help of the wood fitted both on the bed itself and to its sides. Sitting much closer to the ground than the pickups we are used to, the Big Boy looks sleek, nimble, and fast.
It’s probably not that fast, though, given how under its forward-tilt hood sits the original and very old 212-ci (3.5-liter) engine, but in the collectors’ world, that is far from being a disadvantage.
As for the interior, open those rather tiny doors, and you are greeted by the same symmetrical dashboard deployed on the Super Six, a bench wrapped in cloth, and none of the gadgets we believe we can’t live without today.
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