One of the first production cars to feature a perimeter frame, the Hornet was based on the "step-down" design of the third-generation Hudson Commodore. It was called like that because unlike a ...

No NASCAR legends conversation is complete without the infamous Fabulous Hudson Hornet. This American motorsport icon dominated the stock car field in the early 1950s and inspired the character ...

it's gaining on you. Soon it catches up and blows your doors off. It's a Hudson Hornet, and it's the fastest American car in production that year. That bit of history comes courtesy of Dave Bonbright.

Thanks, in part, to a unique body design that gave it a low center of gravity, the Hudson Hornet was a successful model on the stock car racing circuit in its day. Decades later, the Hornet's ...

the 1953 Hudson Hornet Hollywood Hardtop cost $3,095 when new, $107 more than the 1954 model produced for the period during which the Hudson Motor Car Company merged with Nash-Kelvinator to become ...

Ah, the Hudson Hornet. The legendary NASCAR racer turned "Cars" franchise character. Or, as I like to call it, the forgotten six-cylinder muscle car. Because even though it wrote a few important ...

Update: It has been correctly noted that the car displayed at the Beat Museum is a 1949 Hudson Commodore sedan, not a Hudson Hornet. The Hornet, which shared some styling and its unibody ...

In 2006, the Pixar movie “Cars” immortalized Hudson’s racing history with a retired racer named “Doc Hudson” (voiced by Paul Newman) that helps the film’s protagonist return to glory.

Newman was dedicated to making Cars feel like real racing and especially got a kick out of being Doc, a character based on the 1951 Fabulous Hudson Hornet that raced in NASCAR events. Lasseter ...

Read more about the 1963 Chrysler Turbine Car here. Week one of Cars at the Capital featured a 1952 Hudson Hornet (7B-185596) "Fabulous Hudson Hornet." The Hudson Hornet's story lives on through ...

Hudson Motor Car Company was undeniably an innovator. The Hornet cars that participated in NASCAR were aerodynamically styled with a low center of gravity that made for good handling, as well as ...