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Sez the article:Paul Newman gives voice to Doc Hudson, a wise retired racer turned mechanic. It helps if you know that the Hudson Hornet, for which the Pixar team dug up vintage paint chips to assure realism, was once a Nascar racer and that Newman acted in a film called "Hud." Yes, the car has blue eyes.
Plus, my dad drove Hudson Hornets, and he had blue eyes, too. Though not a blue Hudson. The one that looked like Doc was tan, a '51. It was enormous, or seemed so to me; of course, I was only a few months old when he bought it, and not quite six when he traded it in on the red one. ("Fire Engine Red" was the official color name, and it was, and it had a "continental" on the back.) All six of us could fit into it, since they didn't have laws about child safety seats then. Ginny and I used to lie on the package shelf behind the rear window, both of us at once; we were about 2 and 3 or 3 and 4 at the time, I guess.
Dad always said that '51 Hudson was his favorite of all the cars he ever owned.
One day a year or so ago, I was walking in a parking lot past a tan Dodge Ram truck and had a sense of deja vu. After awhile, I realized what it was reminding me of -- the Hudson. The Ram being as large at it was, my height relative to its grille was similar to my height relative to the Hudson's grille back in the day, and the heavy chrome grille and even the Ram logo were somewhat similar to the Hudson's (though the Ram logo is black, not red, like Hudson's was).
Sez the article:Paul Newman gives voice to Doc Hudson, a wise retired racer turned mechanic. It helps if you know that the Hudson Hornet, for which the Pixar team dug up vintage paint chips to assure realism, was once a Nascar racer and that Newman acted in a film called "Hud." Yes, the car has blue eyes.
Plus, my dad drove Hudson Hornets, and he had blue eyes, too. Though not a blue Hudson. The one that looked like Doc was tan, a '51. It was enormous, or seemed so to me; of course, I was only a few months old when he bought it, and not quite six when he traded it in on the red one. ("Fire Engine Red" was the official color name, and it was, and it had a "continental" on the back.) All six of us could fit into it, since they didn't have laws about child safety seats then. Ginny and I used to lie on the package shelf behind the rear window, both of us at once; we were about 2 and 3 or 3 and 4 at the time, I guess.
Dad always said that '51 Hudson was his favorite of all the cars he ever owned.
One day a year or so ago, I was walking in a parking lot past a tan Dodge Ram truck and had a sense of deja vu. After awhile, I realized what it was reminding me of -- the Hudson. The Ram being as large at it was, my height relative to its grille was similar to my height relative to the Hudson's grille back in the day, and the heavy chrome grille and even the Ram logo were somewhat similar to the Hudson's (though the Ram logo is black, not red, like Hudson's was).