Topic: Motoring Memories: Hudson Italia, 1954

[Autos_Editor]

This low, futuristic two-door Italian-inspired coupe was intended to improve Hudson’s image, but it was introduced the same year that Nash and Hudson merged into American Motors, and didn’t fit into the new company’s plans.

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[Whofan]

maybe vets over the headlights is a good idea, but sure it's ugly 

[Rupert]

The shape seems ok for the year...but the eyes look like they have dropped out of the sockets. What was the stylist thinking?

[ovr50]

That car is definitely in the "Memories" catagory; but I doubt very few actually remember it. Even if you were alive in 1954, which I was, there was no Hudson, nor American Motors dealer where I lived; and this Italia model was made in very low numbers. I doubt it was even seen in Canada, but that could be wrong.

I am familiar with it only from (at one time) collecting Brooklin models and they did a 1/43 of it in about 1994 or so. In that tan color. The car was very "avant-garde" for the times.

If anyone on here has even seen the real car, I would be very surprised.

[Shaoul]

It's good to keep remembering cars like that. As James May said once (about a Morris Marina) on hilarious Top Gear (a British car program, for the uninitiated), a car like that is a "warning from history"