SIA Flashback – 1956 Hudson Hornet Special

Hybrids are all the rage today, but AMC had a hybrid on the market more than 50 years ago… Oh, wait, different kind of hybrid. However, both the modern-day Prius and the Hudson-Nash “Hash” of the mid-1950s did both get chided on their looks, so there’s at least one thing they both had in common. […]

SIA Flashback – Olds’s Exciting Experimentals

From last week’s experimental V-5 diesel at the Olds Museum in Lansing, Michigan, we move on to another group of experimental engines at the same museum, though built for a much more different purpose. In SIA #76, August 1983, Dennis Casteele gave us a glimpse of three high-performance Oldsmobile V-8s – a Hemi-headed design, a […]