1953 Hudson Hornet

Today begins a run of what will be many, many posts with pix of cars from the Greenwood car show. Every year Seattleites bring some the the rarest and most interesting vehicles ever made to this show, and this year I'll be covering them in detail.

Hudson shocked the industry in 1948 when they introduced the first car with a floor lower than the door sills. This gave the car a very low center of gravity that helped it dominate early NASCAR racing, despite the fact that it did not have a particularly powerful engine. This '53 is not significantly different from the original "step-down" Hudsons of 1948, and the car would get only a mild makeover in 1954 before the sun set for good on the brand. There would be a few more cars called Hudson, but they were merely copies of Nash-Ramblers.

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1968 Austin Mini Cooper Mark II

Often I can determine the exact model year of an old car; sometimes it's a bit of a guess. With a Mini, it's a wild guess. Is this a Mark II, or is it an earlier or later model? Is it a "Cooper"? I don't really know. It's certainly a lot older than the Rover Mini we spotted recently.

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1968 Pontiac Firebird convertible

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