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Old 12-22-2007, 03:54 PM
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Default Did it, related Honda and Hudson...

Ah ha, and hardy har, har har r r r r r... topic related. What is that I see sitting to the left of americas first honda dealership... could it be a 41 Hudson Pick up??? Hondas first shop truck was a (GASP) Hudson????
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Old 12-23-2007, 08:45 AM
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Default Re: Did it, related Honda and Hudson...

There is a story (folkelore) I have heard for some time that in the last years of Hudson, that Richard Nixon was doing some PR work in Japan and got a committment from Toyota to join with Hudson. It was so easy that he stopped by Honda folks and worked out the same deal. When he got home and the Toyota and Honda folks realized they had been joined they pulled out causing a great problem for Hudson. Some say it might have been one of the reasons that Hudson failed--loss of money from the merger? Fact or Fiction--Somewhere West of Salt Lake
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