Im 86 and can remember the Hudson Hornet back in the late 40s blowing all the fords and olds off the track at the old Langhorne speedway. It came stock with two carbs. Back than they had to be true stock cars. No hopped up engines. They had to be stock. Some tried to cheat, but the winners car was checked to make sure it was stock. Old AJ was found to be the biggest cheater. One time they found he had his roll bars filled with fuel and a small tube into the tank. They knew something was wrong when he could stay out about 10 laps longer than anyone else.

I am 77 and I remember my uncle driving the family from Chicago to Paris Arkansas. we took this trip together from the time I was pre-school till I went to high school. Back then there were no interstates and the towns were separated by fairly long stretches of open road. One of the cars my uncle owned during that time was a Hudson Hornet. He knew where the little towns had their speed traps and in between we would be doing a 100 MPH or more with nary a car sharing the road with us. This was also WAAYYY before seat belts and if the car we were in had a rear window ledge that is where I would be during most of the trip. Back then we kids weren't too good to keep from being thrown through the windshield like every body else in an accident. Fortunately, we never had one.