Thread: Ebay: 1940 Hudson "BIG BOY" Panel Truck 3/4 ton HUDSON

Quote: Originally Posted by hudsonkid $5000 Wow.... I think someone got a steal! Hopefully not a hot rodder - seriously this one should get restored if possible.

For what it's worth, Alan Walrath of NY also has a 39 panel truck, the kind with the headlights in the fenders

Actually a picture of Eldon's is in the November issue of Hemmings Collector Car, and it is black.

Bill, I'm sure you miss it. But may I say that the Hemmings restoration is gorgeous. I was up at the museum in Bennington VT. in Oct. and actually sat in it. Boy what a treat.....

That would be an awesome project. I've always had a thing for trucks and more recently the panel deliveries. Hopefully someone with the appropriate funds will take on this one. Matt

Aaron, You are on the money when you said they were used up and then scrapped. The reason for the Hemmings Terraplane van being around is due to the effort of club member Dave Bullock. Dave actually obtained the truck from a mortuary in Pennsylvania in the sixties. THATS why it survived {no pun intended}. It had been parked in a building and pretty much forgotten about. Subsequently it passed into several hands before it arrived in Bennington...

I had a chance to buy a '36 Terraplane panel about 18 years ago and a passed, did not have the money and the condition was pretty bad. It was in Texas at the time, anyone know if one of these is still around. This one was white.

I think Daimler Chrysler should have a special edition Dodge Ram called "BIG BOY"

$5000 Wow....

There was a trailered Panel Delivery at the RENO NATIONAL...as I recall it looked as tho it had been used for target for many many years.. Maybe someone has an update or more info on that truck