Art & Inspiration Granddad's boat out of 2 Hudson hoods

When dad and I were at the GRNS this yr. and saw a Hudson with the deep hood he told me about grandad making the boat. Grandad did run shine in KY so I guess he was the first hot rodder in the family, but he did love fishing. My uncle took this picture around 1960.

 

Now thats thinking outside the box!

 

When I was a kid I found a boat made out of two carhoods welded together, thinking back probably 40's vintage. I floated down the creek, it was pretty fun.

 

There's a duck boat hanging on the wall of my dads pole shed that is made out of 2 40's international truck hoods. He had one when he was a kid made out of 2 40 Ford hoods.

 

And I saw a thread where 2 different Hudson guys were needing hoods. Hmmmmm

 

Thats a cool boat n pic.Id blow that pic up 3ft + and hang that in the shop.........YG

 

Sort of how my Hoodlum came about.Cool boat.

 

nice photo cheers

 

Same here,Back in the early 60's we found a hood boat and I'm pretty sure it was late 30's early 40's,we played with it a few days but we overloaded it with 3 teenagers out on the lake and it sank like a rock,,good thing we all could swim because we didn't prepare for a catastrophic failure! HRP

 

nice!! Cool pic!