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Need help identifying this car
This is my father some time around the '40s and maybe even the early '50s. I'm trying to identify the car.
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the only car I can think of that had three chrome trim stripes like that was a 41 cadillac.
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Looks like a '47 Hudson
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Thank You Chuck. 1947 Hudson Commadore possibly a pick up. He was an Iowa farm boy after all.
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Who's the kid in the photo?
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Kid is right! They enlisted young back in his day. Looks about 14 here. Anything to get off the farm eh?
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Cindy's departed uncle was Cav....Guadalcanal. So, wondering if they could have served together?
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