That happened when they became American Motors in 1954. The Hudson name
was dropped in 1957. I bet a Hudson Met would be real hard to find.
Dave
Kent J. Miller wrote:
>The early Metropolitans had 1200 cc engines and the later cars had the
>1500s. All, however, had 3 speed tranmissions with the column shifter. The
>physical size of the tranny is exact to the MGA tranny and the MGB tranny.
>We still have my dad's Metro in the family and I thought about putting a B
>engine and tranny in it.
>
>BTW, did you know that there were Nash Metros and Hudson Metros?
>
>Kent
>1960 Bugeye
>1978 Midget "Drippy" (How's that for a name?)
>1976 Midget "Boneyard" (Now becoming a piece of eBay history!)
>
>>But now we are not too sure it's an MGA
>>gearbox at all though we know that its an
>>the engine is a "15F-H-" model.
>>
>>You see, it powers an original 1960
>>Nash Metropolitan!! ("Beep, beep....
>>beep, beep....his horn went beep, beep,
>>beep.......!")
>>
>>Anyone have a clue as to what gearbox
>>was hooked up to the MGA Series "B"
>>type that came factory installed in these
>>cool little cars (not that anyone should,
>>but......!:)
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