First monocoque body? Hudson?

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First monocoque body? Hudson?

October 29 1954 last Hudson Hornet.
There is one that still shows up at the Friday night car meets in Lakeland. Go here and scroll down for an entire page of car, truck, and bike meets on Tampa Racing
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For the first 40 years of the U.S. auto industry, cars were built much as carriages had been — by dropping a body on top of a frame that held the axles and engine. Only after World War II did the engineers and designers at Hudson attempt a different way; blending the body and frame into one monocoque piece, that would weigh less, ride lower and offer far better protection in a crash. The Hudson Hornet of the late '40s and early '50s became a monster on the stock-car circuit, and its "step-down" construction made it stand out. But sales tapered off, and by 1954 Hudson had been forced to merge with Nash to create American Motors, with the last true step-down Hudson leaving the factory on this date in 1954. Here's the famed Marshall Teague showing off the Hornet's advantage at Daytona Beach in 1952:

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