This rare two-door saloon was the basis of Paul Newman’s character Doc Hudson in the 2006 anthropomorphic film Cars
GOODING & COMPANY/MIKE MAEZ
IF YOU WERE SETTING-OUT TO DESIGN A race car during the early 1950s it probably wouldn’t have looked like this – but the six-seat Hudson Hornet proved to have a serious sting in its tail when it took to the track, winning the NASCAR championship in 1951, ’52 and ’53.