Offered directly from 34 years of devoted enthusiast ownership
Number 15 of 25 production Italias built
Known and documented history since the late 1950s
An excellent example of its era’s most fascinating, futuristic dream machine
Always one for creative thinking, Hudson designer Frank Spring thought he had just the right idea to improve sales of the small Jet, a compact automobile introduced in the early fifties to compete with the Nash Rambler. Spring worked with…
Offered directly from 34 years of devoted enthusiast ownership
Number 15 of 25 production Italias built
Known and documented history since the late 1950s
An excellent example of its era’s most fascinating, futuristic dream machine
Always one for creative thinking, Hudson designer Frank Spring thought he had just the right idea to improve sales of the small Jet, a compact automobile introduced in the early fifties to compete with the Nash Rambler. Spring worked with Italian coachbuilder Touring to design the Super Jet, a prototype that looked like nothing else on American roads in 1953, with its wraparound windshield, doors cut into the roof, deep air scoops in the front fenders, and a futuristic interior with ergonomic front bucket seats, not to mention jet fighter exhaust-inspired taillights. Under the hood was the Jet’s small six-cylinder engine, with the famous Hudson Twin H carburetors.