Can anyone with the right knowledge comment on this please:
"We would like to UK register our Hudson and will need a dating letter from a recognised club to submit to the DVLA for a first UK reg application.
Supplied new to Argentina circa 1924 in RHD, the original chassis number is 20586. The original engine number is 14622.
I have attached a period document that records those numbers as well as photos of the Hudson as she is today and in period from 1926.
Through a contact in Argentina we acquired the original trophies and paperwork for the Hudson when driven by Raul Riganti, winning the first 500 miles of Argentina race in 1926. The coachbuilder Luis Viglione carried out the modifications to the original car in period."
If you are asking for an explanation of the letter, it sounds like the current owners of the race car have moved the car to the United Kingdom and want to register it there. I assume the individuals can provide proof of the car's serial and engine numbers to the DVLA (is that the motor vehicle registry in England?). But in order to properly register the car, the British agency needs to verify the particular model year of the automobile (based upon those numbers). So, the car's owners are asking how they might get some sort of verification of the model year from some authorized person in the H-E-T Club.
(Would that be a logical interpretation of the correspondence you have received?)
In that event, I assume an official letter (on paper, properly signed) from our club president, stating the car's model year, could be mailed to the car's present owners, and this would satisfy the DVLA.
Thanks Jon,
Yes. I just wanted someone to agree with me that the car serial and motor serial numbers were year correct, We will be happy to generate such a letter indeed 🙂
I just checked Alex Burr's Hudson Handbook and the body number #20586 does not fall within the sequence assigned to the 1924 models.
The number would make sense for:
The 1920 Model "O" 7-passenger phaeton (LHD)
The 1919 Model "O" 7-passenger phaeton (LHD)
The 1918 Model "M" 7-passenger phaeton (LHD)
The 1917 Model "J" 7-passenger phaeton (LHD)
Possibly I am reading Alex's figures incorrectly. Or, the chassis was NOT supplied new to Señor Viglione. Or, the chassis number #20586 may have simply been arbitrarily assigned to the chassis by someone (Viglione?). The lowness of the race car makes it look, to my eyes, newer than 1924.
Thanks Jon, I thought the same as well when I saw it and replied back to the enquirer saying just that :).
I have asked for photos of the chassis and engine so we can see but my initial thought was this could be a "bitsa" car as often happened with these cars. It may been supplied "new" but that that could just have been new to him of course!
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