Identify this stock car's car body and grille?

Is the ref. to Hudson any use?

No, sorry, I had been trying to figure whether the engine was a Hudson straight-8, probably is. So I was just after the car body. I am not good at 30s and 40s cars, but it looks a bit like a Ford "B" or similar.

Is this in the UK or USA?

The photo was taken in the UK at a 1/4 mile track, late 1950s. A lot of the stock car drivers got hold of American motors though, they often ran scrap yards and bought a ton of stuff off the USAF. So the 'mystery' bodywork co uld be American, though that rad grille def looks like Riley or Wolseley?

It doesn't have the illuminated oval that was the Wolseley standard, but I also am no expert in those vehicles. A Rover badge, maybe? But the bodywork shape implies American to me. Maybe ask in those Clubs Forums or newsgroups, if they exist?

I'll send the link to a US friend.

The grill is Morris, I'd say. Wolseley badges are oval.

US friend replies:

Any help? Or have you already identified it?

No, only someone who agreed with you that we're looking at a Morris grille. At first I thought it was an American Ford B coupe

Hi again: I was very ignorant: Ford built many thousands of the Model A in Dagenham, 1931 to 1937.

I guess I got brainwashed by reading HOT ROD MAGAZINE all those years ago at school when I should have been studying --- I thought they were all strictly Yank vehicles!

I'm not sure that body design was ever made in the UK, though. Think it was called a doctor's coupe in the US.

Thanks --- I will chase up that name and style. "Plowman", I used to know a Plowman family in Northamptonshire may years ago. :-)

The "doctor's coupe" was a popular American nickname for the Ford Model T c oupe in the 1920's, and its bodywork does not quite match the stock car und er discussion --- its rear quarter light was larger and taller, and the fro nt "crease lines" do not match it. Cheers.