"In the center of this one-car showroom sits (usually) a gleaming 1957 Hudson Hornet Custom sedan with 17,000 original miles on the odometer, painted a three-tone combination of light and dark green and cream - V-Line Styling at its (ahem) most intense. In a corner near the door stands a gold-painted, six-cylinder, 308-cid, 175-hp Hornet 7X display engine built by Marshall Teague, a sacred relic of the days when Teague and his Hornets were the hottest combination on America's stock car circuit."

Anybody vaguely familiar with American independent car manufacturers will know Jack Miller, proprietor of Miller Motors, best known as the last Hudson dealership. We've written about Jack quite a few times in recent history, and Jeffrey Godshall visited with him for a profile on Miller and the business that appeared in April 1984.

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