RangerSteve, if we can't find you that Hudson, how 'bout a Kaiser from the same era? Better tailfins...

A friend had a '49 Mercury well into the 1980s. Big bulbous exterior with a huge toothy grin of a grille, two big fat sofas inside, and plenty of power. We rode quite comfortably in that car from New Orleans to the Houston Astrodome, going to see Bob Dylan and the Rolling Thunder Revue (whatever year that was).