Dave Bonbright, the historian for the movie, brought this ’51 Hudson to Leno’s Garage. It's done up in the “Doc” livery, which was inspired by Hudson racer Herb Thomas.

In the early 1950s, the hottest American performance car didn't come from Ford, General Motors, or Chrysler. Featured on Jay Leno's Garage, this 1953 Hudson Hornet represents the automaker's brief ...

It's a Hudson Hornet, and it's the fastest American car in production that year. That bit of history comes courtesy of Dave Bonbright. He's made the trip over to Jay Leno's Garage to talk Hudson ...

Doc Hudson's role in the Cars universe had to be changed after his voice actor Paul Newman passed away. One of the best characters in the original Cars and the judge of Radiator Springs, Doc ...

Decades later, the Hornet's racing success became part of the story in the 2006 movie "Cars." Lightening McQueen's friend Doc was a Hudson Hornet who'd won the Piston Cup in his long-gone glory days.

McQueen falls into a funk, painted with dull gray primer and moping around his garage. He finds renewed inspiration in his former mentor and coach, Doc Hudson, who passed away prior to the events ...

The Hudson Hornet is one of those cars. Introduced in 1950, the Hornet dominated stock car racing from 1952 to 1954 thanks to its "step-down" design with a lower center of gravity and streamlined ...

A replica of “Doc Hudson” from Disney’s 2006 animated movie “Cars” is on display The Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum has a new Instagram-able setting for families.