Welcome to the home page of the Hudson Essex Terraplane Club. You have found the official website of the Hudson Essex Terraplane (H-E-T) Club, Inc, an organization dedicated to preserving the products of the Hudson Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan (1909-1954) and American Motors Corporation (1955-1957).
Our club was founded in 1959 by Meritt Marks and currently has around 2800 family memberships with over 1300 members on this site.
The Club has four regional meets , one International Meet every year and many local Chapter meets. Click here to see the list of upcoming events.
We have local chapters all over the US and members in many foreign countries. This site is the on-line community for our wonderful club. If you have a love of Hudson-built cars and trucks, we would love for you to join us.
2026 International Meet
We would love to welcome you to French Lick, Indiana in July!
To register, login in to this site, and click here: 2026 HET Intl Meet Registration
To register by mail, login in to this site and click here to download: 2026 HET Intl Meet Registration Form
French Lick Springs Resort (Host Hotel)
French Lick Springs Resort, 8670 IN-56, French Lick, Indiana is the Meet Host Hotel. French Lick Springs Hotel rooms are $179 plus tax Sunday, July 26, 2026 departing Saturday August 1—the Closing Banquet is Friday evening. Phone number for hotel reservations 1-844-241-6361 with Group Code 0726HET. Be sure to use Group Code 0726HET and identify yourself as being with the HET Club Annual International Meet so HET Club gets credit for your room reservation. Do this no matter what type of room or dates you request.
West Baden Springs Hotel
Outside view rooms at the West Baden Springs Hotel are $229 Sunday July 26, 2026 through Thursday. Rooms are offered pre/post event based on availability at the same rates, including Friday & Saturday at $199 at French Lick Spring Hotel and Friday & Saturday $269 outside view at West Baden Spring Hotel.
2026 Hudson Calendar
We have now uploaded the some of the Club Rosters to the site
Please click here to gain access to the current Club Roster and a selected number of older copies. You can download or view them
Joining the Club
Want to join the club? Click here and gain access to the White Triangle News which is our multi-year Golden Quill award winning magazine that will arrive in your mail box 6 times a year.
Changes to the website
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Our online Club Library has hundreds of manuals, tech articles and much more. For Club members, you can look at online versions of the White Triangle News.
