'56 Hudson Hornet Special

Here's a 1956 Hudson Hornet Special, which was built on a Hudson Wasp wheelbase.'

This is the car that used American Motors' 250-cubic inch, 190 horsepower V-8 engine.

This (and the Nash Ambassador Special) came to being after AMC ended its' engine arrangement with Studebaker-Packard (the '55 and early '56 Hornets and Ambassadors had the Packard-built engine that delivered first 208, then 220 horsepower, and had Packard's Ultramatic automatic transmission as standard equipment).

AMC used its' new in-house engine on its' Nash Ambassador Specials (built on the Statesman wheelbase) as well.

Why couldn't AMC just call those cars Statesman and Wasp V-8s?