Studebaker Alert!
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I don't know from Studebakers but ParaRoad's pic in post 25 made me sigh.
Fuel and electrical systems and accessories all visible from the same angle.
Fuel and electrical systems and accessories all visible from the same angle.
Walter Rego
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Here is my dad with his 1949 Studebaker, taken sometime around 1950 or 51 when my parents got married.
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Here is my dad with his 1949 Studebaker, taken sometime around 1950 or 51 when my parents got married.
Judging by the grille guard, I would guess a 1939, but could be a 40 as they are similar.
THE PILGRIM, this one lives on Forrester NW, just N of Lomas, here in the Duke.
Bet it runs like a Champ!
Fun fact. The bed is actually tooling bought from Dodge. Studebaker basically took the a Lark Sedan, Cut it behind the door and modified it to fit on the existing truck frame.
ParadiseRoad
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...a few Studebaker pickups from various eras...
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M E Morrison
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...a few Studebaker pickups from various eras...
I had a 1953, and it looked like the blue one, but the body wasn't as nice. It did, however, have an Avanti R1 engine, with a Borg Warner T10 four speed. It was a lot of fun to dust off those "muscle cars" in the stop light Grand Prix!
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THE PILGRIM
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I did know a few folks who had the later model Stud PUs.
We always had the Norwegian PUs, the Fjords.
We always had the Norwegian PUs, the Fjords.
littleriver1
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Boy are you guys old! My first car was a 1950 Studebaker 4 dr. 6 cyl. stick with over drive. I had just turned 16. My dad got it for me from a neighbor for $20.00. We spent that summer lying on our backs under it replacing the rings and other parts. My job was to hand him the tools and clean parts. It seemed like no matter how hard I tried I couldn't get that oil pan clean enough for him. One day he said if I can get it cleaned up by the time he got home from work the next day we would finish it. The next day when I got up and found the oil pan It was all cleaned up and painted. I guess he stayed up and finished it himself. Yes that oil pan still leaked. All oil pans leaked back then. That car got like 25 miles to the gal. and there was a gas price war and gas was 18 cents a gal. that summer. The rear doors opened backwards and my friends thought it was cool to open the rear doors so the car would slow down. Then the clutch burned out and it wasn't so cool. The clutch slipped so bad we had to back up a couple of the hills to get the car home. Those are my memories of Studebakers. Then a few years later dad got a Silver Hawk that I wasn't allowed to drive.
EQGuy
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Studebaker at one time painted its engines engine oil green so the oil leaks weren't so noticeable.
gman51
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Back in the 60's there was a lot of Studebakers around. Cars and p/ups. Studebaker was actually considered ahead of its time with the body looks and the mechanicals.
The Avanti was first produced by Studebaker but then I believe another car company bought the rights to it from Studebaker. The Avanti was considered an awesome car.
A friend of mine was embarrassed that his mother had bought a new Lark. I told him nothing to be down about because Studebaker was a very good car. He seemed okay about it then. The Lark was I believe the first of the total box look.
I never had the chance to even sit in one but I always was very curious about them. To this day I would love to check one out and maybe drive one.
The Avanti was first produced by Studebaker but then I believe another car company bought the rights to it from Studebaker. The Avanti was considered an awesome car.
A friend of mine was embarrassed that his mother had bought a new Lark. I told him nothing to be down about because Studebaker was a very good car. He seemed okay about it then. The Lark was I believe the first of the total box look.
I never had the chance to even sit in one but I always was very curious about them. To this day I would love to check one out and maybe drive one.
Rock185
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Those 1950s Studebakers made the rest of the cars of that period look pretty stodgy. I was once traumatized in my youth by a Studebaker Lark. I had a '58 Chevy Bel Air with 348, 3-2s, 4;56 posi,etc. and used to do a bit of street racing. Ran a little kinda brownish/maroon colored Lark one night. It was one with the supercharged 289,4-speed,etc. My clutch blew before we determined who would win. Probably a good thing for me as it saved my dignity. My friends would have never let me live down having been beaten by a Studebaker That little supercharged Lark was quick!
That little supercharged Lark was quick!
stairstars
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My first car was a '59 Lark bare bones with flat head six and three on the tree. I then married and went to college in a '60 Regal Deluxe Lark with V8, auto, power and padded dash in mint condition. Added a '49 four door for class, but then had to have an Avanti. Fantastic car, poetry in motion, but leaked from everywhere. Sold it for a '48 Champion Convertible that I still miss. Overdrive and freewheeling, which let you draft behind trucks on the Interstate...err..just to prove the point. Finally got a '56 Golden Hawk. Then, at 50 I grew up. Decided it was best to have treasures in the house that don't rust so fast. Like antique pistols.
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gman51
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I was watching the sitcom Anger Management and on a cabinet shelf on the wall against the kitchen in the room where he has the meetings it looked like there was a metal model of an old Studebaker. Thought about this thread. Strange how I never noticed it before.
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