Posted by wisbaker on February 17, 2015 at 07:52:11 from (173.26.84.185):
In Reply to: studebaker posted by Larry@stinescorner on February 16, 2015 at 15:14:53:
Never got to drive one but a few crossed paths with my family. My Dad got a '49 when he was in high school, drove the heck out of it until he found a deal on a '53 Packard convertible. Gave the '49 to his little brother who drove it quite a bit more until he upgraded to a Chevy. The Studebaker sat out at the shop for quite a while, one day they were visiting an Aunt and found out she was walking to town because her husband blew up there Plymouth. Dad and Uncle David hatched a plan, as soon as their routes were done on Saturday they rolled the old Studebaker into one of the stalls, rubbed margarine on the windows and little bit of chrome trim and painted it with black Rusteoleum, painted the rims pink and rolled it out in the sun to dry. About that time the rest of the trucks came in from the routes down the dirt road to the dump. Dad said surprisingly the paint didn't pick up to much dirt. When they gave it to their Aunt you'd thought they'd given her a new Cadillac, she kept the car even after they bought another one. Eventually her husband had it out one night while he was drinking, forgot to check the oil and blew it up, they tell me it had about 180,000 miles on it at that time.
Before they got packer bodies on the route trucks Grandpa had a Studebaker truck, dad said they had a lot of problems with clutch linkage, Eventually they took the part that kept bending and heated it cherry red and quenched it, dad said that just moved the problem a little farther down the clutch linkage, it went away when they updated the route truck to International KB-7s with Leach packer bodies.
One of my Great Grandma's brothers always drove Studebakers, yellow ones he was on a regular trade cycle about the time Studebaker went broke he bought one early so he could get his last new Studebaker. Evidently he hadn't saved enough money for his down payment because he lost it to the bank and ended moving in with one of his nieces down state.
The last one I had any contact with or rode in occurred in Tennessee, one of our friends from Church had Studebakers and Saturns. He was a service tech for IBM and said he made service calls in a Studebaker up until GM came out with Saturns and he bought one. Among his collection was a Lark 8 (8 cylinder with air conditioning) a Champ pickup, an Avanti (bought it out of a cotton field in Mississippi put and engine in it and drove it for 10 years) and a Sliding roof station wagon (raised his first family with it it had 359,000 miles on it) and a project car for his step-son the last South Bend built Commander.
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