I was born in SouthBend when everyone there that had two cars, one was a Studebaker and my family was no exception. Had Larks and Silver and Golden Hawks. My grandfather's daily driver was a Champion, although he and my other uncles like their Commanders as well. A couple of years ago a fella had a Studebaker pickup for sale just above the Michigan state line in Edwardsburg, and it was mint. I went up a couple of days later, but it was gone. Stupid me, snoozed and lost.
Tell you the truth, I'm tinkering with the idea of picking up a two door Champion and putting a Hemi in it. When I say Hemi, I mean real Hemi, not those things they make today and call Hemi. I mean lift the all heavy steel front end off the ground at the same time the rears are dancing and bobbling from side to side about six or eight inches off the ground kind of Hemi. I got nothing against Henry J. Willys Fords, but there've been plenty of them. I cruised by the old factory a few years ago, and the neighborhood aint at all safe these days, but if that buildings still standing, I'd kind of like to do a burn out from one end to the other in a Hemi Champion, on the third floor, across every single wood plank. I wonder if I could get one of the freight elevators to work. Then again, they may have torn it down in the past year or two.
I did my first ever burn out on the concrete slab beside in our farm house in my Dad's silver hawk, 289, three on the tree, and I was maybe eight years-old. No joke. Our parents were gone somewhere in the Chevy, my big brother dug out the keys and talked me through it, and he was about ten. About 1968. I don't think our father ever noticed the burned rubber, and it sure did it. He never said anything about it. Maybe he thought he did it. Was only about 5' long, both tires.
Good luck with your champion, and go with a narrowed 9" Ford rear end, they can handle a real Hemi.
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