Groan. The following can be verified by at least 40 members of The Indy Chapter SDC, including Studebaker Drivers Club National President Ed Reynolds, so there's no chance I made it up:We had our chapter luncheon meeting today in the quaint Mayberry Cafe in Danville IN. A private room was dedicated to the meeting, with three servers and one assistant to wait the tables. All four were younger women no more than 25 years old; competent and friendly.
With the eating over, the girls busied themselves cleaning up at a nearby wait station while Chapter President Chuck "R2 Avanti at The Pure Stock Drags" Kern called the meeting to order and began discussing various items.
The wait-staff girls watched and listened attentively for a few minutes, chatting quietly among themselves while looking a bit puzzled. Finally, the one who had seemed to be in charge politely got Chuck's attention during a lull and asked, "Excuse me, but we [the wait staff] were just talking and wondered; [u]What's a Studebaker?</u>" [:0]
Fortunately, Treasurer Tom [and wife Trudy] Flynn's dark blue 1960 Lark 4-door and Dave and Connie O'Neal's cream Avanti were easily visible from the restaurant windows, so we directed the girls to that viewing site.
A promptly-administered whiff of "the vapors" resuscitated Ed Reynolds and the meeting resumed. (Just kidding about Ed.)
BP
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