...although I don't have it yet:
I sealed the deal this a.m. (outside of eBay).
It's a driver. Thanks much to the two Bobs (you know who you are!) for the advice and encouragement!
The seller said he could store it until around the first of March, so that will save some storage issues.
I remember this car from growing up in Greenville, PA. The original owners had it until 1990! My friend Ed Filer sold the car new at his family dealership. It's a Canadian 259. I have photocopies of the window sticker, bill of sale, and Studebaker dealer service invoices from new 'til Oct. '67.
I had made photocopies of the eBay ad and sent them to the original owner and his wife a few weeks back (whom I've met once and talked to on the phone a couple times). Just yesterday I got a card from him, thanking me for the ad and that he photocopied it and sent one to the former Stude dealer's Service Manager and another to the last Stude mechanic he dealt with, who now lives in Florida!
Small world. I thought the car looked like the one I remembered, and I knew it was sold to a guy in Wisconsin in 1990, and when I compared serial nos. from documentation I had to the eBay ad, discovered it was the same car!
Though I probably can't afford it right now, I took the bait!
Better pictures later, hopefully.
Bill Pressler
Kent, OH
'63 Lark Daytona Skytop R1
'64 Daytona Hardtop
I sealed the deal this a.m. (outside of eBay).
It's a driver. Thanks much to the two Bobs (you know who you are!) for the advice and encouragement!
The seller said he could store it until around the first of March, so that will save some storage issues.
I remember this car from growing up in Greenville, PA. The original owners had it until 1990! My friend Ed Filer sold the car new at his family dealership. It's a Canadian 259. I have photocopies of the window sticker, bill of sale, and Studebaker dealer service invoices from new 'til Oct. '67.
I had made photocopies of the eBay ad and sent them to the original owner and his wife a few weeks back (whom I've met once and talked to on the phone a couple times). Just yesterday I got a card from him, thanking me for the ad and that he photocopied it and sent one to the former Stude dealer's Service Manager and another to the last Stude mechanic he dealt with, who now lives in Florida!
Small world. I thought the car looked like the one I remembered, and I knew it was sold to a guy in Wisconsin in 1990, and when I compared serial nos. from documentation I had to the eBay ad, discovered it was the same car!
Though I probably can't afford it right now, I took the bait!
Better pictures later, hopefully.
Bill Pressler
Kent, OH
'63 Lark Daytona Skytop R1
'64 Daytona Hardtop
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