mon. retrobaker

[junior]

[Tom Bredehoft]

I remember a cover story on one of the car mags from the late fifties, "Favor for a Friend" where a body shop had repaired a bung up grill on a '53 CK by replacing it with a grill from a '54 Kaiser in an opening very similar to that shown above. I always thought it was the only improvement possible on the Coupe.

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Tom Bredehoft
'53 Commander Coupe (since 1959)
'55 President (6H Y6) State Sedan
....On the road, again....
'05 Legacy Ltd Wagon
All Indiana built cars

[COMMANDERPINK1]

The new windshield resembles the rear glass of these cars. It seems to me Chip Foose did something as a custom by using the rear glass and frame work.

Tom

[junior]

Tom, I photographed that artical and will post it soon. It's in the Jan'56 issue of Rod & Custom. Junior



54 Champ C5 Hamilton car.

[Nelsen Motorsports]

It looks Harly Earlified.


Alex Nelsen, 15 year old Studebaker nut.
1954 Champion Coupe
Lizella, GA

[woodysrods]

The price list on the side lists the windsheild as 55 T Bird. The ones I have seen look to have used 56 to 60 Corvette windsheids.[]
Good Roads
Brian

Brian Woods
woodysrods@shaw.ca
1946 M Series (Shop Truck)

[Bredehoft]

quote:Originally posted by Tom B

I remember a cover story on one of the car mags from the late fifties, "Favor for a Friend" where a body shop had repaired a bung up grill on a '53 CK by replacing it with a grill from a '54 Kaiser in an opening very similar to that shown above. I always thought it was the only improvement possible on the Coupe.

It looks like he found your article: http://forum.studebakerdriversclub.c...TOPIC_ID=39716

--george

1963 Lark Daytona HT - 63V J8 175
53-54 C/Ks, 55 Speedsters, 63 Daytonas, Wagonaires Registries

[Collection Doctor]

quote:Originally posted by junior

Who was it that had that inflation calculator??? What's $2784.50 1956 dollars in today's dollars 'cause that's how much it would cost to modify a c/k into this convertible.

There are a number available on the Internet. The one I used (http://www.westegg.com/inflation/infl.cgi) shows that it would cost $21,734.73 in 2009 dollars (the last year available).