Photos from the past: Champ with a camper

[Chris_Dresbach]

From the sasco files....[8D]

Chris Dresbach

1940 Champion two door.
Parts of the 1952 Model N
1960s Prototype cart

[dusty taylor]

Here is one that was my dads. Dusty



flamed58.com Dusty Taylor

[j.byrd]

One of our friends at TVA had one like this except red, and was always telling our workmates that it "ran like a Champ" or "handled like a Champ", or some sort of indicator of what it was.- - -Amazing how few people knew without an explanation, Ha!! Neat rigs, John

[Bill Pressler]

quote:Originally posted by j.byrd

One of our friends at TVA had one like this except red, and was always telling our workmates that it "ran like a Champ" or "handled like a Champ", or some sort of indicator of what it was.- - -Amazing how few people knew without an explanation, Ha!! Neat rigs, John

This made me chuckle. I think part of being a Studebaker person is having a corny sense of humor! I like to tell folks that my R1 Daytona "runs like a Champ", but then I always add, "not to mean it runs like a flathead six"!

Bill Pressler
Kent, OH
'63 Lark Daytona Skytop R1 (sold new by Cordell Motors, Moorhead, MN)
'64 Daytona Hardtop (sold new by Carl E. Filer Co., Greenville, PA)

[studeclunker]

quote:Originally posted by j.byrd

One of our friends at TVA had one like this except red, and was always telling our workmates that it "ran like a Champ" or "handled like a Champ", or some sort of indicator of what it was.- - -Amazing how few people knew without an explanation, Ha!! Neat rigs, John

TVA John, is that Tennessee Valley Authority? Yeah, though well used and known, the phrase, "Runs like a Champ," pre-dates the Champ pickup. It was likely why they chose that name for the truck though, as such a phrase was common venacular for something that was stoutly constructed and completely reliable. Champ, as in Champion (like a prize fighter, not the car, sorry...), was the inferrence.

There's a Perris Valley Co. camper on the property that looks a lot like the one in your picture, Chris. Neat photo. How did you come by it?


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