This months Vintage Truck Magazine cover truck is the 1963 cab forward prototype. Several pages of pictures and write up inside.
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Here's the article, complete with the cover picture....
Jeff
(as a side note... You can save that 'flip file' to your 'puter, too..)Last edited by DEEPNHOCK; 06-15-2010, 02:03 PM.HTIH (Hope The Info Helps)
Jeff
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. Mark Twain
Note: SDC# 070190 (and earlier...)
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I am 99.9% certain that the dash gauge cluster in the prototype is the same unit that is in my original 1957 International Harvester A-100 pickup. I wonder if they used any other International Harvester parts....
If Studebaker wanted to sell more pickups, all they had to do was build a pickup bed that matched the Champ cab. Is bad management to blame for the lack of sensible decisions?Last edited by Milaca; 06-15-2010, 03:34 PM.sigpic
In the middle of MinneSTUDEa.
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They have a factory in Fort Wayne Indiana and Chicago Illinois. I can take a picture of my IH gauge cluster and share here but I'm certain that its identical. I think that IH quit using that gauge cluster around 1963.sigpic
In the middle of MinneSTUDEa.
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IHC had a plant in Fort wayne..
Probably a better connection would have been the Budd Stamping Company.
They stamped most of the sheet metal for Studebaker (and a lot of other manufacturers)
Budd has a long history in rail and vehicular manufacturing...(designed the Chrysler airflow, etc)
http://www.workshopoftheworld.com/nicetown/budd.htmlHTIH (Hope The Info Helps)
Jeff
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. Mark Twain
Note: SDC# 070190 (and earlier...)
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Sure is a homely looking thing. I doubt sales would have justified production. Too bad that money wasn't spent on upgrades for the pickups."In the heart of Arkansas."
Searcy, Arkansas
1952 Commander 2 door. Really fine 259.
1952 2R pickup
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Funky or not, in the sales climate of the day I don't think it would have generated many sales. As a Studebaker person I might have tried one, but I don't think many sales would have been captured from the other companies customer pool."In the heart of Arkansas."
Searcy, Arkansas
1952 Commander 2 door. Really fine 259.
1952 2R pickup
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