Hi everyone, Ive been a member here for a while now and after emailing another member a while back with some car questions was motivated to finally make my introductions. So, me and my car, my name is Josh from Modesto California, I'm 27 and an avid but poor car nut 
I have a 62 Lark V8 4 door that comes with an interesting story. In June of 2009 I was helping my girlfriends family move off there long time family ranch, In the process of cleaning out their well pack barn I saw something that started to get my attention. In the back I could see only the top roof line of an old car, what was it? After clearing out the barn there it sat, un-touched, un-moved and un-molested for 29 years and 62 Studebaker, (to be honest at the time I didn't even know what Studebaker was) a real barn find!! I asked what was going to happen to it and I was told it was probably going to go to the scrap yard with everything else (Not on my watch it wasn't) In short order it was on a trailer and dropped off at my house. I was told that my Girlfriends grandfather had bought the car brand new, after bing driven for a while it was passed down to her father as his first car, driven for years then parked and spent its time waiting for me. Within the first year I got her running under her own power again, then color sanded and polished the paint and in sort order started taking her to our local A&W for summer cruise nights. Last summer I even had her in a local charity car show. My girl and I are having tons of fun taking her around town and getting tons of looks from people as we pass along with the thrill of preserving a piece of her families motoring past. Don't get me wrong, I still have alot of cleaning to do on it (like the entire interior and most of under the hood) I have however to get it going had to replace; points, condenser, water pump, rebuild the carb, new fuel pump, valve guide seals, repair the radiator, new hoses and lines, new mounts, new side window and since all the brake cylinders were frozen I decided to do power disk brake conversion (lots of work and still tweaking!) oh ya, and I found a dead cat under the front seat.
Its been alot of work with even more to go but its all good fun, I love the wrenching, learning about a forgotten part of motoring past and joy of knowing that Ive saved something from the crusher. Included are some pics of getting her out of the barn and some where she is now.
Cheers Josh.
I have a 62 Lark V8 4 door that comes with an interesting story. In June of 2009 I was helping my girlfriends family move off there long time family ranch, In the process of cleaning out their well pack barn I saw something that started to get my attention. In the back I could see only the top roof line of an old car, what was it? After clearing out the barn there it sat, un-touched, un-moved and un-molested for 29 years and 62 Studebaker, (to be honest at the time I didn't even know what Studebaker was) a real barn find!! I asked what was going to happen to it and I was told it was probably going to go to the scrap yard with everything else (Not on my watch it wasn't) In short order it was on a trailer and dropped off at my house. I was told that my Girlfriends grandfather had bought the car brand new, after bing driven for a while it was passed down to her father as his first car, driven for years then parked and spent its time waiting for me. Within the first year I got her running under her own power again, then color sanded and polished the paint and in sort order started taking her to our local A&W for summer cruise nights. Last summer I even had her in a local charity car show. My girl and I are having tons of fun taking her around town and getting tons of looks from people as we pass along with the thrill of preserving a piece of her families motoring past. Don't get me wrong, I still have alot of cleaning to do on it (like the entire interior and most of under the hood) I have however to get it going had to replace; points, condenser, water pump, rebuild the carb, new fuel pump, valve guide seals, repair the radiator, new hoses and lines, new mounts, new side window and since all the brake cylinders were frozen I decided to do power disk brake conversion (lots of work and still tweaking!) oh ya, and I found a dead cat under the front seat. Its been alot of work with even more to go but its all good fun, I love the wrenching, learning about a forgotten part of motoring past and joy of knowing that Ive saved something from the crusher. Included are some pics of getting her out of the barn and some where she is now.
Cheers Josh.
'63 Avanti R-1384. sold 12/10.
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