Well, my Strato Blue '64 Daytona Hardtop is en route to Australia now. I sold it to a forum member in Oz. Not certain what his plans are for it.
As longtime forum members know, I bought this car with high hopes from a seller in WI two years ago, because the car was a model I always liked a lot and was sold new by my friend and hometown Studebaker dealer. What's more, I can remember the car around town from my teen years as the original owners had it until 1990 and sold it in the April 1990 TW for $2,500--at that time it had only 55K miles. It had 103K miles when I bought it.
The car was misrepresented IMO, in several ways, when I purchased it and I just wasn't up to the task in getting anything really done about it.
I was sad but also a bit relieved when I dropped it off at the shipper's.
The original owners knew I bought it and were excited about that. I never got it over there to show them as I never felt comfortable making a 150-mile round trip in it. They both passed within six months of my taking delivery of the car. Ironically, just last week in my hometown paper was an article that the three historical society museums in my hometown just recently received money from the '64's original owners' estates. They had no children.
The original owners' executor gave my sister a large wooden frame with many smaller photos of the '64 in it--as many folks would fill with grandkids' pictures! It was found in their house. I've decided to keep that.
Who knows, in the next year or so I may be looking for a solid, good-running, not-needing-hardly-anything '63-66 two-door sedan...any engine.
As longtime forum members know, I bought this car with high hopes from a seller in WI two years ago, because the car was a model I always liked a lot and was sold new by my friend and hometown Studebaker dealer. What's more, I can remember the car around town from my teen years as the original owners had it until 1990 and sold it in the April 1990 TW for $2,500--at that time it had only 55K miles. It had 103K miles when I bought it.
The car was misrepresented IMO, in several ways, when I purchased it and I just wasn't up to the task in getting anything really done about it.
I was sad but also a bit relieved when I dropped it off at the shipper's.
The original owners knew I bought it and were excited about that. I never got it over there to show them as I never felt comfortable making a 150-mile round trip in it. They both passed within six months of my taking delivery of the car. Ironically, just last week in my hometown paper was an article that the three historical society museums in my hometown just recently received money from the '64's original owners' estates. They had no children.
The original owners' executor gave my sister a large wooden frame with many smaller photos of the '64 in it--as many folks would fill with grandkids' pictures! It was found in their house. I've decided to keep that.
Who knows, in the next year or so I may be looking for a solid, good-running, not-needing-hardly-anything '63-66 two-door sedan...any engine.
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