Hardwood Trivia of the day...

[Chucks Stude]

Where was real wood used on a Studebaker after the war? Not necessarily talking about woodies, but elsewhere?

[DEEPNHOCK]

Which war?
Studebaker went through quite a few of them
I know a lot of them had a block of hardwood in the steering column mount...
Jeff[8D]

quote:Originally posted by Chucks Stude

Where was real wood used on a Studebaker after the war? Not necessarily talking about woodies, but elsewhere?

[DEEPNHOCK]

Which war?
Studebaker went through quite a few of them
I know a lot of them had a block of hardwood in the steering column mount...
Jeff[8D]

quote:Originally posted by Chucks Stude

Where was real wood used on a Studebaker after the war? Not necessarily talking about woodies, but elsewhere?

[JRoberts]

Champ pickups had wood blocks under the seat frame to raise them to the appropriate highth.
Joe Roberts

[JRoberts]

Champ pickups had wood blocks under the seat frame to raise them to the appropriate highth.
Joe Roberts

[Dick Steinkamp]

Plywood floors in station wagons.

[Dick Steinkamp]

Plywood floors in station wagons.

[StudeRich]

I believe that when the wooden bodies went away, Studebaker downsized it's wood shop and continued to make shipping crates, station wagon cargo area floors and rear seat backs, steering column spacers, front seat spacers for short people, and probably many shop fixtures and factory "tools" like the jig they used to push the Larks up against on the doll-up line when the front fenders would not fit!

StudeRich
Studebakers Northwest
Ferndale, WA

[StudeRich]

I believe that when the wooden bodies went away, Studebaker downsized it's wood shop and continued to make shipping crates, station wagon cargo area floors and rear seat backs, steering column spacers, front seat spacers for short people, and probably many shop fixtures and factory "tools" like the jig they used to push the Larks up against on the doll-up line when the front fenders would not fit!

StudeRich
Studebakers Northwest
Ferndale, WA

[Chucks Stude]

I was just wondering..... my 62 GT has wooden spacers under the drivers seat, and a wooden spacer between the dash and parking brake handle. It just made me wonder where else they used wood.

[Chucks Stude]

I was just wondering..... my 62 GT has wooden spacers under the drivers seat, and a wooden spacer between the dash and parking brake handle. It just made me wonder where else they used wood.

[Roscomacaw]

The station wagons had rear seat backings make of wood as well as the spare tire cover - right thru 1966! The 47 thru '51 Business coupes had a plywood shelf behind the seat backs of THE seat. (Notice I said THE seat and not the FRONT seat - 3-passenger coupes only HAD one Seat.)

Miscreant adrift in
the BerStuda Triangle


1957 Transtar 1/2ton
1960 Larkvertible V8
1958 Provincial wagon
1953 Commander coupe

[Roscomacaw]

The station wagons had rear seat backings make of wood as well as the spare tire cover - right thru 1966! The 47 thru '51 Business coupes had a plywood shelf behind the seat backs of THE seat. (Notice I said THE seat and not the FRONT seat - 3-passenger coupes only HAD one Seat.)

Miscreant adrift in
the BerStuda Triangle


1957 Transtar 1/2ton
1960 Larkvertible V8
1958 Provincial wagon
1953 Commander coupe

[Dwain G.]

Avanti has a plywood cover over the spare tire.


Dwain G.

[Dwain G.]

Avanti has a plywood cover over the spare tire.


Dwain G.