Nice night for a cruise in

[Kurt]

Took the Champ to a local cruise night last.night. Weather was beautiful. There were probably about 300 cars. One other Stude. A nicely restored 58 Silver Hawk.

[JoeHall]

Wow, that truck looks almost too nice to drive

[LarkTruck]

Great looking CHAMP! Can't wait till the day mine comes close to looking that good, but there are 5 resto's ahead of it.
JS

[EssexExport]

Looks good. Anyone misidentify it?

[Kurt]

The most common question when showing the Champ is "Why doesn't the bed match the cab"

A close second is "did it come from the factory tha way" again talking about the box.....

And yes most people have no idea what it is until they look at the tailgate.

[LarkTruck]

The most common question when showing the Champ is "Why doesn't the bed match the cab"

A close second is "did it come from the factory tha way" again talking about the box.....

And yes most people have no idea what it is until they look at the tailgate.

I was going to swap out my wide bed for a narrow, but what the heck, when you get right down to it neither one really matches up to the cab. AND, after reading the Otis Romine interview in T.W. about how they acquired the wide bed tooling etc. from Dodge makes it worth keeping the original bed. I plan on copying the article, and carrying it along to shows to prove the story to the naysayers . Take that, you Studebaker Illiterates!!!!
JS

[Kurt]

I have been thinking about getting some advertising literature to prove that it was made that way. On my truck, the cab was repainted once and the bed was not, so in bright light you can see the difference between the two shades of red. That makes it more confusing to those who don't know about Stude trucks.