StudeRich should like this one.
In the fall of 1967 I was moving my wife and kids back from Hawaii to be near family while I went to Viet Nam for a year. I had gotten my Wagonaire shipped back to the mainland at government expense, but gov only allowed one car to be shipped at their expense so I was about to lose my other car, my nice '53 Commander Starliner. However, I lucked out and got the '53 a free ride on a Navy ship going to Oakland. My plan was to store it in Los Angeles for a couple weeks then drive it to Coronado for my three-week survival training. Our two car caravan south from the SF Bay Area was kind of hard because the Wagonaire wasn't running well and the '53 was getting hot on the highway. While passing through Burlingame (just south of San Francisco) I saw a big Studebaker sign, turned off and back tracked to the sign hoping I could get a dealer to work on the cars. Turned out it wasn't a dealer, but was the Western Zone Depot. Obviously they didn't work on the cars there, but the kind lady at the desk gave me a list of all the dealers in that zone and, learning that we were headed for Los Angeles, recommended we go to Frost and French in Los Angeles. We did just that and they took in both cars and gave us a beautiful '56 President Classic as a loaner for the day. When we picked up the cars late in the day, the thumbnail below is the invoice I received. I found it in looking at papers in my file on the Commander in preparation for the sale last Tuesday.
In the fall of 1967 I was moving my wife and kids back from Hawaii to be near family while I went to Viet Nam for a year. I had gotten my Wagonaire shipped back to the mainland at government expense, but gov only allowed one car to be shipped at their expense so I was about to lose my other car, my nice '53 Commander Starliner. However, I lucked out and got the '53 a free ride on a Navy ship going to Oakland. My plan was to store it in Los Angeles for a couple weeks then drive it to Coronado for my three-week survival training. Our two car caravan south from the SF Bay Area was kind of hard because the Wagonaire wasn't running well and the '53 was getting hot on the highway. While passing through Burlingame (just south of San Francisco) I saw a big Studebaker sign, turned off and back tracked to the sign hoping I could get a dealer to work on the cars. Turned out it wasn't a dealer, but was the Western Zone Depot. Obviously they didn't work on the cars there, but the kind lady at the desk gave me a list of all the dealers in that zone and, learning that we were headed for Los Angeles, recommended we go to Frost and French in Los Angeles. We did just that and they took in both cars and gave us a beautiful '56 President Classic as a loaner for the day. When we picked up the cars late in the day, the thumbnail below is the invoice I received. I found it in looking at papers in my file on the Commander in preparation for the sale last Tuesday.
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