Bob,
Sorry for misstating your age at the time..
But Happy Early Birthday .. By the way.. mine is Feb 10th! The great Jimmy Durante and I share the same day, but he was born in 1893!
I for one am glad you decided to haul your good memories around and the vast discussions with guys like Tanner and Mendenhall..
I for one have been privileged to have received some of your correspondence with even Studebaker themselves. Telling Studebaker that offering a better selection of gear ratios would help them be more competitive at the tracks.. I was not like that at 17..
My 13 year old son, on the other hand is like that as well. He communicates with Video game makers telling them what he thinks is "cool" .
Unlike the leadership at Studebaker, they actually have take some of his suggestions.
Studebaker shut their eyes that there was an up and coming WAVE of "Muscle" cars coming and that they had a head start! I wonder if they ever kick themselves realizing that Bob Palma, a kid down the street in Indiana, was pointing it out to them!
I will let the members digest that picture of the "The Whistler" above a bit , because there is more to come
The following picture is not "The Whistler", but this kind of shows that people raced Studebakes off the floor just like Corvettes and the up and coming Mustangs and Cameros..
"The Whistler" was not a "would of - could of" thing. It and this car "Was" that thing!
Popping the hood for inspection is what I'm guessing.. But notice that li'old 60 next to it with its race paint on..
I blew up the door area so you could see it came from San Bernardino CA and was "Powered by Avanit"
Sorry for misstating your age at the time..
But Happy Early Birthday .. By the way.. mine is Feb 10th! The great Jimmy Durante and I share the same day, but he was born in 1893!
I for one am glad you decided to haul your good memories around and the vast discussions with guys like Tanner and Mendenhall..
I for one have been privileged to have received some of your correspondence with even Studebaker themselves. Telling Studebaker that offering a better selection of gear ratios would help them be more competitive at the tracks.. I was not like that at 17..
My 13 year old son, on the other hand is like that as well. He communicates with Video game makers telling them what he thinks is "cool" .
Unlike the leadership at Studebaker, they actually have take some of his suggestions.
Studebaker shut their eyes that there was an up and coming WAVE of "Muscle" cars coming and that they had a head start! I wonder if they ever kick themselves realizing that Bob Palma, a kid down the street in Indiana, was pointing it out to them!
I will let the members digest that picture of the "The Whistler" above a bit , because there is more to come
The following picture is not "The Whistler", but this kind of shows that people raced Studebakes off the floor just like Corvettes and the up and coming Mustangs and Cameros..
"The Whistler" was not a "would of - could of" thing. It and this car "Was" that thing!
Popping the hood for inspection is what I'm guessing.. But notice that li'old 60 next to it with its race paint on..
I blew up the door area so you could see it came from San Bernardino CA and was "Powered by Avanit"
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