Could this be the earliest Studebaker car hauler?
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Joe Roberts
'61 R1 Champ
'65 Cruiser
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Hi Joe, What a great photo. Any chance of getting a copy of that pic to put in the Historic Studebaker Register Newsletter?
Thanks, Dave..Dave Pink
Victoria, Australia
1916 SF Roadster
1925 ER Tourer
1925 Panel Delivery
1953 Champion Sedan
1957 Golden Hawk
1971 Avanti II
Studebaker Car Club Of Australia Website
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Looks electric....HTIH (Hope The Info Helps)
Jeff
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. Mark Twain
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Right, Jeff....looks like an enormous battery pack amidships down below.Originally posted by DEEPNHOCK View Post
'Neat photo. BP
We've got to quit saying, "How stupid can you be?" Too many people are taking it as a challenge. 
G. K. Chesterton: This triangle of truisms, of father, mother, and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.Comment
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Isn't that the same type of chassis being restored in Bellingham, WA
64 GT Hawk (K7)
1970 Avanti (R3)Comment
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I was looking through Google Images when I came across this picture. Here is a link to where it came from originally:Originally posted by davepink53 View Post
Joe Roberts
'61 R1 Champ
'65 Cruiser
Eastern North Carolina ChapterComment
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One vehicle hauling one vehicle? Why not just drive the car? I would think it would more likely be an early tow truck.Jon Stalnaker
Karel Staple Chapter SDC
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Box #5 posted a link to the rebuilding efforts of the old chassis; beautiful work being done! Somewhere in there was a plaque from the vehicle stating the vehicle would go 40 miles at 13 mph. Amazing isn't it that at one hundred and eleven years later we have the Chevrolet Volt that can also go about 40 miles on electric power; however, at between 30 and 55 mph. Progress? I suppose I should mention the Tesla Automobile and its fantastic Energy Pack (they have three)...the least expensive will move their new sedan 160 miles on a charge! Next up will go 230 miles and the top of the line battery pack will operate the car 300 miles on a single charge. The car is priced from $50K to $77K depending on the battery pack chosen.JimsLeadCommanderComment
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Jon, I'm sure that's what they meant. Those first-decade electric trucks were so slow it would be impractical to use one outside a city, as for inter-city travel. This was undoubtedly used just to move disabled vehicles, as you suggest.Originally posted by Sdude View Post
It would take them a proverbial week to get that car from South Bend to Chicago on that truck, given its speed and range. BP We've got to quit saying, "How stupid can you be?" Too many people are taking it as a challenge.
G. K. Chesterton: This triangle of truisms, of father, mother, and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.Comment
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Sounds like a superb adventure!Originally posted by BobPalma View PostBrad Johnson,
SDC since 1975, ASC since 1990
Pine Grove Mills, Pa.
'33 Rockne 10, '51 Commander Starlight. '53 Commander Starlight
'56 Sky Hawk in processComment
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Oh yes -- sounds like the superb first adventure of the Repo Man! All the real automotive advances were in finance, and there is a downside.
My dad can remember the construction of the street he now lives on, about 1926. Crushed stone was hauled in by electric dump trucks. They did not work a full day, as they had to head back to a depot to recharge. Sorry I can't report what make they were, but dude, he was four years old. His memories of the next year, when he was five, are much more detailed. A guy flew somewhere in an airplane. It was kind of a big deal.Comment
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