I've had some recent postings on here about the 65 Daytona Sport sedan I purchased. Today I was cleaning the trunk- removed the original spare tire and trunk mat- and found the crayon markings in the trunk from on the assembly line. Wow!! Can anyone tell me what the numbers 92 and either 58 or S8 mean from the line? Maybe I should not be excited about this but how many Studebakers out there still have this?
Also, about the R2 engine I got to install in this car. It was sitting in a garage for over 40 years, untouched. I made a cradle-primed the engine with new oil and filter-put marvel mystery oil and 30w oil in the cylinders and tuned it by hand. Put gas in the carb and hooked up a battery, and believe this or not, this engine started before making one revolution. Amazing. Please let me know about the assembly line numbers.
thanks
Paul Lausch
Also, about the R2 engine I got to install in this car. It was sitting in a garage for over 40 years, untouched. I made a cradle-primed the engine with new oil and filter-put marvel mystery oil and 30w oil in the cylinders and tuned it by hand. Put gas in the carb and hooked up a battery, and believe this or not, this engine started before making one revolution. Amazing. Please let me know about the assembly line numbers.
thanks
Paul Lausch
Several of them though still have the firewall markings though.
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