Stude Bob Where are you?

[stude freak]

Has anyone seen or heard from Bob? I haven't seen any post from him lately .I miss him.

David Baggett '53 coupe

[starliner62]

Maybe he fell in the well he was having dug!!!

Jamie McLeod
Hope Mills, NC

[Orestudeguy]

I sent him a e-mail last night and it came back to me!


George
Grants Pass, Oregon
65 Commander 2door
64 Wagonaire's ( 1 Canadian fixed roof disc brake car, the other sliding roof South Bend car.)

63 GT Hawk
51 Champion Starlight Coupe

[Roscomacaw]

You can't get rid of me![}]

Yes - rather busy lately. But alive and ornery as ever.[:0]

Had an interesting encounter (commiseration?) the other day at the dentist's office.
I'd parked Pete across the street from the office building. After the dental assistant got me seated and stuck some tools in my mouth, she's gone for a couple of minutes. When she returns, she asks: "Is that your Studebaker across the street?"

"Un-huh."

"I see your first name is Bob - are you Studebaker Bob?"

"Un-huh."

"Well, I'm Jack Burgess' daughter! You know - Studebaker Jack."

"Ah-hah."

"I've heard so much about you thru the years and now I get to meet you."

"Un-huh."

"Of course, my first car was a Studebaker - a little Lark Daytona actually. Boy, I loved that car."

"Un-huh"

"Have you had that truck long?"

"Un-huh."

"I guess it's kinda hard to talk with all that stuff in your mouth, eh?"

"Un-huh."

"My favorite Stude is a GT Hawk. My dad used to have a beautiful black one. Sure wish I had that car now!"

"Un-huh."

So, the chatter between the assitant and the dentist was about Studebakers for a minute or two. The dentist was finishing up on a gal in the adjoining stall. Once he'd finished his work on her and she was able to talk, she asks: "Is that Bob Kabchef in that other stall?"
The dentist answered affirmatively.

"Well he and my husband are friends. My husband has several Studebaker truck projects he's working on and the Kabchefs were over for our annual Xmas feast and open house."

So, there it was. A most UNlikely rendezvous of Studebaker folks. Two of them women, no less. I shoulda went right out and bought some lottery tickets after I left the place!

1957 Transtar 1/2ton
1963 Cruiser
1960 Larkvertible V8
1958 Provincial wagon
1953 Commander coupe
1957 President two door

[stude freak]

Hey Bob , glad to hear your ok. Great story too.Its always the same with dentists.Alway stuff ya mouth full of junk and start asking you questions.

David Baggett '53 coupe

[candbstudebakers]

Bob if you see Jacks daughter again fill her in on the Studebakers she likes so much the Daytona went north and is being built for raceing, that person is on the forum not sure his name, the black 64 GT is in San Jose getting restored, and the 63 2 door i just gave it away to a fellow in the foot hills for his first Studebaker, might big block it,
Bob Peterson

[Roscomacaw]

The Daytona that was her first car was eventually wrecked by someone else - I think. Fact is, I forgot to ask her (when I could finally talk), but I may have ended up with the engine out of that car when I first moved to the valley in '89.
I remember going to a little independent auto parts store and asking for something to fit one of my Studes. The guy that ran the place asked if I'd be interested in a good-running engine and trans he'd saved from a car his kid had wrecked. I bought it and resold it a couple of years later.

BTW, I knew about the race-built Lark and led Jack to the article about it on the web.

1957 Transtar 1/2ton
1963 Cruiser
1960 Larkvertible V8
1958 Provincial wagon
1953 Commander coupe
1957 President two door

[candbstudebakers]

Her last Studebaker was the blue 64 lark as I got the blue door panels for Jack, and the gt was the black one you almost got a few years age and I went to look at on my way home from your place and no one was home then it hot sold to Jack and he removed parts and never did anything else with it and it just sat there it had the am/fm with it....Bob

[JBOYLE]

Last time I was at the dentist I made a wisecrack that the crown was taking money out of my car restoration budget.
The dentist asked what I had so I told him a 63 Studebaker Avanti.
He said he didn't know what that was (he's in his mid-30s, so I guess he can be excused) but he'd look it up on the internet.
While something hardened in my mouth he disappeared..his usual practice as he flits between partitions and chairs.
When he came back he said he saw one and said it was very advanced for its age...he liked the round headlights and big back window.

I was impresssed that he'd take the time to see what I was talking about.

63 Avanti R1 2788
1914 Stutz Bearcat
(George Barris replica)

Washington State