Four car events in two days, and some of the first real summer weather we've yet seen in southern Ontario in '09...Last weekend was a good 'un!
First event was an SDC Hamilton Chapter display of Studes on Saturday at the Grimsby Museum during the town's Festival Of The Forty. Grimsby's just east of Hamilton on the way to St.Catharines. We gathered the cars and trucks on the museum's lawn under some shade trees...a really nice relaxing little cruise-in that happened to be all-Stude.
En route I paused for a pic of my Lark with her birthplace in the background...
58 Commander, with the Museum (and my Lark) in the background
Chapter past-prez Paul Cronkwright's 63 Wagonaire now sports a neat-looking louvered hood
Current prez Barry Leppan's 64 Daytona HT gets underway
Together at last! Both 66 Cruisers in the chapter had never been seen together before...
This very sharp 56 Transtar was one of three pickups in the lineup
Later the same day was the weekly cruise sponsored by a diner near Paris, Ontario (just a few hundred yards from where that 59 Lark hulk is). Someday we're going to have a full Chapter "muster" at that cruise...if the owners of these two Studes have their way! On this lovely Saturday, my Lark and Jan and Shirley Kus' 51 Champion were the total Stude contingent...among about 200 vehicles.
Next day was a show co-sponsored by the Ancaster Optimists Club and the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum. Held on the Museum's ramp at Munro Airport in Mt.Hope, just south of Hamilton, this cruise-in, which it is hoped will become annual, drew over 300 vehicles on a toasty warm Sunday. Eight Studebakers were among them, six of which were SDC vehicles.
North side of the CWH hangar, looking a bit Machine Age, and matched handsomely by the 1937 Studebaker Dictator in the foreground...
Nice 51 Commander Starlight was new to me; came in from Woodstock ON
55 President and 64 Daytona HT, both Hamilton Chapter cars (Cliff Tattersall and Bob "2R5" Barrick respectively)
That evening, another cruise, the weekly Sunday Peggy Sue's Cruise at a Rona lumber store on Rymal Road in south Hamilton. Here's my Lark, looking shinier than she used to after a turn with that little polisher I won at the Economy Run!
First event was an SDC Hamilton Chapter display of Studes on Saturday at the Grimsby Museum during the town's Festival Of The Forty. Grimsby's just east of Hamilton on the way to St.Catharines. We gathered the cars and trucks on the museum's lawn under some shade trees...a really nice relaxing little cruise-in that happened to be all-Stude.
En route I paused for a pic of my Lark with her birthplace in the background...
58 Commander, with the Museum (and my Lark) in the background
Chapter past-prez Paul Cronkwright's 63 Wagonaire now sports a neat-looking louvered hood
Current prez Barry Leppan's 64 Daytona HT gets underway
Together at last! Both 66 Cruisers in the chapter had never been seen together before...
This very sharp 56 Transtar was one of three pickups in the lineup
Later the same day was the weekly cruise sponsored by a diner near Paris, Ontario (just a few hundred yards from where that 59 Lark hulk is). Someday we're going to have a full Chapter "muster" at that cruise...if the owners of these two Studes have their way! On this lovely Saturday, my Lark and Jan and Shirley Kus' 51 Champion were the total Stude contingent...among about 200 vehicles.
Next day was a show co-sponsored by the Ancaster Optimists Club and the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum. Held on the Museum's ramp at Munro Airport in Mt.Hope, just south of Hamilton, this cruise-in, which it is hoped will become annual, drew over 300 vehicles on a toasty warm Sunday. Eight Studebakers were among them, six of which were SDC vehicles.
North side of the CWH hangar, looking a bit Machine Age, and matched handsomely by the 1937 Studebaker Dictator in the foreground...
Nice 51 Commander Starlight was new to me; came in from Woodstock ON
55 President and 64 Daytona HT, both Hamilton Chapter cars (Cliff Tattersall and Bob "2R5" Barrick respectively)
That evening, another cruise, the weekly Sunday Peggy Sue's Cruise at a Rona lumber store on Rymal Road in south Hamilton. Here's my Lark, looking shinier than she used to after a turn with that little polisher I won at the Economy Run!
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