So.Cal.Factory 1950

[studebakerjeff]

My Studebaker Champion was made in So.Cal. Where was that factory located? and long was it there?



Jeff

[Dick Clemens]

The Southern California plant was in the the city of Vernon, a suburb of Los Angeles. I know they were there post war till about 1958. Somebody may be able to give exact dates.

studedick from the lower Ozarks

[StudeRich]

The Vernon assembly Plant was in Vernon, near Los Angeles and built Cars only, through the 1956 Model year.

[Studebaker Wheel]

My Studebaker Champion was made in So.Cal. Where was that factory located? and long was it there?
Jeff

The first Vernon car was assembled on November 23, 1935 a '36 Dictator sedan (serial 5955801). The last was a Champion serial G938796 assembled on June 6, 1956. In the approx 20 years of production (minus the war years) 265,976 cars were assembled in this plant. For a comprehensive illustrated history of the Vernon plant see my Almanac column in Turning Wheels for July 1996.