? Candy or Cabbage ?

[aarrggh]

I`m gonna say "Candy" in case one of ya-all own this . Don`t wanna rock the boat here .
Interesting grill treatment and Another Studebaker saved i say . . .

[PlainBrownR2]

Hmm, yeah, I think that car was at the Omaha meet, which I believe was part of a trio of two other cars, which entertained the crowd in the parking lot for a couple of afternoons during the meet ....






The owner of the last one is a name everybody should be familiar with especially if you went to Fun Night, and I believe the three cars were supposed to look like that as they were the props .

[2R5]

Was that not thr Callihans?

[PlainBrownR2]

I thinky that would be them, the Callihans ....

[Peanut]

I vote Cab-dy! If one didn't like this treatment, it wouldn't be too difficult to return to something approaching stock.

[55 prez]

I think you mean Jim & Chris Calhoon.

[PlainBrownR2]

The Calhouns.....that's it . Partial points though for remembering that it started with Cal , the rest was a brain fart, at least on my end . Either way, I think those are the folks that have the three neat cars in the pictures .

[BobPalma]

Wasn't one of the Calhoons seriously hurt in an auto accident after the Omaha meet?
Any update on that? BP

[Lothar]

The owner of the brass radiator Stude is a guy named Rocky Finlayson. I don't think that he's a forum regular. I think that he bought it from a Mr. Nelson in Boelus NE back in the 1990s.

[Jessie J.]

I`m gonna say "Candy" in case one of ya-all own this . Don`t wanna rock the boat here .
Interesting grill treatment and Another Studebaker saved i say . . .

Jesus wept.

[clonelark]

Jesus wept.

Mid 50's Rat Rod, another Studebaker way ahead of its time.

[cycledog]

Jesus wept.

Do not judge and criticize and condemn others, so that you may not be judged and criticized and condemned yourselves.

[Jessie J.]

I would hope to hell someone would have the the good sense to ask me what the hell I thought I was doing if I ever built a cobbled up piece of crap like that.
I'm not criticising or condemning another person, just an ill conceived, butchered pile of scrap metal.

[comatus]

Wulp, lessee how far back Andrews' memories of dirt-track racing really go:

In the early 50's, when regional NASCAR events still went on the posters as "jalopy races," some guys thought there was a big advantage to having a huge radiator out in front like a ramming prow. Obviously since the car was supposed to be sideways most of the time (and this on a mile track!), aerodynamics was not thought to be an issue. Cooling was. My uncle ran an otherwise-straight coupe that had the front butchered almost the same way, to make room for the 6-inch-deep radiator from a Schacht truck. I'm not saying it was right, mind you, just that it happened.

[tutone63]

I've seen this car before. I think the same way of it as I thought of it when I first saw it: It is funny, and takes guts to do it. It isn't like these are super rare, and it was probably a basket case when it started, so, 'why not'? Would I drive it? no. Just because it isn't my taste. Now, if it was in the same condition but not chopped up, I would drive it.