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Answer to a Question Nobody Asked?
We've got to quit saying, "How stupid can you be?" Too many people are taking it as a challenge.
G. K. Chesterton: This triangle of truisms, of father, mother, and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.Tags: None
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Looks like a fun ride!
Don't think that trans cooler will do much right next to the rhs headers.....HTIH (Hope The Info Helps)
Jeff
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. Mark Twain
Note: SDC# 070190 (and earlier...)
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Well...it has been over half an hour since you posted this and I noticed no one had replied. I don't know if it is because they were not interested or they are stunned speechless. Perhaps...by the time I gather my thoughts, someone will have responded before I hit the "submit" key. However...there are tons of thoughts (good and bad) coursing through my tiny brain.
Something 'bout a comment attributed to the great Junior Johnson regarding how to make a small fortune in racing..."you need to start with a LARGE fortune!" Here we have a good example of taking a great looking well balanced beautiful practical car and spending tons of money to make it into a rather impractical, not so well balanced, expression of one person's fitful "dream-state" imagination worth a few thousand at best!
At least the craftsmanship looks good and the end result is one of the better jobs of attempting to style a post-war hot rod after the pre-war traditional look.
Some of the impractical...I bet the hood is a pulsating nightmare at speed. The fresh air vents behind the headers good only for warming a can of beanie-weenies as you drive. Placement of the front fenders for scooping up road debris and launching it into the wind stream at your left ear. Lake pipe exhaust placed to render the doors useless. And, if you are not going to use doors...at least do the body work so that they look closed!
Couple the cosmetic glitz with an old 283 SBC bored to paper thin walls and load it with an impractical cam for normal driving and you end up with a cute go-cart ready to grenade at the first hiccup.
All this said...I think it is cute for what the creator admitted was "left over parts." I wish the new owner well and hope to see it in person some day. For me...I'll enjoy it much better knowing it is your responsibility and not mine.
So Bob...what's the question?
John Clary
Greer, SC
SDC member since 1975
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'Beats me on the question, John; that's what I was trying to figure out! BPWe've got to quit saying, "How stupid can you be?" Too many people are taking it as a challenge.
G. K. Chesterton: This triangle of truisms, of father, mother, and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.
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I think the question might be: "Just how good ARE your fabrication skills?" The answer, of course, is, "Pretty damn good!". Artistic vision and execution are a separate discussion.
On my bucket list is finding out just how good I would be at this type of thing. I do alright, but I doubt I'll ever try anything like this because artistic vision is my weak point. I know some changes I'd make to this if it was mine, but overall it looks like a well-built, fun car, even if impractical. At over $10K and 21 bids with 6 days left, it appears others agree.
Wouldn't it frustrate the rail birds if it ends up selling for more than any stock version of the car could? It's getting close already...Proud NON-CASO
I do not prize the word "cheap." It is not a badge of honor...it is a symbol of despair. ~ William McKinley
If it is decreed that I should go down, then let me go down linked with the truth - let me die in the advocacy of what is just and right.- Lincoln
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If the guy leaves it at my doorstep, I`ll make room for it in the garage. Have seen this car on the forum before. The attention to detail is evident, I`m not afraid of a rev-happy 60 thou.over 283, nor hot feet, and like out of the box thinking. With that robust suspension and frame I would not hesitate to drive it like I stole it, and it is not a boring Cobra kit car. I like how the Stude theme is present everywhere...and practical??..I think not, but do you really think for one second it was built to be practical? About the only thing I would change would be dumping that trans. for one with a third pedal. Just saying....Juniorsigpic
1954 C5 Hamilton car.
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How does this guy get away with calling this a Studebaker? The frame/chassie is not Stude, the suspension is not Stude, the engine, tranmission and differential are not Stude. What is, a couple pieces of sheet metal? Maybe the tail lights. Slap an ID tag on it from an old wreaker and presto, you have a Studebaker!
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