Good morning
It's getting close to Studebaker building season for those of us without garages on the fringes of the Great Plains. I am hoping to fix the doors on my 62 hardtop and make some headway on the interior.
Another thing I would like to do is replace my trusty six/automatic with a V8, be it a 259 or 289. I'm probably known as an OHV supporter and I have a 185 ohv on my bucket list but my Lark is the closest I am going to get to a sports cars of lets go with an eight.
Ideally what I would like to find up my way is a good engine, bad body Lark that I could get some use out of the engine while hopefully, someday I can completely rebuild another v8. When that would be, I don't know at this time. Years ago I bought a 283 out of a low mileage 66 and for some reason took it apart, fell ill, and it is still apart and weathered. A few years ago bought a 63 V8, and the process repeated itself. Two years ago, I bought a 62 V8 and with in a month of the purchase my mother fell and broke her hip and arm and recently my father passed away.
Rather than tempt fate on something that may have been in a field or stored under a tarp, what is out there for a transplant? I ideally would like a V8/auto but if the right V8/3spd or four came around... I do not want to buy a Lark that I would be tempted to fix so no 64 2 door sedans Something I could get some good use from without fogging the neighborhood for mosquitos (if it ever rains)
Perhaps this is a fools errand but I would actually like to drive my Lark more than I work on it
V8s are more fun that sixes right?
Well, post and pm me with contact info, I hope to get a bit of work done on the hardtop this spring, summer and fall but sometime life has other plans for us
Jeff T.
It's getting close to Studebaker building season for those of us without garages on the fringes of the Great Plains. I am hoping to fix the doors on my 62 hardtop and make some headway on the interior.
Another thing I would like to do is replace my trusty six/automatic with a V8, be it a 259 or 289. I'm probably known as an OHV supporter and I have a 185 ohv on my bucket list but my Lark is the closest I am going to get to a sports cars of lets go with an eight.
Ideally what I would like to find up my way is a good engine, bad body Lark that I could get some use out of the engine while hopefully, someday I can completely rebuild another v8. When that would be, I don't know at this time. Years ago I bought a 283 out of a low mileage 66 and for some reason took it apart, fell ill, and it is still apart and weathered. A few years ago bought a 63 V8, and the process repeated itself. Two years ago, I bought a 62 V8 and with in a month of the purchase my mother fell and broke her hip and arm and recently my father passed away.
Rather than tempt fate on something that may have been in a field or stored under a tarp, what is out there for a transplant? I ideally would like a V8/auto but if the right V8/3spd or four came around... I do not want to buy a Lark that I would be tempted to fix so no 64 2 door sedans
Something I could get some good use from without fogging the neighborhood for mosquitos (if it ever rains)Perhaps this is a fools errand but I would actually like to drive my Lark more than I work on it
V8s are more fun that sixes right?
Well, post and pm me with contact info, I hope to get a bit of work done on the hardtop this spring, summer and fall but sometime life has other plans for us
Jeff T.
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