Received Junior AACA!

[mnmfive]

It's my very first AACA show my car was entered into, Millville NJ about a week ago. I did a lot of work on her over the past year to get ready for this show and my 58 Pres 2 door hard top got 1st place Junior! I was very happy! Next is to get it's Senior in Hershey this year.

[57pack]

Congratulations Jim!
That's a beautiful Studebaker you got there.

[SN-60]

BRAVO!!!....how about posting some pics of that baby?

[mnmfive]

[StudeRich]

Just as beautiful as always Jim!

It is quite significant, your President Hardtop and IF that is our former President's: Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon's Air Force One, Boeing 707.



More correctly VC-137B SAM970 (Tail #86970) if it is THIS one at the Museum of Flight in Seattle.

[LarkTruck]

Sure is purdy. CONGRATS Jim!!!!
JS

[mnmfive]

that was Bidens plane. It's the most recent retired air force 2 plane. It's in Dover Delaware. Thanks!

[SN-60]

This '58 President has the rare stick O/D...and I THINK that means the 289 is backed up by a bulletproof T-85 tranny!

[StudeRich]

I believe that only happened on the Golden Hawk with 275 HP and the Packard Hawk not the Sedan/Hardtop 225 HP in 1958, unfortunately.

But, it is still quite rare in a Hardtop with Overdrive Trans.
It would be the first Stude. usage of the Long Tail T-86.

[mnmfive]

[SN-60]

I believe that only happened on the Golden Hawk with 275 HP not the Sedan/Hardtop 225 HP in 1958, unfortunately.

But it is still the rare in a Hardtop Overdrive T-86 Trans.

I don't know Rich,...I understood that '56-'58 President Classics had factory installed T-85 trannys when ordered with stickshift...Would this '58 be considered a 'President Classic'?

[mnmfive]

How did you know that?

This '58 President has the rare stick O/D...and I THINK that means the 289 is backed up by a bulletproof T-85 tranny!

[SN-60]

How did you know that?

From the interior shot you provided....but does it actually have a T-85 transmission?

[StudeRich]

I don't know Rich,...I understood that '56-'58 President Classics had factory installed T-85 trannys when ordered with stickshift...Would this '58 be considered a 'President Classic'?

No, the '58 "Y" Body is a "President 4 Door Sedan Sedan". That is correct the '56-'57 Pres. Classics came standard with the 225 HP Power Kit version 289 and the H.D. T-85 when Overdrive was ordered.

But remember 1958 was the "Busted", "Broke", No $$$, hanging by a thread Year!

[StudeDave57]

It is quite significant, your President Hardtop and our former President's: Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon's Air Force One, Boeing 707. More correctly VC-137B SAM970 (Tail #86970) if it is the one at the Museum of Flight in Seattle.

that was Bidens plane. It's the most recent retired air force 2 plane. It's in Dover Delaware. Thanks!

Nope-- not quite...

That jet is one of the three C-9Cs. It is based on a DC-9. Though it may have carried Biden a time or two- his primary jet is a C-32, and that jet is based on a 757. They both do carry the special paint job designed (at the request of President Kennedy) by none other than our buddy Raymond Loewy.