How many remember the good old days at Standard Surplus

[stupak]

In 1968, they had the chrome STUDEBAKER script for the rear of the Avanti for .25 cents each. I splurged and bought 8 for $2.00. The last of the big time spenders. Of course, there were other great bargains I got but can't remember all the details. Over the next few years, over the winter months, I bought a lot of stuff for the Avanti, much of which I still have today. stupak

[Lark8girl]

I began making yearly trips to Standard Parts and the Studebaker Factory since 1970. There was many new frames sitting outside, wooden boxes and, Machine tools and by the back door three new Studebaker bodies that were left outside. They had pushed fenders out the third floor window that pile reached the second floor. In my mind there was enough to build Studebakers for another decade. I liked that the employees all drove their Studebakers to work. Also for many years as one drove around the streets of South Bend there were still Studebakers being driven daily. Over time the Studebakers count went down and they were seen resting in the back and side yards of homes around town until even those disappeared.

Husband of Lark VIII girl

[Metman]

2R2- Thanks for posting that! I purchased one of those $35.00 "53-64 Hawk and Coupe" NOS front fenders (have it in my garage) as well as two NOS rear fenders for $25.00 each! The rears are currently on my car. Should have bought more stuff back then. If I'd only knew... Ha!

[Guido]

My one regret is not buying the Studebaker tailgate lettering jig that Dennis had sitting on the floor of the Engineering building. By the time I talked myself into purchasing it someone had bought it.

[DieselJim]

I went to Standard Surplus when it was in a small building on Sample at Olive. Remember the BIG Packard PT boat engine there. And boxes of the 53 dash clusters. That would been in '59.

[Dwight FitzSimons]

I remember Standard Surplus. I recall buying (for a couple dollars in early 1970s) a mechanical tachometer for a '53-54 Studebaker. It appeared to have a silk-screened face, but looked production-quality. I assume that it was nothing more than a speedometer recalibrated as a tach. I also assume that there was no such option on the '53-54s. So, it must have been an Engineering Dept. prototype.
-Dwight

[studegary]

I remember Standard Surplus. I recall buying (for a couple dollars in early 1970s) a mechanical tachometer for a '53-54 Studebaker. It appeared to have a silk-screened face, but looked production-quality. I assume that it was nothing more than a speedometer recalibrated as a tach. I also assume that there was no such option on the '53-54s. So, it must have been an Engineering Dept. prototype.
-Dwight

I believe that those tachometers were for marine/boat applications.

[nels]

I believe that those tachometers were for marine/boat applications.

I think you are right. I still have one up in the attic somewhere. I bought it for a novelty.

[BobPalma]

I went to Standard Surplus when it was in a small building on Sample at Olive. Remember the BIG Packard PT boat engine there. And boxes of the 53 dash clusters. That would been in '59.

You bet, Jim.

This one sold for circa $41,300 with Buyer's Premium at the 2018 Mecum Indianapolis auction earlier in May! (Click to enlarge) BP

[Green 53]

I bought 4 fenders for my 57 GoldenHawk. They shipped them in Snow Pony boxes. All the neighborhood kids thought that I had purchased snowmobiles. I also bought bushings and lens that came in handy later. For cheap.

Denny L

[Pop's Chariot]

Anyone have one of the "dune Buggy" remote air filters for sale? Once known as an R2 filter.
I could use one

[DieselJim]

You bet, Jim.

This one sold for circa $41,300 with Buyer's Premium at the 2018 Mecum Indianapolis auction earlier in May! (Click to enlarge) BP

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There were 2 more laying on the ground at Super Auto Salvage on south Main St. in '59. No doubt were scraped.

[2R2]

I think you are right. I still have one up in the attic somewhere. I bought it for a novelty.

Are you thinking of this? It appears Standard Surplus was selling left over '54 gauge clusters with the option of a mechanical tach, advertised in Hot Rod magazine back in 1959.

[62champ]

Are you thinking of this? It appears Standard Surplus was selling left over '54 gauge clusters with the option of a mechanical tach, advertised in Hot Rod magazine back in 1959.

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Wonder if any of those Standard Surplus 1959 catalogs survived? Would make for a good thumbing-through.

[Hawklover]

I visited there (SS) many times in the 1970s and only bought what I needed. One trip was in my 1963 Daytona Wagonaire (that came home with four fenders [not from SS] in the back, plus other things). The other trips were in my 1953 Commander Starliner (not much spare room to carry things). One trip it did haul back (in place of one rear seat cushion), not from SS, a solid steel 1953 Starliner stantion that held up my mail box for about 25 years. The restoration shop that I was working in did send out a truck and trailer once in the 1970s and came back loaded with parts for cars that we were working on. To me, the bigger buys were at Hurwich Iron and from the ex-employees that came around to the host hotels at around midnight with a lot of NOS (carb's., chrome trim, etc.) that they walked out of Studebaker with.

Midnight Auto Sales.....South Bend variety!!!