My 15 minutes?

[62SY4]

Well I was sitting in school to day waiting for an internship interview and my mother calls and tells me I have to get to a computer lab and look at this web site because a friend of a friend of hers told her that my car is on the internet! I said what are you talking about and she rattled off this address....so I go to my interview and then to the lab and yup there it is....sorta. This fellow likened the Studebaker-Packard merger to what Allegheny County and the city of Pittsburgh plan to do. I guess this proves that Studebaker is gone but really not forgotten. Now I have to track this guy down, he seems pretty knowledgeable.
Here is the link http://tubecityonline.com/almanac/index.html

[Transtar60]

Well except for the military contracts part, not too bad.
I have driven many Studebaker Packard built M35A2C deuce and halfs,and some others had Curtis Wright name plates during their association with Studebaker Packard.
When Studebaker "departed" Kaiser-Jeep picked right up and built the same vehicles in the same plant now used to make military Hummv's


3E38
4E2
4E28
5E13
7E7
8E7
8E12
8E28

59 Lark
etc

[Gary1953]

Cool write up and with pictures. Very nice car also.


Gary Sanders
Nixa, MO
President Toy Studebaker Collectors Club. Have an interest in Toy Studebakers? Contact me for details.

[STEWDI]

The article mentioned East McKeesport. Wasn't Mckeesport the site of the FIRST SDC NATIONAL MEET in 1966?

Roger "153624" Hill

55 Champion
47 M-5
Izzer Buggy
Junior Wagon

[62SY4]

I know there was a meet in McKeesport pretty early, not sure what year, someone here should know for sure. Either way it was atleast 20 years before I would have been alive, back when McKeesport was still a thriving city.

[Roscomacaw]

Nice to find your car featured like that - not nice that it's made analagous to a "clunker" in the end. While his comparisons DO share some points, there's some obvious gaffs too.

Surprized here that no one menntioned McKeesports motto about it being a town of Champions. .....and Commanders, and Presidents, and Larks....

BTW, NICE LARK!

Miscreant Studebaker nut in California's central valley.

1957 Transtar 1/2ton
1960 Larkvertible V8
1958 Provincial wagon
1953 Commander coupe
1957 President two door

[barnlark]

All I know is that Stude is still running and able to now be parked, looking incredible 46 years later (so much for that late clunker analogy) while somebody else is still trying to tune the cherry Ferrari and get it started, apparently. I guess the fact was lost on the author that somebody not only bought a car that "nobody wanted" but is still proud enough to have it look like that. Thanks for representing us and keeping that car from a "watery grave" like poor Packard.