Hi all--
Wish every weekend could match the one just past. Saturday morning, with Spring finally, really and truly here, I went up to Glanbrook, south of Hamilton, to pull Betty the '62 Lark out of storage. (Drove up in the '05 Pontiac Vibe I'd picked up the previous day!)
The Lark, as ever, ran beautifully...ticks over like a great big Corolla with two more cylinders. My dad ferried the Vibe back into town while I drove the Lark back. There's more space at my parents' place than at mine, so I took Betty there. Got her washed (and found out that the tops of the driver's and front passenger's windows leak a bit!), then set to polishing the very smooth but rather faded paintwork (applied, I think, about a quarter century ago) and brightwork. The car doesn't really need anything mechanically at the moment, since I had that attended to last fall.
Yesterday morning was the monthly SDC Hamilton Chapter meeting at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Mt.Hope. I'm a churchgoer, but on this occasion simply had to "play hookey" for the SDC gathering...have been waiting twenty years to do this stuff! Parked Betty, for the very first time, at the end of a row of Studebakers (of course on this gorgeous weekend a lot of other SDCers had their cars out too), and went in for the meeting (and Chapter past prez/CWH pilot Paul Cronkwright's entertaining star turn running the Blind Auction); some Stude chitchat among the cars (ultimately, five Lark types and two Avantis) at the museum followed, then it was back to town, where I had lunch at my parents' place (as usual on a Sunday) and treated my 5-year-old nephew Keegan to his first ride in a Stude, which was also the first time he'd been in the front seat of anything on the move (mandated booster seats go in the back, but the Stude isn't set up for those)...strictly speaking, an illegal arrangement, but we were only trundling slowly round a couple blocks, and Keegan was belted in at least! He must have approved, because later on I was called upon to repeat the exploit, taking him for his second Stude ride. I took a slew of photos (no way yet of posting any though).
Now if I could have found a way to prevent this from being Monday, so as not to have to shuffle off to work (on my bicycle; I don't commute by car), all would be truly right with the world. Even so, there is now a Studebaker in front of my house, ready to go at the turn of a key. Life, this Spring, is good!
S.
Wish every weekend could match the one just past. Saturday morning, with Spring finally, really and truly here, I went up to Glanbrook, south of Hamilton, to pull Betty the '62 Lark out of storage. (Drove up in the '05 Pontiac Vibe I'd picked up the previous day!)
The Lark, as ever, ran beautifully...ticks over like a great big Corolla with two more cylinders. My dad ferried the Vibe back into town while I drove the Lark back. There's more space at my parents' place than at mine, so I took Betty there. Got her washed (and found out that the tops of the driver's and front passenger's windows leak a bit!), then set to polishing the very smooth but rather faded paintwork (applied, I think, about a quarter century ago) and brightwork. The car doesn't really need anything mechanically at the moment, since I had that attended to last fall.
Yesterday morning was the monthly SDC Hamilton Chapter meeting at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Mt.Hope. I'm a churchgoer, but on this occasion simply had to "play hookey" for the SDC gathering...have been waiting twenty years to do this stuff! Parked Betty, for the very first time, at the end of a row of Studebakers (of course on this gorgeous weekend a lot of other SDCers had their cars out too), and went in for the meeting (and Chapter past prez/CWH pilot Paul Cronkwright's entertaining star turn running the Blind Auction); some Stude chitchat among the cars (ultimately, five Lark types and two Avantis) at the museum followed, then it was back to town, where I had lunch at my parents' place (as usual on a Sunday) and treated my 5-year-old nephew Keegan to his first ride in a Stude, which was also the first time he'd been in the front seat of anything on the move (mandated booster seats go in the back, but the Stude isn't set up for those)...strictly speaking, an illegal arrangement, but we were only trundling slowly round a couple blocks, and Keegan was belted in at least! He must have approved, because later on I was called upon to repeat the exploit, taking him for his second Stude ride. I took a slew of photos (no way yet of posting any though).
Now if I could have found a way to prevent this from being Monday, so as not to have to shuffle off to work (on my bicycle; I don't commute by car), all would be truly right with the world. Even so, there is now a Studebaker in front of my house, ready to go at the turn of a key. Life, this Spring, is good!
S.
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