It’s been almost a year of this staying-at-home stuff. For the most part, if I’m not out in the garage or working in the yard, I’ve been spending far too much time on YouTube…
Among my favorite Studebaker streams is the nearly hour-long one that chronicles the entire story of Studebaker from their wheelwright-beginnings through to the South Bend closure. This video is essentially centered around the 2006 announcement of the entire site about to be renovated. Most of you have no doubt seen it, but for those that haven’t:
The large presses that are seen so often through this and other Studebaker factory documentaries lead me to ask:
• where did all the sheet-metal dies go over the years?
• as new body styles were phased in did Studebaker hold onto discontinued patterns in a different part of the plant and stamp replacement parts?
• is this what SASCO became - and are fenders, hoods and other panels still theoretically available, if the dies could be resurrected?
Thanks in advance.
Among my favorite Studebaker streams is the nearly hour-long one that chronicles the entire story of Studebaker from their wheelwright-beginnings through to the South Bend closure. This video is essentially centered around the 2006 announcement of the entire site about to be renovated. Most of you have no doubt seen it, but for those that haven’t:
The large presses that are seen so often through this and other Studebaker factory documentaries lead me to ask:
• where did all the sheet-metal dies go over the years?
• as new body styles were phased in did Studebaker hold onto discontinued patterns in a different part of the plant and stamp replacement parts?
• is this what SASCO became - and are fenders, hoods and other panels still theoretically available, if the dies could be resurrected?
Thanks in advance.
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