Rare 1937 Dictator.

[Wille]

Hello,
I'm a guy from Sweden. I have a Studebaker Dictator 1937. It has a twodoor body and no bubble trunk a so called slantback. It was sold to Sweden as new and I can't imagine the is another one here. They made 2276 cars with this body 1937. My car has number 2202. Now I'm eager to now if any of you know more about this model. On the internet I've seen only one picture on the same car so maybe there isn't many left.
Best regards Wille

[Bullet]

Beautiful car! Someone here will know more about that year Studebakers, I sure don’t.

Mark

[doug]

Fred Fox article in Turning Wheels, about 1989 spotlighted 1937 Dictators and Presidents. I don't know the exact month.

[Turbostude53]

Volume 21 August 1989

[5brown1]

Very Nice!!

[Hallabutt]

Very rare! To our knowledge no President with this body style has survived and maybe only one 1936 President has survived. It would be nice to know how many 1936-37 Dictators have survived?

[Wille]

This is the only Stud -37 of the actuell model to find on the internet. Isn't there any more?

[nels]

I think my buddy here in Cincinnati has one unrestored. He wants to sell it if anyone is interested.

[8E45E]

This one? https://forum.studebakerdriversclub....runk-pix-added

Craig

[Wille]

Real nice objekt your friend has or had. I hope it will be restored. Now I know there is at last three of these cars left. You will get about 27000$ in the best of worlds for a fully restored fourdoor sedan and you can get about 100000$ for the express. Can anybody estimate the price for my renovated toodoor car?
To compare two objects with each other you can see on the pictures what I began with. Almost any car can be saved!

[tsenecal]

She's a real beauty, Kivik!

[Bullet]

Excellent before and after. You did a lot of work and it is beautiful! Thanks for saving this car.

Mark

[Turbostude53]

I have a runner here in Minnesota. Have never seen another St. Regis Custom sedan in last 35 years in the flesh. Designed with the help of Helen Dryden, I think it is one of the prettiest deco designs. The 1937 brochure only shows the trunk area of the "concealed" trunk and only mentions the "Custom" once....

[Wille]

You have a really good preserved car! I think this model is the most beatiful studebaker of that year and I think it can compete with ford and chevrolet. Maybe more goodlooking. So for me it's a riddle why the model is so forgotten. When I started the search for this model I wasn't sure to get any response but I'm surprised of the outcome. At last four has survived! There is a general guessing number of 5% surviving cars of a specific model. Due to that there should be a hundred left out there. It's hard to believe.
Wille

[Hallabutt]

You have a really good preserved car! I think this model is the most beatiful studebaker of that year and I think it can compete with ford and chevrolet. Maybe more goodlooking. So for me it's a riddle why the model is so forgotten. When I started the search for this model I wasn't sure to get any response but I'm surprised of the outcome. At last four has survived! There is a general guessing number of 5% surviving cars of a specific model. Due to that there should be a hundred left out there. It's hard to believe.
Wille

I don't want to revisit the reasoning behind the considered opinion that a closer survival rate for a production car is <1%, but 5% is far too high. That coupled with the fact that two door sedans were produced in very small numbers during the late 30's. In addition the Cruising Sedan had all but supplanted the slant back as the model of choice. All things taken together would seem to indicate a very small number of survivors.

[Wille]

Interesting to read you analys. If you are wright there is about 20 cars left! We have found four in a couple of days. It's a very good outcome so far. I hope for more.👍