Did 1922 Studebakers have wood frames?

[rkapteyn]

I know better but this guy insist that.

http://www.inkfreenews.com/2022/05/28/syracuse-american-legion-cruise-in-braves-weather/

[Son O Lark]

Maybe he confused automobiles and the 1922 horse drawn Studebakers.

[ddub]

He didn't have anything else right about Studebaker.

[tsenecal]

It says "wooden frame covered with sheet metal" so I believe he was talking about the body, which is probably correct. Pretty cool car.

[Jeffry Cassel]

Great grandfather Will Hays had a 1922 Studebaker Touring car. He would not own a Ford because of their disconcerting and sometimes lethal tendency to break tie rods. As far as I know, no car had a wood frame although a Brush had an oak front axle.

[dpson]

The 1923/24 Studebaker Light Six (Model EM) touring cars had steel framed bodies.

[Hallabutt]

Great grandfather Will Hays had a 1922 Studebaker Touring car. He would not own a Ford because of their disconcerting and sometimes lethal tendency to break tie rods. As far as I know, no car had a wood frame although a Brush had an oak front axle.

Some marques did use wooden frames, some very successfully. Franklin was an American success story that used a wooden frame. In Britain Morgan used wooden frames, up until the end of production.

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=franklin+automobile-wood+frame&id=EFA8AFD208BDFAE749623B0

[Mark Klinger]

Studebaker did use wooden frames for the bodies during early production. I believe these shots are from the 1915 - 1920 period.

[Hallabutt]

We are talking about two different things. The first is the one I alluded to, the actual chassis frame, that the body sat upon. The other is the wooden framing that was used in the production of the body which provided the shape of the body, and over which the sheet metal was secured. Virtually all cars used the sheet metal forming method prior to the thirties at least for some of their production, not so with the chassis framing, which was quite unusual.