Studebaker Lived Large: Two Giant Cars and a Living Sign You Can Still See From Space (from Hagerty)

[bumpkinvilledano]

https://www.hagerty.com/media/automotive-history/studebaker-did-things-in-a-big-way-two-giant-cars-and-a-living-sign-you-can-still-see-from-space/

[Commander Eddie]

Very nice write-up. Thanks for sharing this Bumpkin.

[rockne10]

The article errs in the mention of Lincoln's Barouche, which IS in the Studebaker National Museum, but was NOT built by Studebaker.

[StudeRich]

Really GREAT presentation !
All that History seemed quite accurate, all but the President Lincoln 1864 Wood Bros. Carriage being a Studebaker.
That often gets confused a lot because Studebaker Corp. bought the Carriage Many, many years ago.

I did not remember about the Really Huge 80 Ft. long 1934 Land Cruiser display Car, 80 guests Theater, that one is even more awesome than the 1929-'31 President Roadster that they say was 41 Ft. long.

[enjenjo]

Back in the late 1980s the company I worked for had the Idea to repower a large number of out trucks with more modern engines. As a test they repowered two trucks and sent them to the Bendix proving ground to run a 30,000 mile accelerated torture test to see if the trucks would last long enough to make the repower worth it. This was supposed to simulate 500,000 miles. Most of these truck were approaching 800,000 miles or more and had been though a in frame major overhaul. They sent me there twice to rebuild suspension parts on the trailers. They pulled twin trailers with concrete weights spaced in the trailers to simulate a load that were separated by stacks of pallets to hold them in place. When the test was over the concrete blocks were now gravel, and the pallets were toothpicks.

They ended up repowering nearly 4,000 trucks, and a few of them were still on the road last year.

[StudeRich]

So re-powered from Diesel to ????

[enjenjo]

From Detroit 71 series, Cummins M11, Volvo diesel, Mack Econodyne, and Cat 3206 to Detroit 60 series. They standardized on the same drivetrain for all their trucks