Studebaker international has moved

[SusieQ]

I noted a post on Facebook that Studebaker International has moved to Shelbyville IN. Exciting News from Studebaker International!

We’re thrilled to announce that Studebaker International has moved to our new location:

630 S Noble Street, Shelbyville, IN 46176

We’re excited about this next chapter and look forward to continuing to serve you with the same great quality and service you expect from Studebaker International. Stop by and see us at our new location!

Thank you for your continued support!

[LarkTruck]

Great news indeed! Working out of two locations had to be a burden.

Congrats Jim, Corey and Crew!

JS

[Mike Van Veghten]

Wow, another move.
That stash of Stude parts seems to move around a lot. Must keep the worker bees healthy with all of the parts moving exercise.

Best of luck in your new home.

Mike

[PackardV8]

Wow, another move.
That stash of Stude parts seems to move around a lot. Must keep the worker bees healthy with all of the parts moving exercise.

Best of luck in your new home.

Mike

Yes, No, Maybe. Seems every time the mother load is moved, tons of it get left behind/scrapped. Just too expensive and labor intensive to move one more time.

jack vines

[Hawklover]

Jack what you wrote brings back a very sad past reality for me...............back in the 60's I lived in Miami, Florida and routinely brought my Avanti to Trojan Service Center on NW 79th Street, this was the factory authorized service center run by two X mechanics from Studebaker Miami on NE Second Ave, when Studebaker folded they bought all they could from the dealer and then opened their own shop..Trojan Service Center. Trojan was an on going business from 1967 till at least 1977-1980. For whatever reason Dick Dahl the owner sold the business to some young fellows who wanted to get into "old car repair". I estimate that these fellows were not even in business for two years, I was later told that they claimed they could not make a living and yes............called in a salvage concern and sold all those Studebaker/Packard parts as "junk/scrap".......God only knows the actual value of those rare parts..............I still cry thinking about that........

[enjenjo]

When Ford sold their heavy truck division to Mercedes in the early 1990s Mercedes only wanted the Areomax cab and none of the other heavy truck parts Ford had in stock. So all the parts for the Ford LN series, and the C series were scrapped by Mercedes. Trucks that were two years old had no source for new Body and Frame parts anywhere. There was some aftermarket support for some of the soft parts but no hard parts. We had a two year old Ford C800 that had the cab damaged beyond repair in an accident, and we had to source a used cab to fix it. Mercedes proceeded to install the Aeromax cabs on obsolete Freightliner chassis and call it a Sterling.

[Mike Van Veghten]

Yeah, too bad all that stuff has been lost to moves and to other things that we / I don't know of over the years.
Hopefully, it's been lesser wanted items. Although I do remember the first move, a lot of good stuff (larger, fenders bumpers, etc, was left behind.

[IndStudenut]

I do not have first hand knowledge but I do know Jim and Corey and have been to both locations. They had a warehouse in Shelbyville IN and a Sales Office in Hope IN. As far as I know when the large stash of parts were moved from SouthBend it went to Shelbyville. Jim has been talking about doing this for a few years now so kudo's and congrats to Jim and Corey for getting it accomplished. The Shelbyville location has a super large warehouse that has always contained the large stash of parts. So none of those parts had to move. The Hope Indiana location was the sales Office/Headquarters so to speak, They just moved the stuff from Hope to Shelbyville so it is all in one location. So the parts at the Hope office would have needed to be moved but not the motherload just the accessories if you will. This should be better for SI as I am sure it saves the expense of renting or leasing 2 buildings. This is all second hand information based on what I know of the 2 locations.

[Skip Lackie]

I'm glad to hear than this move won't result in any parts being scrapped. This issue came up repeatedly as those parts were moved to/from various locations around South Bend and then to Shelbyville. Dennis Lambert tried to save everything he could, and in the end it probably cost him quite a bit of money. Ed Reynolds and I quarreled quite publicly about the same matter on this forum many years ago. I wanted him to save/move every heavy truck rear axle, despite the fact that the sales potential of those items was close to zero. Ed responded that he was in business to make enough money to stay in business, and some of that boat-anchor stuff had to be scrapped.