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  • Taxi!

    sorry, I couldn't resist

    Flickr doesn't seem to allow you to post a pic, only a link.

    Riverside Show & Go, 2009. Studebaker purpose-built Lark taxis; this two door Lark was not one of them.


    Fred

    **I'm not the best speller...FireFox catches most of my mistakes, but I use IE at work**

  • #2
    It's a gif image. Convert it to jpeg.
    Brad Johnson,
    SDC since 1975, ASC since 1990
    Pine Grove Mills, Pa.
    '33 Rockne 10, '51 Commander Starlight. '53 Commander Starlight
    '56 Sky Hawk in process

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    • #3
      The owner of this `faux taxi' should put some door handles where the rear doors are supposed to be. Then it would be amusing to see how many people try to open the `faux' doors [8D]


      Brent's rootbeer racer.
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      In the middle of MinneSTUDEa.

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      • #4
        quote:Originally posted by rockne10

        It's a gif image. Convert it to jpeg.
        Since you brought it up. How do you convert the image to jpeg?


        1952 Champion Starlight w/overdrive. Searcy, Arkansas
        "I may be lazy, but I'm not shiftless."
        "In the heart of Arkansas."
        Searcy, Arkansas
        1952 Commander 2 door. Really fine 259.
        1952 2R pickup

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        • #5
          2 door taxi is odd. Owner preference I suppose

          Al Reed
          North Bay Area, CA
          1961 Lark Regal Skytop
          1953 Commander Starlight


          sigpicAl Reed
          North Bay Area, CA
          1961 Lark Regal Skytop
          1953 Commander Starlight

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          • #6
            quote:Originally posted by 52-fan

            quote:Originally posted by rockne10

            It's a gif image. Convert it to jpeg.
            Since you brought it up. How do you convert the image to jpeg?


            1952 Champion Starlight w/overdrive. Searcy, Arkansas
            "I may be lazy, but I'm not shiftless."
            I think you would have to take the photo and save it into your own photo album (such as photo bucket or flickr) and then you could post it here.


            Brent's rootbeer racer.
            sigpic
            In the middle of MinneSTUDEa.

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            • #7
              Here is the real deal. I have been meaning to post these and some other pictures from the VA Transportation Museum in Roanoke. I will try to do the rest tonight.









              Dan White
              64 R1 GT
              64 R2 GT
              Dan White
              64 R1 GT
              64 R2 GT
              58 C Cab
              57 Broadmoor (Marvin)

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              • #8
                Very interesting car for sure.

                101st Airborne Div. 326 Engineers Ft Campbell Ky.

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                • #9
                  Milaca--

                  That'd be a hoot...but it would work best not on a Lark, but on a 53-55 2dr sedan, with those wacky two-piece rear quarters that make the car look like a 4dr converted to a coupe on the cheap!

                  (I still think the 53-55 2dr sedan was Stude's somewhat startled response to the higher-than-expected demand for the Bourke coupes vs. the sedans in those years...Whatever the reason...I'll admit it, freely, I actually like those 2drs. A lot. I want one.)[]

                  S.

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                  • #10
                    quote:Originally posted by Steve T

                    Milaca--

                    That'd be a hoot...but it would work best not on a Lark, but on a 53-55 2dr sedan, with those wacky two-piece rear quarters that make the car look like a 4dr converted to a coupe on the cheap!

                    (I still think the 53-55 2dr sedan was Stude's somewhat startled response to the higher-than-expected demand for the Bourke coupes vs. the sedans in those years...Whatever the reason...I'll admit it, freely, I actually like those 2drs. A lot. I want one.)[]


                    S.
                    I agree, that would look very convincing
                    It seems odd to me that Studebaker didn't at least put body filler in those seams. Oh well, quirkiness adds character!


                    Brent's rootbeer racer.
                    MN iron ore...it does your body good.
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                    In the middle of MinneSTUDEa.

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                    • #11
                      Yep. (My pref would be for a 54 Commander 2dr; I like the "teeth" in the grilles that year. I'd find and add a set of the '55 chrome/stainless "boomerangs" that disguise the rear quarter seams. Or, as an out-there alternative, turn the almost-doors into actual aft-opening doors, like on an x-cab truck, or a Saturn Quad Coupe or Mazda RX8. Now that would catch the eye at a cruise!)

                      S.

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