Drove a Studebaker today

[JDP]

Not normally a big deal, but is was in the car formally known as the cheap Avanti. It's was only up the street and back, but far enough to know all the important stuff works. It's a good feeling to roll down the road in a Studebaker that last moved under it's own power on 1978.

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64 Daytona HT
64 R2 4 speed Challenger
63 R2 4 speed GT Black
63 R2 4 speed GT White
63 GT Hawk
63 Avanti
62 Daytona HT
53 Coupe

[mbstude]

Guess what, I drove a Studebaker today too. I guess I could call it the cheap Daytona. [:I]

Matthew Burnette, the 16 year old Stude nut.
South Georgia Chapter
63 Daytona HT (project)
51 Stude dump truck (yes, I won the raffle)
52 Commander Starliner (basket case)

MANY more Studes in the family and a few parts cars
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And here: http://community.webshots.com/user/mbstudepagetwo
And here too: http://photos.yahoo.com/ph//my_photos

[sbca96]

quote:Originally posted by JDP
It's a [u]good</u> feeling to roll down the road in a Studebaker that last moved under it's own power in 1978.

Good .... and scary! I had a similar yet even more risky experience
driving a 64 Lark 4 door about 15 miles on the 101 freeway that had
sat on the side of a hill for over 13? years. The front suspension
was STUCK on one side, but surprisingly the brakes still "worked". It
had a 3 spd OD, but OD didnt want to work. It drove flawlessly, all
things considered, didnt even overheat. All we did was add fluids &
go! That was its last trip, as it was too far gone to restore, the
floors had rusted away, but the front clip was mint. Tried to give it
away when my dad lost our house during the Clinton years, but it went
to the scrap yard.[V]

Anyway .. congrats on the Avanti, it sure LOOKED fixable to me!

Tom

[Scott]

I drove my Cruiser to work today. So at least 3 of us drove Studebakers today. Oh yeah, I drove my GT hawk today, too!

[Thomas63R2]

It must be "Friday, drive your Studebaker day". I drove mine to work today, then I drove it to the local Friday night car cruise.

Thomas

New Stude guy! Long time hot rodder
'63 Avanti R2 4 speed with interesting plans

[Roscomacaw]

I drove the Transtar to town today. Went to get the white-lettered tires mounted to the vintage alloy wheels that are going on the Provincial. They look slick!

BTW, the Transtar had been getting cranky about crankin'. I took the starter off and lubed the bendix. Boy does that baby crank nice now!

Miscreant at large.

1957 Transtar 1/2ton
1960 Larkvertible V8
1958 Provincial wagon
1953 Commander coupe
1957 President 2-dr
1955 President State
1951 Champion Biz cpe
1963 Daytona project FS

[5859]

I drove a 58 I bought today, only, it wasn't under it's own power, It had to be pulled aprox 5 miles to my place from where I bought it, but I operated the steering and the brakes, I guess technically that counts as driving.

[studegary]

I drove my Studebaker pickup on Thursday afternoon, but then I haven't driven anything, anywhere since Thursday.

Gary L.
1954 Commander Starliner (restomod)
1959 DeLuxe pickup (restomod)