Studes in Roadside Americana photos

[studelark]

I love my Studebakers of any vintage, car or truck. Some of the most beautiful and stylist cars from ANY manufacturer!! But there's a small corner in my psyche that is really attracted to 1953 DeSoto's, as the black one in #1002. There's something about that toothful look on that particular body style. I'm weird, I guess.

Frank Drumheller
Locust Grove, VA
60S-W6
M16-52 1948 Boyer-bodied fire truck

[kurtruk]

I love my Studebakers of any vintage, car or truck. Some of the most beautiful and stylist cars from ANY manufacturer!! But there's a small corner in my psyche that is really attracted to 1953 DeSoto's, as the black one in #1002. There's something about that toothful look on that particular body style. I'm weird, I guess.

Frank Drumheller
Locust Grove, VA
60S-W6
M16-52 1948 Boyer-bodied fire truck

Hey, with a Hemi what's not to like. Although my preference is the LWB 8 passenger sedans.

[aarrggh]

Repeat , Eh maybe ..........

[spokejr]

While the above picture shows PACKARD in more legible letters and no Studies are in the pick, it does have a sign showing STUDEBAKER and I am certain Bob Palma would back me up that the picture is from the merger era.

The building still stands in Pasadena Ca, currently it is a used book store but looks very much the same today as nearly 60 years ago. Over the years it has been a Mazda dealer, the headquarters for a company building re-creations of Auburns (and certifying grey market imports) and eventually an Acura dealer. In this picture, you are only seeing a small part of the building. It is "L" shaped and wraps around the building to the left, allowing the service area to be accessed from the side street. Two (?) stories in the back with poured concrete ramps up to the poured concrete upper floor(S)! The showroom you see only constitutes about 1/4 of the land involved in the building alone!

I'll try to get a current photo of the front and if possible, the inside as well. It is very much in keeping with the standard of the era and region as Pasadena and San Marino have always been well off.

I picked this off the Facebook page, "If you think you're old school Pasadena...".

Here's wishing each and everyone of you a safe and fun holiday. To those of you who have served in the military, thank you for keeping things to where we can still celebrate it!

Ken

[Noxnabaker]

Noll Auto... that's meaning zero auto in Swedish!

[aarrggh]

This just gots to be a Stude .

[christophe]

WOW!
There is a Peugeot 404 in # 1792. It's the first time I see one in an L.A. area picture.

[Noxnabaker]

Peugeot... yep, it's a 404, I had one, it was my 6:th car & the first one I drove legally in, bought it just 2 days after taken my drivers license... Crashed it 5 times in 2 weex, had totaly bald tires & it was the winter 78-79 with temp about -22 much of the time, handy when going home after a crash against a oak, just pull out the choke, leave the hood a bit open, let it roll by itself in 3:rd gear & home we went! (front fenders was so rusty that the lights fell out & hung in the wires!)
Then on x-mas day it just went quite when I drove... ? ? ?
It was hard-frozen snow so at first I didn't notice anything but it wouldn't even turn the starter-motor... the engine had run out of oil, it used to take plenty of oil...
That same evening I bought my first American car.

[spokejr]

Noll Auto... that's meaning zero auto in Swedish!

Kinda like why Chevy had to change the name of the Nova since the word means roughly, "no go" to the Argentines.

[Alan]

A lot of rare ones in #1792 including a MGTF.

[BRUCESTUDE]

The photo in 1793 is incredible! The colors, composition, and of course the Packards in front of the building, plus it's just a great looking classic California building!!!

[Commander Eddie]

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Ken

Wow, I think that is my old 1956 Packard Clipper in the showroom on the right. The red and white one. Boy, do I miss that car. When I got out of the Navy and returned home I found my dad had sold it to a friend who needed a car. . . for $250.00. Ouch!

[aarrggh]

[Bob Andrews]

Is that a Stude coming at us?

[aarrggh]

Cabbage !