Studes in Roadside Americana photos

[JRoberts]

[jclary]

#6106 above...I don't know if it is my age, or just thinking in terms of today's traffic, but that rig kinda looks scary to me these days.

[62champ]

#6106 above...I don't know if it is my age, or just thinking in terms of today's traffic, but that rig kinda looks scary to me these days.

I am thinking that six cylinder engine and drum brakes would have been scary back in the late 1940s as well...that might have been a photo of the first trip that was never repeated after.

[JRoberts]

The Old Motor site comes through again.

[52-fan]

#6106 above...I don't know if it is my age, or just thinking in terms of today's traffic, but that rig kinda looks scary to me these days.

The landscape would suggest a flat area, maybe near the Gulf coast. I pulled a trailer with a six cylinder Lark in the Ozarks years ago. Not easy, but we made it okay. Today's traffic would be a mixed bag. Passing lanes and better roads could make it easier, but I would avoid city driving.

[kurtruk]

Is that a disguised garage door in front of the Caddy, or had they already converted the garage in to more living space? Two houses down also shows a garage door with some kind of adornment on it. Judging by the size of the trees, seem a little early to already be converting garages to extra rooms.

[christophe]

A Lark in the Netherlands. Courtesy from Hemmings Daily.

[JRoberts]

The landscape would suggest a flat area, maybe near the Gulf coast. I pulled a trailer with a six cylinder Lark in the Ozarks years ago. Not easy, but we made it okay. Today's traffic would be a mixed bag. Passing lanes and better roads could make it easier, but I would avoid city driving.

Although I was supposedly present , I don't remember this first hand, (was too young and it was a long time ago) but do remember my Dad telling the story. Evidently he, my Mom and I were moving and used Dad's 2R pickup to pull our house trailer. As we went up a steep hill the Studebakef just could not pull the trailer all the way up and over the top. Dad parked the truck on the side of the road, cussed the truck and swore he was going to get rid of it and get a Ford truck. He then hiked back down the hill to garage at the bottom of the hill. As he ranted about the inability of the Studebaker to get up and over the hill, the owner of the garage pointed out the the big wrecker out front was to tow semi's over the hill. He then went out back to get his truck. His truck was identical to my Dad's! With both trucks somehow hooked together, they pulled the trailer up and over the hill. With that we all got back in our Studebaker and went on our way.

[Studedude]

[Peanut]

I hope this isn't a duplicate.

[Peanut]

Poor little Rockne.

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