Smithsonian Displays - Studebaker: From Horses To Horsepower

[DEEPNHOCK]

This might have been posted before, but I thought it was pretty interesting...
Jeff

http://www.sil.si.edu/ondisplay/studebaker/index.htm

[rockne10]

Been mentioned here before but, it's been a couple years.

[dnevin]

Thanks for posting--I'd missed that.

[kmac530]

It is a bit depressing for me to read such a cool, long history of Studebakers and then to think one day someone had to just shut the doors and pad lock it. Kind of sad.
It was not even like Pontiac or Oldsmobile where plants had combined over the years and one year GM just stopped making Pontiac decals or Olds stickers for their basic GM platform cars...it was more like one day we are making cars, next day we pad lock and walk away with my lunch pale in hand and a pink slip on my way to E.D.

Just feels wrong. Too common now days, but wrong. Such a cool American Immigrant success story, just shut down.

[Chris_Dresbach]

I have a good friend of mine who is in the Notre Dame band. ND just played a football game in Washington DC and the band went too. While he was there he got to tour part of the Smithsonian. I think there are probably others, but there is at least one blue '50 Champion Starlight Coupe there.

[53k]

I have a good friend of mine who is in the Notre Dame band. ND just played a football game in Washington DC and the band went too. While he was there he got to tour part of the Smithsonian. I think there are probably others, but there is at least one blue '50 Champion Starlight Coupe there.

In the Transportation section of the Smithsonian Museum of American History- a '50 Champion Starlight Coupe in the Route 66 exhibit. The Potomac Chapter visited the exhibit back when it opened. One of our members worked on the exhibit.

[DEEPNHOCK]

Found it interesting to read about how many times they burned it to the ground...and kept coming back!
Jeff