exciting news

[JimC]

Thanks to another forum member here, I will very soon have a much more solid lark to restore, and an operational drive train to install! This cut years off my goal to get a Lark on the road. Actually, I have enough vacation time coming up that my (very ambitious) goal is to get it to where it will run by the end of the summer.

Of course, I have to get a truck and trailer to haul it home first, and then I need to find a garage I can rent for a month or two while I strip grandpa's of the parts I need. But still, this has been a good week.

[Roscomacaw]

Sounds promising! That 60 hardtop's a COOL machine.

[JimC]

I am a big fan. The only downside (and it's a teensy one) is that the new car is a two door sedan. That being said, all the hardtop-specific parts on my grandpa's car are very intact, and looking at the sedan, it actually looks frighteningly simple to swap the bits out. I know it will make the purists gasp, but this new sedan might have a conversion in it's future. I'm not totally sold on the hardtop conversion yet, but I figure that it's already not stock, as the motor is coming from a '62 (iirc). Hey, at least it will look like a standard model available in '60. I'm not going to chop the top, make some crazy fender extensions, or do the low-rider treatment. I still want it to feel like a Studebaker.

[JimC]

By the way, if anyone needs a (stuck) flathead 6 and a mated transmission, let me know.

[kmac530]

As I have been reminded....no pics, it didn't happen. Let us see what it looks like.
Kidding aside, congrats. I would LOVE a '59-62 Lark someday.

[JimC]

Hey, once I'm done pulling all the parts I need off, you can have what's left of my rusty old one, cheap as free.

If someone had ample free time and more than basic welding skills, it could potentially be saved. I have neither.

[JimC]

Pics will be coming. by the way, but right now the car is a little "buried" in other cars' parts. I thought about grabbing a couple shots with my phone, but all you'd be able to see was a passenger side door and a little bit of front fender. Once I'm done reducing Grandpa's car to spare parts, the excavation and transit will be well documented.