I usually “hang out” in the “tech talk” forum. Today I did a lot more looking around and I feel inspired to share my studebaker story.
Here is my daily driver lark, got it back in high school. (Graduated in 2009) when I first got it up and running it was half in primer and half in a late 80’s GM maroon. It started off with a 2barrel carb and single exhaust. It’s a 259. Later it got dual exhaust with 30” glass packs. My senior year the rear end developed a wheel seal leak, so. . . It got a twin traction rear with 3.73 gears, the paint was finished (single stage) and I was able to get my hands on a WCFB.
Shortly after high school I went to serve a church mission in Florida. The car sat until the summer of 2011 when a few months after that (because there were some engine leaks) it recieved an engine rebuild gasket kit and since I was there anyway. . . An R2 cam. Shortly after that electric fuel pumps replaced the mechanical one (it was really difficult to drive in these hot desert summers. Also somewhere along the way I built a homemade flamethrower setup as a way to compromise with myself that I didn’t own a truck.
I don’t have any pictures of my high school days but I do have a couple from before “the accident”.
-see post #2-
In the winter of 2015 in some crazy snowstorm on a bridge that was under construction this happened.
-see post #3-
It took me a lot longer than I thought it would between my long hours at work, and trying to be there for my wife and children but I was able to get it roadworthy again. In the spring of 2019 paint work started and a few (maybe 3 months) it was back on the road by summer.
I figured since it was getting repainted anyway. . .
-see post #4-
I thought now would be a good time to change out the standard steel wheels for a set of avanti wheels in case I wanted to add disc brakes someday. While it sat from ‘15-‘19 the carb developed what I suspect is an internal leak (today’s dumpy gas) so now it has an AFB from an “old dodge truck” I think it’s probably a 625cfm. That’s how it sits today.
Here is my daily driver lark, got it back in high school. (Graduated in 2009) when I first got it up and running it was half in primer and half in a late 80’s GM maroon. It started off with a 2barrel carb and single exhaust. It’s a 259. Later it got dual exhaust with 30” glass packs. My senior year the rear end developed a wheel seal leak, so. . . It got a twin traction rear with 3.73 gears, the paint was finished (single stage) and I was able to get my hands on a WCFB.
Shortly after high school I went to serve a church mission in Florida. The car sat until the summer of 2011 when a few months after that (because there were some engine leaks) it recieved an engine rebuild gasket kit and since I was there anyway. . . An R2 cam. Shortly after that electric fuel pumps replaced the mechanical one (it was really difficult to drive in these hot desert summers. Also somewhere along the way I built a homemade flamethrower setup as a way to compromise with myself that I didn’t own a truck.
I don’t have any pictures of my high school days but I do have a couple from before “the accident”.
-see post #2-
In the winter of 2015 in some crazy snowstorm on a bridge that was under construction this happened.
-see post #3-
It took me a lot longer than I thought it would between my long hours at work, and trying to be there for my wife and children but I was able to get it roadworthy again. In the spring of 2019 paint work started and a few (maybe 3 months) it was back on the road by summer.
I figured since it was getting repainted anyway. . .
-see post #4-
I thought now would be a good time to change out the standard steel wheels for a set of avanti wheels in case I wanted to add disc brakes someday. While it sat from ‘15-‘19 the carb developed what I suspect is an internal leak (today’s dumpy gas) so now it has an AFB from an “old dodge truck” I think it’s probably a 625cfm. That’s how it sits today.
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