You know, you don't have to be that old for folks to see those fashion-model twenty-ish ladies hanging about one's car, and ruin the whole day by asking "Gosh, they're pretty. Are they your daughters?" And then you say no and they say "Daughters-in-law, then?" which sort of negates the pleasure of their company even if they have, like, advanced Art History degrees and all.
Since all fellows in Studedom either have natural-beauty, ageless wives, or else expensive trophy girlfriends (YOU HOME JEFF?), I think that, just as the Board officially recommends a fire extinguisher in each Studebaker, we all need to hire a frumpy middle-aged housewife with a contary disposition to act as a sort of junkyard dog for the car when it is shown, parked, left by the side of the road, etc. Otherwise, any decent Stude will draw clutches of barely-clad attendants, writhing all over it getting suntan oil on the finish, and fogging up the wheel shine with their heavy breathing. And that's so much work to buff out.
Oh, yeah, wheels. "Recent" finishes like powder-coating could be a very interesting change-up, and certainly cheaper than a re-chrome. If you use extreme care keeping track of your spoke lengths and angles, you can do rough re-assembly yourself and just pay a wheel-tuner to do the final truing. I used to do that with motorcycle wheels. That would make an interesting project, certainly worthy of a magazine article. Sorry none of us here had any tips on that. You get to be the guinea-pig.
Since all fellows in Studedom either have natural-beauty, ageless wives, or else expensive trophy girlfriends (YOU HOME JEFF?), I think that, just as the Board officially recommends a fire extinguisher in each Studebaker, we all need to hire a frumpy middle-aged housewife with a contary disposition to act as a sort of junkyard dog for the car when it is shown, parked, left by the side of the road, etc. Otherwise, any decent Stude will draw clutches of barely-clad attendants, writhing all over it getting suntan oil on the finish, and fogging up the wheel shine with their heavy breathing. And that's so much work to buff out.
Oh, yeah, wheels. "Recent" finishes like powder-coating could be a very interesting change-up, and certainly cheaper than a re-chrome. If you use extreme care keeping track of your spoke lengths and angles, you can do rough re-assembly yourself and just pay a wheel-tuner to do the final truing. I used to do that with motorcycle wheels. That would make an interesting project, certainly worthy of a magazine article. Sorry none of us here had any tips on that. You get to be the guinea-pig.
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