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If I just had your problems:) You did the right thing taking the car back "Up North":) I agree with your comment on "Atlanta". Several years...
I’m jealous, I’ve got them as turn/park lights on my 38 Chevy and my units looked about like yours. I taped of the exterior, after cutting the...
I've had a Saginaw in my 38 Chevy since the 70's and it has never failed me...granted I don't abuse it for the most part although it has taken in...
I guess I am a slacker:( 38 Chevy that I've had for over 50 years 27 T...just finished 53 Stude (it's now in Florida) 49 Ford (chopped...the next...
I'd second Jack Vine's suggestion to join the Studebaker Drivers Club, a plethora of Studebaker specific info and it isn't all "restored to...
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When I was putting new floors in the Studebaker I inadvertently lowered from the floor jacks but...I'd left one floor jack under the floor, it...
I may be answering a question you aren't asking but I think you want the back seat to match the front seat?? When I built the Studebaker I took...
I bought a similar fastback back in the 80's for $100 from the oldest Buick dealer in Iowa (Kewin Buick in Griswold Iowa) he had several "out...
In the fifty years I've had my 38 Chevy, I moved the engine location once. Initially I had it fairly close to the firewall and ran a fan, close...
I shot the firewall of the Stude (as well as the interior for light reflection especially under the dash-after the interior was installed the only...
I grew up in the sticks, SW IA farm kid. My 62 Valiant originally had body colored wheels that I had Painted black (and I outlined the Good Year...
Very well done, I am finishing a track nose Speedway 27 T and I am really impressed with your skill sets and artistic abilities
In Iowa you get a cheezie "sticker" on the drivers door post:) I just keep my door shut so no one can see it:) More or less. [ATTACH]
Nice looking truck, I missed one of those on a sale back in the early 80's:(
If you were in the midwest you could go to Bomgaars a "sorta" farm place like Tractor Supply and they have a huge selection of that type of...
I was 72 when I started the Studebaker (yeah that primed hulk in my avatar), I was a little worried that I'd meet my expiration date before I...
Nice to see a 55 two door that is not a Chevy:) good for you!!
Check this link out, scroll "down aways" It does fit a YBlock, just 1957 Large Port https://victorylibrary.com/mopar/edel.htm
I think I agree with @badshifter.
You heeded the maxim in Hot Rod Magazine over 30?? years ago "Dare to be different":) I am a little jealous, you have got a good find there!!
[ATTACH] I'm pretty sure this is a Vega Box and in works fine in my 27 Roadster. This was in the fabrication/clean up phase. Note this was a...
When I was cutting the window bezels for the chopped 49 Ford I used bezels out of both a 50 and 51 and when I sand blasted them I found no...
I had the roadster out a week ago and drove the 38 to Atlantic IA, about an hour away today. We get a little good weather and could easily have a...
I"d agree that it was a great meet. The weather could not have been much better. My wife spent more there than I did:) We've been "sorta" looking...
My current avatar was taken in 2017 shortly after getting the 53 Stude project in the shop. Subsequently I purchased three Stude Hawks to build...
@GTS225 I know how you feel. I was working a trade with a person on this site for a trunk lid swap for a rolling chassis. I was actually in his...
@Bandit Billy I like the shifter/hand brake "formed cover", is that a stocker that you found or a hand formed one? I'd like to finish the...
I chopped the coils a turn and a half and used two inch blocks in the back. The Exhaust is a little low and does drag if you are not careful where...
Nicely done!!
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