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Jeff DeWitt - 09 Mar 2008 00:38 GMT

This is some cool stuff, while you can't beat a Jeep sometimes you need
a truck or room for more passengers. Back in the late 40's Studebaker
built some cars and trucks especially for desert use.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grmykVX7tWI

I can't imagine most people putting a modern SUV through what these
vehicles are going through.

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Dave Milne - 09 Mar 2008 10:15 GMT

interesting, thanks.

Dave Milne, Scotland

> This is some cool stuff, while you can't beat a Jeep sometimes you need
> a truck or room for more passengers. Back in the late 40's Studebaker
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> I can't imagine most people putting a modern SUV through what these
> vehicles are going through.

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Coasty - 09 Mar 2008 11:50 GMT

Wow, flash backs galore when I was a kid my dad had one. I remember we use
travel from upstate NY to Long Island and visit the kin folks. Dad use to
drive down the beach with a car load of people and have fun in the sand .
He passed away shortly after but that was one fond memory I can still smell
the salt air. I remember back in 62 when Studebaker went bankrupt and
remember thinking my dad is probably rolling over in his grave.

Coasty

> interesting, thanks.
>
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>> I can't imagine most people putting a modern SUV through what these
>> vehicles are going through.

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J. Clarke - 09 Mar 2008 16:40 GMT

> Wow, flash backs galore when I was a kid my dad had one. I
> remember
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> Studebaker went bankrupt and remember thinking my dad is probably
> rolling over in his grave.

My dad had a Stude pickup as well. Some time in the late '60s he
traded it on a Ford because he was having trouble finding parts.

> Coasty
>
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>>> these
>>> vehicles are going through.

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XS11E - 09 Mar 2008 17:59 GMT

> My dad had a Stude pickup as well. Some time in the late '60s he
> traded it on a Ford because he was having trouble finding parts.

I was glad to see the last of the Studebaker pickups, I had a close
encounter with one once. I wound up with a concussion, broken right
collar bone, right upper arm broken in two places, broken shoulder
blade and a many weeks in a cast.

I learned not to argue with a Studebaker pickup when on foot.... :-(

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L.W.(ßill)Hughes III - 09 Mar 2008 20:49 GMT

Ditto. I thought all cars were off-road back then. The tires were a dime
a dozen war surplus airplane tires.
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> Wow, flash backs galore when I was a kid my dad had one. I remember we use
> travel from upstate NY to Long Island and visit the kin folks. Dad use to
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> Coasty

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Pink Freud - 09 Mar 2008 23:44 GMT

On an otherwise nice day, Bill (Mr. ED) Hughes lied:

> Ditto.

Ah, the famous 'ditto'.

> I thought all cars were off-road back then.

And you're still stupid after all these years.

Of course, if you were the driver, all those cars /would/ be off the road.

> The tires were a dime
> a dozen war surplus airplane tires.

Then why did you brag about paying $20 per tire?

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>> Coasty

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